"SimCity offline mode is 'almost there Mayors'"

[kane_magus]

For those very few who might still care about this game at all (which doesn't really include me, except to bitch about it), EA/Maxis is apparently finally going to implement offline mode for the game. This comes several months after they first started to explore that possibility, and almost a full year after they admitted the game should have been offline from the very start, which, to me at least, was a no-brainer. But then, this is EA we're talking about here, of course. You know, the geniuses who initially claimed offline mode was not possible, after all.

Oh well, better late than never? Well, maybe for some, but for me it's still more a case of too little too late, mainly because I've heard from too many people that the game still sucks ass even if you could ignore the online requirement (which I couldn't ignore).

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

At this point you're probably better off just ignoring the game unless they also give away free copies or some shit. Taking them 10 updates to finally do what gamers themselves were able to enable by removing a single line of code (Although apparently that was just to play it offline, not save offline) I seriously doubt modifying the save/load routines would take anywhere near this long.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hell, if I did get it for free somehow, I doubt I'd ever actually play it even then.