I want to like, no, I want to love this game. I have had a good time in CS1. I have enjoyed using mods in CS1. I bought DLCs - most of them - without hesitation or with regrets after the fact. But that's the key word; regret. I regret my anticipation of the second part. I regret the trust I put in the team behind Cities. Furthermore, I regret that I even pre-ordered the game and I regret that I waited like a stoopid for the mod support instead of immediately and honorably returning the game in protest against this mess that the studio made.

Yes, the game has good aspects, good improvements, good ideas. But it is by no means mature, neither does it pay the necessary respect to its predecessor nor to the many dedicated fans and the large community.

Instead of paid DLCs, you would have had to work 6-9 months on a big 1.1 update where you would have had to add many, many, truly many features, fixes, content and assets as well as provide mod support from outside and via the workshop shortly after release.

But given the current development, the third installment will be released in just 3 years with even more deductions and with illusory graphics improvements to justify an even higher price and forcing always-online as well as loot boxes and/or season pass, because what are we if we remain honest? We are the studios' livestock, with massive udders that demand milking, because that's what we crave. Grab me by the Teats and start pulling and squeezing. (5 € for a bloody.... Radio station? Which means, I warn you, 50 € for each DLC gameplay expansion, with less content than Sims 4 and more bugs).