But somehow when planning the launch of Sim City, you threw them all out the window.

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When EA launched Sim City they took the gloom mechanic one step further with a UFO that crashed.

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Allow the Sim City team to patch the game to run offline.

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Instead, the company is creating simplistic, Sim City-like social networking games that bank heavily on the belief that everyday people will not tire of repetitive experiences.

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Among them are Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Need For Speed Shift, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Mirror's Edge.

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What part of the Sim City DRM scheme, which has rendered the game unplayable for hundreds of thousands of fans across the globe, demonstrates that you are thinking about consumers before you are thinking about yourselves?

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"Sim City" shouldn't be fun.

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Sim City in real life!

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