SimCity launch debacle: EA admits it was "dumb", says sorry with a free game

[Administrator]

EA will give a free game to those affected by the catastrophic SimCity launch, it has announced.
In a blog post published late last night Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of the Maxis Label, admitted EA had been "dumb" to have allowed the servers to collapse under the weight of expectant players when the game launched in the US on Tuesday.
But she insisted the connectivity issues had improved as EA added more capacity to its servers, which power the controversial always-online city-building simulation.
Read more…


More...