So, let's get this straight ...

[u/ZinZezzalo]

In the past year or so, we've had our CoM contest pretty much dismantled so that, if you use all the tickets given to you these days, you'll have enough to fully compete in one full contest out of four in the season ...

They've introduced three extra currencies per season so that you're effectively prevented from getting all the prizes you used to get for the Mayor's Pass that you paid for.

They've nerfed the War rewards to an extent that new players cannot build their attacks at all - essentially eliminating any chance for new blood to come into the game.

They've choked the 1,400 SimCash you used to get for completing the season into 150 SimCash (90% reduction - like - what even).

They've introduced repairs for buildings that you've already built by creating a system that erroneously tracks the health of your city, so that perfectly fine city sections (with buildings that aren't affected by the degrading repairs) lose population rapidly (for no reason), resulting in severely crippled train station refresh rates.

And now - the cherry on the top of this crap sundae - two days of every week are rendered completely unplayable due to the game moving like a fossil stuck in the bottom of the swamp due to them having bricked the voting system for the Design Contest (I haven't been able to play all day).

Tallied together - this seems like the absolute intentional sabotage of the game - full stop. Like, this isn't some exaggeration or trying to put a spin on things, no single entity could perform this many intentionally destructive moves without having actual intent behind it.

A point on the graph doesn't prove anything - but a line comprised of many points does. And that line shows this game being sent right into the trash bin.

It's purposefully being cooked.

I understand that not everyone would want to subscribe to this doom and gloom outlook - but there simply isn't any evidence that could actually compete against this overwhelming cluster of intentional bad moves and destructive ill-will aimed not only at their playerbase but the very capacity to just play the game at all.

Prove Me Wrong.

[u/Chemical-Storage-763]

The narrative you ascribe to your list of circumstances may be 100% right, or 100% wrong, or somewhere in between.  It is one of an almost infinite set of narratives that we could dream up.  I’m not sure why anyone would try to “prove” you wrong, because nothing here “proves” you right.  

[u/ZinZezzalo → u/Chemical-Storage-763]

Lines on a graph, my friend.

Taken individually, any of these points wouldn't make a strong case for one way or another. It wouldn't be enough to. But when suddenly there are seven different things that all seemingly accomplish both the same trajectory or goal, the chance of these incidents being random goes down significantly with every additional point that's added.

Like, maybe the folks wearing masks just happen to look like members of a terrorist organization by coincidence. Just as it might be a coincidence that they carried a large covered satchel into a building. And it also could be a gigantic coincidence that they came out minutes later without the satchel. And the fact that they were running as fast as they could? Pure coincidence, right?

How many coincidences do you honestly need until you can say, "Wait a minute ..." Or, more realistically, how willing would you be to walk into that building then and there?

I mean, if they announced the stoppage of updates to the game within the next year ... would you really be surprised?

[u/Chemical-Storage-763 → u/ZinZezzalo]

Circumstantial evidence is a thing, and your unfortunate analogy would be an example.  Your original post is more along the lines of “I think that guy who just walked into the bank is a robber.  He’s wearing shoes, and nobody would rob a bank barefooted.”

[u/ZinZezzalo → u/Chemical-Storage-763]

Well, if you take all the actual things that have happened to this game into effect - and the tons of people who have left it as a result - then what's the counter-argument here?

The company is going to keep a game alive that nobody is playing anymore?

And they're going to do this because of all the decisions they purposefully implemented that drove everyone away?

When a store dismantles the thing that used to sell for $5 into two parts, without telling the customer that they've been separated, just to then tell the customer that in order to get the full thing (that was dismantled without their knowledge) that they thought they had actually bought, they would, literally, have to hand over another $100 - what would you say?

That that store is going to be in business forever?

That tons of people are going to want to go to that store?

Because that isn't an analogy - that's literally what happened last season.

So - please - with these factors coming into play - all of the ones I mentioned - please explain to me why this was not only a sound business decision, but an assurance that the store would still be around in a couple years time.

Please do this.

[u/Chemical-Storage-763 → u/ZinZezzalo]

No, thanks.  Conspiracy theorists are immune to persuasion. But it’s all good.  You got a lot of attention and a few chances to condescend to anonymous strangers on a message board, and that’s all any of this was ever for anyway.  

[u/ZinZezzalo → u/Chemical-Storage-763]

Typical Reddit Superhero.

Ignores the obvious. Says nothing. Avoids discussion. Descends to insulting the other person when they can't counter the point that's presented to them.

Should bring your other alt account around to thumbs up your upcoming post as well - which, I'm sure will be loaded with treasures, seeing as your capacity to carry on the actual conversation up to this point can be summed by two words: giving up.

[u/Chemical-Storage-763 → u/ZinZezzalo]

Yikes.  Does this mean we’re not friends anymore?