SimCity offers up myriad tantalizing delights for the would-be city-builder, but encases them in an infrastructure that feels at odds with itself.
Publisher Electronic Art's latest city-building game is struggling. SimCity requires a constant connection to the Internet, but its servers are collapsing under high demand. Gamers can't even start playing. Others are losing progress as connections
SimCity's connectivity woes originate from heavy server load caused by a high influx of new users who must log in to play. EA touts multiplayer features such as sharing vital resources with neighbors and saving your game to the cloud (so you can play
The SimCity twitter handle is offering up updates and advice about new and available servers. According to Polygon, any server that isn't being patched should be available, so players can theoretically switch to servers labeled “busy” or “full
SimCity offers up myriad tantalizing delights for the would-be city-builder, but encases them in an infrastructure that feels at odds with itself.
No comments:
Post a Comment