10 Major Missteps By Video Game Companies

10. When A Constant Online Connection Ruins Everything - SimCity 2013

City-builder's are a genre designed to slow-paced and relaxing. Our inner perfectionists come out to play, as we swear we are having fun redesigning a roundabout for 3 hours because "it wasn't round enough".

The SimCity franchise was king of the city builders for decades, producing hit after hit for decades. Then SimCity 2013 happened. The game was reviewed positively before release - I mean, it was following a successful predecessor, what could go wrong?

Oh, SO much.

Focusing too hard on DRM to prevent piracy, EA somehow forgot to actually make the game work. Requiring a constant online connection while also having too few servers meant thousands of players were unable to play due to network issues, for a single player game.

The backlash was so severe the franchise has still not recovered, and other city builders have risen by the dozens to take its place.