"EA Admits SimCity Could Have Run Offline"
No shit. And it still could if they'd stop being assholes about it and just get rid of the stupid DRM.
"but it conflicted with the vision the developer had for the game." Their vision was to have a broken game that failed to work at all on launch and which a lot of people, such as myself, still refuse to buy thanks to the DRM, huh? Yeah, that's quite a shitty vision you have there, EA. (Note: I don't think of the current incarnation of Maxis as anything other than yet another used-to-be-great, watered-down tentacle of the writhing, dev-destroying monster that is EA. Thank goodness Will Wright abandoned that sinking ship years ago, before it got this bad.)
Seriously, why is it that when game developers (typically at the behest of their publishers, no matter what they claim to the contrary) talk about their "vision," it's almost invariably in defense of shitty things like this?
"but it conflicted with the vision the developer had for the game." Their vision was to have a broken game that failed to work at all on launch and which a lot of people, such as myself, still refuse to buy thanks to the DRM, huh? Yeah, that's quite a shitty vision you have there, EA. (Note: I don't think of the current incarnation of Maxis as anything other than yet another used-to-be-great, watered-down tentacle of the writhing, dev-destroying monster that is EA. Thank goodness Will Wright abandoned that sinking ship years ago, before it got this bad.)
Seriously, why is it that when game developers (typically at the behest of their publishers, no matter what they claim to the contrary) talk about their "vision," it's almost invariably in defense of shitty things like this?