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.
I think the saddest thing about this whole thing is that there is no attempt from EA or the developers to acknowledge the frustration and overwhelmingly negative feedback the changes have garnered from the playerbase. There's no "we're sorry we really missed the mark, we will make adjustments next season". Not a peep to acknowledge how players feel.
