SimCity sells 1.1 million in two weeks
More than 15 milli𒉰on hours spent in the city bu💖ilder so far
SimCity sold more than 1.1. million copies in its first two weeks of release, publisher 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Electronic Arts announced today, and about 54 percent of those purchases were made di𒊎gitally.
The city building game had about as rough of a launch as possible, short of de-magnetizing hard drives and setting screenꦓs on fire. But days of near-inacces💖sible servers and frequent interruptions couldn't prevent players from logging more than 15 million hours since release--which means the average user has spent roughly 14 hours in the city-building game since launch.
Those 1.1 million mayors will all be entitled to one of eight free EA games to make up for the launc🐼h difficulties. They won't be entitled to any offline modes, however, as Maxis General Manager made it clear 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the studio's vision 🥃for the game is wholly online.
That the Steam-e🐽schewing title still pulled in more than half of its sales digitally points to a thriving digital market, at the very leas✤t.
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