"Monopoly: Here & Now" Crapfest

So I recently saw Monopoly: Here & Now/World Edition (friiiiiiiggin unnecessary long name) on sale at Toys r Us. Me and my gf have been longing to play this seemingly exciting new addition to the Parker Bros family so we pitched in thinking it'd give us boardgame orgasm at sleepovers and whatnot.

To go over the new aspects of the game briefly, there's no paper money-only 6 credit cards (all named Charles B. Darrow, the developer of monopoly), there's an electronic banker to put money in and out of your card (this is where the shittiness begins) and the biggest change of all, the properties are of cities around the world.

First of all, the electronic banker is ASS. That's right, it totally slows down gameplay, I bet a mentally disabled 3-yr old can do mental math with paper money faster than that shitload of a machine can input arbitrary figures onto your card. There's a (-) and (+) slot for obvious reasons as to quicken the pace so when there's a transaction between 2 players, you don't have to load one card at a time. But frick! Whenever you push a card in, it's gotta do this 1 sec. loading screen then TELL YOU WHAT PLAYER NUMBER YOU ARE, AND THEN show your balance......and you can't input numbers as soon as your card balance shows up, you gotta wait like a 0.5 sec delay!!

What next? I picked up a chance card stating that I apparently wanted to sample ethnic foods so I must pay EACH PLAYER 500 K!!!!! (all monetary values in Mil and K) So there were 6 friggin people playing and just imagine how much time it took me to give everyone their frickin lousy 500 K.

It's just................*sigh* degrading for monopoly to be like this. It just took the fun out of the original game. Mr. Pennybags is probably on the verge of suicide right now as we speak.

Last words: Why the hell is Montreal in the place of Boardwalk!? I know it's sacriligious to say this as a Canadian, but come on! You'd think a more prestigiuos city would get that spot!

And why is Tokyo on a cheaper street than Vancouver!? I reside in Vancouver and there's no way housing costs is more expensive in Vancouver than Tokyo.