SimCity 5: Free Game Offer

What's crackin', people. So, I just wanted to put together a little video to let everyone know that Maxis has graciously offered us a free game as a mia culpa for the server/bug issues in SimCity 5. According to their FAQ (see link below), EA is offering a free digital download game to anyone who purchases and authenticates SimCity by March 25, 2013 at 11:59pm PDT.

You DO NOT have free reign over the entire EA catalog -- the games that you have available to you are as follows:

• Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
• Bejeweled 3
• Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
• Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
• Metal of Honor: Warfighter (Standard Edition)
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
• Plants vs. Zombies
• SimCity 4 (Deluxe Edition)

EA Help: Something Extra FAQ

Aiding the Sims or Just DRM?

When SimCity was first getting ready to launch, a lot of people were upset about the always-online bit and began to complain. By way of explaining the situation, Maxis and EA both claimed that, while yes they were on-line to prevent piracy, they were also online because the game has so many calculations that your computer can't handle them all.

For some reason, almost everyone bought this line except for those of us who program for a living and were like, "What the WHAT?"

Well, for those of you who were curious, a hacker removed the always on-line DRM from his version of the game and then posted a video showing that not only did the game work fine... it worked better, faster, and just the same.

I'm not sure if that last bit was English or not, but Click Here to Read the whole version of the article.