The final answer received from EA regarding this issue, follows
"I am sorry that you are experiencing this issue with your game, Sim City. After speaking with the specialist team it looks like there may be some preorder content or other limited time content that could be in those cities that you do not have in your game. Unfortunately we do not have a way around this and there is currently no fix for this issue. You will not be able to claim that city without having the content that is needed, and we unfortunately have no way of adding those items to your account.
I will be closing this case as we currently have no work around for this issue. You were directed to the forums as one of the developers may pick up the issue and address it. However, just being completely transparent, with this being a slightly older title chances are it may not be fixed in the future.
Thanks for waiting while we investigated your issue. We’re sorry for the delay in responding to your case."
This seems Joke !!
Launch a game that has a bug and are not able to solve the problem ?!
And in Gamers and hopefully we pay the minimum functionality of the Game Simcity ?!
Apparently EA only want to sell !! If it works ok, but running problem of gamers who bought because EA has received the money !!
Dampkapp escreveu:
"I will be closing this case as we currently have no work around for this issue."
Can i just say this is total and utter BS... you know what would be a good work around? Giving Simcity players the option to DELETE a city, no more content that we don't own, problem partially solved with one minute of logic thinking... (i'm talking about Single player mode offcourse)
In any case, this whole poppycock about there being no work arounds... is EA at it's finest.
Why? Any self respecting Simcity player will want to control certain Cities when they get abandoned in their Region, this is offcourse because when you only control one citiy in a region where the rest of the mayors are "on vacation", that specialising your City doesn't really work.
And if you're in this situation for a month or two, where your city moves at snail pace because of other bugs that never got adressed, and you suddenly see two cities in your Region abondoned, then offcourse you WANT to claim it, and then you get the lovely message that "you do not own content to claim this city", well then pretty much almost everyone feels enclined to buy himself/herself the "Missing DLC", just so they would be able to claim the city, so it's great to know that when people spend over 200$, buying every dlc, that even they cannot claim "contentcities" (this is offcourse sarcasm)
So in my humble opinion, the only reason they never adressed this issue because fixing it would mean less profit.
I agree with you, unfortunately, there was an epoch where the games were made for the User to play, have fun, be enchanted ...
Today the games are made to sell DLC !!
To extort our money !!
And all this without a good experience at the game, no fun, no joy ....
What remains to the Gamers who buy is a disappointment and frustration ....
Long life for Gamer !!
Long live the Games that give us Joy and Fun !!
Out DLC !!
Out profit at any cost !!
Out Games infested with bugs !!