For 60 to 80 dollars in 2013 you expect a quality product.
1. City size: Is a joke. You can maximize your city in basically 3 hours. This is really one of the biggest issues and flaws this game has.
2. Grid building: Due to the ridiculously small area you are forced to build inside, you are basically forced to make a grid-style city. Talk about boring.
3. DRM only. Pay 60 to 80 dollars to basically rent a facebook game. Incredible.
4. Almost no challenge at all. You don't have to worry about water pipes, sewage pipes, or power lines. They all come automatically with streets you build which dumbs the game down. Buildings automatically "grow" for you, without you needing to do anything other than "lay down" some colored paint on the land and watch it play the game for you, cool..... um no. Not cool.
5. Overpasses (raised highways) and subways are pretty much nonexistent. You cannot make tunnels so, yeah. You cannot make raised railways either.
6. You are limited to what you can, and cannot do, and it doesn't let you change decisions. For example if an electrical building offers 1-2-3 options and you pick option 3, you are stuck with option 3 even if you demolish the buildings and try to rebuild. Total cheesy facebook game.
7. The amount of actual simulation is non-existent. Population number is fake, the simulation of traffic is fake, sims do not need Commercial or industrial buildings at all apparently, and the city size is so small that it makes the game overall a waste of time to play.
Connectivity and DRM problems aside, this game utterly sucks as a sim city game. Do yourself a big favor and STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS GAME.
Sayin' it like it is, as always, ~ Shelledfade ~