New SimCity to require constant internet connection

[ibegurpard]

4. haha same here

except a lot of people who don't seem to know what they're in for are just seeing a new SimCity and going "oooh...shiny!"
their facebook poll contest over which SimCity version was the best ended up with SimCity 4 by a landslide...I think most people are expecting a bigger better SimCity...they're in for a rude awakening. Not only is it going to be online-only, the scale of the game has been cut drastically and they're cutting out features that people have grown to love...in order to fit it into the online-only mulitplayer gaming model.
I actually like and play MMOs...but this trend to make everything online-only needs to be stamped out like the cockroach it is. Trying to market the idea that their stupid resource trading and leaderboards add such compelling gameplay to the franchise that they just HAD to make it online-only is weak.
There are some die-hard defenders...I suspect that are EA astroturfers because I just cannot imagine that anyone would be in favor of reducing the scope of a game and shackling it to the internet just to get curved roads, resource trading and leaderboards.