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Anonymous
10 years ago

The game is free.......get over your entitlement mindset.

I have to say that I love this game. I am level 46 and I have no problem finding expansion items.

I came here to see what others were experiencing and to maybe gain some useful tips.

What I found however was a cauldron of cry babies who feel like EA OWES YOU SOMETHING.

did you pay for this game?

Answer: A BIG FAT NO!!!

shut your pie holes and move on to something less challenging for you like .....your grandad's wooden checker set.

I am ashamed of this generation.

Who is John Galt?

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    I tend to agree, I think this is a great game. With $0 invested, I've been able to get everything I need with a little patience. Of course, EA should continue to build and improve the game, which they have been doing. And people should be reporting legitimate bugs.

    You will get people saying, "I DO put money into this game!" And talk about their right to whine about it. Presumably because they've never heard the term "vote with your wallet".
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    It is the 1st phone game that I have genuinely liked as a valid time waster. It is a long term investment for me. I will use it as my waiting room go to time filler. I paid 0$. That is the value per $ that I can get on board with. I have real interest in its PC counter part now.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I do take your point, but my feeling is that a game - whether free or paid for - should be, well, fun. Whereas there are some aspects of this game that are extraordinarily frustrating, seemingly deliberately, and seemingly as a back-door way of charging players (many of whom, ironically, would probably be more than happy to pay upfront for a true mobile SimCity game).

    I definitely recommend checking out 'real' SimCity; it's a wonderful game (I particularly like SimCity 4). I think if you play that for a while, you may start to see some of what people here are finding so frustrating about this game. Actual SimCity is incredibly complex and rich in terms of balancing all the different aspects of your city - you can lose yourself in it for hours without ever finding yourself twiddling your thumbs, and I think that's part of what people who have played and enjoyed it in the past are finding irritating about SimCity BuildIt. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    To the OP: You get over yourself!

    Look what EA has done to Plants Vs Zombies and Peggle. They've turned really amazing games into pure rubbish for the lazy inside all of us. Simcity... Look what's happened to the Simcity crew... Fired. Let go. Jobless.

    I'm on level 43 and, since day one, I'd REALLY have loved to have simply purchased the game and gotten on with it but no as, instead, we're subjected to tactics that are purely dubious.  Then again, saying that, I'm not forced to play the game.

    From a moral point of view you could spend a whole load of cash on this game and EA knows this... EA are, basically, evil. "They want your cash and that's not evil?"  Depends on how you go about it. Either way they've produced a damn fine game that's being tainted by greed.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    For those of you interested, SC4 can be had for $20 from Steam. Just don't even consider SC 2013 it's junk.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    @Nambrok wrote:
    For those of you interested, SC4 can be had for $20 from Steam. Just don't even consider SC 2013 it's junk.

    Which one had the horrific release? I think it was SC4 last year. People bought the game then couldn't get anything to work and EA's servers were crashing left and right. If memory serves it took them weeks to sort it all out.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Mrvanhalo, I take your point and what a simply great game they have created here with buildit. It's addictive as hell. It's graphics are excellent and I like the fact I haven't spent a penny and my city is a level 32. What I must say is this, since the last update my experience has been terrible and frustrating, constant crashing in the hq adds to my already questionable opinion on that particular area of the game. It needs a rethink and it certainly needs to stop crashing. 🙂

    Also a general point, ea and others are entitled to try to make extra cash, it's just upselling, the point here is big businesses don't do things if they don't make money so this means that the people who end up paying for inapp (inappropriate) purchases create the demand which they read as profits, if less people fell for this type of marketing we would all have a buy once game that we would occasionally pay for add-ons for... Like xbox and ps games... That model has to be better for us but sadly there must be sufficient demand for how it is. So if we STOP buying things they will have to change. Viva la gamevulusion
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I get what you're saying, but people can complain because EA is looking for money. 

    I would actually give them money if it didn't crash every 3 minutes.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    To the OP...
    I get that it's a free game, but at the end of the day, it is a game. To me, there is nothing interesting about sitting around and constantly reloading a HQ until I find an item. It's a free game, but it's frustrating elements make it a boring free game.
    The game didn't get truly frustrating for me until the higher levels. I am at level 35, I have almost $300, 000 simoleons sitting there, but so what? The items I want are never there to purchase.
    I agree people need to relax a little bit, and if they don't like the game, maybe it's time to move on. That is exactly what happens in my case. I play for about 10-15 minutes, collect my taxes, give the HQ a few "spins" get bored, and move on to something else.
    What good is a game, free or otherwise, that doesn't engage the player? It seems a few seemingly simple modifications could make this game incredible. I for one would gladly pay $5.99 for a game that holds my interest longer than a few minutes, as opposed to milking me for in-app purchases at every turn.
    I chose the game as a 20 year SimCity fan, based on name recognition alone. I didn't rate this game a 1 as others have, but it is not a great game to me, and I have every right to express that opinion.
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    Trai-1978
    10 years ago

    Your first post states, and I quote "I have no problem finding expansion items."

    Here's a little newsflash for you - many of us have a huge problem finding expansion items. Some of us do not find them AT ALL. This is why we complain. Are you actually saying that we should not be allowed to complain about something we can't find because YOU can find them? Yep, I'm ashamed of your generation too. The "I'm alright so everyone else should shut up" attitude is disgusting.

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