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Maxis Offers More Details On SimCity's Launch Problems

by Kyle Hilliard on Mar 09, 2013 at 08:45 AM

SimCity and Lucy Bradshaw have finished up their Twitter Q and A. Here are some of the most informative answers that resulted from it.

We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that aspart of our earning back your trust efforts.
— SimCity (@simcity) March 9, 2013

Metrics/beta was fairly conservative and live ops stressed our game server DB’s in ways that we did not experience in Beta or Load Test.
— SimCity (@simcity) March 9, 2013

We're really working on responsive of our servers. and once we have that nailed, and stable, cheetah is coming back!
— SimCity (@simcity) March 9, 2013