THE GAME THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE SINGLEPLAYER, IS NOW SINGLEPLAYER, AS EVERYONE ACTUALLY ALWAYS WANTED
Remember the HUGE stink about SimCity requiring an always-on internet connection, and how Maxis and EA had always envisaged the game as a multiplayer experience? Remember how it was meant to be just too hard to make the game playable any other way? Well.
Let’s get right to it. SIMCITY OFFLINE IS COMING! I’ve wanted to say those words for quite some time, so my apologies that I didn’t take the time to say Happy New Year first. They’re the opening words of a post from Maxis’ Patrick Buechner, the General Manager of Maxis Emeryville. It’s from an announcement posted up over night on the game’s blog, and while it’s possibly maybe sorta good news for SimCity ‘fans’, it really comes across as more than a little smug.
Regardless, offline singleplayer is coming. ‘Shortly’ is the only timeframe, but it will allow games to be started and stored purely locally. More importantly, it’s also going to open up the game to much deeper modding, which can only be a good thing for the community.
To learn more, check out the post – http://www.simcity.com/en_AU/blog/article/simcity-offline-iscoming-au
