Quoteworthy - EA Hates Single-Player Games, Or Not

"We are very proud of the way EA evolved with consumers. I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience. Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365." -- Frank Gibeau, President, EA Labels. Thanks supererogatory via Destructoid. Frank walks back from that in a follow-up on Kotaku, where explains that these aren't the droids we're looking for: "I still passionately believe in single-player games and think we should build them. What I was trying to suggest with my comments was that as we move our company from being a packaged goods, fire-and-forget business to a digital business that has a service component to it. That's business-speak for ‘I want to have a business that's alive and evolves and changes over time'."
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Sepharo wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 22:28:
RailWizard wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 22:13:
Sepharo wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 21:42:
Unfortunately SimCity is forced multiplayer, cloud saves, etc.

Hoping they'll change their minds on that or, if it's not actually the case, definitively clear it up.

Simcity is multiplayer now? How the hell does that work? Damn some things have changed while I've been busy ignoring them...lol.

It's basically not possible to build a self sufficient city. You must trade traffic, resources, etc. with neighbors who will be other players. If you're familiar with the genre of browser games where you trade resources, build armies, decide who to engage, etc I assume it's like that.

Relevant Ars article: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/sharing-your-simcity-with-others/

Will it be possible lets say to play Sim City on a laptop without any internet connection nearby? Because you know, people will probably want to play Sim City on their laptop.
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