It seems like there's a very loud minority concerned with the online issue. They created a shitstorm about Diablo 3 too, but the game still sold very well. The

It seems like there's a very loud minority concerned with the online issue. They created a shitstorm about Diablo 3 too, but the game still sold very well. The bigger issue seems to be that SimCity wasn't fun to play & didn't offer the scale of previous versions. Assume X number of people boycotted it, but Y people couldn't pirate it so they paid for it. The X people will be very loud, but the Y people won't.