While Electronic Arts might not be offering refunds to players irate over the continuing server problems for its online-only SimCity, it is making its remorse over the issues somewhat more tangible by offering all purchasers a free game from EA’s Origin catalog.
“To get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio,” Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw writes in a message on the EA blog. “On March 18, SimCity players who have activated their game will receive an email telling them how to redeem their free game.”
While Bradshaw freely admits in the post that this is “kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy,” she says that the entire team “really feel[s] bad about what happened. We’re hoping you won’t stay mad and that we’ll be friends again when SimCity is running at 100 percent.”
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