Mayors,
Thank you for the support. It’s good to know that there are other Mayors out there that feel the same frustration as we do.
By now we begin to understand why EA is headed in the direction they are: making and taking - profits.
Let’s begin this session with the fact that the development team does not want to create another game. Instead, EA has crammed all of its new ideas into SCBI - everything, including the proverbial kitchen sink. To them why should we create a new game - we have a platform that works well, let's just stick it in there.
What are we talking about -WAR. Honestly do you really believe that you should be pushing the ideal of war? Why in blazes, do you think that destroying all that we created in the act of war coincides with the ideal of planning, building and maintaining a city? Yes, we know that after several days the city returns back to the point before this war stated. And we know this in only a game, some would say it’s not hurting anyone, but is it really? Teaching people about war should not be engaging in the idea of war - it should be showing us the horror, the hurt, the pain that war can cause. Not to become a fun thing to do.
Let's think about the original aspect, the thought of this game - to build a city, based on citizens happiness only to succeed or fail in tune to the mayor’s performance. Throw in the great advancement of the graphics and you have a game that can be very pleasing. We can thank Will Wright for his original idea of creating the game SimCity.
These are two very different ways of reality. EA has effectively twisted Will Wright's creation into a game with a totally different meaning. The solution - take war out of this game and create another game with that idea in it and leave SCBI to a peaceful audience.
Another thing to be said today is this: we now have had to upgrade our iPad in order to play this game. The overhead, the collection of code that needs to be pushed on to our device has slowed its performance. So, we needed to upgrade. Still the game is not without its other problems. Intermittent loss of communication with the gaming server, failing ads, no COM prizes being awarded, loss of being able to connect to club mayors, etc. The Origin website is chocked full of complaints.
A proposed solution - EA streamline the code, take out all the unnecessary motion - like the constant space shuttle taking off within feet of residential housing, (never mind that this is not reality), the airport with its constant planes taking off and landing, while EA may think this is necessary the rain falling, balloon sailing, motion within the buildings etc. All of this motion needs code in order to make it happen. Make this game efficient again by taking us back 6-8 years when none of these things were an issue.
Hopefully one day a concerned community manager will push our comments up to someone who can empathize with us players and take some action to make this game great again.
ElwinAmigo
