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Title: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: Master KChief on March 07, 2013, 06:18:02 PM: http://kotaku.com/5989265/amazon-has-stopped-selling-digital-copies-of-simcity?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Twitter&utm_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow (http://kotaku.com/5989265/amazon-has-stopped-selling-digital-copies-of-simcity?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Twitter&utm_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow)
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:36:38 PM: Only the second time in my life I have seen a game pulled for being awful
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: Master KChief on March 07, 2013, 06:38:38 PM: What was the first?
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:40:25 PM: Final Fantasy XIV, Square's second attempt at an MMO. It was live for like a week before they pulled it from the shelves, gave everyone who had already bought it free access to it until it was fixed (they are just now entering closedBeta on the new version, almost 2 years later) and promised to rerelease it after pretty much completely redoing the game.
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: Master KChief on March 08, 2013, 11:32:48 AM: So what does EA do after Sim City?

(https://www.cactusforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fart.penny-arcade.com%2Fphotos%2Fi-9cXZC54%2F0%2F950x10000%2Fi-9cXZC54-950x10000.jpg&hash=8e62120ddb81f0cc92e4588c9707b85aadcfe156)
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on March 08, 2013, 12:09:53 PM: Quote from: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:36:38 PM
Only the second time in my life I have seen a game pulled for being awful
Idk if its due to it being awful. FF14 was BAD it wasn't unplayable.

Simcity is unplayable (due to tutorial loops, server issues, etc)
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: lp670sv on March 08, 2013, 12:34:14 PM: Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on March 08, 2013, 12:09:53 PM
Quote from: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:36:38 PM
Only the second time in my life I have seen a game pulled for being awful
Idk if its due to it being awful. FF14 was BAD it wasn't unplayable.

Simcity is unplayable (due to tutorial loops, server issues, etc)

no it was because it was bad enough that Square felt the need to pull it from shelves, start over, and publicly apologize for how bad it was.
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on March 08, 2013, 12:42:32 PM: I was meaning SimCity on the idk on the awful part.
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: JSB23 on March 08, 2013, 01:38:47 PM: Quote from: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:36:38 PM
Only the second time in my life I have seen a game pulled for being awful
You're forgetting when Valve pulled WarZ off of Steam.
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: Master KChief on March 08, 2013, 11:02:13 PM: A Sim City update...and something for your trouble:

http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble (http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble)
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: Isildur on March 08, 2013, 11:43:07 PM: A free game? Thats pretty rad even though its a shame you have to get your "free" game via Origin :( *shivers*
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on March 09, 2013, 09:20:51 AM: Quote from: Isildur on March 08, 2013, 11:43:07 PM
A free game? Thats pretty rad even though its a shame you have to get your "free" game via Origin :( *shivers*
Course its entirely vague on what that game is.
Quote from: JSB23 on March 08, 2013, 01:38:47 PM
Quote from: lp670sv on March 07, 2013, 06:36:38 PM
Only the second time in my life I have seen a game pulled for being awful
You're forgetting when Valve pulled WarZ off of Steam.
Which was due to 90% of the description being lies. :-/

So we're up to 3 pulled games, any others?
Title: Re: Amazon halts sales of Sim City
Post by: YourMathTeacher on March 09, 2013, 10:23:11 AM: Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on March 09, 2013, 09:20:51 AM
So we're up to 3 pulled games, any others?

Dark Tower

Oh wait, are we talking about video games? ;)