It is playable albeit with still some rage quit frustrations (takes a 24 hours sometimes to move money between cities) but EA hasn't redeemed themselves. I will never preorder another EA game. I will wait till its out and reviewed heavily before committing my resources to it. That will probably make some of my favorite games suffer due to a supposed lack of interest when measured by pre orders but I'm tired of buying beta software with built in DLC revenue to allow them a money stream to fix it.