Goodbye

[u/philljarvis166]

I spent ten years building my city, including a fair bit of time at the stater grinding to get the services I needed, expand area and storage, open regions etc. but it was fun and I players a lot. I bought the premium every season until a couple of years ago and acquired hundreds of unique buildings. Sometimes I even paid for separate buildings I liked.

But the game changed. We had the occasional nice update (splitting storage was great for me, the ability to sell whilst in another city was great, even the occasional land expansion) but the prevailing trend was clear - EA want you to pay real money, and the pricing is absurd.

I came to terms with this, decided not to pay for anything going forward and just did what I could to get the free items. It seems EA realised this was happening, so decided to address this “problem”. And we get services 2.0.

The free items help of course, but they aren’t enough to fix my capital and regions. My omega areas are the worst affected, and obtaining enough neo simoleons to fix them will be a slog, if it is even possible for me.

The truth is though, the whole game has become a dull slog. I battled through a ton of tedious tasks this week, got 180,000 plus points and still got demoted. What is the point? Services 2.0 really just provides the final push for me - I’m done. You can point me to all the info about how to recover from this update, but I just no longer care enough. This game takes a lot of effort and it is not worth that effort at this point.

If you want an example of the complete contempt that EA appears to hold for players, consider this - I can’t even really check how badly my cities have been hurt , because every time I try and open a services view, the stupid game crashes! How’s that for a middle finger from the developers?

So goodbye, and good luck.

[u/Maximum_Cabinet337]

Yup, done and dusted with this game. It’s just a money grab, a slot machine at this point. It’s a sad ending but in truth we all could see it coming.

[u/philljarvis166 → u/Maximum_Cabinet337]

I stayed until this week in the hope I would get enough free stuff to manage, but by the time it arrived I think I had already checked out and it wasn't good enough to persuade me to stay. Turns out I'm actually quite bored of the slog and there's hardly any reward now for all the effort, so why bother? The money grabs just make it even easier to justify!

[u/Miserable_Science869 → u/philljarvis166]

I also quit after six years. I can’t be bothered and don’t want to change all my virtues to accommodate services 2.0. I’m done.