Re: Simcity: 06 Years helplessness

 - Active development of SimCity stopped sometime in 2015, so there will be no more patches or fixes for the game. I agree that this problem is frustrating.

I also wrote a post regarding this issue. It lists the items that may be blocking your ability to claim an abandoned city. There's not much more that can be done, we could only hope that EA would consider making some of these limited-time promo items and country-specific items available now. https://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-2013/Request-to-EA-Make-Promo-AddOns-Available/m-p/6652082#M126555