Unable to create your city at this time. Please claim a city again later

Just to echo everyone else, this is simply ridiculous. You'd figure that after a Beta that swamped your servers, you would know how many servers you'll need to let everyone play on launch day. Being a Network/System Admin, hardware is cheap nowadays and with virtualization you can easily ramp up and down servers as needed. Clearly EA didn't get that memo.

So to sum it up, I paid $60 to basically stand in line and wait for servers to come available. Awesomeness.

Well, luckily Civ 5 works perfectly fine, on to conquer the world there.