SimCity is a game I always liked, and was sorry when it didn't keep up with Mac systems. Therefore I was elated on hearing that it was to be released again for Mac.

The joy was short-lived. Apparently you cannot buy it and build cities on your own machine but instead have to log into a common server somewhere. For me, that's a deal-breaker. There is no way I'm going to log-in to any site for the amount of time that would be required to play this or any other game.

What I don't understand is why the publisher would want to have all purchasers on a central server with the attendant management and cost implications. I have to assume that the publisher has a self-interest reason for taking on the additional load when it would be easier simply to distribute through downloads.

What is the reason?

Last edited by ryck; 04/12/13 11:57 PM.

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