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Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:08:56 PST EA 'Embraces' SimCity Players:
Releases Useless Modding Tools And Promises Supposedly
Impossible 'Offline' Mode Tim Cushing EA/Maxis is reviving
memories of its epicly disastrous release of SimCity back in
March with a couple of announcements. The first announcement is
EA's awkward attempt to embrace its community like an ex-husband
trying to coax a hug out of his estranged wife during supervised
child visitation.  Modders, EA wants YOU to start cranking out
some compelling content for SimCity. Here's EA's lead-in: Maxis
and Electronic Arts (“EA”) have a long tradition of supporting
the creativity of our community. We’re so excited to see the new
ground many of you are breaking with SimCity Modding that we
wanted to do something that would make it easier for you to
continue to create amazing stuff. We’re putting this policy in
place to ensure that our gui