Apparently the official SimCity forums is now under huge censorship after some people started to heavily criticize the decision to heavily depend on internet access for the game to run... Sigh.. sounds bad.
Sounds like EA. Ahhh, how I love publishers. =] There is no reason for games to require internet access to play single player. DRM only affects honest consumers who actually buy the products. I really don't understand why publishers keep insisting on restrictive DRM.