At E3 2012 in June 2012, "SimCity" won 8 awards out of 24 nominations. On August 23, 2012, "SimCity" won Gamescom's "Best PC Game" award. The Gamescom jury described the video game as having "fantastic graphics" and "struck the right balance between retaining the trademarks of the old parts and making it interesting for beginners". On December 14, 2012, the "SimCity" development team ran a questions-and-answers session on the Internet community Reddit where they received criticism for the game's DRM mechanisms, which require the user to be persistently connected to Electronic Arts' servers in order to be able to play the game.&lt;ref name="reddit.com/r/IAmA"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; The video games-focused blog Kotaku also voiced concern over the issue, worrying that Electronic Arts could one day shut down their servers, rendering the game unplayable.