Been playing 4-5 years … I’m out

The whole Services 2.0 debacle was pretty breathtaking … I mean, you take a perfectly fine game and needlessly change some of its most basic rules - not because you’re rolling out some new feature that’s going to make the game a lot better, but just to … well, I still really don’t know what Services 2.0 was supposed to do, other than empty all my game bank accounts and make me tear down residential buildings to put services on top of services? In one of my regions - no joke - I still have a residential building that says it doesn’t have health clinic coverage, telling me to “Add” another clinic … and the building has a clinic right next door to it. This is nonsense.

Then, you ramp up all the paid promotional stuff so that the first few minutes of every time you start the game is dismissing offers for so many seasonal things that I can’t even keep track of them anymore. One day I counted - no joke - FIVE offers that were just for a “boost” for buying seasonal tokens!! Buddy, I don’t even know the difference between cat tokens and dog tokens and K-Pop tokens, or how to acquire, swap or buy them anymore, much less a dadgum BOOST for buying them? Just so poorly-thought out and ham fisted that it’s silly.

And now … this morning. I start the game and find: all my services - that I spent days trying to fix after Services 2.0 rolled out - have been downgraded again, for some reason known but to God. Cities where I’d torn down buildings just to cram them full of more police stations than you can shake a stick at, suddenly - GUESS WHAT! - don’t have enough police stations! Again! For no reason! 

I mean, at this point, it’s the most bizarre business model I’ve ever seen. It’s like if you paid for a board game, brought it home, got good at it, and then a few months later the manufacturer sent somebody to your house to change the rules, board, and game pieces, and tell you you’ve got to pay for it again. Utterly insane. 

So - it’s been a great 4-5 years, and I’ve spent more money than I’d like to admit on buying features, etc., but I’m out. Happy trails, EA.