A wasted opportunity?

Anyone who knows me on this forum probably also knows how much I would LOVE to have Maggie as a playable character. I started one of many threads asking for her, and have posted in threads that I have seen since that are asking for her. :D

I think you have an awesome idea here - releasing her and then giving her the skin to tie her in to the event! It's too bad they didn't think of that!

EDIT: for clarity

mattderes wrote:
Because what everyone was clamoring was a reason to NOT send kids out trick or treating.

Hah! Yeah, the level 46 questline is stalled in my town. I haven't even sent Nelson to change his mom's status. She can binge on nicotine until I have the Halloween prizes I want.

Getting Maggie would be awesome.

Excruciator69 wrote:

mattderes wrote:
This Halloween would have been a perfect time to release Maggie as a player character. Why? Because the tentacled Rigellian version would have made such an easy skin and tie-in.

Instead, we get Nelson's mom. Because what everyone was clamoring was a reason to NOT send kids out trick or treating. EA, I've got dozens of characters that have had little or nothing interesting to do since I got them. You could have tied up Lovejoy by releasing his wife Helen (and daughter Jessica as a premium). But no-o-o-o...

Be fair. Nelson's mom has the "trick" portion covered.

more like the treat.

neuroheart wrote:


Getting Maggie would be awesome.

Maybe for Christmas? :D

mattderes wrote:
This Halloween would have been a perfect time to release Maggie as a player character. Why? Because the tentacled Rigellian version would have made such an easy skin and tie-in.

Instead, we get Nelson's mom. Because what everyone was clamoring was a reason to NOT send kids out trick or treating. EA, I've got dozens of characters that have had little or nothing interesting to do since I got them. You could have tied up Lovejoy by releasing his wife Helen (and daughter Jessica as a premium). But no-o-o-o...

Nelson's mom is with the level 46 update, not affiliated with the Halloween event at all. Just a coincidence you are reaching that level during the Halloween event.

4junk3000 wrote:

mattderes wrote:
This Halloween would have been a perfect time to release Maggie as a player character. Why? Because the tentacled Rigellian version would have made such an easy skin and tie-in.

Instead, we get Nelson's mom. Because what everyone was clamoring was a reason to NOT send kids out trick or treating. EA, I've got dozens of characters that have had little or nothing interesting to do since I got them. You could have tied up Lovejoy by releasing his wife Helen (and daughter Jessica as a premium). But no-o-o-o...

Nelson's mom is with the level 46 update, not affiliated with the Halloween event at all. Just a coincidence you are reaching that level during the Halloween event.

Calling it a coincidence is very charitable of you. We're in the middle of the Halloween event and EA is obviously very well aware of that. So why make 46 tie up someone we're ALL using as often as possible? Pushing out a level during CoC made sense because so many of us had the thing wrapped up early, but nobody has finished Halloween here. Why put out a level at all? Or maybe roll it out during the extension period, when the die-hards are twiddling their thumbs.

And also I want Maggie slithering around my town on tentacles.

But if you really want a wasted opportunity, why doesn't Dr. Hibbert have a task at the Aztec Theater for "Thinking they were showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

Agree w/ the OP....
Another solid miss for EA :roll:
New level w/more content though does somewhat appease veteran players that already have Halloween items, but this one could've appropriately included tentacle Maggie.

mattderes wrote:



Calling it a coincidence is very charitable of you. We're in the middle of the Halloween event and EA is obviously very well aware of that. So why make 46 tie up someone we're ALL using as often as possible? Pushing out a level during CoC made sense because so many of us had the thing wrapped up early, but nobody has finished Halloween here. Why put out a level at all? Or maybe roll it out during the extension period, when the die-hards are twiddling their thumbs.

And also I want Maggie slithering around my town on tentacles.

But if you really want a wasted opportunity, why doesn't Dr. Hibbert have a task at the Aztec Theater for "Thinking they were showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

Let's not overreact here - putting Nelson on that 12 hour task as part of the Mrs. Muntz quest line loses the player out on 1 or 2 treat bags. The chances of a player failing to complete the Halloween prizes due to 1 or 2 less treat bags over the course of a month long event are virtually zero, so I appreciate the Level 46 release giving us something fresh to do. I doubt there's going to be much downtime at all between now and the New Year...plus I'm sure Level 47 is coming down the road at some point.

Agree that a playable Maggie would be fun, but I can't really fault EA for holding back a few major characters for future release - if they give us everything we want now, there's not much reason to continue playing!

Even at the cost of donuts but Maggie can not miss !

mattderes wrote:
This Halloween would have been a perfect time to release Maggie as a player character. Why? Because the tentacled Rigellian version would have made such an easy skin and tie-in.

Instead, we get Nelson's mom. Because what everyone was clamoring was a reason to NOT send kids out trick or treating. EA, I've got dozens of characters that have had little or nothing interesting to do since I got them. You could have tied up Lovejoy by releasing his wife Helen (and daughter Jessica as a premium). But no-o-o-o...

Nelson's mom is a cool addition. I mean we did finally get one of Springfield's Strip Clubs. Now we need Sapphire Lounge with Princess Kashmir.

Also don't forget that we also got Greta Wolfcastle in this update & she has a task to get Trick-or-Treat Bags just like all the other kids & teens.