SimCity Mac Launch Facing More Problems

[wraggster]

The launch of the new SimCity back in March made headlines (http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/03/06/155246/simcity-5-how-not-to-design-a-single-player-game) for the problems caused by the game's always-online DRM. EA Maxis even decided that people who bought the game early deserved a free game (http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/03/09/1549236/ea-offering-free-game-to-users-after-simcity-launch-problems) for their trouble. They also decided topostpone the launch (http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/6/4403346/simcity-mac-version-delay-update-5) of the Mac version of the game. Well, the delay is over; SimCity has arrived for Macs, and players are nowfacing a whole new set of installation and launch problems (http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/29/4672890/mac-version-of-simcity-hit-with-installation-and-launch-issues). "Those issues include a 'mutexAlert' error, which can be resolved by switching the OS to English. Another simply doesn't allow a player to install the game once downloaded. The suggested solution for that is to re-install Origin and opt in to the new Beta version. The game also apparently doesn't currently support Mac OS X 10.7.4 nor the upcoming 10.9 beta release." There are also reports that the game won't function on high-resolution display settings (http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4674112/simcity-for-mac-too-plagued-by-day-one-issues).

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/08/30/1315216/simcity-mac-launch-facing-more-problems