EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems 259
An anonymous reader writes "The SimCity launch earlier this week was a complete disaster. Single player games that require an Internet connection to enable forced multiplayer features (as well as acting as a form of DRM) is bad enough, but then to not be prepared for the demand such a popular franchise has, well, that's just dumb, and Lucy Bradshaw, EA's general manager for the Maxis Label, has admitted exactly that."
They did not provide much details, but supposedly anyone who has SimCity now should get "a free PC download game from the EA portfolio." They are unrepentant about the always-online requirement though.
They obviously thought... (Score:5, Funny)
... that with all that really bad DRM shai'te no one would actually buy it... so they were not prepared for actual sales.
We are sorry our products are so shitty. (Score:5, Funny)
Download a free game??? (Score:0, Funny)
Isn't that... piracy?!
Pet Hotel Tycoon! (Score:5, Funny)
I expect, given EA's greed, that this will be the "free game" they give to every victim of their ineptitude. ...that or they'll give away free copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic
Re:Too little, too late (Score:5, Funny)