This is hardly the first DRM-related controversy that's come up as a new game was released. And Amazon removed both the downloadable and physical versions of the game from its store, with a note that reads, in part, 'at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed.'īut once this is all solved, she said, it'll be like nothing happened. There had certainly been short-term ones: On Metacritic, the game currently has over 1800 user reviews that average out to a 1.7 out of 10. There won't be any long-term repercussions, my now long-suffering fiancee said as we drove to work Thursday morning, as the blackout stretched into its third day. She did not give a timeframe for the resolution. In response to Wired's request for comment, an EA spokesperson referred us to a blog post by SimCity senior producer Kip Katsarelis, who wrote that Electronic Arts would be adding new servers until the player base could be fully accommodated, and that it would prioritize stabilizing this situation before it turned the game's features back on. What's next? Will EA determine that the skyscrapers are just too tall? By the end of the day EA had ripped out the 'Cheetah' gameplay mode, which speeds up the passage of time so you can develop your city more quickly. At first it was non-core features like achievements and high score leaderboards. Electronic Arts' attempts to fix the problem have not only been unsuccessful, they've been making the SimCity blackout even worse, at least from a public relations standpoint: EA said Thursday that it would actually begin removing features from the game in an attempt to get it to run. In other words, SimCity is currently in the midst of a disaster that makes zombie attacks and nuclear meltdowns seem tame.

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