Electronic Arts announced on their forum that SimCity’s Update 10 – a patch that allows for offline play – will be rolled out on 18 March.
This comes a year after the game launched in March 2013, follows much controversy around the always-online requirement of the game, leading Maxis to cave in and explain themselves and the complexity of overhauling SimCity for offline play, back in January 2014.
The short version is that Maxis claims it was a lot of work modify the core game system elements, removing them from server-side processing and patching them into the client-side portion of the game.
The instability of SimCity’s servers was one of the lowlights of the 2013 for gamers, and the offline play option was long overdue according to critics.
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