The biggest issue, and that fans are most worried about, are whether their progress will be lost once the internet goes out, since there is no way to save your city to the server. If it's a short outage, Maxis says they can "recover gracefully," however for those whose internet might go out for longer periods of time, might be out of luck, since it doesn't look like cities are saved locally on your computer.
Some games force online-only measures onto people. It sucks! Especially when some titles, like these seven, 100% didn't need it.
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Need for Speed as well. Here's to hope that the new one will be a return to form for the franchise.
Hah... Hahahaha. Um, that would be a no for me then.
Didn't EA learn from Spore? Why do these games NEED to be online all the time? I understand it for a game like Diablo III, but why SimCity?
Not buying then.
Lost a sale from me too
well its a no buy for me, my gaming rig is not hooked up to the internet, and besides i only have dail up, its also not excalty stable either. its also the reason i missed out on anno 2070 :(