They still sell Sim City?

[Tev]

Well, apparently they don't sell it very well...

Despite positive reviews from many critics, EA's disastrous SimCity launch might go down as one of the worst debacles in the history of gaming. How bad is it? So bad that Amazon briefly stopped selling SimCity not 48 hours after its launch.

According to the BBC, Amazon temporarily suspended digital sales of SimCity on March 7 after customers complained that they were not able to connect to the game's servers. While the sale of the game resumed after a few hours, there is now a warning alerting potential buyers to EA's ongoing server woes.

SimCity, the latest iteration of the classic city-building simulation, requires players to be online to play. That aspect is a game-changer in the literal sense; previous titles in the series were single-player, standalone applications.

EA has spun the change in design as a way to introduce a social element to the game, but some critics said that it is primarily an anti-piracy strategy. And the connectivity issues are not sitting well with consumers.

Outrage over the "Always Online" Digital Rights Management (DRM) in SimCity has spawned a Change.org petition asking EA to remove the feature from it and all future games.

But no, I recently started seeing ads for Sim city on TV and was confused because I was pretty sure that game died out in the 90's once we all started playing God on a more personal level with The Sims and its endless iterations.

Anyway, apparently this new relaunch is full of bugs and glitches (beyond the whole "trying to hide online DRM as social networking and failing miserably" thing) and is just downright poor quality all around. I'm kind of sad about that since I was thinking about giving it a spin for old time's sake.