I am so thrilled by this experience I have updated my profile to reflect my affections for EA.

Absolutely! I am so glad I didn't pre-order this game. I really wanted to play it, but I guess I'll get something else, like Dishonored.

I really wanted to play it, but can't take it with me, play by myself and have crazy fun experiments, and it's not being handled well. It will, in my opinion, make the game much more attractive to pirating.

I know World of Warcraft started off with some hitches too. But I think they handled it much better.

I know they are trying to fix it, turning off some features, leader-boards, etc. It really has me admiring what Microsoft has done with Xbox Live, for the last 10 years.

No. New EA games only being on Origin has already done that.

Problems aside i'd probably buy Sim City once it's straightened out and cheap....

If it was available on Steam.

It's 100% put me off, including the pitiful 2km x 2km plots. It sounds like they have completely ruinesd the game by trying to milk as much money from it as possible. No doubt they'll try to go the way of The Sims with it and release an insane amount of expansions/DLC for it. As with a lot of games that do this, I imagine that the ironic result will be that it becomes one of the most pirated games of 2013. 

I wasn't going to buy it anyway as soon as I found out it was always online and no option to burn your city to the ground then reload an older save to do it again.

PC gaming has become a disappointment in the last few years. Age of empires online, MS flight, Diablo 3, now Sim city. Other big games get interfaces tailored to consoles as if the mouse suddenly doesn't exist anymore.
All pc is good for nowadays is indie games and prettier graphics. The first is why I still bother with the platform at all.

All these SimCity server issues makes me wonder what will happen when the next SSB comes out.

Nintendo network will crash. They gotta learn the hard way.

EA has now gone below (or above?) Devilish levels. I don't know what I should call them now...

Is there a possibility of taking legal actions?

My gaming PC doesn't even have internet. I also use it for important music production so I try and keep it as clean as possible and so I've removed internet. I don't even get wifi reception to the room it's in. It's a soundproofed music studio.

So if I wanted to play this I'd be forced to play it on my shitty laptop. It's really not fair cause I'd love to give it a go. Last Sim City I played was Sim city 2000.

Most likely the beginning of the end for EA. I pity the devs contracted to make games for them.