Feedbackula - Sim City Offline Mode Moans

I think people are holding the grudge for far too long. Would you rather Maxis have not made an official Offline Mode at all? Just stick with the one that disables a lot of the communication features with other players? Just dumped the game, said "F*** it, we're out of this industry" and met up with Phil Fish?

ok...so now it has offline mode..is it half the game Simcity 4 or 3000 was? thats now the question.

Is it any good? Is it fun? is it interesting? Does it make me feel like a mayor of a massive city?

still to busy playing DOTA 2 .. which is free

and fun

and free

Good show, superb Voice "Acting," too.

Dat tiny map.

I guess EA shot themselves in the head with the initial release, and it took them so long to fix it that people eventually lost all interest in the game.

when's the Navy returning???

Such a shame. I loved the previous versions of Sim City, but the tiny map sizes pretty much remove the game from this game (whether you can play it offline or not). There's only so much you can do with a tiny little space like that.

"JAVA. F*CKING JAVA?" Love ya, Sarah!

EA & Origin are the devil!

It also needs to be Origin free to have any future at all.

Offline mode won't fix a broken engine. Can't wait until modders make larger maps, and then we all see how much of a fail glassbox really is.

JAVA? ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME? JAVA?

Yeah EA, you can't expect to f.. gamers, abuse franchises and destroy the industry on a daily basis, and be everything okay after that just because you made Sim City accesible again.

Maybe Blizzard will take a que from EA (how many times will you really want to hear that I wonder) and scrub Diablo 3 clean of this foul, wretched Onlineyness-Only garbage!

Off-line as a second choice is fine with me. I was excited about sharing and working on-line, but mostly play by myself. But on-line or off-line makes no difference if you can't make your city fit. With no real agriculture you have no space to grow or make your city grow. With no 'God' tools you have to accept the limited imagination of the designers, although uniquely different, no necessarily playable.

I just don't understand why they made their areas so small, especially when they knew their were going to be add-ons that we can fit into the cities we've built?

Hopefully after they fix the off-line game they can start to add connected larger playing areas, add an agriculture segment and make more money than they need.

And can anyone tell me when EA and world Origin will be put into full function? What is available online in US should be available worldwide! What the heck is wrong with EA Marketing. Sell the best only to US customers and the heck with the rest of the world?

Sheeeeeesh!

Hmm, the offline thing was I think the 3rd biggest problem with the game, ok you could argue it was the 2nd biggest problem. That depends wether you think the map size which kinda constricts the game even considering the concept of specialized cities. But the biggest problem by far is one I haven't heard them mention. The traffic pathing. And I don't just mean the cars. They simulate all the individual sims, but the sims behave insanely. They won't cross the f'ing street, so that's why you can get a sim apartment building complaining about how there are no parks when there's a park across the street. You need to have bus stops on both sides of the street for them to get there. This effects every aspect of how you have to design your city. It's also the reason why all your fire trucks go to the first fire, but none to the 2nd fire. Yes I don't have enough fire engines when I have 8, yet there's one fire. THE BASIC MECHANICS ARE BROKEN. I don't know, did they fix this and I just didn't hear about it? I haven't played the game since a couple months after release. I didn't really care that it was always online, but nonworking game mechanics just makes the game unplayable.

Cloud gaming. The most elaborate DRM scam ever created.

Man, SC was such a piece of shit. I can't believe the potential they had coming off of SC4....

@meatz666 *Achievement Unlocked*

Yeah... so first actually improve the game over the previous then I will give a shit.

Helping someone off the ground doesn't build much goodwill if you're the one that decked them.

Too late! come on!... No one is interested in this game.... I can imagine that only 3-5 out of 100 owners of this game will be back to try this feature that should be since the launch.

And for those like me that didn't buy it. It doesn't even matter, I still won't get it. Maybe... and just maybe... when the game costs 2 Euros... LOL

Nice going EA, you just killed one of the nicest IP out there for PC's... feel sorry for Sim City

JAVA part was great btw

That was the most amazing voicing of the phrase/word "LOL" in the history of the world!

I miss toast. And naval recruitment.

And for the record, while I'm glad that the offline mode was implemented (albeit horribly late and after a bounty of lies), this still doesn't address the other major issue with the game, being the very small city sizes.

LOL JAVA that explains a lot actually. Java is for obese Cheetos-stained tryhards.

@jesot@adrianjarcaClearly you do not understand the problem and the alternatives. If on console, rent it. You still get to play and EA doesn't get a dime. If on PC, well...

haha i'm glad i didn't buy this. probably would have to install the stupid jre.

Wow. I think that was the most sensible, level-headed episode of Feedbackula I've seen yet. Also, the comment about Java was almost my exact reaction. Seriously. Who was the idiot who suggested coding a AAA release in Java? And why the hell did they agree with them?

I recently decided to get back into this game with Cities of Tomorrow, which looks pretty cool. But I honestly don't really care about offline mode, what I want is a game with the same level of depth and difficult as SimCity 4 - and unfortunately Maxis/EA failed to deliver.

lolz. Java...

It's not that cloud gaming isn't good or wanted in general, it's that it's not wanted with this type of game.

SimCity is just a really personal experience. Co-op or online modes might be cool additions, but in a game where you create your own world, you probably don't want outside forces influencing your creation or experience unless explicitly invited to do so.

To who that was that voiced the Java quote... perfect!

I don't blame people for being so pissed off, infact I'm with them. The boss of a business wouldn't tolerate an employee finishing a piece of work one year late, why should it be accepted when EA patches in what should have been there in the first place one year late?

I still urge people not to buy EA stuff.

I love Sim City, but EA desire the a-kicking it got for this only online mode. I haven't played a game yet, that is always online (EX NBA2k14) that's not a crap in the box.

Yeah, let us pirate the game now. That'll show EA... that online drm is the better choice.