EA notes overwhelming demand for SimCity, Origin servers falter

Can't they see that they crippled BF3 with Origin? And they're doing it again with Sims.

Don't worry: 4 hours until the cracked version is released.
It'll pop up on TPB in 12 hours or so, if not sooner.

Then we can have our hassle free experience, all for the low price of $0.00.
The best part is you know your not supporting EA and their draconian DRM systems or money grubbing tactics.

Hopefully an indie team will create a nice city simulation game, why does SimCity have to be the only one? I'd happily support a DRM free kickstarter project.

SimCity isn't actually a single-player game. It's one of many reasons why I didn't get it. Even if there was no DRM, the game would still have these issues right now.

Everything I've read indicates it does have a single player mode...
Just one link of 10 I checked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(2013_video_game)

EDIT: This is a very appropriate link: http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/03/06/155246/simcity-5-how-not-to-design-a-single-player-game

Just bought the game. Can't play servers are too busy :S What a load of BS.

Buy a hotdog from the stand. Go to put it on your mouth. Store guy says "sorry, can't eat it yet". You bow your head down into okay.jpg. You watch other people walk past eating hot dogs. It starts to rain. You're not hungry anymore, you throw hotdog into gutter.

That's what it's like to play DRM games.