MAXIS. YOUR BUILDINGS ARE BLAND YOU AND SHOULD FEEL BAD!

Therefore, I am now declaring it official that I will go out and therefore CREATE MY OWN WONDERFUL BUILDINGS FOR OTHERS! No more boring brown boxes, cute little houses, or big glass skyscrapers. The sims demand castles! Temples of the far eastern lands! The retrofuturistic world of Art Deco! They want Mega Towers to be full of magic! They want more parks! My sims demand MORE and I will bring them that MORE!

And you're welcome to watch these buildings come to life! Because nothing's more fun than truly turning that plot of land into a city that is very much my way! And now I'm officially beginning my work!

does this mean we get offline mode?

I think that this is a great idea, I also think this is why we need an offline mode.

Or at least have the rules not apply in private regions.

Bad game is still bad. Add an offline single player mode. You have ruined a beloved franchise with greed, You are (as a company) so far out of touch of what people really want. There is a mountain of revenue to be made if you actually listened to your consumers.

"Mods may not modify any .com, .exe, .dll, .so or other executable files."

Then what is the point? Do you understand what mods generally are, or was this yet another piece written by someone who knows literally nothing about the modding community of say, Sim City 4, your own game.

Let me hit you with what should be a hard-to-swallow fact: Sim City 4 is more popular than Sim City. Sim City 4 will end up with more active players than Sim City. Sim City 4 will almost certain end up making more money than Sim City. The reason for this that mods are constantly breathing new life into a game that is a decade old. More importantly perhaps, they are fixing a lot of the problems of this decade old game to make a better game. Sim City 4 is far from perfect by itself, but you can actually turn it into a polished, modern game with NAM and other such mods. At the end of the day, that what is important.

Sim City is a really bad game with a ton of problems that you don't have to even fix if you'd just let the community fix them. But again, EA does the dumbest thing they could think of and instead of letting free labor actually fix their game, they are shutting it out. Congratulations on being EA yet again.

Yeah, I have to agree with AlForno_OG, just let the community take over.

my opinion is, who cares about the rules,once people start to mod I am sure there will be an offline mod, then they are free to do whatever the heck they want.

No rules, no restrictions, and the best part, no EA!

Don't get me wrong, I still think this is a good idea, but really, just listen to your self EA!

Who cares about the bleeping rules?

Honestly EA, your only hope to save this game is to let people mod freely!

Who cares how people modify it??? No one's playing multiplayer anyway. Give up on that stupid pipedream and give people offline and let them mod it how they want. It's the only thing that's going to save this game from its death spiral.

at least finalized the construction of houses and a new region of the biggest created a large super large

Ok, so you allow modding but we are not allowed to mod this game?
Ok, makes total sense after what you have made to that fake "simcity"...

YAY! Now modders will be able to fix all the bugs in this poorly coded game - a thing that Maxis wasn't able to do for that long time.

I am not sure Modding is such a good thing. I remember back in the SimCity 4 days that in my mind Modding created too much 'junk', or half done or half backed ideas into semi-placeholder graphics either through conscious will or just lack of skill. I am not an apologist but I don't think Maxis did anything to get under the skins of the of the community. Sure they sold some expansions, but no one forced you to HAVE to BUY then... although, if you felt compelled out of some sense of completeness, I understand, but that is just a personal issue and not one that others may or may not have.

What a difference to making a offline mode when some people can mod then play offline. This is a stupid policy EA. While people who mod, can do whatever they want. Some the moder are not going to play online multiplayer anyway. So, give up and who cares about people moding.

slow clap for electronic farts for another false move to the players we can mod whatever the fuck we want we can make real USA stores like Walmart and other places you do it you got the red cross building i bet you didn't ask permission to do that screw your rules the modders will allays win

Allowing users to create their own content is a great idea, but do not bother if we are expected to continue to build on these tiny plots of land. Some of us happen to be professional artists and WILL quickly revamp the bland (non-gradient) textures used on the buildings, as well as model new buildings worthy of the price of this game. Within a few months new users will be attracted simply because of the diversity and creative possibilities; not hindered by the constant constraints that have plagued this game since EA got involved. ~ I see this as a challenge and look forward to creating some structures worthy of sharing with the general public. Power to the people! ~:-)

Let me guess.... this will be for PC users only and Mac users will as usual, be given the shaft.

I hope someone Mods the game to make the cities bigger! I will finally be able to make a realistic city that stretches as far as the eye can see.

they already release the mod ? thanks

They'd like mods to remain free. Except, of course, the ones they build. They'll be happy to charge ridiculous prices which are higher than the game itself can be purchased for in some places.

me I always liked SimCity but an online mode is nice but an offline mode is a little bit better I would think because I would be able to play it more and I will buy more of there games.

Building of Dicks with the EA logo on them. That is all. Just cities full of these things for a day, united in solidarity that EA is done "dicking us".

I also want to know how you plan to "discipline" people in offline mode? I mean, what're you gonna do, tell me I'm a bad fucking person? And if you disable my ability to play the game, wouldn't that mean there is an online component running somewhere? Your bullshit still stinks up here in the Cloud, EA...

"Distribution of your Mod in any form constitutes a grant by you to EA of an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify and distribute that Mod (and derivatives of that Mod), and use your name if we choose to, for any purpose and through any means, and without obligation to pay you anything, obtain your approval, or give you credit. You also agree to promptly execute assignments confirming this license upon request from EA."

So basically you reserve the right to whatever you want with the mods and you don't even need to give credit where it is due. Really? Who is going to upload quality mods under those terms? My guess, is nobody.

Hopefully I am wrong, and someone will clarify this, but if not, then if anyone asks I will tell them not to share their mods anywhere.

At least be thankful that they are letting us mod the game.

:/ I don't know what to think, the restrictions on the modding will definitely cause many problems for modders, in the sense of us modders not being able to change any executable files. I think that this is unfortunate, and if Maxis or EA wish not to continue to get more complaints, the rules will have to change. However I do not like to end my posts negatively, so I thank you, anyway, for the modding capabilities.

why are you haters here

Does this mean that there will eventually be bigger maps?