"It's like having people over in your living room to watch it. It's much more exciting than watching by yourself, but you don't have random idiots throwing beers around."
VOA: standard.2010.07.01
The true beauty of "SimCity" is that for every disgruntled person who ever said, "This whole place is run by idiots, " the game offers a way for you to prove to the world -- or at least, maybe, to your cat -- that you can do better.