New update is the game killer. Congratulations EA.

Reminds me of when Scrabble transitioned from EA to Hasbro around 2020-2021. My friends and family and I LOVED playing scrabble with each other every day. It was something I played during breakfast, lunch, work breaks, the evenings, and weekends. EA probably made a killing off of all the ad revenue from me and my posse. Then, the dark days came. To quote Elrond, “I was there 3000 years ago. I was there when the strength of men failed.” Hasbro made too many changes all at once. They introduced puzzles, bots, and lots of other things, but the core feature, the ability to play games with friends wasn’t available. We didn’t want puzzles. We didn’t want to practice. We wanted a fun way to connect over long distances. Within a week, everyone I knew had stopped playing, and even though they returned the ability to play scrabble with friends, the damage had already been done. As far as I know, none of us have returned to Scrabble GO. We were hurt so badly, we don’t want to risk being hurt by Scrabble GO again. Those of us who have found a similar home in SimCity are feeling similarly hurt by the contents of the OP. The materials storage gift was a small salve, enough to keep us going a little longer, but if EA doesn’t rectify recent mistakes, we will likely leave and find a new home. Right now, I’m holding on by my love of trains, but even trains can’t save a burning house.

EA, if you’re reading this, you should fix your mistakes and then apologize by limiting the number of mountain expansion items that can appear at once in the global market. Currently, it’s about 17/20 item stacks. I don’t need that many and it’s always been annoying 

Well EA, you've finally done it.  Sim City has become a Sim job.  I retired 11 years ago. I've been playing this game at least 6 of those years. I have 3 cities. I have my own club, no outsiders, because I don't want to do wars anymore due to the cheaters out there.

I spend a couple of hours a day playing the seasons. My cities help each other advance through the tiers. I usually try to get to the low 20's (tiers) by the end of the first week.  Then I decide if I'm going to buy the premium pass or not. Well that goal is now impossible to reach. The bonus assignments are too costly, even with the Golden tickets collected from the season.  And the popsicles! The citizens from Chicago will just have to put up with heat. I'm not chasing after them to get "snowflakes".

All in all, I guess I'll just go back to building.  If I collect a few rewards along the way, Great.  If not so what.  Remember I said I retired 11 years ago. I didn't start playing this game to go back to work.  If the idea people at EA were working me, they'd be fired!

I can't say all of the changes are bad, but enough of them have made me pull back back and just build. No more Premium passes, no more Simcash purchases, no more rewards for EA. You've taken all of my rewards away.

If I could rate the game on Google lower than a 1, I would.

This latest update is a disaster. I agree with everything you said. My biggest frustration is with EA capping the amount of points you can earn in the mayors pass each week. Why would they do that??

I fully support this post and completely agree with marjetica. From a personal standpoint I don't care about reduced value in rewards over time since I've chose to pay for the green cash and fast level up my disasters cards, and would have continue to do it.

That's with six cities I have bought green cash and in maximum pace level up disaster cards as well as payed for Mayors pass for extra storage. But weekly cap completely killed the global market. Players stopped make items which not only slowed the game down, it stopped the circulation completely.  So wars wont work either, the main reason for me to play and, first and foremost, spending money on. So no reason whatsoever to continue playing. And no reason whatsoever to continue spend money.. That's something even the most ignorant planned economy oriented communist should be able to understand 

Pretty much to compare being a surgeon who after doing some thinkin one morning decide it to be a good idea to cut off his own aorta, and expect keep function afterwards. 

EA, someone have figure this to be a good idea. That person wouldn't have a job to go to tomorrow in my company. You didn't had to be Cassandra to see the result of this latest move. 

As an old player I extremely agree. I do miss the game when it was still 2-3 year old because it was enjoyable and didn’t require me to play the game 27/4. Also didn’t “force” me to pay for that matter. This is an absolute downgrade tbh. The worst update ever released. Thinking about uninstalling it.

The first year was bad with bugs, but some of us stayed until now, with this its not fun anymore, i skip the mayor quests and all, only play with trains this season

I think they put a cap on it to try to force everyone to play every single week. I also think it's going to backfire on them.

I'm really disappointed with the recent updates, forcing us to play really long hours compared to the past, besides forcing us to buy things from the first week. That new seasonal snowflake became even worse as we can't obtain one of the collection buildings without either buying MP (anticipate upfront) pr buying snowflakes from one of these packages.

I really loved that picture shares above. It express really well what this game transformed....

Again, sharing my frustration with the recent changes..

By the way, I thought they were going to learn with how terrible the pyramid seasonal coin has run... but maybe they were profit doing that ( sorry I'm not US native, so please bear with me with my English skillls).

I am thoroughly enjoying the overwhelming negative response the changes have gotten. I actually like the new CoM structure, but the season pass is garbage and it's not worth playing for either the free or premium plus pass. The storage update is nice, but doesn't make up for the trash season currency nobody wanted - and already rejected in previous rounds.