SimCity, y u no work?
With the apps, it made sense to be online. With SimCity games, you just don't mess with a good thing (like SimCity 4). They could have easily made a single player mode, but instead they managed to make a broken game by requiring players to be online 24/7. Thank you DRM. On top of that, you really do not get very much space to build your so called "city". Do yourselves a favor and don't waste your time waiting to connect to a server that is either full or altogether non-functional. I got disconnected so often I no longer bother with SimCity. EA really should have planned ahead on this one, with both the development and the server hang ups. It's been nearly a week and the servers are still causing issues for many gamers.
Update: I've managed to get onto the servers, but I've noticed that every 10 minutes or so a notice will pop up saying that the servers are trying to reconnect. I've noticed a few other glitches in-game too, so I still can't give this game a higher score.