SimCity Release

[Cinjin]

No, you cannot. If you lose connectivity for more than a short period, the game exits. As saved games are stored on EA's servers, you lose all progress since the last save.

A particularly onerous anti-piracy measure, if you ask me.

Sure enough CD

the worst part is, the game you just paid $60 for, the game you may love, is not your game to own. You see, when a game requires an “always on” connection, and stores data on EA’s servers, that means EA owns your game. If EA decides to shut the servers down, five years down the road? Tough luck. Hope you played all the SimCity 5 you’ll ever want to play, because it’s gone now. No going back to nostalgic old favorites, no showing your children an amazing time with a game that influenced your life, no reliving those memories.

So I say to EA, and any other publisher thinking like EA - stop with the “always on” bulls***. Yes, you’re going to lose some sales to piracy, and yes, it sucks. The solution isn’t to [redacted] over the people who actually want to play the game. The solution isn’t to treat the customer like a prisoner you’re graciously offering the opportunity to lease your game. The solution is to make a good game, and then people will tell their friends about it, and then those friends will buy the game and YOU WILL MAKE MASSIVE PILES OF MONEY AND NOT INDUCE RAGE ANEURYSMS IN YOUR CUSTOMER BASE.

That's a damn shame, because he said that the game is actually a lot of fun ... when it works.