User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/"TheSims4.com" domain registered by EA, big announcement on May 6th, 2013/@comment-177.159.29.74-20130506005817

They should make an option to play offline. Not everyone have a good connection, and we all know what happened in SimCity (Servers issues, DRM all the time).

Yes, the sims 4 having forced multiplayer and always-on DRM will be a deal breaker for me.