EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming

iONiUM writes "After EA staunchly denied any offline mode, it would seem the disastrous SimCity launch and continual gamer community anger (as well as a CEO firing), EA finally caved and has now going to make an offline mode. However, the obvious question still remains: is it too little too late?"

Rebranding Opportunity

[gregor-e]

Since they're not going to increase the city size, perhaps EA should consider rebranding it as "Sim Village".

What would EA have to do?

[TsuruchiBrian]

What would EA have to do to get me to ever buy another EA game again?

1. Atonement: They could become a nonprofit organization and only come out with open source games that ran on linux with all profits going to charities to help children in 3rd world countries learn to program.

2. Deception: Change their name, and payoff every website that I visit and everyone I know not to tell me that they changed their name.

3. Coercion: Kidnap someone I care about and threaten to kill them if I don;t buy one of their games.

4. Temptation: Start some crazy PR stunt where if EA sells X copies of a game, the CEO will literally eat the collectors edition of the game (the disc, the box, the manuals, the collectible miniatures, and any cancer causing chemicals, etc), and by some arcane loophole in the law this turns out to be enforceable by by the courts.

Re:too little too late?

[Cryacin]

But that argument would indicate that EA and its subsidiaries behave just like drug dealers and pimps! Oh, right... Carry on!

"EA Caves"?

[Michael Woodhams]

Here was I thinking they'd released a Minecraft clone.

Re:too little too late?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're telling me that you've never been robbed by a drug dealer? I'm not racist in most ways, but I will never, EVER buy from a black dealer. Who needs a gun to rob someone for 30$? And all I wanted was an eighth. Fuck.

not guilted at every turn and told you can't be trusted,

What? There are pimps and gangsters watching you the whole time, ready to beat and\or kill you if you don't pay. You clearly have never been a lowlife before.

Freudian Slip

[Roger W Moore]

sometimes a publisher contracts/purchases a development studio that actually knows it's shit?

Well that would be the case for EA. I imagine most development studios "know it is shit" by now. You did mean to include that apostrophe right?

Re:Maybe next time

[pspahn]

And just wait until they start yelling about how once they allowed offline mode, piracy skyrocketed.

See! They were right!

Re:too little too late?

[Digital Vomit]

You better believe if a dude doesn't get anal and tells upgrayyd cinammon is gonna have a black eye.

That's Upgraydd.

Remember: the extra 'd' is for a double dose of his pimping.