game-related lolz of some fashion

maxis deserves better than EA

it is kind of a pickle, though. their servers are getting slammed, but right NOW is by the far the highest traffic they're ever going to get. everyone's just bought it, and logging in to play this weekend. so they can add extra server capacity, but it'll just go to waste in a week or two when the peak load isn't so high.

i dunno. they're also obv a huge company with tons of servers/$ anyway, so perhaps they should be able to use some servers that are normally used for other games, temporarily, or something? anyway, they should have known this was coming.

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-9cXZC54/0/950x10000/i-9cXZC54-950x10000.jpg

i lol'd

man EA is kind of pathetic

now if you'll excuse me, I need to fire up The Simpsons Tapped Out

the problem isn't that they didn't anticipate the server demand. the problem is that the always-online feature is awful and they should allow people to play the game while offline

simcity is the perfect franchise to play on the train/airplane/otherwise away from a wifi connection - like civ.

i also don't understand why blizzard is able to launch mac + pc platforms simultaneously and not a single other game company can manage?

because Blizzard absolutely refuses to release anything that hasn't been beta tested and reworked within an inch of its life

Can't believe a lolz thread is a) making me google to find out what s going on and ii) making me read stories called "Reticulating splines for reticulating times".

and even then, the D3 launch was still pretty messed up because of aforementioned onerous DRM

it is kind of a pickle, though. their servers are getting slammed, but right NOW is by the far the highest traffic they're ever going to get. everyone's just bought it, and logging in to play this weekend. so they can add extra server capacity, but it'll just go to waste in a week or two when the peak load isn't so high.

i dunno. they're also obv a huge company with tons of servers/$ anyway, so perhaps they should be able to use some servers that are normally used for other games, temporarily, or something? anyway, they should have known this was coming.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Friday, March 8, 2013 2:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fun fact:

$ nslookup api.simcity.com
Server:		10.0.1.1
Address:	10.0.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
api.simcity.com	canonical name = static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 79.125.126.130
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 46.51.182.63
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 46.137.97.46
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 46.137.174.96
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.228.209.161
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.228.251.191
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.246.113.16
Name:	static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
Address: 54.246.120.57

or, in other words, EA should be able to easily scale back down after the launch window. The trouble is, they apparently didn't scale up quite enough in advance.

alternate possibility is that SimCity is now NP-complete

"The EA Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2013. Offline options are removed from EA products. EANet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. "

EA now offering a free game to anyone who's bought Sim City so far. Which sounds to me like "hey, play something else for a while until we work out how to fix this, ta".

Is this free game titled 'The Waiting Game'?

http://www.timesofisrael.com/danish-tv-uses-videogame-as-syria-news-image/

Watch out for Ubisoft's exciting new game, 'TV Station Picture Researcher Creed'.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/multi/2013/03/whacamole.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgWotGUPrE

Rune Factory 3

http://i.imgur.com/qonuZuX.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gmpEzC0kYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5hWNnsLm0

ha

AY-LIENS-UH-YEAH

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/ikyf0p/counterfeit-monkey-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHXyRMd3tQ

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/4/4/10/anigif_enhanced-buzz-4860-1365085774-15.gif

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr05/2013/4/4/10/anigif_enhanced-buzz-4052-1365086461-0.gif

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/4/4/10/anigif_enhanced-buzz-9317-1365086752-3.gif

All Day I Dream About... Soccer

awesome! where did you find this? are there any good youtube channels that focus on LOL-worthy game glitches?

http://consumerist.com/2013/04/09/ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row/

EA does do a lot of stupid anti-consumer things, but is pretty laughable that they beat Bank of America, Time Warner and Comcast

destroying the environment and the world economy is not as important to consumers as destroying the ending of mass effect 3

for two years in a row

Sim-City worse than Actual-Wal-Mart

yeah, that's kinda funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV0blfQA6Pw

That is awesome

^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAGM9feOcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpglqYeQBc

def into minor-key mario

CUBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Un5K-jMCWg

CUBE

ha, cute, but somehow not actually as funny/pathetic as actual games of that genre, e.g. the baffling and endless, but somehow soothing CONTINUUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_a6qMeWP8

on a related note, here's a game coming out that I'm excited about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCg8J2NrSrE

it makes the calculator look like the cotton gin

http://i.imgur.com/Ext7QfH.gif

amazing

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/how-to-explain-far-cry-3-blood-dragon-to-an-alien