Monopoly City Streets = Awesome
Last week, Monopoly and Google Maps launched a site that allows people to buy and trade streets all over the world called Monopoly City Streets. Overall it was a success, drawing 1.7 million people. Unfortunately, this was a few too many people for the servers to handle, so some people were able to buy up all the streets while others could not access the site. This and other problems (it was really easy to cheat) let to a version 2 to be launched last night/this morning, and it is very satisfying.
The rules are simple: Buy/trade streets anywhere in the world, build property on these streets, and use chance cards to either sabotage other players or build improvements on your land. To keep people coming back to the site, if a person makes an offer on a street you own, this offer must be addressed within 7 days or it will automatically be accepted. Rent is collected from the property you own. Also, every gets a guaranteed $1 million every day.
The new launch completely reset the game, so everyone started over with no property and the default start of $3 million. The reset also introduced some new features like taxes, limits on trading, automatically repossessing all property if you don’t sign in at least once every 2 weeks, and methods for catching cheaters.
As of right now, the game is meant to promote a new version of Monopoly that will come out soon, so the site was intended to be temporary. At the end, a winner would be declared. However, if the site stays as popular as it has been so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if Monopoly City Streets stays around for awhile.
I do think that it would be fun to keep the end date as a time to declare a “winner.” Then they could reset the game and have it start over again. This would make the game more interesting and would give new people a fighting chance in the future.
If you haven’t checked Monopoly City Streets out yet, you should! Today is the “first” day of buying, so you will not be behind.
Looks fun!
3 months ago
