8 Dead EA Video Game Franchises That Deserve A Comeback

After a decade of hard work, Maxis finally delivered the fully three-dimensional city-building sim it had always aspired to make in 2013, and for the lucky few that made it past an unquantifiable number of disconnections that plagued its woeful launch, the wait had been worth it.

For everyone else, EA's strict always-online policy for the soft reboot resulted in servers threatening to implode under the strain of thousands of login requests, turning what should have been a victory for Maxis into a total nightmare.

Removed from its grievous technical issues, that's exactly what SimCity was. Even the fair criticism it garnered for having a smaller build space than its predecessors was a score deduction that would have been rectified with post-launch updates if only Maxis had been given the chance. In light of the fallout, EA has left the series to settle so that the stigma can wash away and here we are, six years later, wondering if the publisher will ever revisit another dead IP bursting with potential.

You've waited long enough, EA, don't let 2013's tragedy be how SimCity is remembered.