I agree. Completely ridiculous. Been playing forever. Level 99 for years. Top tier in COM. All assignments completed. Even the extra 15. I also bought premium pass for the season. The Egyptian Hospital is completely out of reach. And now I get to Level 24 of the pyramid only to see you need 150,000 excavation coins to upgrade. The exact number I would have received from getting the hospital.
the money they want from us for pieces of this game was already insane. Now it’s just plain ludicrous. How can they justify pairing $10-$20-$30 or even $100 for some things. Some of its literally just a small building in a massive game.
you can buy FULL console games or board games for that price. And you’re never required to shell over hundreds more just to play the game. Maybe some expansions offered. But the whole thing for a fairly reasonable price. Here it’s every month. Week. Day. They are begging for more and more and more. It’s too much. Too time consuming. All joy has exited this game.
This is my feeling too. I'm also 99 and I buy the premium pass monthly and complete all tasks weekly. But being unable to get the hospital bursts out the only satisfaction I still had from this game: being able to complete every event track and get the prizes. The last 3-4 years I've been thinking I should quit the game, but I've been always unable to do it. It's a real addiction. I don't drink, don't smoke, don't take bad things.... But I recognize this game as an addiction. I'm able to play for hours and let aside many important things just to complete a task, an event track, a weekly COM, so this addiction aimed to the "all done" satisfaction. But it's been becoming so hard lately, with so many changes EA thinks will increase their income, that they don't see they had reduced satisfaction to zero. I used to spend more in the game. When I couldn't get enough plumbobs to complete an event track I used to buy train coins, or little Vu pass. But, for example, they've reduced too the plumbobs you get for 1,20 € in train coin offer, from 100 to 10, and maybe they thought that would increase their income x 10. I don't know what happened to other players, but the thing is I haven't bought train coins any more. EA should know people has a limit, but they don't. Maybe buying 2 or 3 x 1,20€ is affordable to get 300 plumbobs and avoid a few hours in the game, but I won't invert 36 € in that, for train coins that besides I don't need.
The same to building offers: From time to time I used to buy a special building I liked when they costed 5-12 euros. I did it in the extra buildings for sale during the Barcelona season (I live here so I wanted them), but I've never bought a building again since they're costing 20 euros or more... Are they mad? We're only buying a digital paint, nothing REAL. If some day they close the game the only thing we could keep would be a photo from it!
All this changes and difficulties have taken to zero the satisfaction I get from this game, and being unable to get the egyptian hospital despite so many hours playing here has made a change forever. I won't buy the hospital if they put it on sale. They simply don't understand the thing: I wanted to EARN it. When you invert money and time in the game the less you deserve from it should be the satisfaction of completing challenges. If they make it impossible, no satisfaction, no addiction. Today (yesterday, it's 2:00 am here now) has started a new weekly COM. I'm not playing it. I've been offline for hours. I bought the premium pass two days ago and I think I should complete the season.... but I feel aversion to this game for the first time. It tires me, it sicks me, it exhausts me.
Still having been there so many years it's a handicap to uninstall it. I have so many special buildings there, even buildings I bought, that I feel miserable to destroy the city and uninstall the game. It's like making useless the last years of effort. But, what is this digital city kept in a server somewhere in U.S.? It's really nothing but suffering in my life. I must do it in one moment or another.... 😔
Very bad, EA, very bad...
I have stopped playing for months before. But ended up coming back. A few times. But it’s just too much. Too much money. Too many hours. Too many days spent working hard to complete everything with spending as little real money as possible. Only to get completely screwed over. The game is only a cash grab for EA. Nothing more.
i wish I could pass collected and purchased items to someone. Buildings. Keys. Coins. Simoleons. It would make deleting everything feel better. Would make it seem as if I didn’t waste a decade on a mindless void suck of a game. It’s hard to pretend anymore that there is actually anything redeemable about this game. I’m sure the “NEW” changes are “hey, you can pay us more for way less, thank you!” No thanks!
Hi! I see you have the same feeling as me. Destroying the city and uninstalling the game is a big loss, thinking in the years of life and money we've spent here....
But...if we don't destroy it we are always in risk to return to this obssession. The city is there, in the tablet or phone. It would be great simply enjoy the city, make it beauty, change or move things, design landscapes, and not be always stressed in a hurry to complete a task, design for a challenge or check the multiple events, showcases, offers... continuously appearing. We know EA won't let us rest, so it's impossible to keep the city just for pleasure.
A friend of mine from my club left the game but gave the city control to a friend from another club. I didn't ask him how he did it, but I suppose he gave him the access keys. I could ask him because I keep contact by mail and whatsapp.
I thought a lot about doing the same. Asking in mu club or going to another one to find someone who would love to have all the buildings, level, city, achievements, contact him/her and giving the city. But otherwise I think: if this game is sucking my life and making me feel miserable and sick, wouldn't be that a poisoned present to any other one?
If I'm a decent person I feel I cannot give this bomb to anyone... No one should suffer this. If I could I would advert everybody against this kind of games, and not only for the money loss, but specially for the hours, days, months and years of life lost in it. An addiction to a game, specially so exhausting as this one, can ruine your life.
Until where I reach, I've written a warning message in playstore opinions, but it's not enough.
I look to the past and I still can't believe how it all began. I still worked then (now I don't, I'm retired for health reasons) and one day, simply, an icon appeared in my phone. I didn't download it. I supposed it was a publicity or because I had clicked somewhere visiting a web, I don't know. But it remained there unipened for months.
In february 2019 I stopped working. I had a lot of time to do things I had been delaying for months I one of them was cleaning my phone memory from old apps and files. But, just for curiosity (the same that killed the cat) before I deleted the app I wanted to know what it was, and I opened it. It seemed innocent at the beginning, slow relaxing, and I kept it. I love construction, buildings, landscapes and that matched. I don't mind buying the premium pass every sex weeks, really. I think it's ok for a game where I have enjoyed many moments. The thing is in the last two years or so it has become so absolutely exigent and absorbing, the difficulty has increased so much with extra shops, items and absurds tasks of producing 18 wood carved items or so, and every day there are so many messages, offers...., not an event weekly, but two or three beginning in different moments, showcases, more and more currency types.... that all together is a torture. It's disgusting, vomiting, nasty, sicking... After two or three hours concentrated in this game that drives you to nothing in life, you only want to die to stop suffering. It's an addiction, I know. One of the worst ones. This game is not real life, but it's comsuming our time in real life. It won't be back.
Opening this game is one of the worst things I have done in my life.
