EA: SimCity offline mode 'didn't fit with our vision'

Offline mode being a democracy and 'their vision' being a dictatorship =P

Wow. If my vision was that bad I'd need a white stick.

"We recognize that there are fans--people who love the original SimCity--who want that," she said. "But we're also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the always-connected functionality."

I bet me left hand that it is a lie! Thousands of people loving always online?! Where are them, than?
Also, they just admitted that they don't give a damn about the fans of original Sim City; people that bought the game and the same people that allowed them to do this game today.
Bad point they made here

Offline mode doesn't stop you having an online mode with all that stuff. You put it in to try and stop pirates. Can't f'ing wait for all the over priced DLC that your going to churn out. I've played the Sims in recent times, I know whats coming. If Simcity ever charges me for a bigger city space then I'm done with EA.

You already lied about simulating the game... Then release a broken mess... I'm sorry I can't take your stupid comments that "MOST people" want online.

Get with the program.

Oh and it's not fun when people join a zone then leave... Then never come back. Leaving power sucking or other services they drain on. Plus you can't even filter full games.

Ultimately it's the consumer's vision as well... since we keep you in business why do you think other developers always gain feedback to make their game. Apparently Maxis just wants to ignore everyone who didn't want DRM, and where are these made up people who are positive about it always being online ???

Spin City

If this was just a multiplayer portion of the game, no one would mind. Still, this is the latest in a string of disasters. Now you can add Maxis to the list of the devs EA has ruined.

Why do people still support this company? They have FLAT OUT LIED to us. They are selling us products which are incomplete and then charge more for the parts they couldn't be bothered finishing or cutting from release. Yet people happily throw their money at EA.

A better idea would have been give player the choice to go offline or online, with more incentives and feature if people choose to go online, and if everything work as intended for the online aspects, people will flock to it anyway. By forcing the choice upon us, the game has become less, not more

Origin Origin Origin. Don't give me this vision crap. You wanted people to be forced into Origin because you're playing catch up against platforms like steam. If you were honestly just trying to make a great game you’d have the online portion OPTIONAL.

I swear every time EA addresses this it only makes things worse.

You know the best part of MMO's?

When those servers shut down, you can't play your game,

Every-time i see EA i keep thinking about Wolfram & Hart......

SimShitty is broken. AI and scripts for several parts of the game (like traffic and workers) is completely messed up, integration between cities is reported to take 20-30 minutes (the opposite of being real-time), cities are more like neighborhoods, people keep losing their savegames, no undo feature, and so forth.

Whatever their vision was, regardless of their choice for a DRM, it never properly made it into this disastrous piece of software.

They can`t sound more pathetic than this.

Do you want this EA lunacy to stop? Don't buy the game. I returned my copy and got something that I can play on my system w/o having to be always connected online. I think we need to force EA to rethink their strategies by not buying into their crap, otherwise they'll continue to think that we're as dumb as cows and treat us as such.

Buying SimCity dident fit with my vision.

so basically they are saying :

We can make SimCity offline, but we won't, 'cause it's an MMO?

It's Beyond absurd.

In EA's sick mind "people like the cooperative gameplay" means "people like always online DRM". Lucy must've been a political spin-doctor in a past life.

Greed is not a vision. It's just greed. So is stupidity for that matter.

"Straight Answers from Lucy"

While we can hope this was intentional irony, sadly it is more likely that EA really does think its users are stupid enough to believe this.

There is this weird menu of options in many games past and present. Two of them tend to say "Single-Player" and "Multiplayer". Is this that difficult to understand Straight Answer Lucy?

EA = more propaganda than Soviet Russia.

Always online is all about control. It has nothing to do with some nice little creative vision.

EA.

http://youtu.be/3wk_PR0XNek

People were praising the online features!?!? What! Did I read that right....? I've seen no positive articles anywhere and haven't heard the words positive and online in the same sentence regarding Simcity.

This is a joke right.....? :S

Since it's obvious they put always on drm in the game and tried to camouflage it with social features and still sold hella millions of copies, I wonder how much they would have sold if they had just made a new sim city that the sim city fans wanted. Updated graphics, updated systems and AI, new buildings and what not to put in the cities, all kinds of shit... that wouldn't have sold well enough? Fuckin EA.

BULLSHIT

Leave it to EA to drop the ball on yet another slam dunk. The only reason they make any money at all, is because they have enough to buy up these high profile devs and their IPs, so even when they muck it up this badly, they still make millions.

Nobody with any sense gives a crap how they try to spin it, but it doesn't matter because it already sold enough to keep them in business, screwing over the gaming industry again and again.

Who in the world praised the always on DRM o_0 Did they give the janitor a raise to say that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yxDZfhYbM

That is all

Maxis GM says developer recognizes some fans want offline mode, but even more are praising the game's always-on features.

LMAO yeah sure EA LOL!

it did not fit with your vision because you could not completely screw over the customer otherwise.

Please DIE EA

"positive responses to the game's always-connected features has been numerous."

wtf?! How long will they lie. Everyone is pissed and they say that everyones happy, nothing is wrong with game and it worked as it should

Even if thousands are enjoying the onlne features, there was still no damn reason to make this an online only game except for green backs.

EA just loves to lie. Yes, I'm sure there are people who like the always online social aspect you get from the game, but the truth is the majority of people want to be able to play offline. The funny thing is, these idiots think that they can release a statement and everyone will believe them when all you have to do is read anything Sim City related and the majority of feedback is outrage because of always online.

Their vision was to not give players options? Nice!

"But we're also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the always-connected functionality."

Who is doing this? Where? I would love to see some examples, but I honestly never even seen this opinion hinted at.

EA needs to just lay low for a while. Whenever someone opens their mouth it's never positive.

"Their vision" is to completely screw the customer and keep constant tabs on them. EA just needs to be shut down, this is getting ridiculous. I've been keeping up with most of all gaming news for years and can confidently say EA is just a bunch of power/money hungry idiots.

"But we're also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the always-connected functionality."

Thousands? Psht, name ONE.

u mean this vision

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