User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims 3: Showtime announced!/@comment-26744861-20111208075838

Given that the social features are being made in-house by EA, the only hope for anyone who doesn't want to use them is that EA's garbage servers are just as bad for TS3:ST as they are for every other game. Failing that, you could always pull the ethernet cable out of or flick the wi-fi switch on your computer. :P