Event format… a bit boring

"fishingguy73;c-2207043" wrote:

"Castiel19x;c-2206984" wrote:

"fishingguy73;c-2206983" wrote:
It’s obvious that this is not a money maker for EA so they are not going to put effort into it. That’s why the updates are just lazy anymore. To be honest, I’m surprised they even add new content at all

You would be surprised on how much money EA make of this game.

If they are making a lot of money then the development team is just lazy

Why not just contact EA and tell them off. :)

"spyder1952850;c-2207006" wrote:
I can remember the older events and the nonstop complaining from some about how hard it was to complete tasks, how useless the crafted items were, how some rushed the tasks with donuts and thought the crafted items were too expensive.
I remember the complaints about having to visit neighbors to advance the event. “It takes too long to go from town to town“. They complained about the horrendous amount of time it took to go to Krustyland, now it’s gone.
My take on all this; if you don’t like the game don’t play it. Don’t ruin the experience for others just because you can.
I really believe EA does monitor this forum, to a certain extent, and what we see in the game is a reaction to the complaints from some on this forum.
In real life, if you don’t like something, you avoid it. (Like me and avocados, ranch dressing, and okra. (Combined or by themselves)).
*walking away from the now fully crushed soapbox (got to loose a little weight or find stronger soapboxes)*

Agree whole heartedly! All the way to the avocados, ranch dressing and okra, and I’d like to submit artichoke to the ick pile as well…

anyway…?

I started with in months of the release and other than the break in 2018-2019 because of devise incapacity, I’ve gone through all the “Love it” “bored/frustrated with it” spectrums. Truth is, while I know they wouldn’t have to do any new coding to use elements from other events (crafting, mini games, friend visits, etc) as it’s already written and tucked in the code. So maybe they could at least spend the dev time to implement the variety they already coded into the game. However, if they don’t, I will just play till I’m done redecorating ?

I do miss the trick-o-treating kids and the zombie towns folk, the visiting friends towns (which I try to do anyway) oh and the Easter eggs and Xmas packages and all that, we do have mini game elements that stayed in our towns. There’s the insanity cauldron and the excavation plot. There’s the space invasion games-yea I know they’re all the same sort of games. But they’re in town. Even chasing down Maggie (which I never liked actually! ?

There is a lot of stuff to keep me interested and like so many have said-there aren’t many games that I started almost a decade ago that I even still have on my phone.
I play TSTO for the redecorating and I come here for the bright shiney convo ROFLMFAO!!!

Yea okay, so maybe too far there in that last bit :)

Hi everyone, thanks for the replies, all very interesting comments, maybe i was a bit hasty saying i won’t be around, however i might become less of a daily tapper. As some have rightly said my town isn’t going anywhere i can just check in and out every now and then, so there is that advantage from it.

I guess the bar was set very high with the early events like Haloween, tapping ghosts and shooting down kang, obviously Whacking day was a very special event, leaving eggs in your friends town, whacking those squirmy snakes.

Been playing the game since right before it was yanked from the store around month two. I don’t think it’s any of the above mentioned ideas, but I don’t work for them so who can know for sure. My guess is that when the used all those different formats and tried all the different reward mini games and crafting, there was a ridiculous amount of backlash and complaining about time consumption, inability to craft enough to the personal liking, etc. event after event, the forum was filled with incessant whining. Shortly after they changed, the amount of complaining plummeted. I guess the easy boring version was cupcake enough for the masses complaining, and now it’s just long term players occasionally reminiscing/complaining now.

"iain51269522;c-2208463" wrote:
The event format and lack of game play in general is to reduce the amount of time you spend logged in.

As someone else mentioned, almost everything in the game is downloaded to your device so it really isn't that much of an impact on their servers. So, it's probably more about cost for people to program and design elaborate events and maybe they were tired of all the glitches from the events being too complicated.

The last event brought back tappable NPCs. That was exciting. That felt like old times. So, who knows, maybe they are working on bringing back some of the old features we love.

When did they stop changing the events? I think it was early 2019. You know when they gave us the Golden Goose and the Yearbook MB it seemed like a time of change.

I don't think they cared about the complaints. The event format and lack of game play in general is to reduce the amount of time you spend logged in.