Sul Sul Simmers, o/ Following all of the great insightful feedback you provided in our last feedback thread (see here), we wanted to make sure you could continue to do that for the Sweet Treat Showdown - Charming Gardens event. ❤️ Please use this dedicated space to share your thoughts and experiences competing in the bake off event with us. While we won't be able to respond individually to everyone, we will be taking it all on board. 🙂 (If you'd like to learn more about how the Sweet Treat Showdown events work, check out the FAQ guide @SimGuruMaaike posted 🙂) - Lanna

Guys,am I the only one for whom a new sweet treat quest started?Different prizes.Now it takes 475 cookies instead of 425 to open a normal box. Are they serious?It takes 8 crowns to open a royal box.Same number of cookies and crowns given for the special activities. Same formula for the baking event.The prizes are not so pretty (at least to me). Just a lot of small gardening stuff.The design team just doesn't listen to us.Design team, listen: as promised for this quest I will not use any cupcake, simcash or real money. I'll get what I get. This type of event is TERRIBLE.

You read the feedback from the the first quest,right?And made it worse.Nice work. I'll skip this one thanks.

In the first 3 baking challenges, none of them offered to buy more sugar. It's completely impossible to get to the ends of these challenges with only 30 sugar. There's also less options to spend sim cash, simoleons, and cupcakes to increase your odds. I also noticed less chances to get royal tokens in a round.The rounds also start with LOWER percentages than before. Round 1 used to start at 90%, now it's 85%. So it costs EVEN MORE SUGAR to get through EACH round.This challenge is actually MORE difficult than the last one. I can't imagine these are the changes that players requested.I failed 2/3 of the first challenges. 1 was failed at 92%, the next was 95%.

Trust their intentions...They dressed up this new version of the sweet treat event like if it's now easier to win, with 8 crowns instead of 10 needed to open a box and other bla bla. But it's actually more difficult.Now during the baking events there is no option to buy sugar cubes with simcash anymore. It means that it is more costly to win because in the previous event you could buy sugar cubes for a reasonable amount of simcash (around 30) and with that complete all the baking rounds.Now you can just use cupcakes (5 cupcakes cost 75 simcash) or if you lose one of the last rounds spend 100 or 150 simcash to go on.Mathematics: it now takes 20% less crowns to open all the royal boxes, but it takes 100% - 200% more simcash to be sure to pass through all baking rounds and thus get enough crowns.I don't call this improvement or good intention, sorry.

WARNING! I'm about to go full-on whine here, like the stuff of toddler tantrums. Everyone but the Monkey people may want to look away.It's back to school time, why haven't you given us a back to school event? I really really REALLY want a chance to get back the clothes I had from the last one! That cute solid colored pleated skirt, the cropped sweater outfit, the tied-off button down shirt (I think the stuff I want actually comes from the story relationships that became available with this event). I want it, and I want it now.Stop wasting our time with an event that people were pretty clear about hating, and give us a good old fashioned quest to earn stuff we actually want. You say you heard our feedback, so why have you ignored everyone's criticism and put out almost the exact same event with even less appealing prizes? That's a slap in the face.

