r/SCBuildIt • u/CurbYerGod • 19h ago
Complaint EA and their never ending grift
I get that EA is a business, but the shady and opaque practices they employ seem truly nefarious and unnecessary.
I decided to purchase the mayors premium pass plus and a seasonal coin boost because I really like the Halloween buildings. When you buy the seasonal coin boost they never tell you before hand how long it’s going to last for. You don’t get that information till after you have paid and they certainly seem to lean into implying it’s for the entire season.
I’m aware it’s not, but what I wasn’t aware of was that as soon as you pay for this boost the ad based seasonal coin doubles in the wait time between ads, but the real travesty is that because they changed the way CoM operates there’s now a very finite limit to the amount of the seasonal track you can even advance down. And they know this. So, here I was grinding away trying to get the most out of the money I’ve spent and regardless of my efforts there’s a wall I’m going to hit because EA won’t give more seasonal track tasks to finish until the time period of the boost expires.
They could easily state how much max seasonal coins could be earned with the purchase of the boost, but they purposefully leave it vague. If I’d known I would hit an EA imposed wall on the boost I wouldn’t have paid for it.
I will never understand how the powers that be at EA thinks this kind of sketchiness serves them. While they got some money out of me there will be no comeback for them to get more. It’s a shame. Especially considering all any of us get for this real money we spend is some use license for these imaginary items.
If we’re paying for a boost we should be able to grind and earn as much as our day allows us to earn without them imposing a wall.