✨Service 2.0 Update - Feedback Thread✨

EA_Lanna

What is it that you do not understand? We are saying that EA and the gaming team developers have changed the capacity-demand for all Power, Water, Sewage, Waste Management, Fire, Police and Health buildings. The demand portion of this equation is what they changed. Now in  our Green Valley Regional City - demand went from under 100 units (because we had 3 solar farms at 35 units each, enough to supply the demand) to 1976 demand units.Just imagine what this cost would be if our Capital City; in which it does, have a population of 10-20 times that of our Green Valley.

This new demand rule is now like this for every service in SCBI. We as established players have built our cities under the old rules, meaning that we have purchased enough capacity to overcome the demand. Now with this new update we are at a huge shortage of capacity. Causing every player to basically start over - when we have already played by the rules. Each player now has to deal with "upgrading" all of these services and the bad part of this - even if we did upgrade every service that we had previously purchased; there still would be a severe shortage of these services and the need to purchase more.

This is causing every player that has had this new update pushed to - to spend an enormous amount of Simoleans. And if you actually read the posts - some of the players do not have enough Simoleans to make these purchases.

Not only is this very costly but if we have to purchase more of these service buildings to meet this new outrageous demand. - this would end up taking away from valuable property placements for new residential to move our cities forward.

Just a horrible, uncalled for update to a cash-cow app that EA has turned into a fiasco.

And by the way - why are you not talking about the sale of EA to an investment firm held by the Saudi Arabians? This acquisition will be finalized in fiscal 2027 which starts April 2026. Can you trust these people? And how secure is our financial and personal information going to be?

ElwingAmigo

After playing for almost a decade, achieving level 99 (I would probably be upwards of 300 by now if we could go higher), and having spent a lot of money already, I will not be spending any more money because of Services 2.0   The trains were bad enough with the extra expenses. The seasonal currency another ridiculous extra expense. And because of all the new layers, the game keeps crashing.

And now with Services 2.0 EA created a way to completely bankrupt all SimCity players. There is no hope for success with this game anymore.  Services 2.0 has ruined all of my achievements, designs, and prospects for opening the next region.

Services 2.0 needs to go away and go away fast. I’m planning to wipe out what I have and move on.  Services 2.0 destroyed why I played this game.  SimCity is no longer fun; it’s a punishment to play.  

We made a mistake in our statement - however it makes this scenario even worse. A solar farm only has 35 units of capacity not 65. And this would make the upgrading process even more catastrophic.

ElwinAmigo

This changed everything of my city. Everything messed up and I can’t return this city to normal. I played this game for over 8 years and level88. So this is the last and only comment for this change.

I’m not upgrading anything, if EA wants to keep players they will change. There are thousands of other options for games and if they keep it up I’ll just delete the app and move on. 

Agrees totally, Service 2.0 must be the most stupid update you have done, it should have been up to the player if they want it

They are telling us that they are “listening”to all our complaints etc. how can they do that coz I for one am not talking to them. Just goes to show they can’t do that as they should be “Reading” the comments!

This is getting worse and worse every morning there is something new to upgrade and this is taking a hit on the cities, population, income and expenditure as you can’t generate the money to pay for the upgrades as you aren’t generating enough money! This game is dead, RIP SimCity!

Might need to reload the game, looks like you are missing game resources. 

This is stupid.