SimCity servers appear to be coping as game hits UK

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UPDATE 2: EA has reportedly requested its affiliate partners temporarily stop promoting SimCity following the fan outrage over its server issues.
An e-mail directed at affiliates of EA's LinkShare program was obtained by Polygon. It said that EA Origin had "deactivated all SimCity text links and creative and we ask you to please remove any copy promoting SimCity from your website for the time-being."
"To be clear we are continuing to payout commissions on all SimCity sales that are referred, however we are requesting that you please stop actively promoting the game," the e-mail continued. "We will notify you as soon as the SimCity marketing campaigns have been resumed and our promotional links are once again live in the Linkshare interface."
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