Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Mar 2013 22:35 UTC
"In all the fuss and mess of the disastrous SimCity launch, one refrain has been repeated again and again. While legions may be begging for an offline mode, EA representatives have been abundantly clear that this simply isn't possible. Maxis' studio head, Lucy Bradshaw, has told both Polygon and Kotaku that they 'offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers', and that it would take 'a significant amount of engineering work from our team to rewrite the game' for single player. A SimCity developer has got in touch with RPS to tell us that at least the first of these statements is not true. He claimed that the server is not handling calculations for non-social aspects of running the game, and that engineering a single-player mode would require minimal effort." This keeps getting worse and worse for EA. It's also clear that Maxis' own developers are not happy with EA's meddling.
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There may be more than that, but who is to say it's somehow better? "
Before I respond I must ask: Are you trolling or serious? [/q]
I am actually serious: why would other forms of entertainment somehow be so much better than gaming? Entertainment - value is a wholly personal experience and therefore cannot be quantified, and if someone just happens to enjoy gaming then who are you to say that that person is screwed up? If we were to just look at quantitative values we would see that gaming can be one of the cheaper methods available to people with low income thanks to things like the regular sales on Steam or GOG, gaming doesn't involve consuming alcohol or other unhealthy substances, it may allow one to socialize with hundreds of people around the world that one likely wouldn't otherwise meet and so on.