SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

Re:SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers o... by DocG on Friday March 08, 2013 @03:12PM (#5345462)

All your city is managed in your local PC. Everything runs fine, only saving is cloud. Proof is that people have played though server crashes without noticing, up to 40 minutes.

But, region management is server side.

So basically, if one manages to skip log in and makes save-s local then one can play single city offline.

This is as much information as I have at the moment.

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Re:SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers o... by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday March 09, 2013 @11:05AM (#5348703)

I bet this will be cracked and people will be running private or client-side server emulators inside two weeks.

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