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The ones who make me giggle though are those who pay for the game and hate it.
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Well actually,...since I don't play in TC or TC3,...I don't pay for a game I hate. I pay for the old TSO that I enjoyed. Its kind of like being a Vikings fan in Packer territory. Call it "Hometown Loyalty"...or "rebellious".
But I gotta question this:
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Oh, so you are one of "them"
Then... this discussion is basically pointless.
But I'll just say as I've said probably 1000 other times... I think its silly for those who have such a vast distaste for people who enjoy a game.
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Seems like a bit of a "distasteful" comment towards those of us who don't support changing a game we enjoy.
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Don't question it...
i said earlier
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I will not paint myself to be innocent in this picture, I goad people. I believe I'm always right except for when I'm wrong, and I don't really throw much passion into my posts as much as I just want to amuse myself, and chances are if I'm being nasty or trolling you will know it.
Very rarely will I ever pretend my motives were anything other than being what they are.
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It is exactly what it is meant to be.
The difference here is and I'll put this as clearly as I can... this is a game.
It's not a way of life (although many, myself included, believed it to be once) or something that is life changing. Most normal people could stand to use a bit of change here and there. Most normal people do not prefer to play the same game over and over and over and over again. If we did we'd all be playing candyland still.
Vapd, the game you love was going to be closed. It's gone. It's done. No matter what it's over. It's not the "cheerleaders" fault. The cheerleaders didn't like the way the game was, it got lame, it got boring it got....
(On a side note, that smiley is from studly @ dot calm... i know its become very very popular here. )
So really i'd like to know, is you being able to play your game. "You" being the minority more important than someone else being able to play theirs. Is it fair to the majority that the game is lost all together b/c the minority says "no fair I am taking my dollies and going home?"
For over a year I read these forums and watched people all but beg (no actually they begged too) and threaten and scream for new updates. For change. For city merges b/c the cities were dead. Every single thing I have seen implemented or planned to be implemented is the same things I have seen discussed and asked for over and over and over again on these very forums.
Now they are happening. I have seen some people who were completely fed up with EA (excuse me if I throw in your name Dutch America and Carrie as you both come to mind) and made no effort to hide the fact that they were displeased, turn around and actually support the changes. There are many more of course but it's moot.
The bottom line is what EA is changing "we" the collective "we" have asked for. If you were not active during that point, or if you were the minority, that is I suppose unfortunate. But that is the way the world works.
You have two options (well immediate options)
1) you can quit.
2) you can suggest
constructively things you would like to be kept.
If those suggestions are within the majority and feasible EA will pass them through. If they are not, they will drop them.
"You" the general you, can intimate all you want that I am a nasty, obnoxious, or downright rude person. Many will agree, even those who call me a friend.
I found that wasting my time being nice (and lord once upon a time on this very forum I was) was exactly that. Wasting time. There is no talking to some people.
I could sugar coat it and say "Well all of you were very dedicated players for the past 5 years and that should be recognized"
But guess what, nobody is going to throw any of us who held our accounts this long a parade.
EA will read the suggestions... pick the ones that are possible and popular and make them happen.
It's not because the suggestions are by the dev ego strokers. It's because the suggestions are made by people who clearly and concisely write up their wiki's for everyone to contribute.
Not to rant like a child who didn't get the dolly they wanted.
To me thats what many of the general "you" look like.
MY opinion shouldn't matter to you. It's just that. Mine. And I'm just a girl on the other side of the monitor bluntly disagreeing with you.
The fact that I'm probably right just makes it sting a little bit more.