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v4ds752gf9ub
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6 days ago

Horrendous Pricing for Eco-Skyscraper

I finished the track for the Eco-Skyscraper upgradeable attraction and to my utter disbelief I had to find out that the first upgrade out of probably five, already costs 300Simcash, the second one 550! These two prices together are already way to high but if I had to guess the next remaining levels probably cost 4x of what would’ve been already spent. What is the general purpose of a building that, to upgrade entirely, would cost more than 50€ alone in an ingame currency which basically needs to be bought with real money if you also want to do other things in your game. The first upgradeable structure I earned was the golden goal stadium several years ago and although it has similar stats to the fully upgraded Eco-Skyscraper, the costs where as far as I remember not anywhere close the contemporary pricing. In fact I think you even had to pay with golden keys, imagine that. Anyways, I’m shocked at the pricing and I’m really disappointed because I thought that the nice and tall eco-skyscraper would’ve been a proper addition to my town, but I will not spend the price of a triple a game for one building on a mobile game. I would suggest the pricing to be changed, either,  way cheaper or the currency changed and the price fittet to golden keys. Also it should be transparent from the beginning what the structure upgrades will cost and not a jumpscare of even crazier prizing after every upgrade you’ve bought. It’s a disgrace to treat your player base as piñatas that you can smack in the face every other week to try and get even their last money out of them.

 

 

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  • To upgrade fully will cost 3300 sim cash, I for 1 will not use it in my city, so into storage it will go never to see the light of day!

  • In recent months this game is turning into a greedy money pit. Reducing rewards for contest of mayors, reducing the amount of pink plumbobs awarded for making purchases slowing down progress on event tracks, a surge in these 'limited time shops' pushing extortionate items onto players in the hopes they'll part with yet more cash and buy them....I have tons of so-called 'valuable' platinum keys that you can buy precious little with, an accumulation of simoleons and yet they want me to spend yet more money on simcash to upgrade this building? 

    SimCity Buildit is gradually taking away incentives to keep playing this game, pandering to the rich who can afford to keep pumping the game full of cash and further hampering the progress of regular players who can't/wont be conned out of more money than they already spend.

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    m652i346ez0m
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    14 hours ago

    You’re absolutely correct, EA only wants your money, I’ve been playing 10+ years now and I have counted how many useless items I have in storage as I have nowhere to put/use them. Now I just collected my 3rd round of items I already have and at a guess now I would have 500+ items in storage.

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