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A rocky start for SimCity

The much anticipated SimCity got on to a rocky start this week. No, it wasn’t because someone decided to build the entire city using the cheap low density dirt road. Players are finding it difficult to gain access to the game due to high server volume. Some players reported experiencing more than 30 minute server queues just to get into the game after it was installed. It’s like a traffic jam. Before you start solving the traffic jam in your City as mayor, you need to get past the “traffic jam” at the server queue. The problem is because SimCity was not designed with an offline mode. Even if you decide to be a loner Mayor and just want to built your metropolitan alone, you still need to be connected to the server. Everyone seems to be blaming DRM for this. But it is not just DRM. The creator of SimCity believe that real cities do not exist in a bubble . Cities share a regi...

Full article: http://blog.dk.sg/2013/03/10/a-rocky-start-for-simcity/