EA has just today said that it completed server upgrades designed to address the launch problems, so it’s now likely hoping the negative reviews and backlash fall by the wayside.īut while requests for offline play might get quieter, they likely won’t go away entirely any time soon.
SimCity’s online requirement is likely more about enforcing DRM protection to prevent piracy of the game than about user experience, and users like UKAzzer are clearly trying to make that more apparent. It follows claims by an anonymous Maxis engineer who claimed that Maxis servers aren’t doing much of anything regarding important computation.
This hack was essentially designed to refute that claim, at least in part. The demo is meant to counter claims that it would require a significant amount of engineering to render SimCity playable offline, claiming that it simulates the entire region within which a player’s city is situated on its servers.
