Community prize total WAY too high

They did this as a tease. EA knew we would never achieve the goal, but knew we would want the prizes so much that when the event ended they could sell them for donuts becuase of high demand. I read on a certain site that it would take 75 days to achieve the final community goal, if the increasing rate stays where it is.

If only EA awarded the community prizes based on the number of threads created on this forum about how we are not going to get the community prizes.

jenichu682 wrote:
If only EA awarded the community prizes based on the number of threads created on this forum about how we are not going to get the community prizes.

that would be better then the ridiculous amount they want to unlock them, i was reading a site that the last one needs 2.4 billion.

baddazoner wrote:

jenichu682 wrote:
If only EA awarded the community prizes based on the number of threads created on this forum about how we are not going to get the community prizes.

that would be better then the ridiculous amount they want to unlock them, i was reading a site that the last one needs 2.4 billion.

This forum is only a few off from that target in the number of threads about prizes too high / not enough gift bags.

so your telling me we are counting down instead of counting up?

Burnin_TODI wrote:
They made these prizes just to dangle them in our faces and laugh at us.....they don't want any more people playing this game, so they are going to make all their paying customers leave the game after showing us all these cool prizes and then storing them away......why would the artists want us to have these prizes after working for hours creating them??

:roll: :roll:

Huh? :?: That does not make sense at all.

Why would they want to kill the cash cow? That contradicts any economic logic. As a company you would never want to mess with your regular customers.

I rather believe it was a mistake to base it on the bags rather than on the tickets that was unnoticed until rolled out. Only thing is they cannot change that now anymore. So the theory of an accelerator/ multiplier kicking in at some point of time does sound plausible (assuming the counter is fake).

Finally stop whining about achieving it or not. In any way EA is very generous this christmas: we have several personal prices plus all the items from the spinning wheel. Additionally the episode tie in beginning of this month. That is a lot and more than the Halloween event.

Burnin_TODI wrote:

If you notice the rolling eyes = sarcasm :roll: :wink:

Ups, sorry, didnt see that, too small on my cell :-)

I just got annoyed with the OP complaining about the community prices again. We really should be achieving them based on the people complaining rather than on gift bags :mrgreen:

Wth this is stupid ea should of thought of the amout of people on vacation during Xmas time...

baddazoner wrote:
hardly any of those community prizes for the Christmas update will be unlocked because they are set far too high.

450,000,000 for the first one and as of the 17th it's just under 220,000,000. the amounts need to be reduced. if it the first one is 450 million whats the next one going to be?

don't know why they decided to set them so high when the halloween update didn't set them anywhere near as much as they did this time.

OMG... I just checked into this, and OP is right! How have we not noticed this before?!?!

jenichu682 wrote:

baddazoner wrote:

jenichu682 wrote:
If only EA awarded the community prizes based on the number of threads created on this forum about how we are not going to get the community prizes.

that would be better then the ridiculous amount they want to unlock them, i was reading a site that the last one needs 2.4 billion.

This forum is only a few off from that target in the number of threads about prizes too high / not enough gift bags.

I think that there are more threads about prizes being too high and the wheel being rigged than there are add me threads on the finding friends forum ;-)