Previous DB appears to have gone the way of the Gulag's monastery...lost in the purges.
Anyways, the same wonderful company that brought you the highly entertaining and even more frustrating launches of Battlefield: 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have brought us an even bigger clusterfuck. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: SimCity!
Long story short. The new SimCity forces you to be online...at all times. While I don't like it, I knew about it, so that's not what I'm complaining about. No, the complaint is that, once again, EA doesn't have the infrastructure in place to support a Triple A launch. Now, sure, I share some of the blame since this isn't the first time this has happened, but EA ran a beta...and I don't recall hearing these issues crop up then. So yeah, fuck you EA for turning trying to play this game into this...