I think at this point the only choice is vote with your entertainment dollars. If you don't like how Simu are conducting themselves and the direction of GS, stop paying them money. Ie, quit, or just do F2P if you still want to play but not give them your money. They're going to do what they're going to do and freaking out about how you want the "good old days" back accomplishes absolutely nothing. The "good old days" are never coming back. Micro transactions are not going away. They aren't going to shut down the SimuCoin Store because people make mad posts about it. I don't like the slot machine stuff, but it doesn't bother me enough to quit, so they're still collecting monthly sub money from me. Be the change you want to see in your archaic text based nerd game.