Completely unable to play

[BlueSmoke 1]

I have been trying, for the past 6 hours, to play SimCity. Usually will get stuck at the login screen telling me I'm at 100 percent and checking for updates. If I get past that screen I am presented with a 30 minute queue, after which I am forwarded to the usual continue game screen only it says the servers are down and I am still unable to play even though I waited in the half-hour queue. Am I the only one with this problem?

[kgpurrs 107]

All servers are down, likely for maintenance software to connect to other servers.  This will continue to occur for the next week or two, depending on how many Servers and Server/Storage they are currently overloading hardware companies with. 

[jcinsj 5]

great. at the mercy of EA until they get the server functioning correctly.  we paid too much money for this game. I bet I don't even like it because it has no single player mode. 

There will always be issues related to their server or my IP and when I sit down to play that is what I like to do.  I've been on the game for a total of 10 minutes since it's release. 

I can't even figure out how to save my work so I can return to it later.  It crash before I can even build anything.  This is like a very bad Disneyland ride where you wait in line forever

only to experience the thrill for 2 minutes.

[Catchin22 299]

great. at the mercy of EA until they get the server functioning correctly.  we paid too much money for this game. I bet I don't even like it because it has no single player mode. 

There will always be issues related to their server or my IP and when I sit down to play that is what I like to do.  I've been on the game for a total of 10 minutes since it's release. 

I can't even figure out how to save my work so I can return to it later.  It crash before I can even build anything.  This is like a very bad Disneyland ride where you wait in line forever

only to experience the thrill for 2 minutes.

You'll love it. Just give them a few days to get things straightened out. It's not the end of the world.

[Jaroslav 0]

This is always problem with online games, when Diablo 3 started you were not able to play because of the mistakes on servers. And here again same problem? I expected more from them..

[City Planner 121]

All servers are down, likely for maintenance software to connect to other servers.  This will continue to occur for the next week or two, depending on how many Servers and Server/Storage they are currently overloading hardware companies with. 

Man this just bugs the hell out of me.  I login to the game and try to load one of my cities and I get a little window that slides down from the top left of the game screen that tells me "SimCity servers are all down - Trying to reconnect".

 

Meanwhile over on my 2nd and 3rd monitor I'm watching two different people playing the game and streaming it over on Twitch.  Down my ass!  There are obviously people that are playing the game and it's not completely down, only partially down.

 

If they need to they should shut down all the servers to fix them all at once and not do this some servers down, some servers not, some authentication servers down, some not stuff.

 

I'm about fed up with this for today so I'm not even going to bother trying again until maybe tomorrow or the next day.  This stuff as well as the EA forums just makes me not want to play the game at all anyway and I am a really die hard SimCity 4 fan and have wanted a Simcity sequel more than any other game I've ever wanted, even more than I wanted a sequel to Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction.

 

At least with Diablo 3, both my wife and myself were able to play it about 3 or 5 hours after release and we never got kicked, we played through the morning, into the next afternoon and again through the night with only an occasional down from the servers being taken offline from what I remember but we were able to jump right back on.  Guess we were 2 of the lucky ones, but with SC13, I've not been able to play since about 5 hours after it was opened up.

 

Meanwhile Origin says that I've played Simcity for 15 hours, but I can guarantee I've actually only played it about 3 to 4 hours, the rest of the time has been trying to login to play

[jeffnebraska 0]

Can't get anything working either.  Was playing fine earlier today.  Very frustrating!

[yanmos 0]

Any news from Europe release? Still cannot download!!!

[el.lopan 54]

All servers are down, likely for maintenance software to connect to other servers.  This will continue to occur for the next week or two, depending on how many Servers and Server/Storage they are currently overloading hardware companies with. 

Man this just bugs the hell out of me.  I login to the game and try to load one of my cities and I get a little window that slides down from the top left of the game screen that tells me "SimCity servers are all down - Trying to reconnect".

 

Meanwhile over on my 2nd and 3rd monitor I'm watching two different people playing the game and streaming it over on Twitch.  Down my ass!  There are obviously people that are playing the game and it's not completely down, only partially down.

 

If they need to they should shut down all the servers to fix them all at once and not do this some servers down, some servers not, some authentication servers down, some not stuff.

 

I'm about fed up with this for today so I'm not even going to bother trying again until maybe tomorrow or the next day.  This stuff as well as the EA forums just makes me not want to play the game at all anyway and I am a really die hard SimCity 4 fan and have wanted a Simcity sequel more than any other game I've ever wanted, even more than I wanted a sequel to Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction.

 

At least with Diablo 3, both my wife and myself were able to play it about 3 or 5 hours after release and we never got kicked, we played through the morning, into the next afternoon and again through the night with only an occasional down from the servers being taken offline from what I remember but we were able to jump right back on.  Guess we were 2 of the lucky ones, but with SC13, I've not been able to play since about 5 hours after it was opened up.

 

Meanwhile Origin says that I've played Simcity for 15 hours, but I can guarantee I've actually only played it about 3 to 4 hours, the rest of the time has been trying to login to play

 

 

Perhaps, in this moment of crisis, EA is letting in only those who pre-ordered the ultra-cool-mega-hyper-digital-deluxe version. You can expect anything from them, who knows.

[Tommy_Vercetti3 3]

Yep, I connected earlier, played for a good while with random disconnects though.. I hope I don't lose my progress.. Was just starting to get entertaining! Oh well.. Guess time shall tell.