Give it a month or two and I sadly suspect you'll be able to purchase all the features you'd like with micro-transactions.
"We're building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way." [1]
This kind of thinking from the games industry concerns me. If I've paid full price for a game, I don't think I should be nickel and dimed for more content.
[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187421/EA_details_microtr...
I don't think that microtransactions are wrong, per se, but I do generally find it to be in bad taste. But that's an art versus entertainment question and the vast majority of the industry (and its customer base) have landed very firmly on "entertainment" which leads fairly inevitably to caring about nothing except profit.
The article's title is" Bigger, Better, Even More Crazily Addictive"
So, have they ever played any other SimCity games?
They should call it Sim Neighborhood. That's more like it.
Small City Size
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