Persist, Restart, or Give Up?
I stopped playing this game back in 2017 for a variety of reasons - I didn't have a very good device to play it on (either a small-screened phone or a slow tablet), my Springfield had become bloated and sorely in need of a redesign which I wasn't keen on investing time into (plus the poor device choices), and I was getting sick of the heavy time investments, particularly for events, and wanted to be able to successfully play only 2-3 times per day.
Recently a friend was talking about the game and I thought I might like to come back to it, I have much better devices now, and a new outlook on gaming where I can more readily sacrifice the higher-level event rewards if I'm not wanting to invest the time needed.
So I reinstall the game, go through the updates etc and delve back in - a bunch of things have changed and I get a flurry of event tasks etc but I've hit some gameplay problems which heavily reduce the enjoyment of the game and effectively makes it unplayable for me, apparantly it's a heavily corrupted save state. While I'm working with EA to fix it, I'm not holding out any hope - every reply is heavily scripted (and in that very mechanical-but-made-to-sound-sincere language that is notorious with helpdesks not given any actual capability training beyond very basic troubelshooting) and they clearly have no idea what my problem even is, let alone how to fix it.
So I'm left with a dilemma - persist with EA support and hope they can eventually fix it, give up and uninstall the game again, or start completely fresh with a new game...not entirely sure how to do that, would I have to create a new EA account??
Has anyone started a new game after having played for a long time? How did you find the experience of restarting? Presumably you are more efficient etc but having to redo the whole time investment seems disheartening...
Recently a friend was talking about the game and I thought I might like to come back to it, I have much better devices now, and a new outlook on gaming where I can more readily sacrifice the higher-level event rewards if I'm not wanting to invest the time needed.
So I reinstall the game, go through the updates etc and delve back in - a bunch of things have changed and I get a flurry of event tasks etc but I've hit some gameplay problems which heavily reduce the enjoyment of the game and effectively makes it unplayable for me, apparantly it's a heavily corrupted save state. While I'm working with EA to fix it, I'm not holding out any hope - every reply is heavily scripted (and in that very mechanical-but-made-to-sound-sincere language that is notorious with helpdesks not given any actual capability training beyond very basic troubelshooting) and they clearly have no idea what my problem even is, let alone how to fix it.
So I'm left with a dilemma - persist with EA support and hope they can eventually fix it, give up and uninstall the game again, or start completely fresh with a new game...not entirely sure how to do that, would I have to create a new EA account??
Has anyone started a new game after having played for a long time? How did you find the experience of restarting? Presumably you are more efficient etc but having to redo the whole time investment seems disheartening...
