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

Just wanted to bump this thread and add my voice to this problem.  I have tried every server, successfully logged into all of them, however the servers that make me do the tutorial-- the tutorial doesn't work, just loads the city and then nothing. I can move around and look around, but nothing is clickable, no popups / dialouges, nothing. 

Then the servers that do not make me do the tutorial give me this error message instead.  When I did spend 5 minutes constantly clicking the claim button, it finally let me into a city!!  Only to dissapointment me with all of the  menus across the bottom completely empty, and nothing else clickable.  Other than that, graphics looked great, music was awesome.. just can't play anything.  I played in the closed beta, and I didn't have a single problem.  It seemed really well polished.  They even invited me to do another beta test for stress testing servers, but it was such a small time frame, and origin wanted me to download another 12 GB for the stress testing beta,  so I said forget it as my ISP has a bandwidth cap and charges overage fees.

I preordered the digital deluxe version months ago, and I've only been able to play the tutorial in the closed beta a few weeks ago. I even decided it was worth it to go over my data limit to download it figuring it was worth the extra fees.  (The irony is my bandwith resets on the 9th, and I might not even get to play this before then! lol) I wish someone would at least acknowledge that this is a problem. They've acknowledged the release date mishap, the tutorial problem, the stuck updater, but not a single word about not being able to claim a city -- and this has been going on since I downloaded it Monday night.