SimCity nearing 'all clear' on server issues, Maxis says

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Current owners will get a free PC game 'from the EA portfolio'

SimCity's crippling server issues are on their way out. Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw said crashes are down 92 percent from launch as of Sunday night in an Electronic Arts blog post, with almost 8 million hours spent lording over virtual cities so far.

The good news continues for SimCity players--in an earlier post, Bradshaw said everyone who has activated the game as of March 18 will receive a complimentary downloadable PC game "from the EA portfolio." Expect further instructions to arrive via email that day.

"I know that’s a little contrived--kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy," Bradshaw wrote. "But we feel bad about what happened. We’re hoping you won’t stay mad and that we’ll be friends again when SimCity is running at 100 percent."

Oh, and Amazon's started selling digital editions of the game again. That's always a good sign.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.