SimCity Review  Now that the dust has settled following the
unfortunate launch of SimCity, is the game worth your time? Find
out in our SimCity review!  Ari Margo  It would have been so
easy to just condemn SimCity and call it a day. When the game
launched, nearly everything that could go wrong went wrong. In
my case, I couldn’t even play the game until 36 hours after the
9pm PST release of the game on March 4th, 2013, due to a bizarre
issue where somehow the game thought my IP address was from
Europe and that the game was still unreleased. And then when the
game finally unlocked on my Origin account, playing it proved to
be a frustrating experience. I suffered through 20 minute queues
to play, being disconnected from the servers, losing progress
and worst of all, one of the biggest features of the game,
region play, was not working.  And yet it was during a time when
my city was completely isolated from my friend’s other cities in
the region that something strange happened. Despite the server
instability, de