The online component seem to be the cause of many of the bad parts of this game. Reasons why I will not be buying it. The limited city size undoubtedly is related to the online component, since larger cities require larger servers. It also means the cities are never actually yours, they will always run on EA's servers. If there's a problem or they shut down the servers: your hard work is gone. Simcity 4 is still going strong after ten years. I don't see that happening to this title.