{"id":129898,"date":"2013-07-24T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/simcity-feedback-led-to-an-offline-the-sims-4\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:00:00","slug":"simcity-feedback-led-to-an-offline-the-sims-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/simcity-feedback-led-to-an-offline-the-sims-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SimCity feedback led to an offline The Sims 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"ea-is-making-changes-to-the-business-practices-that-gamers-clearly-dont-like\">EA is &#8216;making changes to the business practices that gamers clearly don?t like&#8217;<\/h2> <p>The disastrous launch of <em>SimCity<\/em> is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/ea-on-simcity-s-launch-issues-this-won-t-happen-again--253284.phtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over and done with<\/a>. Emerging from the wreckage with two million sales and counting, Electronic Arts is considering allowing the game to be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/ea-considers-previously-impossible-offline-simcity-257588.phtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">played offline<\/a> like many of us originally wanted. Speaking to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/07\/23\/eas-frank-gibeau-on-interview-part-1\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GamesBeat<\/a>, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said what we were thinking: that the backlash resulted, at least partially, in <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/maxis-announces-the-sims-4-for-2014-253186.phtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sims 4<\/a> <\/em>being announced as a &#8220;single-player, offline experience.&#8221;<\/p> <p>&#8220;In the last few months, we have started making changes to the business  practices that gamers clearly don&#8217;t like,&#8221; said Gibeau. &#8220;In the spring, we dropped our  online pass program for consoles &#8212; both next-generation and  current-generation. We listened to the feedback on <em>SimCity<\/em> and decided  that <em>The Sims 4<\/em> would be built as a single-player, offline experience.  We announced some new intellectual properties at E3 and will unveil more  new games in the months ahead.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Asked about lessons learned from the game&#8217;s launch, Gibeau explained that &#8220;In retrospect, our biggest takeaway is that we are lucky that <em>SimCity<\/em> has an enormous number of loyal fans. That first week after launch was  really rough &#8212; an experience nobody wants to live through again. Since then, we&#8217;ve sold more than two million units, and the number of  people logging in and playing is holding steady. <em>SimCity<\/em> is a success.  However, underestimating demand in the first month was a major miss. We  hope that the game and the service we&rsquo;ve provided since then meets the  fans&#8217; high standards.&#8221; Have you bothered to go back in? How &#8230; how is it?<\/p> <p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/07\/23\/eas-frank-gibeau-on-interview-part-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">EA exec Frank Gibeau: Betting on next-gen consoles, mobile, and doing right by consumers (interview)<\/a> [GamesBeat]<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":129896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1,97],"tags":[1662,246,4087,2386,347,348],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":10,"display_name":"Jordan Devore","user_login":"Jordan Devore","user_nicename":"jordan-devore"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>SimCity feedback led to an offline The Sims 4 &#8211; 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