EA closes SimCity servers for maintenance

There are a fair bit of necessary online functionality in SimCity. The main newsworthy story is that the SimCity franchise has been up to this point a single player game, but it's been transitioned into a wholly multiplayer game, so when the servers go down it's not possible to play the game at all. Long time SimCity fans that simply want to build a city by themselves are not happy.

As well the game was released only yesterday and many have struggled to play it at all due to clogged/unavailable servers. I thought it was newsworthy that EA has struggled to provide a reasonable uptime to such a major release.