The worst of SimCity’s server woes may finally be behind us. Shortly after the disastrous launch, Maxis disabled Cheetah speed to help its servers cope with traffic, and it has stayed that way for several weeks. It’s no small change. The game plays fundamentally different when you can’t accelerate time — instead, you have to wait through long periods in your city where essentially nothing happens. It makes saving up for big ticket purchases a boring, boring affair. Maxis has finally restored Cheetah speed to all servers, according to its facebook page: “Yes, it’s true — we’ve recently brought back Cheetah Speed. We’re also working on Update 2.0, so stay tuned for more info.” Update 2.0 could hopefully fix some of the game’s crippling traffic problems, which can make the late-game dense cities hard to manage. Even after fixing the worst of the its problems, SimCity still has a big number of bugs to handle, which make it hard to have any sort of basic faith in the simulation. One hopes that some of these things will be fixed over time, but at this point, I won’t feel inclined to return until I can be totally sure my city will run as smoothly as it’s supposed to. It’s all in the execution. More than a month after release, and Maxis is only just giving players one of its basic features back. It’s less than encouraging for publisher EA, which may have the wrost reputation problem in the entire entertainment industry.
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