User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims Wiki News - 31st October 2013/@comment-2201555-20131101004236

I encountered a nice little adventure downloading the SimCity update. Took 5 hours to get running after it failed multiple times on EA's server end either resulting in hanging at 20%, downloading corrupt archives as a result of failure or redownloading the same thing meaning this process had to be done again and again and again until it finally got it right. Had they just sent the update via Origin it may have been less of an issue but instead the game is downloaded and updated via the launcher. I'm also pretty sure this downloaded the whole game again judging by what I found in the archive files.

To add insult to inquiry, the update did almost nothing useful, in a similar manner to most of TS3's updates. There are still major bugs and performance issues. The new additions, whilst adding some minor variety, are also worthless. It also didn't bother to cleanup what it left on my hard drive.

Maxis, in my opinion, need to realise that a launcher for their games isn't always the best solution and in the case of TS3 and SimCity, it's done more harm than good. Remember with TS2 when it was one click and then it started? Updates were snappy too. We've already got Origin to launch and update stuff, isn't that enough?

Ah well, here's hoping lessons will be learned for The Sims 4.