Gaming → Sim City for 22$

21.89$ exactly.

»www.gameholds.com/simcit ··· key.html

Activates on Origin.

My brother bought it for himself in anticipation of the offline patch, I am personally waiting for the patch before pulling the trigger.

Hopefully an offline mode also means modding.

Anyone still playing the game currently?

Bigger Cities

City sizes have been a constant point of conversation among our players since we released the game. The game’s original design focused on the density of an intimate urban environment. It was about intercity connectivity and the challenge of managing a region of cities instead of one metropolis in isolation. However, we recognize that many players have expressed the desire to build up one big city rather than manage the interrelationship of multiple smaller cities.

We’ve put months of investigation into making larger city sizes, reworking the terrain maps, changing the routing algorithms of our agent-based system and altering the way that GlassBox processes the data in a larger space.

After months of testing, I confirm that we will not be providing bigger city sizes. The system performance challenges we encountered would mean that the vast majority of our players wouldn’t be able to load, much less play with bigger cities. We’ve tried a number of different approaches to bring performance into an acceptable range, but we just couldn’t achieve it within the confines of the engine. We’ve chosen to cease work on bigger city sizes and put that effort into continuing to evolve the core game and explore an offline mode. Some of the experiments we conducted to improve performance on bigger cities will be rolled into future updates to improve overall game performance.

There is Cities XL platinum. It's not awesome but it's not EA, nor are you limited in City size. Plus there are player mods for it. It's on Steam for 30 bucks. The big plus is it's not EA.

»www2.citiesxl.com/index. ··· esxl2012

I have simcity 4 [picked up on sale at steam], and like it. Though my all time favorite simcity was simcity 2000.
It looks like the expansion pack brings back some of the mega structures from simcity 2000. Which sorta got me interested in the new version. But I refuse to pay over 20 bucks for an EA product.