SimCity
Server stability issues aren’t uncommon in the slightest for PC releases and in many cases, these problems tend to get sorted out fairly soon after a game’s launch. SimCity was the exception to this rule in just about every way, shape, and form. EA, the game’s developer, received a lot of negative feedback about the game requiring an always online internet connection and that it lacked any form of offline single-player. SimCity forced players to be logged into Origin to be able to play it and when the servers came online March 6, 2013, no one was safe from the server crashes and network outages it was plagued with.
The issues were so bad that some players were unable to even log into the game until weeks after its initial release. Amazon had even received such intense levels of negative comments about the game that it was temporarily removed from the marketplace. The game has since added an offline single-player mode option and has gotten numerous updates to increase server stability and prevent disconnects and loss of saved data. No matter how much better SimCity gets however, it seems as though the game will always carry a black spot as being one of the single worst game server launches of all time.
