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perablenta... So you're saying the casino hotel rooms don't hold their tourists (thats the bug?)? So instead you have regular hotels and let the tourists stay there so at least they stay in your city and dump money into slots? Have you gotten the high and medium wealth casino's to work?

I have tried looking for sales figures on the internet but could not find any. Admittedly I didn't look that hard but I am very curious as to how the game is selling given all of the negativity surrounding the launch. It might be a bit early to get these figures but if anyone has any idea or could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Also - I'd love to see what the return numbers are as well. Wouldn't be shocked if as much as 5% of units sold were returned.

UPDATE: Sim City sells over 1 million units in first two weeks! http://news.ea.com/press-release/company-news/simcity-sells-more-1-million-launch “SimCity had a great weekend with sales strong across both North America and Europe, adding to overwhelming demand at launch that has us tracking well beyond expectations for the game,” said Peter Moore, Chief Operating Officer for EA.

Thanks to Xeno and others for the responses. (Notwithstanding the slight derail in the middle there) Ultimately I think the publicity (even the bad stuff, believe it or not) has helped the game to some extent. It brings non-sim city franchise players to the table and even if the food smells a little funky they still kind of want a taste in some cases. With a clean launch and no press (bad or good) these non-franchise people never even get to the table. Anyway, enough with the dinner-time analogies. I'll keep looking around for figures, especially after the close of the first-quarter earnings period and post them here. As for me personally, I'm biding my time and want to see how this all shakes out. The most recent development of being able to play offline entirely is pretty earth-shattering and EA/Maxis needs to address this ASAP. Oh, and a good point by CaptCity above. There are more than enough threads about the game being good or not - I'm looking for more objective information. Stats, as it were.