Wed, Mar 06, 2013 | 10:04 GMT
SimCity: EA confident of smoother European launch after US issues
SimCity publisher EA has promised a smoother European launch following a string of Origin pre-load and server issues experienced after the US release.
After the game launched Stateside yesterday, Origin users who had pre-loaded the game ahead of release were unable to play, and that many players joined a queue for their turn to finally get their hands on it.
On Twitter, EA has promised a smoother launch across Europe on when the game drops on Friday:
We’ll be on hand to see if it does go smoothly.
Meanwhile, the first SimCity review scores have dropped. See the start of our score round-up here.
Thanks Eurogamer.
5 comments
#1
hives
06/03/13, 10:55 am
Yeah, right… So allow us to pre-download at least… This is silly.
#2
xXNapsterManXx
06/03/13, 10:59 am
@1 I’m in Australia and I pre loaded earlier today the game comes out here in 2 hours
#3
Tavarish
06/03/13, 12:57 pm
@1&2, in theory you can pre-download game when yours account receives key for game because key is basically “Hey, he really owns this game and can access it” -flag. What happened with US launch was that keys weren’t distributed to accounts earlier than release day and time which caused whole “No pre-downloads” situation.
If EA / Origin gives out keys early for EU then people can pre-download said game and some of the troubles could be averted. Still I would except clusterfuck of release because EU servers already have people on them, even from US, and as more rush in those servers most likely boggle.
#4
ps3fanboy
06/03/13, 1:57 pm
this is nonsense and ea know it….
#5
ps3fanboy
06/03/13, 2:00 pm
@3
when you figure out you never own digital downloads you maybe have a foot in the grave.. but thats how it goes when you suck up to all the brainwash crap they feed you in the usa…