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.
