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Amazon suspends sales of SimCity video game

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Ongoing problems with the latest version of SimCity led Amazon to briefly stop selling the game.



The web retailer stopped sales late on 7 March as players reported continued problems with the city building title.



The latest version of SimCity was launched on 5 March and, like many current games, demand players stay online as they play.



EA has also taken steps to fix login delays by turning off some features to lighten the load on game servers.



Prior to this latest release, SimCity was a stand-alone game, but EA has added the online element to infuse the title with more realism.




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Now player cities exist as part of online regions and share some characteristics of those virtual environments such as pollution, crime and essential resources.



The online requirement is also seen as an attempt to curb piracy of the title as a web connection is required even if a player shuns the chance to connect their cities to others.



However, the requirement for all players of the game to be connected has led some to wait 30 minutes or more to play. The server problems have led to sluggish response times, crashes and other bugs.



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Just wondering if any of you have this game and have experienced problems.
 
I don't have this game, though I have heard about the fact that people couldn't find servers to join.
 
The Dragon Master said:
Though one thing that put me off this game is the fact that you always have to be online.
I heard you even had to be online to play singeplayer. Hate it when companies do that.
 
The Dragon Master said:
Completely defeats the point of having single player.
Depends, others still can't see what you're up to. It it a bit pointless though.
 
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