Triple-A Scam Release
The months leading up to release were nothing but hype and advertising to get you to pre-order. Even the beta was just a demo to get Youtube and critic rapport before they revealed that their servers couldn't handle more than a thousand players at a time, much less the millions that had pre-ordered.
Now Maxis is stuck disabling every game feature that was based on the collaborative community game they had promoted, and can only run it on their own servers as a broken, buggy, and shallow single player game that nobody can play because their servers are not only broken, but mandatory for single player gameplay.
All those who pre-ordered this garbage title as a digital download are now caught in the greatest con of the decade, as EA policy states that digital downloads can not be refunded. If you have a physical copy, I urge you to return it. The less of this Simcity title you experience, the less sour of a taste you will walk away with.