The purpose of the AMA was to promote the game, not satisfy readers' questions. This is the case for all political/corporate AMAs.

If someone drove their car into a lake, you wouldn't be adding anything to the conversation if you said "The purpose of a car was to drive on the road, not to drive into the lake"

In a similar fashion, you don't really add information to the discussion when you make an analogous statement about the misuse of an AMA thread.

The analogous statement to:

'the purpose of the AMA was to promote the game, not satisfy readers' questions, so they didn't answer questions that would reflect negatively on SimCity V.'

Would be:

'the purpose of the car was to drive on the road, not to drive into the lake, so they chose not to drive into the lake.'

Well, technically, nothing was censored. So "anything" was asked.

Now if it was "Answer Me Everything"...

It's Ask Me Anything, not I'll tell you everything.

Ask Me Anything About Rampart.

Yes, the Ask Me Anything, does not get answers. I noticed this too when former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark was on recently. The AMA wasn't what I'd hoped for at all. Weak. When asked about Kim Dotcom saga the following appears: [–]HelenClarkUNDP[S] 229 points 12 days ago While you can ask anything - don't expect me to dive back into Kiwi political debates! Been there, done that!