EA announced today that The Sims 4 , a follow-up to 2009's The Sims 3 and the latest in Maxis's long-running life-simulation series, will be coming to PC and Mac in 2014. The news broke on the company's The Beat blog , with more news promised later in the day.
As a fan of the series, I was relieved to hear that Sims 4 is going to include an option for offline play, as reported by IGN . After all of the problems experienced by gamers during the recent SimCity launch (including in our own Celebrity SimCity series ), I hope this signals a change of opinion from Maxis and parent company EA regarding always-online DRM and the stability of permanently server-based gameplay. It is of course far too early to tell for sure, but it's only Monday; I'm still allowed to be optimistic.
