Money Grab
Has anyone else felt in the last 18 months especially the last 6 months, that this game has turned into a pure money grab game? I’ve been playing now about 10 -12 years & have absolutely loved it, lo...
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So you are angry because other people can get what you have in your city? I'm not happy with in-app purchases but giving other people more special buildings is good. The "exclusive" thing is the worst part of this game, all seasonal building should be added to default library in order to be purchased with simoleons, gold and silver keys. The level mechanism is pretty enough to reward old players.
oracle2867 Longer term players did it the hard way - they worked for things they wanted for their cities.
Platinum keys were indeed the rarest currency, these days they are ten a penny, you can earn them easily.
SimCash was pretty hard to accumulate and parting with it was a major decision 🤣
Gold keys required a bit more effort but again, these days you can get them a lot more easily.
Now all EA are interested in is the newer player's money and all they do is invent new ways for EVERY player to send them money.
The rewards for Mayors Pass is pretty paltry, the simcash at tier 38 is not worth the hassle anymore.
The game now in every respect is Pay To Win AKA Corporate Greed and the new breed of Cash Cows that want "Everything Now" and that just encourages them more.
Every time I open the app I am bombarded with so-called offers. I can't get to actually play until I've dismissed the offers, dismissed all the messages in the little envelopes and notifications in the calendar.
You can now buy green plumbobs, railway coins, railcards, event points, Simcash and whatever else there is going.
Where's the sense of achievement if you buy all that?
as I already said, I'm not defending the pay-to-win thing or in-app purchases. I'm just saying that newcomers should be able to buy (not with real cash) all the buildings of the old seasons because the default library it's just ridicolous for the effort we have to put in this game. I totally disagree with the "old players did the hard way" statement, we all know that difficulty increased over time in a way that this forum is full of complaints and a lot of players, even veterans are just leaving the game because of that. Gold keys nor platinum are easy to get, we should continuosly grind to increase storage and farm items until ridicolous build plans are satisfied, this typically requires hours a day for months to earn a bunch of keys. But this isn't the point, the point is that there is nothing you can buy with those keys. Simcash and real money are needed to buy specialities. Look at the library, 60 simcash for a lake? 50 for a forest? And the mayor pass reward is 150 simcash. Old players used to get thousands of simcash for that. Don't even say a word.
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