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Amazon reinstates SimCity digital copies

[UPDATE] Retailer has made digital copies of new city-building game available for purchase.

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[UPDATE] Following the publication of this story, Amazon has made digital copies of SimCity again available for purchase.

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Amazon has stopped selling digital copies of SimCity. As spotted by GameSpot sister site Giant Bomb, the online retailer is no longer allowing consumers to purchase the digital version of Electronic Arts' just-released city-building PC game.

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"Many customers are having issues connecting to the SimCity servers," Amazon said on its website. "EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed."

The boxed version of SimCity remains available for purchase through Amazon.

SimCity launched Tuesday in North America and was beset by various server issues that in some instances have kept gamers from logging in. EA said yesterday that it is "confident" that such issues will be resolved for the game's United Kingdom launch tomorrow.

EA announced today that it had disabled "non-critical" SimCity features to address server woes.

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Good Guy Amazon!

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@23Jarek23 yeah!

then you can remind yourself, that amazon is using a hell of a lot of taxation loopholes, to avoid paying huge amounts of corporation tax.

Don't praise any corporation. they are all bastards.

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@shingui5 @23Jarek23 Are you stalking me? lol...yeah I know, and I completely agree, but at the very least they are taking some form of action.

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@23Jarek23 @shingui5 ahhh, if only i had a £ for every time i heard that....

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but no, this is a coincidence :P

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EA seriously need to consider to change company name to SATAN Inc.

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@Saidrex or even electronic crap=EC

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

THATS WHAT YOU GET E.A!

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Meanwhile Metacritic Simcity user score has dropped from 2.9 yesterday to 1.8 today =)) I'm so excited to see when it hits 1.0

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For a game like Simcity, I think DRM is absolutely useless. Most of the people play simcity offline alone anyways. This is just pure BS. Was going to get it for my wife who loves SC4 but now I will wait for some pirated offline version. Sorry!

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This is what happens when you decide to put draconian always online DRM on your products, one could think that the industry learned from the Anno 2070 and Diablo III fiascos, but no, this companies always find a way to screw their customers. Take note Developers/Publishers.

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@jmr1986 Funny thing is Ubi DID learn from Anno, and you are no longer required to be online all the time. EA dun goofed.

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At least someone is thinking of their customers.

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Bold move of Amazon. Because they probably get the lion's share of complaints from the defective DRM possessed game called DRMCity.

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I can only imagine what will happen with the Sims 4 DRM issues, with that game having 10 times as many players.

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Wise move.

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way to go Amazon, i knew there was a reason i liked giving you my money

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Good on Amazon for not selling a defective product. Shame on EA for shipping a defective product.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZSDCvUwN8

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I hope this game crashes and burns so I never have to see always-on DRM again.

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@Super_Austy_X With you! Like we didn't see this coming.

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wow, what a vote of no confidence on Amazon's part!

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@pokecharm Vote of no confidence, hey i respect Amazon! They don't want their reputation tarnished because E.A. and MAxis Suck! HAHAHA!

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@00J @pokecharm I miss the Maxis of the Early-Mid Nineties. Sim Earth, Sim Ant, Sim Tower (which wasn't developed by them, but I digress) Sim Copter.

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@pokecharm I'm certain that they're getting similar slack from customers that EA is getting. However, as the supplier, they're easily losing money due to refunds - seeing as EA/Origin refuses to refund. Therefore, stop the bleeding and cancel the sale until the product that you're putting your name behind is up to a standard that you can sell. Simple as that.

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@GamerCents @pokecharm It's also putting a Blemish on E.A. and Maxis. All this and they haven't even had their servers hacked yet... lol



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@Zaistev_basic @00J @GamerCents @pokecharm "Expect Anonymous" - I see what you did there.

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@00J @GamerCents @pokecharm

Trust me! They're server will be hack real bad to punish EA. Expect Anonymous to do something.

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