Oh, I definitely agree with you... I guess what I was trying to get at is even if Sim City was DRM free, the game itself is a huge disappointment, imo.MinisterofDOOM wrote: As they should be! If publishers are going to force "services" and online connectivity on games, those services should be reviewed as the components of the game experience that they are. If EA won't let us play a game without Origin, we shouldn't let it be reviewed without Origin, either. This goes for U-Play, GFWL, and all other "feature-added online services" that restrict how I user my game. I hate to appear biased, but even Steamplay-enabled Steam games can be played offline.
For instance:
(this is what I've read from various posts online)
The population of your city, if you want a well-tuned one, will max at around 200-300K.
The size of the maps is a complete joke.
You can't do any terraforming or control natural disasters.
Etc.
...but yeah above all, having to be online in order to play a single-player game is absolutely absurd. In addition, to me at least, Maxis (like Bioware) appears to have made a pathetic attempt to shoehorn multi-player into single-player.