Hacker Skips SimCity</EM> Full-Time Network Requirement

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Geek.com: "Since the launch of SimCity, it was suspected that the need for the game, you can always connect to a server is first and foremost a form of DRM, not for games social and multiplayer. then a developer Maxis walked to confirm the game does not really need a server to function, suggesting that information from EA was not the whole truth. Now EA and Maxis to give some explanations on a modder has managed to get off the racing game indefinitely. , "The author mentions a few ways in which the game is actually improved by being offline, too.