After over a year of the game being out, Maxis has finally released the update that will allow players to play SimCity in offline mode. Due to the chagrin of everyone ever, given the rather disastrous launch, SimCity has until now been subject to online DRM where you had to be online to be.

As I recently reported, SimCity will finally be getting an offline mode. According to a Lead Engineer, this took about 6 months work to rework significant parts of the game’s architecture. When writing on the official SimCity blog, Simon Fox wrote that the oft-requested offline mode and local save file usage took a great.

That’s right. Both EA and Maxis said it wasn’t possible, but the next update is bringing offline play to SimCity. This was revealed by Maxis’ general manager Patrick Buechner, who made an official post on the official SimCity website. Unfortunately we weren’t given any real indication of when this might be, Patrick just promised.