SimCity owners getting the offline mode they (thought they) want(ed)

Today, nearly a full year after the game's release, Maxis announced an offline mode for SimCity. That's… actually sort of depressing. Taking what is basically a massively multiplayer, social experience and ripping out its online portion is an extremely regressive move. Sure, naysayers might be shouting told-ya-so's from the rooftops, but it didn't need to be that way. The future of gaming, at least