SimCity BuildIt

This game is what is called a resource management game. You try and build a city that you are "Mayor" of using things that you either build or buy. While there are a few good aspects, the negatives outweigh the benefits.The first and most important thing to keep in mind is that this game is NOT free. Each task that you are required to do requires your money or your time, and there is no way around it. You want to build a building? Great! To build this hypothetical building requires 3 hamburgers and a cheesecake (yes, those are real things in this game). So how do you get those items? First of all you produce feed bags. Those bags require 7 hours to produce (real time), or you can spend $60 Simcash (more on that in a minute) per bag to speed up production. After you get those bags, then you use the bags to make your hamburgers. Each hamburger takes 3 feed bags and 2 hours to produce. Are you seeing how this works? So you get bored. You get inpatient. You just want to play the stupid game and not wait for days to accomplish something! HELLO WALLET!As far as money goes, they have 2 different types of money in the game, Simcash and Simoleans (see attached screen shots). Simcash is their resource that is harder to get. You can spend $100 ($99.99) and get $8500 Simcash. If you want to buy something called Maxis Manors (important to help you progress in the game) the first one is $1000 Simcash, second is $2000 Simcash, third is $4000 Simcash and fourth is $8000 Simcash. So think about that for a minute. You can buy a fake building in a virtual game that you will never get real life advantages from for almost $50! Your fourth one of those buildings cost you $100! Close to $200 for fake buildings! That doesn't include all if the other thinfs that you need Simcash for.But wait, (you wonder) can't you just earn Simcash in the game? Yes, you can. However, the only way to be able to earn large sums of Simcash is to participate in the Contest of Mayors. The CoM has different levels, and to be able to get the real Simcash you must work your way up to the "Megalopolis" level. This takes hours and hours of play every week for a MINIUM of 6 weeks. It is truely the most expensive game I have ever seen. If it is not taking your cash, it is taking your time.So why am I writing this long review? Because I was one of those people who spent hours playing this game. I did not invest money, I invested time. Hours that I will never get back. I realized just how stupid it was when I had an incident. I had saved a lot of Simcash, and one day it just disappeared. When I contacted EA (the makers of the game) they didn't care. It didn't matter that I had spent hours. It was just a stupid intangible game, and no one there cared. This is not real life. You get NOTHING tangible for your time and/or money. In a blink of an eye your virtual world can be gone. All that time, all that money for nothing. So, if you really want to win; don't play this game.It is just not worth it.