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GamerGate - History of Ethics Failures - Welcome to DRM

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THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGSIMCITY RUSHED SIMCITY REVIEWS In March 2013, the new Simcity game was released by Electronic Arts, to highly positive review scores Players, however, quickly realized that, due to server issues, Simcity's controversial always-online DRM consistently failed, making the game basically unplayable Early reviewers had played the game on a private press-only server, and were not aware of the issue. Outlets who chose to rush the review, such as Eurogamer and Polygon, gave high scores that lured their readers in buying a broken game Simcity's post-release reviews were much less positive due to this problem, and the game's Metacritic average dropped from 91/100 to 66/100 in a week (64 today), with thousands of extremely negative user scores. Some outlets released updated reviews of the game, with Polygon rating the game four times Today, the game has dropped the always-online requirement, despite creator Maxis originally stating that it was impossible. Metascore Universal acclaim based on 8 Critics User Score Generally unfavorable based on 255 Ratings 3.9 out of 100 Your Score What's this? Summary: Control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to sixteen cities at once each with different specializations. Multiplayer adds a new facet to your game as your decisions will have an effect both your city and your region and creates new ways to play by collaborating or competing to earn achievements Collapse ▲ Developer: Maxis Genre(s): Other Strategy Games Cheats: On GameFAQs Rating: E10+ More Details and Credits a See the trailer Metascore Mixed or average reviews based on 75 Critics User Score Generally unfavorable reviews based on 4404 Ratings 2.2 64 Your Score What's this? Summary: Control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to sixteen cities at once each with different specializations. Multiplayer adds a neW facet to your game as your decisions will have an effect both your city and your region and creates new ways to play by Expand Developer: Maxis Genre(s): Modern Cheats: On GameFAQs Rating: E10+ More Details and Credits See the trailer

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Platus Moderator

Jan 22, 2015 at 06:57PM EST

This seems more of an ethics failure on EA's part, since they basically deceived the reviewers in question. Also, doesn't this predate Gamergate by quite a bit?

MrKillultra

Jan 22, 2015 at 07:12PM EST in reply to Platus

I'm afraid it doesn't make sense to me. This series of images is apart of infographic series that ties into gamergate. And this image is the prelude to the big always online stuff that people are so mad about. Again I'm not sure, I was just asked to upload all the images in that infograph series.
http://imgur.com/gallery/K2SwD/new

I think the image should stay because it shows that there is history of corruption and poor work ethic in the games journalism industry and thus provides context for gamergate. If we don't provide context than people will just think gamergate just miraculously happened.

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This image discusses the trend of anti-consumerism leading up to gamergate. It is a part of infographic series known as Ethics fail which discusses the long history of gaming media being inept and corrupt.
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