[Feedback] Sweet Treat Showdown - Charming Gardens

69 Replies

kg122cin3h6t
Seasoned Veteran
7 years ago
Guys,
am I the only one for whom a new sweet treat quest started?
Different prizes.
Now it takes 475 cookies instead of 425 to open a normal box. Are they serious?
It takes 8 crowns to open a royal box.
Same number of cookies and crowns given for the special activities. Same formula for the baking event.
The prizes are not so pretty (at least to me). Just a lot of small gardening stuff.
The design team just doesn't listen to us.
Design team, listen: as promised for this quest I will not use any cupcake, simcash or real money. I'll get what I get.
This type of event is TERRIBLE.
katclawsx3
7 years ago
Seriously, EA, trying this type of event again??
Honestly, after the disappointing feedback from the 1st SS,
why are you doing this again without doing some serious tweaking?
Also, IMHO, the prizes are a bit underwhelming. Garden Hose, Garden Tool Rack, Jeans, Gardening Aprons ?
Not worth spending SimCash, Cupcakes, Simoleans, or my Time.
Not trying to be ungrateful, but you really need to step it up
Prize Wise if you want players to invest in the playing the game, WITHOUT going broke using Resources and/or Real Money. 👎
katclawsx3
7 years ago
@kg122cin3h6t wrote:
Guys,
am I the only one for whom a new sweet treat quest started?
Different prizes.
Now it takes 475 cookies instead of 425 to open a normal box. Are they serious?
It takes 8 crowns to open a royal box.
Same number of cookies and crowns given for the special activities. Same formula for the baking event.
The prizes are not so pretty (at least to me). Just a lot of small gardening stuff.
The design team just doesn't listen to us.
Design team, listen: as promised for this quest I will not use any cupcake, simcash or real money. I'll get what I get.
This type of event is TERRIBLE.
@kg122cin3h6t
I got Part 2 as well & ITA with what you’re saying!
Very Disappointing to say the least!
I even made a new post about it before I saw your comments here!
Hope EA or FM start to read the comments before doing this type of event yet again.
Fool Me Once ....
Viankri
7 years ago
@katclawsx3 The newest event! What a joke! Haha haha ! I'm not going to use any money anymore and EVER for TSM.
charlycheez
7 years ago
You read the feedback from the the first quest,right?
And made it worse.
Nice work. I'll skip this one thanks.
katclawsx3
7 years ago
@EA_Lanna
@Viankri wrote:
@katclawsx3The newest event! What a joke! Haha haha ! I'm not going to use any money anymore and EVER for TSM.
Seriously, EA, trying this type of event again??
Honestly, after the disappointing feedback from the 1st SS,
why are you doing this again without doing some serious tweaking?
Also, IMHO, the prizes are a bit underwhelming. Garden Hose, Garden Tool Rack, Jeans, Gardening Aprons ?
Not worth spending SimCash, Cupcakes, Simoleans, or my Time.
Not trying to be ungrateful, but you really need to step it up
Prize Wise if you want players to invest in the playing the game, WITHOUT going broke using Resources and/or Real Money. 👎
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I made a separate post about this earlier and posted the above comments. I will try to delete it so that the Feedback from SS part 2 - Charming Gardens can stay in one thread.
If I can’t get it delete, please feel free to do so. TIA ~ kat
givememore86
7 years ago
@EA_Lanna I just hope that I can use llama Zoom for some cookies. I just sent Emily to Antarctica. She's coming back in an hour. So I guess we'll just see then.
Edit: unfortunately no llama zooms
girl_hasnogame
7 years ago
In the first 3 baking challenges, none of them offered to buy more sugar. It's completely impossible to get to the ends of these challenges with only 30 sugar. There's also less options to spend sim cash, simoleons, and cupcakes to increase your odds. I also noticed less chances to get royal tokens in a round.
The rounds also start with LOWER percentages than before. Round 1 used to start at 90%, now it's 85%. So it costs EVEN MORE SUGAR to get through EACH round.
This challenge is actually MORE difficult than the last one. I can't imagine these are the changes that players requested.
I failed 2/3 of the first challenges. 1 was failed at 92%, the next was 95%.
GracieSeven
7 years ago
@givememore86
Sadly, Emily failed to bring sweet treat tokens with her. So no changes made to llama zoom rewards either ☹️
katrpillar80
7 years ago
It seems like Firemonkeys may not have considered feedback for Part 2. It’s actually quite a lot more difficult to do the challenge than before. This sort of event has aggravated a lot of loyal players, they’ve barely recovered from the first time around.
Also, my daughter has pointed out the total number of boxes increased from 76-78. This increases the total number of tokens needed for the grand prize.