EA_Mai
EA Staff
EA StaffClub wars - Feedback
Hello Mayors,
Today SimCity BuildIt was updated with a new feature - Club Wars.
Do you have any feedback to share about Club Wars with the game team? Please, use this thread, we will be happy ...
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I have enjoyed playing Sim City for 2 years. There are many games I could play to "kill" my opponents. The main reason I enjoy SimCity is that it is constructive and not destructive.
i don't understand why you have added the "war" option.
In addition, it affects all that I enjoy (war assignments for the group chest).
please could you remove this option. I think you took a wrong direction by adding this option. Your user base doesn't want it and would play other games if they did.
- I am with you. I dont play all those "war" games because of the wolf pack mentality they promote.
I'm bored of just COM'ing each week, so I like War.
Yes, I want to 'kill' my opponents (read: destroy their buildings). You can 'rebuild' these buildings afterwards. You said you like to build, right?
Look, I don't like making international buildings. Could SCB remove the airport and international building options from the game?
You'd tell me I can choose to not build international buildings or complete cargo deliveries.
I could reply 'I have to produce international buildings and make cargo deliveries to be competitive in COM."
You'd reply; that's just part of the game.
Yet if I respond similarly about War - you'll still complain, bicker and argue about it being unfair, against 'your life philosophy' and that it shouldn't be a part of the game.Thanks Los-style for your reply.
I guess if we were all the same then that would make life boring.
from my point of view I play games that sometimes my 6 year old son looks over my shoulder.
if you want to wage war then there are plenty of other games for you to play.
I think that SimCity has the potential to be "something else".
For example, with a bit of thought, the game could give "tickles" to other clubs. It would not destroy their buildings but give them bonus points. The whole thing does not need to be so aggressive.
love.
"if you want to wage war then there are plenty of other games for you to play."
Likewise, if you don't want to wage war then there are plenty of other games for you to play.
I'm glad you spend your bonding time with your 6 year old son playing SCB.
But were you implying that Rubber Duckies, Plungers, Fans, Anvil's and Gasoline are age inappropriate for a six year old?
'Tickles' to other clubs. Really. Yeah nah.
I fully agree. Something should be built in to allow the player to leave the club if he/she doesn’t want to take part in the war. If someone decides to play the war scenario, the other players are trapped in the club against their will. They have become prisoners of war!!
Keep the war feature if you want but provide an escape hatch for those who don’t want to participate. Make LOVE not WAR!
Cherokee_plains,
Not specifically replying to you but rather all that have posted or read this column.
I started this thread the day of, or the day after the release of this new war feature. The results of the discussions here show one thing: that EA made a huge mistake at trying to incorporate war into a game where the ideal is just the opposite. Probably done out of "peer pressure" from other companies that have developed competing mobile games like "Mobile Strike, Call of Duty" ect.
Quite simply EA cannot stand the completion. Since the early 1990's EA has spent BILLIONS of dollars buying up its competition in order to gain that corporate edge. They dropped the ball, again. Instead of coming out with a totally different NEW game they tainted a platform that was already in place and profitable. Why reinvent the wheel?
You reinvent the wheel because the two ideals of urban development/city planning and war are on different sides of the spectrum. At least where I live, the community does not declare war on itself or go to war against my neighbors just to say we are winners and to get that "top prize".
Just the "cowboy" mentality we should be trying to rid ourselves of. But yet here we are now at a personal level (mobile devices) trying to drive this ideal down deep into our social fabric.
For those of you that do not know: The original SimCity game was authored by Will Wright back in the late 1980's. Some of you "older" gamers like me will remember this. And incidentally Maxis was also swallowed up by EA, just to gain that corporate edge.
The following is a quote taken from an article about Mr. Wright. "Will Wright cultivated a real love of the intricacies and theories of urban planning". End of quote. That is where the attraction is; self gratification of building a successful city where happiness is based on Sim approval that reflect a players decision making process. Will Wright’s inspiration to develop this game was brilliant.
Fast forward time in to today and now our "self gratification" our "success" can be taken down by another gamer in the name of a, what? war and a top prize? Please how low can you go.
This thing called war - just evilness.... ask our soldiers coming home from war if they think its so glamorous. At home recent tragedies at Los Vegas and Texas, in all due respect the innocent people there did not want this. My thought's and prayers go out the people affected by these senseless acts of "war".
It seems to me we should be doing the opposite: driving a theme of love and brotherhood down into ourselves and our children, into our social fabric. Haven't we had enough of this fighting and killing?
sm-t701
A correction and an issue that EA did not think about....
In the third paragraph "completion" should obviously be - competition.
And another twist to this problem:
A couple of members in our Mayor's Club are now starting to get testy with us. They cannot initiate a war and are starting to "lobby" us into thinking this is a good thing. The leaders of our club, including myself do not want to participate in this war nonsense.
Up until this release we all got along just great. Helping each other with upgrading our cities, the COM and the Mayors' challenge. Working together on many things. We are good - gaming friends. So good that most of the time when we trade we charge the least amount for an item that we can.
This is causing animosity between us. I have personally left a chat message asking them to not let this issue get between us. We should be mature enough to see through this. But for now; are they thinking they want to leave our club because they want to "go to war"? After being together for so long and accomplishing so much together?
Thanks EA, if you had not introduced this - our friendship would go on without question,
sm-t701
Hello
I like the 'War Club' addition. I think it adds a little excitement to the day to day building. Our club had some fun with the first challenge in the closing minutes. It generated more communication and club spirit than we usually experience.
It it is 'war' at a very low level... It will never be the focus of the game, just a little side event to spice things up a little.
Keep on building.
Kind Regards
Maus
