Not to be outdone by Tomb Raider’s numbers, EA has released their own set of numbers for SimCity in a press release. If you really want to read the entire, long winded thing then I applaud you. I am just going to post the numbers that EA touted this morning.

In just two weeks:
– SimCity players have logged more than 15 million hours of online gameplay.
– More than 5.7 million original cities have been created since launch.
– More than 780 million buildings have been built.
– SimCity mayors to date have built enough road and railroad tracks to circle the globe more than 40,000 times.

First thought from me is exactly how many of those cities have been created, lost and recreated because of the SimCity servers not being able to handle the number of players online at one time? It is like when Sony mentions the lifetime sales of the Playstation 2. Sure it may be the best selling console ever, but how many of those consoles were multiple buys by customers because the first few years of PS2’s were pieces of shit? I had three, how about you?

I am happy that Maxis and EA are finally getting the game to a serviceable level, but there is no other way to describe SimCity’s launch other than one of the biggest cluster fu**s to happen in gaming.

We here at Nerd Rating are in the middle of [amazon_link id=”B00A7QA0XE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Tomb Raider[/amazon_link] fever. We just put up our first review of the reboot handled by Mr. Trey Sterling and my review should be along any day now.

Today, Square has released some fun number facts about Lara’s reboot adventure. Let’s take a look:

– 13,742,891 close calls

-11,067,764 enemies dodged

-147,675,058 enemies killed with a bow

-20,601,083 enemies killed with fire arrows

-356,988,302 arrows looted off of fallen enemies

-5,294,879 deers hunted

-1,417,750 crabs hunted

-3,570,956 tombs raided

I know these number are really inconsequential, but I am a nerd for useless facts like this. I am glad to know that I was not the only one murdering helpless crabs left and right just to gain the tiny bit of salvage to max everything out. I am sitting on 98% completion and I will not be denied!!