Have you ever stopped to think what happens when a new player opens the Mayor’s Contest today?Chances are, they’ll feel completely overwhelmed.They’ll see dozens of elements, hidden rules, unexplained mechanics… and instead of feeling excitement, they’ll feel confusion and frustration.And then? They’ll close the game. Maybe for good.The Mayor’s Contest was once an easy-to-understand, fun competitive mode. Now it feels like a maze, with no map and no guide.Even experienced players are feeling exhausted, not challenged.To be clear:✅ The recent update has potential.✅ The depth is welcome.But depth without clarity turns into chaos.And chaos — especially in a mobile game — leads to disengagement and abandonment.🔗 Let Me Be the Bridge Between You and the CommunityI’m not just another player. I’ve built one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities around SimCity BuildIt:300+ videos on YouTube teaching strategies and game mechanics.A Discord server with thousands of active players.A federation of clubs and presidents across platforms.Creator of the BEST Method, a strategic system to master the Mayor’s Contest.**My entire network is based on fair play and integrity — we have zero tolerance for hackers, crackers, or any form of cheating.**I talk with real players every single day. I know what’s working, and what’s not.I understand how to translate your vision to the community in a way that engages, teaches, and retains players.And I can bring you real feedback to help guide better decisions — not based on guesses, but on the voice of the people who love your game.🧠 One Last ThoughtIf your goal is to grow the game…Then don’t just build features — build understanding.Because without it, even the best ideas can become the reason players walk away.📬 ContactIf you’re open to improving the Mayor’s Contest with clear communication and community insight, I’m ready to help.YouTube: @AtlantisIslaAtlasWebsite (EN): islaatlas.com/enEmail: [edit: email address removed]Let’s work together to make SimCity BuildIt better — not just for those who pay, but for everyone who plays.

Yep. I’ve been playing since they launched it, and I stopped playing. It just becomes an enormous chore now. You have to play the game like 5 hours a day to get anywhere now. Super annoying. They nuked the game with this updated for sure. And all 25 people in my club feel the same

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.

You're right. I hope they listen as I suspect this is (was) one of EA's money making games. I fear the latest "update" has caused a mass exodus. I've lost team members of several years. The chat is silent. War participation has been reducing anyway because of the too frequent lightning wars. There's no incentive to complete assignments or even work as a team when the rewards are out of reach without spending real money. I'll see what happens at the end of this season but I'm disheartened with the changes which only appear designed to make money, not enhance gameplay. After 10+ years I feel sad to leave but if it's not fun, there's no point continuing. I'll check out your channel later.

Haha look at the reviews on the App Store (iOS) it’s an endless stream of 1 star reviews in the past week that all say they hate this update and are quitting. I wonder if the devs read them

I am president of 3 groups, but my players are running away now, and its not the complexity of the game, i play since the start, but for bugs. There are getting more every day, and wont be solved. Please stop telling its a good thing players run away from the game?

LaAtlantida

New Rookie

31 days ago

⚠️You’re Not Losing Players Because of Bugs — It’s Because They Feel Lost

Have you ever stopped to think what happens when a new player opens the Mayor’s Contest today?
Chances are, they’ll feel completely overwhelmed.
They’ll see dozens of elements, hidden rules, unexplained mechanics… and instead of feeling excitement, they’ll feel confusion and frustration.
And then? They’ll close the game. Maybe for good.

The Mayor’s Contest was once an easy-to-understand, fun competitive mode. Now it feels like a maze, with no map and no guide.
Even experienced players are feeling exhausted, not challenged.

To be clear:
✅ The recent update has potential.
✅ The depth is welcome.
But depth without clarity turns into chaos.
And chaos — especially in a mobile game — leads to disengagement and abandonment.

🔗 Let Me Be the Bridge Between You and the Community

I’m not just another player. I’ve built one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities around SimCity BuildIt:

300+ videos on YouTube teaching strategies and game mechanics.
A Discord server with thousands of active players.
A federation of clubs and presidents across platforms.
Creator of the BEST Method, a strategic system to master the Mayor’s Contest.

**My entire network is based on fair play and integrity — we have zero tolerance for hackers, crackers, or any form of cheating.**

I talk with real players every single day. I know what’s working, and what’s not.
I understand how to translate your vision to the community in a way that engages, teaches, and retains players.
And I can bring you real feedback to help guide better decisions — not based on guesses, but on the voice of the people who love your game.

🧠 One Last Thought

If your goal is to grow the game…
Then don’t just build features — build understanding.
Because without it, even the best ideas can become the reason players walk away.