At Last! 'SimCity' Players Get Offline Mode

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At Last! 'SimCity' Players Get Offline Mode
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Released almost exactly a year ago, SimCity (http://mashable.com/category/simcity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) (a revamped version of the classic city-building game by Will Wright) was a study in what might have been. The game looked beautiful (http://mashable.com/2013/03/04/simcity-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) and had fascinating, intricate concepts behind it, but was plagued by slow server troubles (http://mashable.com/2013/03/11/simcity-server-problems/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) from Day One

And, worst of all, there was ** way to play it unless you were online with EA's much-maligned Origin (http://mashable.com/category/origin/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) service

Electronic Arts, owners of Maxis, the maker of SimCity, insisted that online was the only way it was possible to play (http://mashable.com/2013/03/15/simcity-gm-response/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). Then it relented in January (http://mashable.com/2014/01/13/simcity-offline-mode/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and an**unced that an offline, single-player mode would be forthcoming. **w it's finally here: check out the details in the video above Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/sim-city-offline/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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