June 2018
Hi Dondi - no, you don't have to play online if you don't want to, but you will have to switch the game to Single Player mode. Launch SimCity and press the "Play" button. There are two tabs at the top of the menu, so click on the Single Player button and then you can create regions and cities and play offline. Transfer your online cities to offline play
Offline Single Player games are stored on your local hard drive. To stay completely offline, I also take Origin offline - click the Origin menu button and choose "Go offline". I also disable stuff like the "share system interaction data" and other stuff in the settings that share info with Origin so that I'm not sending data in the background. You can go through the settings and turn off anything like that as well.
June 2018
well I'M not able to do this unless I'm online with origin.
It tells me to "unleash the power of the internet"..
Hello I don't wanna unleash the power I want to unlesh my ability to play my stupid game EA!
Thank y'all for helping