Community ManagerIt took time, and money yes, but I finally got my city back to over 7 million in the capital and another 5 million in 2 regions.
The freebies helped and of course since I had a lot of omega BEFORE the rollout I got lots of free Omega buildings.
It can be done here are my suggestions
There's no denying that it can be done but even with the freebies, the time it takes and general costs overall, why have we got to pay the price?
Nobody wanted Services 2 and it has killed the game for many longer term players. The noobs will just accept it as part of the game because they don't know any better and will buy growth packs and any other bait on offer to get them well and truly hooked for a few months until they realise how much they are paying out for a game and bow out.
EA just want new players to send them as much money as possible and to hell with the rest of us! That's the bottom line.
I agree with you 100%. We the long term players were well and truly shafted by an update that had 100’s of posts telling EA it was **** from the pilot rollout. They ignored those posts that’s an undeniable fact, it’s possible but not able to be proven that they didn’t even read the posts. The list of bad changes recently goes on and on
As to how far they are willing to ruin this game we shall see when EA is sold later this year.
It is possible to redo your city to accommodate 2.0 - but not without considerable cost in: real money, in-game resources, the need to demolish and rearrange houses/landscape/roads and buildings which doesn't even factor in our time - the insane amount of hours needed to do all this.
And for what? So EA can charge people more and create an infrastructure that constantly requires more financial investment. This update hasn't improved game play; it's now laggier, more difficult, time consuming and insultingly more expensive. The cost of the omega upgrades is ridiculous.
Just because it's possible to jump through the new hoops implemented by EA doesn't mean it's right or that we should accommodate this update that downgrades game play for us all. And this won't end w 2.0. It has been a constant drip drip drip of new ways to squeeze the player to invest more and receive less.
I maintain that the best thing is for players to speak up, give them a 1star rating in app store, stop giving them a cent & stop giving the game any engagement. If they feel a negative financial impact then we have a shot of them needing to undo or reconfigure the mess they created with this.
Seriously doubtful they will, I've written the game off after 8+ years and a ton of investment. I am not ok with how they've treated their players with such disdain and disrespect.
Imagine if instead of spending the resources they invested in creating 2.0 they actually spent time and money into their abysmal tech support?!? So when we find and report bugs they would actually be able to fix them instead of the joke they currently have for tech support. The train bridges in regions stopped working for a ton of players - they didn't bother to fix them. There are so many bugs and tech issues and they have flat out refused to focus on fixing. Instead they invest in changing the whole structure of services to make us pay more.
100% correct, all they are interested in is trying to get players to throw money away to play a dumb game - constantly.
All of what you say is true and I agree. I just wanted to point out that it was possible - albeit close to driving me round the bend - to get a stable services 2.0 for a long standing game. Costly yes but possible.
Do EA care - absolutely NOT but there are too many people with too much money to burn that they small impact made by the rest of us stopping spending wouldn’t be noticed
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