Massive SimCity 5 Fail  First, I have always enjoyed the SimCity
games.  Sure, I know that these games take a planning and
technocratic control approach that I find distasteful in real
life, but I enjoy playing first-person shooters as well despite
being a pacifist.  So I have been extremely disappointed in
their implementation of their new version.  In this sort of mad
rush to be like all the other games out there, SimCity built in
a multi-player mode where you play online interacting with
neighboring cities run by other players.   This is all fine as
far as it goes, thought the appeal escapes me so far.  But the
true fail is that they require players to log in and play online
on their servers, even when playing solo.  What was an irritant
yesterday became an enormous mess today, as every North American
server for the game is full.  Run the game, and
you immediately get hit with a pop-up window with a
counter forcing you to wait in what is at least a 20-minute
queue before you can play.  There is no offline