OK. I have played for a time now, but I cannot share resources like Simoleans to other cities. Has this been disabled? I lose the Simoleans in one city, but do not get them in the other. Help.

What happened to the last post? This one seems shorter, what did you edit out of it?

the game wont play at all

I appreciate the efforts @ Maxis. Nobody really dislikes Maxis, it's mostly EA that everyone dislikes, they've ruined a bunch of games. Your company is just the next in line for them to ruin.

I wont buy this game at all. I have a poor internet connection and with the draconian always online requirement of this game it would be a waste of money to buy. Great to see EA and Maxis discriminate against people who don't have access to a good connection. The fact that you have so poorly programmed this game that removing the online requirement is not an option pretty much explains why the launch is such a clusterf.

By the why this is "Mobs" / "Mobil" -- I actually visited the Maxis headquarters when I ran a fan site for Spore. It was called SporeTube where people could showcase their creature creations. You treated us well! Limo, hotel, food, etc. I know first hand that the people @ Maxis are awesome and really do care about the gamer. I'm sure the anger is mostly towards EA, everything they touch seems to have a negative connotation. Maxis FTW!

(Reposting since it looks like my previous one was erased..?)

I am happy with the pace of fixing the game and have been having a great time since it got stable.

Online is working in my favor for easy access to saves and sharing with my girlfriend.

With that said it has to go offline down the road to preserve the game when the service "ends." This isn't an mmo so I think that is a realistic expectation.

You've got to do something about the constant internet connection requirement. Those of us in parts of the country where connectivity is spotty will suffer alot. If you must have intenet based DRM, could you at least make is so it does not have to be constant/uniterupted? Check once the user fires up the game if all you want to do is play solo. I like the idea of multiplayer, but not always. I like to play games sitting on the patio some days and there is no Internet out side (I do not have WiFi). Surely, you can come up with a solution to this.

Dear Ms Bradshaw,

I bought SimCity on the day it was released, expecting a fully-functional game. Instead, I had to wait four days in order to be able to play it sometimes. I say sometimes because I can't get logged onto the game every time I want to play it, and I'm frequently disconnected during play. I understand you are working on these problems and have made great progress since last Tuesday, and I appreciate the effort to make things right with your customers by throwing them a bone; but do you want to know what would really have nipped all this anger I and others who purchased SimCity felt? One word: Sorry.

Would it kill your company to have someone say that? It would go a long way towards healing this rift between company and consumer, and quite frankly, until it is said, I don't believe anyone from Maxis or EA when they say they care.

Thanks for listening.

Angled slivers of colors in prism shapes cut my cites up and black out parts of them. Is this something they're working on? I didn't have this trouble before.

Purchased the game I come home to relax and play and just sit by my computer and hope to be able to get online without seeing the server is down message. I hate it when I get that message at work, now to have it at home when all I want to do is play!

I understand it’s a new release and new software will always have bugs; but this is day five and you need to admit it you failed to properly stress test and make have enough reliable servers to handle to load! Your financial success is the Hugh volume of plays that paid at least $59 for the game. Your downfall will be not being prepared for them!

A humble and sincere letter, but Canuckasaurus is right. We, the customers, do deserve an apology. Not even a lengthy drawn out one, but even just a "sorry" would show us that you know the extent of the mindblowing debauchery that you unleashed this past week, as well as the anger, frustration, and disappointment that you instilled in your most loyal fans.

Looking forward to the rest of the game being fulfilled over the next couple of weeks (and, I'm guessing the billion DLC's/expansions to come.)

I still have an issue. I was designing a tourist city and then I suddenly went from a great profit in a packed city, to have ZERO tourists and zero traffic even without mass transit. Big Ben, The Empire State building, the Arc De Triumph* and 5 casinos are now completely empty and I started hemorraging money. Is there some sort of issue with tourists arriving in cities, or have I honestly messed up somewhere. But only having 5 people a day in the Empire state building seems odd.

I've had no issues at all so far, the only gripe I have is the tiny 2km x 2km size cities.

Yeah an offline mode would be good, I have a below average computer, and I know that even London has internet issues sometimes, my internet goes out in the night and early morning often, and I am in the Atlanta area.

Best way to make it up to us: maintain a website where users can submit ideas for gameplay improvements and let us vote up the best ones. You then consistently make these changes, all the while communicating with us what you are updating and why you think certain ideas might not work. Making us feel like we and our opinions matter will go a long way in this healing process.

If they did something like remove the always-online policy, I would feel much better about how much money I dropped on this game, considering I bought all of the DLC. If you just get rid of the dumb policy causing problems, you won't have to expand servers, or make every player stop playing when you want to shut down the servers. I don't care about having my save file on your cloud, I want it on my hard drive. At least make it an option, so players can still play this game in three years' time.