SimCity allegedly launched at midnight Eastern time, but Electronic Arts’ servers are struggling to keep up.
Common issues include Electronic Arts’ Origin service giving multiple error codes and the game not even showing up as downloadable to people who purchased it. I’m suffering from the latter.
We contacted EA to ask about these issues, but the publisher hasn’t responded to our request for a comment. The company’s official Origin Twitter account did finally provide a statement:
https://twitter.com/OriginInsider/status/309045923248480256
Here’s a plethora of other humans struggling to get their city simulation on:
Welcome to Origin where you can't play that game you pre-ordered because our servers are being hammered. Thanks always online Sim City! -.-
— Genna Bain (@GennaBain) March 5, 2013
The new #SimCity includes a brand new disaster – the SimCity Origin launch.
— Dorkly (@dorkly) March 5, 2013
Spoke too soon. Forgot EA heard we like launchers and put a SimCity launcher in our Origin launcher so we can launch while we're launching.
— Dan Stapleton (@DanStapleton) March 5, 2013
Has anyone who preordered the deluxe version of SimCity gotten it to download yet?
— Will Smith (@willsmith) March 5, 2013
It's still showing up as "Preordered but not released" for me.
— Will Smith (@willsmith) March 5, 2013
I guess the "Digital Deluxe Edition" is actually the "You don't get this game tonight" edition. But the German cityscapes will be worth it!
— Nels Anderson (@Nelsormensch) March 5, 2013
DIGITAL PUBLISHING PRO TIP: Don't hype a down-to-the-minute release date if you don't have the infrastructure to support it.
— Gary Whitta (inactive) (@garywhitta) March 5, 2013
I’m going to sit out SimCity tonight (much as it pains me) and wait til the server crap subsides. I’ll watch the Twitter meltdown instead
— John Davison (@jwhdavison) March 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/DtoidAllistair/status/308805788921647104