I know the arguments for and against and they come out fairly balanced in my opinion. I have no strong opinion of DRM of this nature. Eventually you'll just get bored and that unappealing DLC now looks more interesting because you can only do so much with these small cities. After you're out of space, you have nothing left to do and start over. With these smaller maps, you can only do so much before you run out of space. If you have huge regions (or at least the size of SC4 region where you could build anywhere on the map) and smart sims, you're less likely to buy their DLC because you'll likely just keep playing that one region and build the how you want to. Insanely small plots and dumb AI: EA forces you to play a certain way. Is there even a good reason for always-online for a game that's 90% singleplayer? Also, when the servers shut down (before they announced offline mode), they can easily just force you to buy their next version of Simcity. If the game requires you to be online at all times, it keeps you connected to EA and their ads. Always-online DRM: Pretty obvious it was for profit.

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