SimCity

In 5-10 years when that happens you probably won't want to play the game anyway.

I'm more annoyed at the fact that I can't play the game whilst on a bus, where I still play SimCity 4 every week

As said above, there will be a way round it by then, in that case.

By release date?

I shouldn't have to pirate/crack a game that I want to pay for. Stupid move by EA

No, in 5-10 years when EA will have most certainly forgot about this Sim City and will be working on something new (unless they go bankrupt )

I agree though, stupid move.

Doubt it takes much longer than a week from the US release (5th, 2/3 days before Europe) before someone has created a way to circumvent the always online requirement. I'm not saying it doesn't suck, but people are making it out to be more of an issue than it really is.

Anyway, Maxis are justifying it by saying that the servers provide assistance to the local computer with more intense calculations in the game engine. Sounds like a bunch of humbug, but who knows?

It's mainly an issue because it's an idiotic move in a world where game devs are trying to stop people pirating their games

Looks good this, think I'll get it but no doubt be useless at it.

Guessing with it being on Origin it won't be on Steam?

We're not talking about them shutting the servers down, we're talking about being able to play the game without needing an Internet connection. As of now you cannot play whilst traveling or whatever

Technically you can, if you have a laptop out travelling, you'd likely have a mobile dongle, i do that with FM, not only that but they'll most almost certainly put an offline mode in too, like steam.

How else would you access the internet whilst travelling?

That's the point, I don't have internet access whilst travelling

So why take your laptop?

Why does it require to be connected to the internet?

Are you sure you'll get a sufficiently fast connection from a dongle, though?

Until game companies learn that to beat piracy you need to make your game superior, not inferior, to the pirated version then piracy is only going to get worse. It baffles me how they can't work that out.