Sad really, I got a different game over the weekend, was playing it in around 10 mins (thanks fast internet from IDNet!
). If I wanted to give my money to SimCity, I could not. Well, I could if I wanted hours up on hours of annoyance and broken services. Basically, it's the Tiscali in comparison to IDNet of gaming.
What's really strange is, it looks to be a wonderful game (except for the bits "forced" online/social to make it DRM friendly). They could have made their money easy. Probably even on pre-orders. Why they thought they needed to ring fence it with the worse DRM and online service ever, I've no idea.