Hold Onto Your Hats, SimCity Going Offline Tonight 6PM GMT

<p>SimCity&comma; the <em>&&num;8216&semi;you-always-need-to-be-online-or-I-won&&num;8217&semi;t-work&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em> game&comma; will be going offline tonight as Electronic Arts begins work on a new update patch simply entitled &&num;8220&semi;2&period;0&&num;8221&semi;&period; Servers are expected to go offline around 6PM this evening &lpar;UK time&rpar; as the update will be released at around 8PM&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The update is expected to address numerous bugs whilst also implementing improvements across the board with fixes such as region filters&comma; invitations to join regions and more being made to try and streamline the experience for SimCity fans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is worth noting however that this update WILL NOT be adding an offline mode&comma; something which gamers have been pleading EA to deliver pretty much from the moment the game released&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you make of the &&num;8220&semi;always-on&&num;8221&semi; concept for video games&quest; Do you agree with the benefits it provides or would you rather things stay as they are&quest; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;BagoGames&quest;fref&equals;ts">Let us and our huge pool &lpar;or ocean we should say&rpar; of readers know your opinion by liking&sol;posting in our Facebook community now by clicking here&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-04-22-simcity-goes-offline-tonight-ahead-of-hotly-anticipated-update-2-0-patch">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;012acdb3-0296-4183-b6a0-a6321016f625" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;