EA StaffWow. No response from EA at all!
I spend money on this game but this latest update touted as making war more “fun” is a fox in disguise. It’s a money generator for EA passing as a good thing for the players. If it wasn’t money grabbing they would not have decreased rewards in any way.
That being said our problem with the game now, since the lag seems to have been fixed without ANY communication from EA is as follows:
1) decreasing prizes is TERRIBLE! Should have started minimum prize with original (3 platinum keys).
2) Chests way too expensive. 18,000 for first gold chest verses 12,000. Why not just add more chests: Bronze, silver, gold, platinum.
3) no site to explain and give ALL info on changes, like how much each chest cost. I only got to 3rd silver chest so only know what first gold chest requires not 2nd and 3rd. Why not a help page will all war facts like prizes etc
4) in general I wish EA had an official site with game info like maximum numbers of tokens needed to generate a token, maximum boosts information.
5) This is SimCityBuildIt, not SimCityWar. When will EA do something to help land maxed players? Allow us to bulldoze any omega item we want? Improve ability to rearrange city when space not available. I can store boosts but not other items. I’m sure there’s a fix for this.
I have spent more money than I’d like to admit on this game but EA is ruining it for me. So this cash cow is done. I will invest minimal $ on this game.
And the award for most incompetent, apathetic and useless community engagement goes to....EA !!!!
Our club started our weekly war game on Thursday evening and I warned all about the issues that had occurred during the week. The game was a little sluggish Thursday night but by the start of war everything seemed normal. To the best of my knowledge everything went fine based on the feedback from our club and everyone received their chest (across the board we weren’t overly excited by the reduction of simcash). There are several good points and several not so good but all in all it appears to have leveled out after a very shaky start.
I agree with most of the points mentioned until now.
However, having a look on the positive side of this update, here would be some points :
- the War store makes things a bit easier when you need one specific item. I had a hard time finding for example Hydrants in the past. In the last war we had, I bought 3 Hydrants via this store.
- the War money. Finally, specific currency to buy war items. I would like to find them though more often when repairing stuff and more often in the chests.
- I like energy booster concept, to help colleagues who have better resources.
What could be better:
- creating a specific store for war items
- Prizes were low before, now are even lower, for the amount of time and energy spent in a war. 20 Simcash for 2nd Arena , that's really nothing. You can earn this same amount during a day randomly via chests or presents. The same for platinum keys. EA should something into this direction. You can earn more stuff by CoM in this case.
One more question:
Does anyone know if War starts automatically now?
Our last war was not initiated by anyone , or at least we haven't seen the usual message in the Chat window :D
