Board Thread:Casual Discussion/@comment-10655136-20130613163610

So after all of the hype and wait we finally get the Squidport. I love the update and the additional content. The ability to move fences in 4 postions is cool and the ability to put regular decorations on the boardwalk and vice versa is all good. The 6 new stores are really neat and the story lines are decent. That's about as good as it gets. EA's efforts to keep people form speeding up building the boardwalk has made it outrageously priced just for one piece of a tile. And having to pay DOUBLE for each piece is ridiculous. I saw amounts of $17,500 to "make" a piece and the 42 donuts to speed it up or wait 3 days. FOR ONE PIECE!!!! Utter insanity. And my biggest let down of all is after all the story is said and done only ONE character besides the Sea Captain actually has a regular, non-story task to even enter the boardwalk. Mr. Burns gets a new 10 hour task to ride the Ferris Wheel and that's it. Not Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart, you name em, not ONE gets any tasks to utilize any of the new stores. So for all of hte money and wait times to complete the update, we're left with a multi-million dollar boardwalk with basic paper weights as stores. EA really dropped the ball on this one. All of the content is permanent apparently yet no one can use any of it once the story line is completed. Piss poor EA, piss poor. So we can throw the Squidport in the bin with ALL of the past holiday wallet-raping items because besides Try N Save with Santa Homer NONE of those buildings can be used either. I'm sick of the developers catering to the "freemium" crowd that plays, Yes by giving no tasks for new stuff they can keep the people that don't buy anything but at the same time we, who some put out and arm and a leg for donuts and cash, get stuck with very expensive useless items and buildings. And our towns are FULL of more useless items than those that are actually used. I'm very disappointed and as someone who used to play 6+ hours a day am considering giving up my Springfield because I'm tired of paying top dollar for items that only count as a collector's item which means nothing in a game with tons of characters all wandering aimlessly because they can't ue half of the stuff we pay for.  