SimCity was the most successful game of all time on the Origin platform. Anyone who claims it was a failure is ignoring the things that actually matter, the mo

SimCity was the most successful game of all time on the Origin platform. Anyone who claims it was a failure is ignoring the things that actually matter, the money, in deference to meaningless (at least in terms of business) issues like the experience of gamers. Nothing is better news to a game publisher than mountains of gamers who pre-ordered were discouraged by launch day troubles (caused by not spending more for more resources, the game was on Amazon and providing more resources was a few button clicks away but would cost money) and who aren't coming back. "Look at the playerbase dwindling!" sounds exactly like "look at our server costs dropping!" for any game that isn't based on subscriptions or microtransactions.