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2010-06-25
FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE ANNOUNCES CITIES XL 2011
With this press release, we'd like to inform you that Focus Home Interactive acquired Cities XL and the current developments of the game.
This fall, Focus will launch Cities XL 2011, an enriched version which will meet all the expectations of City Builder's fans.
"It's important not to leave Cities XL without a future, declares Cedric Lagarrigue, CEO of Focus Home Interactive. Though the game may not have reached the ambitious objectives set forth by Monte Cristo, it has been successful in Europe and via online platforms. There's a community that's developed around the game, hopes and expectations that we cannot leave without a future. We are convinced that the game must make its mark and become a reference as promised during the pre-release announcements of the original 2009 game. We will therefore release Cities XL 2011 in October and will do so with the intent to please those who bought the earlier version. Moreover, we are working on a special offer for the game's release which we will soon reveal. As for the other City Builder and management game fans, Cities XL 2011's content, options, and features should give them great satisfaction."
For those of you who don't know what Cities XL is/was, it was a city building game similar to the Sim City games except expanding more upon which Sim City is already based upon, such as retail shopping and adding in the ability to make much neater looking transportation systems (i.e. curved bridges /drool).
The game was running barely smoothly as there were confirmed reports of a rather large memory leak within the game that almost renders the game unplayable on large cities or for large periods of time, even on most high end systems. Despite this and even multiple memory leaks as there were found out, Monte Cristo eventually realized they're draining their wallet and pulled the plug on their online service for Cities XL, Planet Offer, which allowed players to create a city on separate planets that only interacted with the cities on the same planet and visit other cities by other players.
Cities XL was a large disappointment. The memory leaks and lack of support from Monte Cristo sealed the games fate until this press release.
tl;dr; stuffty game, then bought out by another developer and promises to make it better.
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We will therefore release Cities XL 2011 in October and will do so with the intent to please those who bought the earlier version. Moreover, we are working on a special offer for the game's release which we will soon reveal.
In other words; "Free/heavily discounted copy of Cities XL 2011 to anyone who owns Cities XL on Steam" deal is in the talks.
