http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-9cXZC54/0/950x10000/i-9cXZC54-950x10000.jpg
i lol'd
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
man EA is kind of pathetic
now if you'll excuse me, I need to fire up The Simpsons Tapped Out
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
simcity is the perfect franchise to play on the train/airplane/otherwise away from a wifi connection - like civ.
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
i also don't understand why blizzard is able to launch mac + pc platforms simultaneously and not a single other game company can manage?
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
because Blizzard absolutely refuses to release anything that hasn't been beta tested and reworked within an inch of its life
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― ledge, Friday, 8 March 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
and even then, the D3 launch was still pretty messed up because of aforementioned onerous DRM
― Nhex, Friday, 8 March 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.comServer: 10.0.1.1Address: 10.0.1.1#53Non-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.comAddress: 79.125.126.130Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.51.182.63Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.137.97.46Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.137.174.96Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.228.209.161Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.228.251.191Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.246.113.16Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.246.120.57
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.comAddress: 79.125.126.130Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.51.182.63Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.137.97.46Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 46.137.174.96Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.228.209.161Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.228.251.191Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.246.113.16Name: static-eu-1660312676.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.comAddress: 54.246.120.57
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2013 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
alternate possibility is that SimCity is now NP-complete
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
"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. "
― Half of these sound like rappers. (snoball), Saturday, 9 March 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― JimD, Saturday, 9 March 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Is this free game titled 'The Waiting Game'?
― Half of these sound like rappers. (snoball), Saturday, 9 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.timesofisrael.com/danish-tv-uses-videogame-as-syria-news-image/
― Mordy, Monday, 11 March 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
Watch out for Ubisoft's exciting new game, 'TV Station Picture Researcher Creed'.
― Half of these sound like rappers. (snoball), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/multi/2013/03/whacamole.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 11 March 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgWotGUPrE
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Rune Factory 3
http://i.imgur.com/qonuZuX.jpg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 25 March 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gmpEzC0kYw
― am0n, Monday, 25 March 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5hWNnsLm0
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
AY-LIENS-UH-YEAH
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/ikyf0p/counterfeit-monkey-review
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHXyRMd3tQ
― am0n, Thursday, 4 April 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
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
― am0n, Friday, 5 April 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
All Day I Dream About... Soccer
― Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Friday, 5 April 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
awesome! where did you find this? are there any good youtube channels that focus on LOL-worthy game glitches?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 April 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://consumerist.com/2013/04/09/ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row/
― am0n, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
EA does do a lot of stupid anti-consumer things, but is pretty laughable that they beat Bank of America, Time Warner and Comcast
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
destroying the environment and the world economy is not as important to consumers as destroying the ending of mass effect 3
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 April 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
for two years in a row
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 11 April 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Sim-City worse than Actual-Wal-Mart
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 11 April 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's kinda funny
― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 April 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV0blfQA6Pw
― Three Word Username, Monday, 15 April 2013 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
That is awesome
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 15 April 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAGM9feOcI
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpglqYeQBc
― abanana, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
def into minor-key mario
― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
CUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Un5K-jMCWg
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
on a related note, here's a game coming out that I'm excited about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCg8J2NrSrE
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
it makes the calculator look like the cotton gin
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Ext7QfH.gif
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/how-to-explain-far-cry-3-blood-dragon-to-an-alien
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
enjoyed that
― am0n, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Vr8GO-kg0
― am0n, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link