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Re: SimCity BuildIt - New update

The Tombola of False Hopes

I've been an avid fan of this game and absolutely hooked on it for months. I've tried not to let my disappointment in some its features spoil my experience but after the latest patch still fixing nothing I have finally gotten bored of the game. This is simply because trying to buy what I need on HQ is just too exhausting and feels like a chore instead of a game. I'm level 34 with 700k population and I have spent £14 on the game. HQ being broken has not made me buy items I struggle to get hold of because most things are far too expensive. For example a single plane speed up is £1.50, and upgrading a building once without items is around £8, who in there right mind is spending that? My money went into factory slots and trade depot slots back when reselling donuts to Daniel was a thing before you "fixed" HQ the first time.

The original HQ was bad because it was always full of the the same items relevant to your level, but some how by fixing that you made everything worse. In my opinion the worst thing you have done is add the 30 second timer. Slowing down the rate at which we can refresh and try again simply added and extra barrier instead of improving the situation. Now you are greying out items that are already sold. This solves nothing and the Llama's are still incompetent. If anything the faster realisation that the items are already sold has made the 30 second gate an even more noticeable hindrance.

I was thinking of making a 10 min video showing you what the average player experience is like trying to buy 2 or 3 specific items from HQ. But seriously you must already know. If you aren't all hooked on playing your own game then its clear something is very wrong, and if you are hooked and not pissed off with how HQ works then I don't think you can be classed as human.

Fingers crossed that you are working really hard on an overhauled trade system and you have taken in to account the masses of ideas and suggestions for fixes on Facebook. I really hope that these crappy minor patches are just for show and you aren't serious about them being the answer. If you do get your acts together and fix things then I will be back. but until then, I guess I'l only be logging in to claim my taxes and then moving on to play other games.

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Anonymous
11 years ago
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The game has become nearly impossible to play. The trade HQ is completely dysfunctional. I spend 95% of my time trying to find 1 or 2 items. I'm looking for 2 dozer blades and have spent the better part of 2 days and still can't buy them. I have tons of coins but can't buy them because they are always sold out no matter how fast I am. I can't build them obviously in my factories and the "random" items I get from the "bubbles" is just that, random. Overall I needed 4 dozer blades and it's been 6 days and I have 2! Very frustrating. This obvious attempt to get me to spend real money to purchase dozer blades won't work. I'm being forced to stop playing the game because it's boring now that I can't get what I need in the trade HQ and when it's not boring it's frustrating. Either way it's becoming a waste of my time. Sad because I'd like to play it but I'm forced to not recommend it to anyone because once you level up to a certain point the game bogs down and becomes so frustrating to NOT be able to complete your city. It's probably quite clever to have made it relatively easy in the beginning to get people hooked and then yank the rug out from under them. I'm sure you make enough money off the people who will take real cash to buy dozer blades but you won't get it from me. Back to the google play store to find my next game to play...
PS- 17 Freakin hours for a plane to come back and my reward is one lousy random thing for my Tokyo town expansion which isn't usually what I need. My god! By my calculations it could easily be many YEARS before I get a Tokyo town skyscrapper district... ( I could fly around the entire REAL world in about the same 17 hour period. Where are you sending these sim planes? Mars and back?)