EA boss proudly refuses to publish single-player games - single-player on the way out?

[joesampson]

okr said:

Soleron said:

These great works cannot be built if you’re trying to play a single-player game?
Our single-player is still considered multiplayer, because everything you do, you’re still part of that SimCity world. You could play by yourself in a region, but play multiple cities. ...

So it is technically possible to play single-player if you don’t want any outside interaction?
... When you create your region, you could just set it to private and play any one of those cities by yourself. You’re jumping around between the cities and playing that way. And later on, if you want to invite a friend, you can invite a friend to your game if you’d like. ...

Looks like you can play on your own but you have to keep switching cities and pretending it's multiplayer to make it work.

Which means I'll have to keep other people out of my life to enjoy my single experience. No problem. I'm used to it and do this in RL all the time. My expectations to game sequels these days are low anyway (especially to a SC without Will Wright), I'm not expecting the new SimCity to become one of my all-time favorites like SC 2000, I'm just mostly curious to play it. The game looks promising. If I don't like it I can always return to Anno 1701, 1404 or 2070, city building/econimic sim games which still heavily focus on single-player.

I was excited about the new Simcity until I read through their blog and watched their videos. The new game has tiny cities, no control over regonal connections, cities are separated by empty space, no highways, no subways, and limited density zoning. I could go on as there are many more disappointments but to go back on topic I blame these changes/omissions on the multiplayer. The game is built specifically for multiplayer and they had to compromise the depth of the previous games to make room for it. Screw EA, they ruined Simcity.