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I saw <font color="blue"> blah blah blah...10k blah blah blah hours, top of list.
</font> You sure have done a lot of thinking about what I was thinking. I think! Good thing they are wiping all the money! You think? Besides they paid for those accounts. They did not constantly delete. They aquired locks. It would not be fair for them to lose them now! <font color="blue">blah blah blah Bite Me </font>
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I ask you this, <font color="blue">which do you think had the most influence on EA to do the work they have now done and are doing, you staying, or us leaving. </font> Now don’t get me wrong here, I am not saying we should be entitled to more than players who stayed. I am trying to get you to see that we all played a part in this game, no matter wether we left, stayed, returned or are yet to return.
<font color="red"> I also think you should have a good look at your siggi,……
Ask not what your country can do for you....
ask what you can do for your country.
You seem to be going away from that just a little.
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I think EA is striving to keep both. EA does not want to take away from us. Mostly, I think EA is looking forward to getting new players (Lots of them). While keeping the ones they currently have. We were told, we would not lose anything but locks. EA has added a lot. Visit TC3 to see. The game will not hurt you. If people are allowed to keep the locks they have aquired up to this point.
l am not sure how you want me to respond to you. I am not sure how you think I am not helping my country by disagreeing with you.
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OK, I am not meaning to go on the attack with you, you are the main voice behind disagreeing with the locks being assigned to accredited paid time. Your main argument is that you and other players like you will lose locks accumulated by using the 90 day grace to keep sims alive on multiple accounts. You feel that because that was made possible and you did that you should be put before something that will make it more attractive for previous players to return to the game. And I must say here there are several people that I still have contact with that are previous players where loss of locks is an issue with them considering returning to the game.
Put yourself in my position, I have seriously thought about yours and I ask you to do the same for me. I have just recently come back into the game, advised by another who had just returned that communication was good with the devs now and things look like getting much better. It was enough to get me interested in coming back to have a look. I am trying to get people I used to play with to come back, most of who are saying they don’t like the idea of having to start off from scratch again. The locks have proven to be a sore point with most of them and I have realized they have a point. When I played before I had 85 locks I think it was. I could play a certain game with that amount of locks. Now I have 20, I can only max and lock 1 skill so I cannot play the game the way I remember. Its frustrating to be stuck in a beginners shoes when I am in fact a veteran. I can still enjoy the game and will likely still stay, the main concern I have is trying to get people to come back to the game. Applying locks to accumulated paid time will definitely bring back more players than not. I think you do agree with that. Even if that is only an extra 10% it could still amount to thousands. Also when players do return and if they have no locks, lots of them are likely to leave again through frustration. I am truly thinking here of what I feel is best to revive numbers in this game. Your argument is that this should not happen because you will lose locks that you gained by being able to manipulate the system. I can see where you are coming from here, it was available and that is the way you went about your game. You gained from being able to do that or you would not have done it. A player who chose to have multiple accounts so he or she could flood their own house with guests to climb the ladder takes advantage of what is on offer as well. Yet I am sure if EA was to say that will cancel or points gained by multiple account holders doing exactly that. You would agree that these players losing their positions on the ladder would be justified. After all they manipulated the system. What you and others have done is nothing as bad as that I know, but what you have done is still used something that I feel sure was not meant to be used the way you used it. Up until now it did no harm, but to put those locks you accumulated before something that would aid in bringing players back is totally wrong. Also correct me if I am wrong but at one stage you stated that what we are trying to do with this will hold up the devs from things they should be doing. But then later when Greg said they will make it so you can keep your locks everything seemed to become alright with you. Even though it would obviously entail more work for the devs. You are putting yourself before what is good for the game, that is what I meant by look at your siggi.