I whole heartedly agree with all of you. I loved EA games....in the past, until the introduction of the origin client. I stopped buying games online when they forced the client on to my systems. I was so excited when I saw this release of Simcity was in production. I purchased it on Monday, then was heartbroken when I saw I was being forced to install the origin client even though I purchased the DVD from BestBuy. I originally installed on my 4 year old gaming laptop only to find my CPU was good enough, but the graphics card could not handle the maxed out graphics. Working in IT, I understand that games and system requirements grow over time. So now I am installing it on my Intel Core I7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHZ Mhz (4 cores with 8 logical processors), 16 GB of ram (32 GB of Virtual RAM) a NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M card with a dedicated 2GB RAM, and an Internet connection that would make your phone melt....yet the 2.20 GB update pushed from Origin which took a massive amount of time gave me plenty of time to write this review......
This is the absolute last game I will purchase from EA. Your Android games are slow and crash constantly (for example Scrabble) and based on my first time experience and the reviews I have read of this game...I can bet it won't be much different. Get it together EA, this is so sad.