Our club has discussed a moratorium on any EA purchase in game until we see positive action from them regarding cheaters.
The problem is that EA tries to stop any similar initiative.
I've opened a separate topic in which I've encouraged all players to gather together and take some actions.
Mainly stop paying for the game until it's fixed.
The post was deleted immediately and I was blocked to post a new topic on the forum.
That's how EA fic the problem.
Ban people who speak out on the forum.
We also stopped paying a while ago. It was mainly due to unaddressed by developer number of cheaters in this game.
The new attack just made it worse and we are not planning to spend a penny more.
If anyone recalls Battlefield Play4Free, they did exactly as OP suggested. The cheating got so bad that one day they popped up and said The Game Will Be Shutting Down In Four Days. Thanks For Playing! and that was that. So, it could happen here, too.
@smadath Your analysis is quite interesting and could eventually become reality...however there is a tremendous difference between the level of participation in Battlefield Play4Free and SimCity Buildit. The revenue generated is exponentially greater and I believe it will take much more than cheating and hacking for them to make that move. Which makes their failure to take corrective action that much more mind boggling. My advice is spend the resources, get rid of this ridiculous privacy policy and cleanup the game before more folks decide to walk away.
i agree with most of what everyone posted. i too spent alot of time reporting cheaters and received the "general" response too. re: privacy topic - it reminds me of criminals who have more rights than victims in real life. at this point i don't care to know where the cheater lives or his name because i just want to see the cheating stop. that kind of response from customer service only deflects the real issue anyways. now i just hope and pray the cheaters will be banned.
