So it seems EA/Maxis solved SimCity's major problem by just making a ton of new servers. For the moment, it seems to have worked. I can actually talk about what I've experienced in the game so far. This is my first SimCity that I'm putting time into, I've played the others only briefly and already I have some things to note about the new one:
-I don't get why the cities are so small. It may just be a result of my lack of experience in urban planning, but a 2kmx2km square city seems way too small, especially compared to what they did in earlier SimCity games.
-Why is there no way to put in a subway system? Why do I have to rely on trams and streetcars?
-Why do you essentially have to run multiple cities just to run one well? For example, you need the combined effort of several cities to build things like an international airport.
-No terraforming before you layout your city. WTF is all I can say.
I'm 99% sure EA is saving all of these things except for the inter-city cooperationfor "SimCity XXL Cities Expansion Pack Powered by Diesel" or something like that, just kind of makes me mad that they took so much out.