Re: [Feedback] Sweet Treat Showdown - Charming Gardens

SMH!

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I agree with everyone. I played a round just to see what changes EA made. In first challenge, I did not get above round six (quit around that time and/or lost at atleast one of the three attempts), I made enough treats to open atleast  1 sweet treat box and 1 royal treat box.

 This time, I could not open 1 sweet treat box and made 1 crown.

Too much time invested for so little amount. So I will pass on this sweet treat showdown unless I get bored. Even then I may just complete 2 llama zooms instead of 1.

Maybe this is EA's sly way to get us to appreciate llama zoom.😒

PLEASE BRING MAXIS BACK!!!!!

@givememore86 

No, I wish.

Just saying that if I am going to spend time on TSM, I will rather do llama zoom and earn a llama than this sweet treat challenge.

@givememore86 

We didn't know what we had until it was gone.

Momma said there be days like this.

I already have 179 llama cards. You can't do almost anything with them once that you clear all land.

They should at least let us use them to buy sugar or traits. Or just remove llama zooms.

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@DBrick01 wrote:

@givememore86 

No, I wish.

Just saying that if I am going to spend time on TSM, I will rather do llama zoom and earn a llama than this sweet treat challenge.

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@kg122cin3h6t 

I only have 32 llamas. 😄

I like changing my house around and 32 will only get me so much.

All my land is cleared.

I started a new family as well and they are in desperate need of llamas. Clearing all the land 1st before expanding and buying items. I usually will play events for the new family in order to get "free" items. Still debating whether or not I will take the time with the new family. 

Let me go stare at the prizes again. Maybe they will hypnotize me and convince me that my new family needs them. I do like the wall planters. They are convincing me that my new family needs them. However, the amount of time I have to spend to get them is discouraging me. 

Decisions, decisions!

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. 

It would be helpful if the studio or one of the gurus provided insight, maybe via an AMA, about how events and quests roll out. Like, what’s the life cycle of an event or quest in The Sims Mobile?

Some players believe that no feedback was taken into consideration from the previous Sweet Treat Showdown two weeks ago because little has been changed, and some believe it is worse this time around. 

I would like to believe that the event was already set into motion and that there were no changes that could have been made, even if the Studio wanted to make changes. I’m guessing that the Sweet Treat Showdown (both two weeks ago and this week) were planned months in advance, and required people generating ideas for the events, drafting out what the events would look like, and then actually creating them. I’m hoping this was all content that was inside the update two weeks ago and could not have been changed, so they had to just roll with it, with the intention to review all feedback afterwards to consider for future events.

I’d like to believe that because the alternative is that the Studio didn’t take the feedback from the previous showdown into consideration. So I’m trying to hold back judgment until we see what happens after this week’s showdown event.

I still have faith that the Studio listens to players and doesn’t make all of their decisions based on what supports their bottom line. But only time will tell. The next event will be very telling. 

Edit: you can kinda/sorta disregard my message. Just saw this tweet:

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@givememore86 wrote:

PLEASE BRING MAXIS BACK!!!!!

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I honestly do not agree about this, Maxis did not managed it better, let's remember that they ruined the game experience first adding colours swatches.

Said that.

I don't have much to say since I've provided feedbacks for the previous event which is more or less the same. Event is still impossible.

I'm honestly happy that (apparently) there will be some changes starting from the next update, at least it make me hope for some truly constructive changes... Who knows......

I trust the intentions of the Firemonkeys studio...

So I am just here waiting for the next update hoping real changes will be made to make the event more easier and affordable for everyone.

Edit: and I also hope that in addition to all this I've already said they will also add new features to the game, which over time the gameplay is becoming a little stale.

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.

I really hope you are right Mal. I REALLY  hope they listen to us players. Can't they see what chaos this type of an event has caused?  People quitting  and getting very mad at the game. This use to be a stress reliever for must and now it just brings on the stress. They need to make it so you can make it through these attempts with the more use of things we can earn. Let's work for it not pay for it. Smh. I love this game so much and so much better when we had walkthroughs to follow. We get want we put into the game as award not if we like to take risks. This is just my opinion. Thanks

@givememore86Uhm, you're right Firemonkeys studio have not removed the colours swatches, but at least they have removed duplicates. (I'm used to see also the positive aspects of things)
And you recognised this too...

Sweet Treat Showdown is completely made for who pay, and I am so disappointed.

With this new event I can't get the grand prizes, it's so frustrating, but I couldn't get it even before with Maxis...

From old events I did always get duplicates duplicates and duplicates... I have practically nothing "rare" of old events, I don't own the darts game, I don't own the golden bathtub, I don't own the bubbles machine... XD and I could go on and on...

There was a little improvement compared to before (removing duplicates) but obviously it is not enough, we agree.

Actual event is so frustrating.

We need much more than this, and we can just leave feedbacks here on the forum or on social medias, nothing more unfortunately, I really hope they will take us into consideration.

Finger crossed, and pray that substantial changes will be made in the next update, in order to carry out the event without consuming every resources, without using SimCash, Simoleons or Cupcakes.
Event need to be made easier for everyone, because currently it is still totally inappropriate and difficult.

Everyone should be able to get the grand prizes without use real money.

@givememore86 

You got the prize I wanted but since I will not spend any Simcash nor simoleons (not this go round), it will take forever to get 8 royal tokens. Today, even though I had the time I did not play TSM.

