I bought Golden Eggs For Donuts
^Nailed it
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I agree with the OP.
Very much in the same position, I don't consider myself a premium player since I don't spend what my top friends appear to spend but I am not a freemium player either. I pay for entertainment value and see this game as mostly entertaining and a way to waste time. So I will spend money.
These chance events really don't interest me. Mainly because the odds are so unfavorable and to even get the chance to collect enough eggs for the dismal odds....well, I don't see much value.
In the past I have been willing to spend donuts on events to speed up tasks in order to collect the event currency faster. I really hated the grind of whacking day but I thought it was a good mix for freemium and premium players. If you wanted to play for free you still could get the prizes but you simply could not miss a day of playing and collecting. If you wanted to pay you could jump ahead and get prizes.
The Easter event is different. Even paying, being premium, does not guarantee premium prizes. That makes little sense to me.
I do see some possible options, not that it would make everyone happy but:
You like the wheels or boxes of chance, you also have criminal characters. Why not have one of the criminals "fix" the wheel for you? Add an option where you pay Fat Tony 50 donuts and he removes all junk prizes.
Limit the wheels and boxes of chance. Create one at the end of the event when it is completed. If you complete the event you get one free spin. Put 10 prizes on the wheel. 1 awesome killer prize, 2 pretty cool prizes, 2 cool prizes, 3 ok prizes, 2 of your now infamous fences. All of the same chance. After the free spin. You can pay 50 donuts for another spin, after that spin you can pay 100 donuts. All prizes stay on the board.
That way you still get to earn for paying, you still have created a reason to pay, free players stiill have a reason to want to become paying players, paying players still have a reason to want to pay more. And perhaps more importantly you still keep competition.
Just my two cents.
Very much in the same position, I don't consider myself a premium player since I don't spend what my top friends appear to spend but I am not a freemium player either. I pay for entertainment value and see this game as mostly entertaining and a way to waste time. So I will spend money.
These chance events really don't interest me. Mainly because the odds are so unfavorable and to even get the chance to collect enough eggs for the dismal odds....well, I don't see much value.
In the past I have been willing to spend donuts on events to speed up tasks in order to collect the event currency faster. I really hated the grind of whacking day but I thought it was a good mix for freemium and premium players. If you wanted to play for free you still could get the prizes but you simply could not miss a day of playing and collecting. If you wanted to pay you could jump ahead and get prizes.
The Easter event is different. Even paying, being premium, does not guarantee premium prizes. That makes little sense to me.
I do see some possible options, not that it would make everyone happy but:
You like the wheels or boxes of chance, you also have criminal characters. Why not have one of the criminals "fix" the wheel for you? Add an option where you pay Fat Tony 50 donuts and he removes all junk prizes.
Limit the wheels and boxes of chance. Create one at the end of the event when it is completed. If you complete the event you get one free spin. Put 10 prizes on the wheel. 1 awesome killer prize, 2 pretty cool prizes, 2 cool prizes, 3 ok prizes, 2 of your now infamous fences. All of the same chance. After the free spin. You can pay 50 donuts for another spin, after that spin you can pay 100 donuts. All prizes stay on the board.
That way you still get to earn for paying, you still have created a reason to pay, free players stiill have a reason to want to become paying players, paying players still have a reason to want to pay more. And perhaps more importantly you still keep competition.
Just my two cents.
