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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
My concern is just that years after its release, if they plan on shutting down their authentication system or whatever they have, they'd better patch the game to not require it.
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This is a problem that has already been realized on other EA titles, particularly consoles.
Xbox Live typically required the games to use Microsoft's servers, but EA being EA demanded to use their own. I haven't found an old non-EA title for the Xbox 360 that doesn't still work on XBL, but plenty of EA titles are shut down within a year or two of a sequel coming out. This would be fine except now we look at a game like SimCity 5. The fact that this game requires online connectivity just to function in a single player context is a problem as far as I'm concerned. Planned obsolescence FTL.