Hi! Atlantis, I've seen your videos sometimes. I'm a spanish speaker too. I agree that the game has turned overwhelming and impossible to play. But I can't see a solution for that.
I'm level 99 and I've been intensively playing the last six years, but I've quitted the game two or three weeks ago (when I saw egyptian hospital was unable to reach), and I see no chance to be back.
It's not only that the game has become hard to understand. It is, of course, I've seen the last update when my club told me it was the end. It's also that EA keeps adding more and more tasks to the game, continously increasing the number of hours you must be playing to reach goals.
I was already wanting to quit it the last two years. When they starting adding shops and items with the same boring market when you only find mountain items (obvious: they give dozens of mountain items in each event. Statistically gamers don't need them, so they end in the market for three days until Daniel buy them). That's the way they ruin the chance to find anything needed. So market is useless. You must make any item needed. And it takes hours. Then they introduced new coins, then the preference for absurd tasks (producing 16 carved woods, that means 60 or 70 planks, 14 malmalade pots, etc....). Then the excess of events per week with different time to begin and end: dessigns, showcases, offers, events, monster, wars....
The game has become nonsense. I liked it when it relaxed me and I could create a beautiful city. My priority are buildings. A few years ago you could buy a building you liked for less than 10 €. Now most offers are between 19,99 and 24,99 euros. It's a digital building in an online game and soon or later it will disappear. Compared to the books, things or experiences I can buy with 25 €.
The thing is it's not pleasant anymore, because they have increased the number of daily hours you should play to complete all events and get the prizes. It's like a non paid full time job. You can't simply invert 10-14 hours per day on it. Life is not that. It's a risk for physical and mental health. I have now sight and mobility issues. Even if a person is so addicted to it as I was you realize you are making the way to die soon in this game, while EA only aims to win money. They think that if they increase the number of hours you should play to get the prize buildings, and you don't have that time, then you automatically will buy offers to win the egyptian hospital, the Chicago pride house and so....
I suppose EA chiefs are very very rich and they don't know most people simply can't spend 200 euros/week to complete the absurd number of events they're starting weekly. But the thing is most people can't. In Spain 1000 €/month is a very usual wage, not the amount a player inverts in a game.
And once you see all your effort along the years and all your dedication is good for nothing because you can't complete the weekly event unless you stop sleeping, eating, working, going out....or paying a lot, then the harm is done.
In those six years I had managed to complete all events and get all the buildings in the end. I remember many nights without sleeping, leaving all aside to upgrade 60 houses (in level 99 it's very hard) to complete the event track.
Not being able to get the egyptian hospital did it. It broke the wall. To be able to feel OK I must understand that that building was not so important. And once you assume it, then the Chicago pride house is not important, the madness of popsicles, ice coins, tickets, events, contests and all this rubbish game is not important. It won't be important anymore.
And when you start feeling that opening the game makes you feel frustrated, worried and sick there's no way back. Once I'm free why should I make an effort to be slave again? I think it's not only me. I've noticed there are many players who feel fed up and have quitted the game. It's not relaxing,funny or pleasant anymore. It's impossible to be back.
Their abuse will take EA to ruin. They've ruined the game. They've ruined many people's life. It's justice that they will get ruined some day.
It's not the understanding of the game. People are not stupid. The question is no one can invert all their lifetime in a game.
Thanks four videos, Atlantis. But believe me, the best part of your life is out of Simcity, not in that hell game.
I'm really sorry to read this, and I hope you're feeling more at peace with yourself now. Nothing should make you feel that bad. I've had team members who , like you, have gone "all in" on the game. It's not healthy. Life, family, friends, nature are the important things. I hope you're doing ok now.
