EA and Maxis had talked about SimCity being only possible as an always online type of game. Gamers really don’t like this phrase at all as these launches always have major issues but SimCity to it to the extreme as the game was not playable for a long time and just recently received the cheetah speed update. If you read our review, you can see that SimCity was far from perfect and EA has done a lot of work to get it there.
Just like Microsoft and the Xbox One, Maxis has made a 180 and will enable an offline mode to remove the required internet connection from the game in the next update as EA states on its blog.
Yes, Offline is coming as a free download with Update 10 to all SimCity players. When we launch it, all of your previously downloaded content will be available to you anytime, anywhere, without the need for an internet connection. We are in the late phases of wrapping up its development and while we want to get it into your hands as soon as possible, our priority is to make sure that it’s as polished as possible before we release it. So, until then… testing, testing and more testing. As one of the final steps, we’re putting Offline into the hands of some of our most hardcore players, the DevTesters. This group of volunteers is going to put Offline through its paces before we release it.
You can read a lot more about the update here.
