SimCity's long-awaited offline mode nearly here

So either there's a problem with the comments system or GameSpot staff / LifeFyre mods are cleaning up without comment deletion notification or a reason why.

There's no sugarcoating, these are facts - game still requires Origin DRM client and an EA account, still has only tiny buildable areas, still has a broken RCI model, still has broken agent AI and nonsensical behavior, still has broken regional trading, ... the list goes on and on.

Again, as said in the comment that magically disappeared without reason - this game has way bigger issues than the online requirement.

By the looks of it, Eddie seemed to have linked to the wrong SimCity / published the article for the wrong game. ("sim-city" from 1990 instead of "simcity" from 2013)

"...and later explained that introducing such a mode would require significant engineering work."

Yeah, the game itself needed significant engineering work before it was released to the public. Almost a year later and you're still trying to fix major game play issues. How about letting us build on all that unused land? Or will that require you guys to go back and read all that code that you weren't properly trained for?

On lunch day my friend bought game and could not play it for 10 days, after that was battling with disconnects for months. This EA decision is way to late. They dont care about customers. . .

Meanwhile Banished is a better town simulator anyways, can usually be purchased for around $15, and was made by one guy.

I stopped playing coz od cit y plot size

Yay, I guess. The only other major limitation of the game now that comes to mind is the city size. Which is pretty significant, though I do like how they tried to make the pieces a bit more intimate in how they all come together.

With the online requirement gone, I could see recommending the game to someone on sale for $10 or something. The parts that worked were fun for a while.

I forgot you were even working on this

Nobody cares anymore...

"the new mode, is "in final testing.""

So it's almost being done coded and is going to be out the door soon with out any sort of QA being done. Gotcha.

Too little.

Too late.

Sorry EA, but you missed my $60 when it first came out with that online mess.

Please EA, sell this franchise to someone else who is dedicated on making a game worth buying. Could you guys imagine Civilization 5 being the developer for SimCity? It would be spectacular.

Sad to say I stopped playing the game after about 2 months. The online only thing was annoying but what bothered me more was the size of the maps, they were ridiculously undersized and once you hit a certain population size became horrible to manage... The game wants you to make a city of millions but the size of the plots can't support more than a few hundred thousand. What's really sad is I used to play the older SimCity games for hundreds of hours, I think I have about 75 hours total into SimCity.

Personally I'd love to see an entire "region" opened up as a single map instead of having 4 individual cities...

Too little, too late for many i suspect, and if you read/listen around, the game has far more severe problems than it's "online only" approach.

Still, good news for those who do play the game....so, good on them.

Do people really care about this still? It seems to late.

Too late. Sim City was a catastrophic failure and it will never recover from such.

Too little too late EA.

You just keep ruining good studios.

Seems pointless, but now its free from EA's ..... .. creeper grasp.

1 year too late

Does anyone actually care about this after so long?

This game had an offline mode about 2 months after release, why waste their time?

Larger maps, anyone?

It's too late, EA, no one cares about SimCity anymore. It's yet another corpse of a game franchise in your wake. How the hell the Sims has survived can only be attributed to that game's core audience of bubble-headed girls who will buy ANYTHING for their precious dollhouse simulator.

Hopefully the modding community can make this game what it should have been in the first place.

First and foremost we need larger city plots and customizable regions

The game is really fun, if it launched with an offline mode & all the patches it's gotten, it could have been PC's GOTY, but of course EA has to rush it out buggy & with always online DRM, god damnit

Arrrrrrrrr Matey. TO THE HIGH SEAS.

too little too late

no bigger maps no buy

I've been wanting to play this game ever since they announced it (or at least since I read about the announcement). but as my internet connection is very unstable I never bought SimCity, but as soon as this "off-line" mode is available I'll be buying it

I played SimCity 4 probably more than any other games out there... SC5 was a total letdown, and will still be after this patch. The soul is gone