Here are my thoughts on this game,
First I should say I have not bought this game, though was thinking about it. Once all the bugs are removed and the price drops a bit I'll look into playing this game, but I think that the game still suffers from what I understand as broken IA (traffic programs, fire, police, and the glass box where people are suppose to go back to their homes not just the closest ones) no really penalty for bad neighbors, and I hear that cities are still going missing.
I think 60 is still a lot of money even for the best of the best games. I have bought with the exception of the first SimCity every other one. (In the case of 3000 twice and play it just about every day on my iphone)
As much as I love SimCity I just don’t go along with their vision (always online DRM) and the amount of issues are still outstanding. I get just about 20-30 extra bones a month for gaming at this time I would much rather not spend it on SimCity at the current price.
When the game drops down to 20 I will rethink this line of thought by then the bugs and AI should be fixed if not then I will be ok with letting the sun set on my run with SimCity.