Literally the only thing the server does is DRM and multiplayer related stuff. If EA wanted, they could make the game doable as entirely offline single-player. I'm not sure if you're paid by EA, work for EA, or are naive, but you're rather conclusively proven wrong by now.

What? But we've been assured by [paid-for and/or naive] commentors that EA is awesome and the servers are awesome and doing a lot of magic calculations for these tiny cities that our computers couldn't possibly handle!

Now there's porn spam in here. Lovely.

I support the turn indicator ticket thing. Here in Brooklyn it's a fucking mess. Nobody seems to even know turn indicators exist, so have fun if you're crossing a sidewalk as a pedestrian or driving head onto a dipshit who is turning with his indicators off. It's lunacy and it's dangerous as hell.

+1

Hipsters gonna hip (well, the exact opposite of hip). Now millions of these dipshits will start doing this to one-up each other on who's more old-school, and radical, and individual, and gritty and urban. Christ.

Oh boohoo. This is why people think Hipsters are dipshits.

Daily Driver: Porsche because it can go electric for a while, which is better for tight streets in downtown areas of NYC. And then on the highways and country roads turn on the ICE for fun.

Seriously, this kinja shit is awful. Please make it stop. Send waffles.

A local back-up save option (in case EA's always reliable servers go down) and an undo button would actually make me pay for this DRM'd up mess.

+1

I say give em a few more years. They're still going strong.

I'd so ban you right now if I could. He and Varsha have been the voices of F1 in the US for 24 years now. Hobbs rocks.

+1 to you.

Mansory always delivers on shitty tunes for douchebags.

WTF with the Gawker sites using this kinja shit now? You guys switch your format every six months now, damn.

Also don't use "vosotros" subject pronoun.

What is this Mexican they speak of? I thought they spoke Spanish in Mexico. Silly me.

People have played SimCity 4 for a damn long time. So what if I do want to play for more than 2 years? I paid for the damn game, let me play it offline on my computer if you don't want to run the servers. That's outright robbery: making people pay full price for a game that they'll only be able to play for a couple of…

Wait a damn minute. Your city and account are all saved on ONE specific server that you always have to choose to avoid having to start fresh? What kind of 1998 bullshit is this? Also, am I right in reading all of the posts and such to understand that you *cannot* stop disasters from randomly happening?