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Report: SimCity marketing suspended
Posted: 10.03.2013 07:05 by JonahFalcon Comments: 4
Some sites have reported that Electronic Arts has reportedly suspended some of its online marketing for SimCity, as EA Origin has asked advertising affiliates to "please stop actively promoting the game" temporarily. This was revealed in a leaked email.

According to the email, EA has "deactivated all SimCity text links and creative and we ask you to please remove any copy promoting SimCity from your website for the time-being."

When asked to confirm, an EA rep stated, "To be clear, we are continuing to pay out commissions on all SimCity sales that are referred, however, we are requesting that you please stop actively promoting the game. We will notify you as soon as the SimCity marketing campaigns have been resumed and our promotional links are once again live in the Linkshare interface. We apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause, and we thank you for your cooperation."

The server issues plagued SimCity at launch, but after increasing servers by a factor of 120%, they have more or less vanished.
Source: Polygon
Related games: SimCity (2013) (PC)

Comments

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Mar 10, 2013
SirRoderick
Well my old school buddy seems to be playing it without much hassle ATM, haven`t heard him curse the game for a while now ^_^
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Mar 10, 2013
nocutius
I wonder for how many years they're going to keep all those servers running, 120% more servers doesn't sound cheap.
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Mar 10, 2013
Chosen_One
Good question. Cuz I have Simcity 4 and still sometimes install it on my HDD to play :)
By JPerry06 (SI Core) on Mar 12, 2013
JPerry06
I was intending to pick up sim city last week when it came out but left it due to the news on here.

Will give it to the end of the month now and see what happens.