I think Simcity has just turned into Simtown i mean don't get me wrong i used to love Simtown but hey Simtown is old and for kids and yet they changed the gameplay for Simcity and made it a little like Simtown come on EA you should have stuck with the traditional simcity gameplay.
But thats a whole other story, I still reckon Simcity Societies will be good (i havn't queit got it yet) but think they could have improved some things, i think if will wright done simcity and didn't worry about SPORE (for a while) maybe we could have gotten a choice between zoning and placing buildings and all nick nacks in simcity as we know it.
Well thats my opinion anyway.