Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues by junkilo on Thursday March 07, 2013 @06:23PM (#5341081)

I was speaking more broadly.

This isn't the first time EA has seriously blown a launch due to infrastructure issues I realize. EA's main infrastructure server team runs things like a pre-dotbomb forture 5.

I'm slow to throw blame since EA's acquisitions chose to join EA. Technical Directors at Maxis are just as much to blame as well as product/project managers that fail to squeeze load testing into the busy schedule.

I do (sadly) agree that studios seem to lose their magic to us gamers once they join EA. Why?

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Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues by pifflesnort on Thursday March 07, 2013 @06:34PM (#5341125)

> I do (sadly) agree that studios seem to lose their magic to us gamers once they join EA. Why?

I'll give you one guess.

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Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues by InvisibleCities on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:26AM (#5343890)

>since EA's acquisitions chose to join EA.

Not quite correct. Maxis' shareholders decided to join EA; I doubt the average programmer, or even the average project manager or tech lead had any say in the process whatsoever.

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Re:Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues by junkilo on Friday March 08, 2013 @02:01PM (#5345060)

true. however if (coders ran the world); we would

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