I read a few of the comments from the previous showdown and it seemed FireMonkey did listen to players who complained about non paying (those who did not spend Simcash and so forth) players being able to advance as quickly as paying players.

Now look what we got! SMH!

From the comments:  yes I see the complaints but I also see players still spending money. You speak with your wallet and what players really told FireMonkey: we will pay to play and only those who are paying should advance quickly in the game.

For this player: not going to happen captain!

I get what I get just using sugar cubes.

I tried playing 3 sweet treat challenges, I lost 1 round and had to pay 15/35 simcash (I don’t remember) but I ended up pocketing 4 royal tokens and 500-600ish sweet tokens. Which isn’t as bad as I thought. For the previous events, I was only able to get 3 standard prizes. Though I’ll still only get less than 50% of the prizes. 

My strategy is to play without spending sugar cubes for the first two rounds, get to 90% for the third round, and get to 100% for 4th and 5th round. For the third attempt, I still had 14 sugar cubes for the sixth round but chose to abandon since I was not sure if the option to buy sugar cubes would be there (it seems to be really random?). So I guess my feedback is to make the option to buy sugar cubes permanent for all rounds. Also it’ll be nice if you can just get rid of swatches, the swatches really what makes the prize number multiplies when actually you only get 15 items. Or just allow us to choose prize color or sell prize items we don’t like.

Also some people complained that the success rate decreased to 85%, I think they have fixed it? I had 90% for the first rounds.

@rewatches Yes, the success rate has decreased as low as 76% for easy challenges with Reese, 80% with Oliver & 88% with Kid Chiffon. Still, I've spent some simoleons already maybe around 20K since I have some saved up. 

For my game, I'm trying to save cupcakes & not use them in the showdown. It's possible that one doesn't use any except for 9 or 10-part challenges where you might need to spend more resources coz you'll surely run out of sugar cubes before reaching the last part. I only reached part 7 on these long showdowns.

Hello again ! 

Well i am playing this event now for 4 days and i have opened 21 boxes so far.

And i did not spent simcash and only free cupcakes...

It is a little bit better...

BUT !!!!!! :

I am on holiday and i am at home ..so i have a lot of time to do it.

I think there is still not enough balance...i really hope this will get better...

It is a lot of work to open all of those boxes....and i am not sure if i can finish it to 78 opened boxes withou paying....

I have also a small trick for you all to get faster a lot more tokens...just use cupcakes for the timequest..when you use one while you do the quest you get 90 tokens plus for only one waste of a free or payed cupcake...up to you..i used the premium gifts so far.

Play a lot short scenes like friendship ..not every short scene but like all 3 or 4 times you get 25 tokens plus to your normal reward with gold on it.

Do not buy jewels at the baking if you do not have sugar less. Buy gold!

I hope that will  help the people which are battling on it even though it is a catastrophe to play it 😂😂😂😂😂 yes it is not much fun.....sorry 😇

Well i am a bit bored because i am on holiday and ill and made my strategy...🙂

And finish the royalquest at home during you get your daily premiums.

That means a chance for one royal ticket for free.

I also have a question:

Will the megaprice sets come back? That people could finish them like the whirpool collection and the other eventcollections?

It is pretty annoying..you are getting stressed because you do not know if it will be repeatable...

So maybe somebody of the team here can please give an answer to this?

And i also do think that it is still to expensive because people do not have allways the time to collect so many boxes and would have to pay then a pretty lot.

It is very hard work without paying..i can live with the fact to spend an fair amount of real money to support the game..but this is without balance and it is no wonder that people feel ripped off...

So will it be possible to redo this events with the done work ( opened boxes) ?

Will they come back ?

Thanks and greetings... 💕

This type of event can't get better. They should just remove it!

I had 42 cupcakes up tp this afternoon. I didn't use any cupcake or simcash since the quest started, I promised myself not to do it.

Well... I checked again now and I have 37 cupcakes.

I didn't definitely used them! I believe it's a bug from one of the two baking events that I made this afternoon. 

I don't even bother opening a ticket, the support is not useful and they would tell me that I spent the cupcakes.

I hate this type of event. BRING MAXIS BACK!

To all the players still spending money for this style of quest: I disagree with you. You are definitely not doing good to yourself because EA will listen to us only if the incomes decrease.

From expierence, I know that companies are usually quite a bit advanced with content creation. So seeing only little changes probably means someone was absolutely awesome and fixed these issues/added suggestions from the community. The teams work hard and can't fix everything at once sadly. On top of that, changes requested might not be the best for the title. Either because it's not profitable or it's technically not possible at the time.

I'm not a fan of these events either, I could never finish them and that frustrated me quite a bit. In another life, I probably would've skipped them. 

I am doing it only because i am bored..i also do prefer the old event style...

And i will not support it with paying real cash....well this type of event..i am getting what i can get for free...

Well i do not care to spend free cupcakes on it..but will not pay them....i am lvl 50 and do not need to save cupcakes..you know why? Because there is still no update for the lvl 50 stop.. 

But i also will give my voice here for to take this type of event out....

Otherwise i am willing to support the game with fair payments...but not on this as i said....

So i am pretty bored and just doing this stupid event 🙂..... for freeeeeeeeee.....