simcity now has offline mode finally

[otto-san]

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-offline-play-now-available-for-pc-and-mac

OFFLINE MODE IS RELEASED

no internet connection needed even for startup.

sry if there was already a topic, i looked but didn't find something general enough

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[KillerCop311]

does this mean it's DRM free?
or am I just being stupid

[Omicron Corp]

also modding!!! yay!!
still waiting for bigger maps though

[otto-san]

does this mean it's DRM free?
or am I just being stupid

supposedly you don't need an internet connection to play in singleplayer mode at all

also modding!!! yay!!
still waiting for bigger maps though

idk if they just worded the post badly but it says "You can manage as many cities as you’d like within a Region and because they are stored locally"

i guess you probably mean city size though, which would be really nice as well

[Bisjac]

Because they made the money and that's that. Now they can lower this anti piracy tactic a bit. And pretend it's instead a rewarding update.

[Flush535]

if it goes on major sale or for some reason gets on Steam I would probably get it now

[Aide33]

gets on Steam

EA

not any time soon

[Renousim]

simcity 4, bad company 2

[otto-san]

Because they made the money and that's that. Now they can lower this anti piracy tactic a bit. And pretend it's instead a rewarding update.

and the CEO during the game's development stepped down

they announced intentions to release this update ages ago

not to say EA doesn't care about money lol

[Fab]

simcity 4, bad company 2

what BC2 have to do with sim city?

[Decepticon]

what BC2 have to do with sim city?

they're both made by EA and made it onto steam

[Stick Man]

SimCity 4 is still better than SimCity 5.

[snot2]

they are on steam because they put it on there before they made origin

most ea games arent on steam because valve doesnt want them to make dlc origin only and is why crysis 2 maximum exists

[King of the Bill]

Because they made the money and that's that. Now they can lower this anti piracy tactic a bit. And pretend it's instead a rewarding update.

how is requiring permanent internet connection an antipiracy? It turned out that you could just do sp anyway all along and some folks went in and tweaked their way into offline-sp anyway iirc

[TristanLuigi]

they are on steam because they put it on there before they made origin

most ea games arent on steam because valve doesnt want them to make dlc origin only and is why crysis 2 maximum exists

That doesn't make any sense. If you're Valve, would you rather have the base title but not DLC or nothing at all?