I’ve been playing SimCity since near the beginning. And before that, I played Sim City on PC. I’m a double Art major with a focus in business. I’m opening two businesses in the next two months. I am exactly the type of person that should love design challenges. The concept of design challenges is a great addition to SimCity. The idea of creating an area for gamers to spread their wings in expand their creative abilities is a natural extension of this game. However, it falls completely flat by charging SimCity gamers regular prices to use all of the supplies to create the city. It makes it way too costly and therefore completely undermining the whole thing, making it not worth it to do much with it. If you really want people to get into design challenges then it has to be different than the rest of the game. Otherwise everything is costing too much making SimCity take too much time, too much effort which endangers the game’s longevity. I highly suggest you guys reformat design challenges to be a place where SimCity gamers have access to all SimCity supplies for free, giving true freedom and a unique experience to create amazing cities for the challenges. And of course all the supplies used would only be good with design challenges and cannot be transferred to the other cities. This would draw more interest to SimCity, inspiring people of what they could do with their own cities and make people really want to put out the effort to create amazing things. It will make people want to go back to their cities and earn certain items because they will know what they can do with them. In business, not everything has to be charged money to bring attention and more financial success. SimCity is in danger of being repetitive, costing too much, and taking way too much time to accomplish very little. Seems like they’re greedy. Reformatting design challenges could really bring some New blood to the game, kind of like the attraction to the freedom that Minecraft offers.
EA Staff (Retired)
