Feedbackula - Sim City Offline Mode Moans

They should've done it from the other end - start with the offline mode and then add the online mode.

And now as a punishment, create larger cities in offline mode because that was one of the things desired since the beginning too. I don't care how many months can take to create a new patch like that and edit the shitty engine to make bigger cities, simply do it. I think I can wait till then with offline mode. .. "uh a new toy".

Only larger city limits would get me to play this game again.

I stand by my comment!

Sorry, but people are NEVER going to trust EA. It's not like MS, who had a moment of thinking they knew better than the consumer. EA have, for years, shown an open contempt for the end user. That anyone is surprised that the user is beginning to show open contempt for them in return is amazing.

Give me bigger maps. I have Internet, I don't give a crap about offline mode.

What's wrong with Java?!

Anyone who defended Xbox One policies should take this as an example of how crap it was going to be not only the console release, but the game installation and autentication themselves. Do you see this Sevenizz, elegant_spock and acekidder?

The video was doing this trippy Max Headroom thing again. Come on Gamespot, get it fixed already.

Ahaha the Java comment was priceless...

Wait this offline mode isn't the issue anymore. I mean you can still play online in a private room by yourself :S so what does offline mode mean because that isn't the issue anymore with anyone, the issue is and always has been the town sized cities sorry, not even town sized, more like village. i played sim city on my own anyway from the start, it's the size what matter in a game like this and i'll pick the next sim city up if they ever make a bigger version of it.

For a simulation it still bugs me how fudged the population numbers get to make it look like you have a big city.

To TPB I go!

"Is Sim City still relevant?" Best comment.

A band-aid on a long infected bullet wound.

Not including Offline was no more an "oversight" than Microsoft's Xbox One "oversight." It was a deliberate attempt to shackle us to their servers, stop the modding community, make us pay $10 so Sims can wear Nike shoes, and be able to switch the game off just around the time the sequel arrives.

EA wasn't fooling anyone.

comments were actually pretty tame in this one. for once i actually agree with the community, not including offline mode was a pretty big oversight

Man, you keep failing EA..

Only thing that will make your customers happy, is when you crash and crumble down. Thats when people are truly happy, but i guess you have some objections about that..

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I'm rolling my eyes as hard as I can. As if anyone here knows anything about Java. They used Java for the client/server calls (to get data from other cities or whatever) because it's better. In offline mode there are no client/server calls, so they had to replicate the functionality in the C codebase.

I lol'd so f*king much at that Java comment !!!!

I rather wait until the offline is implemented and how it works first before saying EA/Maxis did a good job due to back history.

Speaking as a long term Sim City fan (even though I've always sucked at playing them) it's about damned time. Now all they need to do is enlarge the city sizes and I will consider buying this game. It's taken far too long to implement a feature that should have been there to start with.

For now though I think I'll just switch on my CRT and carry on playing Sim City snes, or perhaps Sim City 2000 (I love gog).

EA is a semi-monopoly like Microsoft- they have franchises like Madden just MS has windows. In East Asia if you work here you HAVE to use windows for your job. If you want to play NFL football you have to use Madden.

These monopolies inevitably lead to corporate abuse of customers. I would say boycott them. I invested in Activision/Blizzard - now, Blizzard has done some bad stuff lately, but their overall track record is very good. One of the first PC games I loved was WC 2.

This segment looks like it's made by people at GS UK with too much time on their hands.
This video also needs serious editing.

The problem is: join the navy.

Whatever happened to 'better late than never'? Tough crowd...

business is business..so remember they can fail when your a fucking douchebag to the consumer

So much for the "It needs Cloud Computing to work because it's just too much info" argument.

I don't care if they fixed this or not. They still tried to make us play always online with a ridiculously small city and dlc. I have boycotted EA for years now. I was tempted when I first heard about SimCity. So glad I didn't cave.

Someone invoked Diablo 3? That game has been running perfectly 3 days after launch.

Though it will not really bring in any new players this is an okay addition.

The cardinal sin of Simcity isn't the online only or small maps. Were that the case, I'd own it by now. The cardinal sin is that the game costs $40 and each DLC retails for like $10 a pop, with an expansion at $30. If the game and the expansion were bundled for $40, and the DLC were $2.99 a pop, I'd have bought them all already. Hell, I'd bought it for my friends too.

Such a shame. Despite the online only DRM and the ridiculous city size. The game is broken down to it's very core. Just the way the 'Sims' go about their business, travelling, no set jobs, no set homes makes it all a big mess.

I think that's probably why the city limits came in in the first place. If one sim has to travel the length of the city to get to work, that job doesn't get done, he ends up unemployed and your numbers are fucked. Huge disappointment this one.