holloween 2015 why so much hating?

thetim37889 wrote:
Why is everyone complaining?

My only gripe is I feel like the whole event started late I wish act 3 would have ended the Tuesday after Halloween mentally I'm gearing up for Thanksgiving.

Other than that I have gained a few bonus ? with spooky walls and don't forget 100 Donuts, that's huge for a freemium player. And it wasnt that hard. I mean if you have a job and like to occasionally sleep this is still a doable event.

My feelings as well :)

Personally, I enjoyed this event throughout. Perhaps it was a little heavy on the crafting, but overall it was well balanced. I was able to get all the prizes without having it impact my real life, which I think is the measure a lot of people apply.

Because it wasn't good. This was my third Halloween so there wasn't anything iconic to purchase with donuts because I had them already. Sorry if I don't feel like buying a Ancient ruins. Everything they had for sale was either recurring from previous years or it was something so dull that I don't even remember what episode it came from.

They also suck at themes. They could have had Halloween be based around donuts like in the Halloween episode where homer goes to alternate universes and it Rains donuts in one of them. We could have gotten a homer skin where his head was shaped like a donut, then the donut model would have made sense as a prize and also receiving free donuts for the shopkeeper challenge. Instead they stretched everything out too long, gave out horrible prizes (festive homer instead of the iconic "I am evil homer" costume??) and so forth.

Also, why doesn't it LOOK like Halloween anymore? The first Halloween I played had fog and it was dark and errie - now the edges are SLIGHTLY darkened and the Trees are orangey-yellow. Wow, cool.

Acts 1 and 2 were great its just that act 3 has a terrible design and it was glitched for more then half the time.

Waaayyy to long an event :shock:

-The event was relentlessly long. Terwilligers was incredibly boring, but that at least had prizes worth crafting and tapping for. This event is more like a chore. I also found the overall concept bland. The campfire could've been used so much better.

-I feel the developers got really lazy with the prizes this time. It felt more like a promotion for the Halloween of Horror episode with only a few THOH episodes thrown in. A lot of it is junk that will wind up in storage when there's no more land. Also, what good is The Re-Neducation center if Flanders can't use it?!

-Upgrading the campfire is extremely pointless and accomplishes nothing but adding another 5 hedges to your inventory. Crafting is even worse as they only added a few new things and threw in a bunch of rehashed trees walls and houses from the past few years.

-The premiums are some of the worst, pathetic excuses I have ever seen for any event. They completely missed the opportunity to add the House of Evil Shopkeeper or Donut Homer. Instead we get a bunch of overpriced skins and a giant scepter as a Gil Deal. Whoop-de-freaking-doo.

The premium skins are horrible and way overpriced.

There's a difference between "hating" & "complaining". I've complained about aspects of this event (mainly due to boredom), but it's nowhere near as bad as the frustrating & the broken gameplay formula of Easter 2014.

Valid things to complain about (IMO):

It's dragged on too long. It's the 2nd longest event we've had (behind "Clash of Clones", equal with Xmas 2014 & Terwilligers at 41 days long!!).
It's been boring. Once you get the prizes for an Act, there's literally no reason to keep collecting prize currency. For the first 2, I had 7-8days to wait before the next Act!! And quite a lot of players are now just waiting for the Event-kill update, as there's nothing to do but craft.
There's been no really great prizes, especially compared to previous years. That's a personal rating, but a lot of people would probably agree. There's also numerous suggestions been made for prizes based on THOH episodes etc.
There's been barely any new content releases. For premiums - a few skins (which don't even have full task lists!!), a smattering of decorations... and that's it, really. No new characters, and buildings in the prizes area only.
Too much emphasis on crafting, with only half of them new items. Literaly 50% was rehashed stuff (especially decorations that were previously available for cash, so most stocked up then), + characters & UBO skin from last year. Just seems really lazy.
The carelessness of donut pricing. A 80donut premium skin for Luann, who's ALREADY premium?! Premium walls at 20donuts a pop, which give the same % bonus as a 1donut white fence?! Splitting Witch Marge/Cauldron up but still charging last year's price for the skin alone?!

-don't forget the Lag that arrived with the event... quadrupled the load time for visiting neighbors....

-sold premium skins to generate candy apples, and those tasks disappeared at the end of Act 2, so what was the point of buying those skins?

-when playing the game requires having to discover a convoluted method of task placement and timing in order to get the spawning necessary to win the Act, well that's bad game development...

-did I mention the lagging?

-I swear the tap sensitivity was changed to try and make it easier to "hit" the fast moving shape-thing nightmares, but all that led to was me inadvertently tapping every house anywhere near a nightmare or whatever.

-the game play dynamics changes every act with little to no explanation or guidance. bad game design for sure.

-changing spawn rates, but not changing target goals for the shop keeper challenges.

The event itself wasn’t bad, it was kind of a nice pace for a change. I think the hate is really disappointment. The truth is this game has done such a great job with Halloween events in the past, that people actually look forward to it each year. This years Halloween event for me felt nothing like Halloween. It could have been any other event.

There were no Selma and Patty witches, there were no classic monsters going into the halloween store to buy costumes, no vampires turning people into bats, no kids trick or treating. This was more like the kids ate mushrooms and tripped for six weeks for lame prizes.