EA's crappy maths is ruining this Event!! (rant)

Didn't rush so I started the event today. After visiting all my neighbors and tapping throughout the day I have 480 pink eggs and 52 blue eggs. (I was using basket exchange to have a shot at pink prizes). This is with a bump along the way of blue egg task rewards. So I will likely have one pink box at the end of the day...I really don't like my chances of getting much from this event. Really the only character I want is Shary but if I miss out on that one...anger.

They're prizes, not gifts.

Do you go to carnivals and cry because you have to pay money for a chance to win an ugly stuffed toy? Do you expect to win the lottery if you never buy a ticket? So what makes you think you're entitled to be given every item at every event?

Even if everything was easy to win, you'd still be in here complaining that the event was boring, or that you have 12 Shary Bobbins clogging up your inventory.

Just think of all the gold box items as premium items that cost donuts and then you'll be thankful to even have an opportunity to get any of them without paying.

GooooBanana wrote:
They're prizes, not gifts.

Welcome to the generation of self-entitlement.

In every previous event a person could obtain every item if they played enough. It would be a major shift in the game if the player were forced to spend a bunch of money to finish an event. I'm not sure what about this concept is complicated. If you are so blinded by your love of EA and TSTO that you firmly believe they could never err or take a capitalist approach too far then congratulations on your warm, fuzzy, simple world view.

mwilsonsix wrote:

AJtheboss1 wrote:

mwilsonsix wrote:
Do you really need to be reminded about how much people were whining about this at Christmas? And in the end most people got everything, at most missing one or two.

LMAO who got everything? Just because a tiny percent of players got everything don't mean everyone got everything.

Hell if people hadn't made a big deal about how unfair that wheel was half of the people who cleared the wheel would've been one or two good prizes short of having everything... So please do tell who is everyone? :roll:

Uh. What? Here are three threads I found in the first three search results with over 30 pages of people talking about clearing the wheel.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9874334.page
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9861480.page
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9972159.page

Daily players with close to 100 friends, which I imagine describes most people on this forum, were mostly done well ahead of time. That's assuming competence on their part though, which in this case I guess there's room for doubt. Define a "tiny percent" of players that managed to complete it.

With Xmas, with regular tapping you could get well over 100 spins. Meaning that the only thing between you and the prize was bad luck - you'd cleared enough so the odds SHOULD work out for you (on a reasonable average).

With these boxes, they have slanted odds again, but you're lucky if you get 10+ goes at it. Which means, not only are you hoping not to be on the unlucky side of the average, but also that you're never gonna get close to "just being unlucky" to miss out but just hoping for any decent prize at all!!

I personally think EA's going about it wrong. They're (seemingly) hoping for massive donut purchases of eggs from a smaller percentage of players to get everything.

As they've got a cap before getting all prizes (eg. all characters/buildings should be earned after 80/81 spins per box colour), if I got almost 60-70 spins per colour, I'd be inclined to drop donuts if I knew I'd only be dropping a maximum amount with a guarantee of getting the prizes.

They value larger payments from less players - I think that more players putting in a lesser amount of donuts would be better for their wallet, as well as generating better player goodwill. Not to mention that once you start going premium, it's a slippery slope (and all to EA's wallet's benefit).

Linkwick wrote:
(and all to EA's wallet's benefit).

Shame on businesses trying to make money, all while giving us a free game to play in the meantime! The horror!

I don't know if this has been said because I didn't read every post due to the all the whining. But I wonder if the OP considered the reward for completing tasks. There are roughly 20 tasks and if each task produces 250 eggs, that's 5000 eggs. Also, there are eggs to be earned doing tasks with Homer, Ralph, etc.. I wonder how many boxes that is when you figure all that into the original math?

AJtheboss1 wrote:

8injoe wrote:
Ea's bottom line is to make money.
So of course they are going to make the odds far out so that you need to buy donuts and put more money in their pockets.

If this becomes their method of business they won't last very long...

They might lose a decent number of 100% freemium players but than again why should they care about losing 100% freemium players that have no intention of buying donuts. To EA, a 100% freemium player is a net loss to them (server costs etc) if I were them I wouldn't careless if I lose a bunch of players that never have and never will buy donuts.
The business model of every freemium game is to force and/or entice freemium players into premium players, having an event in which all the rewards can be easily won without spending donuts is a stupid business strategy.

GooooBanana wrote:

Linkwick wrote:
(and all to EA's wallet's benefit).

Shame on businesses trying to make money, all while giving us a free game to play in the meantime! The horror!

I don't mind EA making money, but I know for a fact, that they keep their understaffed devs and programmers on a way low salary, for the huge bucks they are making off their games. The reason I hate EA so much, is because their upper management gets overpaid, for people who in most cases studied economics (or other studies that focus on making money) and have nothing to do with gaming (they probably never played a videogame in their lives). These people are only in the business to make a lot of money and they don’t care what they are selling.