SimCity Goes Offline With Official Update

[thiosk]

Well, release it on steam and I'll pick it up guys!
OH WAIT YOU WANT ME TO INSTALL ORIGIN
nope nope nope nope nope

 

[webkilla]

This feels better than the ME3 'extra DLC' thing...

Of course, it would still require Origin.... so I think I'll pass

 

[Ace O'Hagen]

I'm surprised they're not selling this as a 20$ DLC pack, to be quite honest. I mean, this is EA after all.

 

[EmilShmiengura]

Tempting. When it sells for 5$ I'm in.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Cheese and rice! Update 10? You know a game wasn't ready to ship when it need updates on a nearly monthly basis after launch; excusing games with a strong PvP aspect that tend to need frequent balancing, which SimCity is not.

 

[oldtaku]

It still needs cities back up to reasonable size and the AI fixed. Though now that they're allowing offline, maybe they'll allow offline only mods that will fix those.

 

[carpathic]

Finally!
Now I might actually buy it.

I'm hoping that this will also increase the maximum size of a city - I would imagine the reason for the current tiny restriction is because of the online requirement, so without that maybe we can make huge sprawling cities again

Too true - now that they removed the particularly unpalatable aspects of the game, perhaps I'll buy it.

There certainly weren't any compelling reasons to do so prior to this! Hopefully computer game companies figure out that there are large numbers of gamers who want nothing to do with playing online.

 

[Megacherv]

Now if only they allowed us to play it without installing Origin.
I wouldn't mind a Steam release.

SimCity 4 is there still, ready and waiting

 

[Racecarlock]

I'm still not buying it.

I have simcity 4, why buy what is essentially a prequel for all the stuff it's taken out?

 

[fix-the-spade]

So essentially, EA intends to switch off the multi player servers in the near future but wants to keep selling what they consider to be a current game.

Then they will finally get the game to a state something near where it should have been on release day, after spending God knows how much building and maintaining the infrastructure, then flapping moronically through the disastrous launch.

Oh well, chalk another expensive goof up to the guys in suits.

 

[rayen020]

See me when they add farms, terraforming, disasters off, increased city sizes, actual city simulation, and you know what actually i just go play simcity 4...

 

[SquidVicious]

Next time it's on sale I think I might pick it up, if only to justify having Origin on my PC.

 

[kajinking]

Guess who has a horrible and unreliable internet connection due to AT&T? Now guess who loves city builders and can actually play the damn game now?!

 

[Grabehn]

But isn't SimCity an MMO?
How can MMO work without constant internet, connection?
.
Alright, sarcasm aside, how hard was to make Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes from the very beginning?
I suspect that Multiplayer wouldn't be as popular though.

Probably because they're way too obsessed with DRM to even realize how stupid the stuff they say actually is.

MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO-MMO. Fuck EA.

 

[Serrenitei]

*Gives a significant look to Activision Blizzard for Diablo 3*

 

[Colt47]

*Gives a significant look to Activision Blizzard for Diablo 3*

Yeah... somehow not seeing that happen... =(

 

[Allspice]

Good. I haven't played SimCity 5 since July, I have so many others to play I just never pick it back up, so I have no idea what the state of the game is. But I'm willing to give it another chance. If after this patch comes out I have fun playing, I'll buy the EP. The online thing was the main reason I didn't.

 

[orangeapples]

Awesome, they're finally getting SimCity out of paid beta.

 

[truckspond]

I like many others will be supporting this decision by buying the game once the offline mode update is out.

 

[Charli]

It is done.

I am going to buy an EA game. For the first time in nearly 8-9 years. The curse is broken.

If only to get it through their thick heads that NOT dicking your customer = Money.

If they pull another stunt I think flagrantly flies in the faces of their legitimate paying customers in the name of attempting to and failing to trip up the 1% of people who are pirates. I'll sadly be back to square one.