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

Same issue for me. I managed to play through the tutorial, but that's the sum and substance of my experience with this game. What a ridiculous, shameful charade of a launch.  The fact that the SimCity twitter feed is firing away useless updates without addressing what is obviously an ongoing, widespread server problem is beyond understanding.

I hope people lose their jobs over this. Imagine, fellow gamers, how immediately and brutally you would be fired from your job - whatever it is - if you handled it this badly.