At $40 from Amazon its worth it, the $60 I paid at launch was not. Funny if you look at my game I have played 100 hours, seems like I got my moneys worth, however most of that time was letting the game run for hours while I did something else in an attempt to gain money so I could attempt to fix some broken part of the game.

The always online feature is not the realy problem, they fixed that issue. The real problem is the game is a step back from previous games. 

Regions do not work
Traffic is a disaster
20 of those 100 hours was attempting to build a great work which is completly broken.

I have not tried sandbox mode, but whats the point.