I have not bought it yet even though I wish I could play this game because I flatly refuse to pay for a product as morally bankrupt and crippled by always online drm as this is. I can not imagine how it must feel to be a developer who has to navigate through all the inane wishes of upper management stifling your creative process and squeezing your baby into a straight-jacket that makes consumers cry out in anguish. But I have no doubt it must suck. So dear developers I wish I could enjoy your game but I can not due to the decisions made by EA upper management. Hopefully at some point either EA kneels to their consumers and accepts a more reasonable approach or if that never happens than all I can hope for is that an Independent group of people will make it possible for me to play the game as I want it to.