If this event wasn't what you wanted, what exactly would you have liked?

Christmas Lights for my normal houses!!!!!!!
http://i.imgur.com/HYB8pt5m.png http://i.imgur.com/58ozLiMm.png
No real visual tasks for this events participants (like trick-or-treating kids) I'd prefer group tasks with a visual, preferably AT the huge event hub thingy EA keeps making me build. How cool would it have been to have the Pagan participants going back and forth between their task source building and the event hub like they do for the railyard tasks instead of just hiding in Willie's Shack for 4 hours?
The event barely has anything to do with the episode, the ENTIRE Pagan Winter Festival scene is about 1 minute long. Most of the episode is about Reverend Lovejoy's struggles to keep his church filled, and Krusty getting converted to Christianity to be closer to his daughter Sophie.
Also gift giving to neighbors. Lewis Clark is on my top 10 of wanted characters!

"bluntcard;1521021" wrote:
There are bazillions of pre-winter event posts about what people would like to see from Simpson's episodes. Hanukkah, Christmas episodes, classic stuff that people ask for year after year, Santa would have been a nice NPC. Ice skating would have been fun.

I think donut farming has ruined the game's profitability and it will just be used to promote upcoming Simpsons episodes from now on.
Love The Simpsons, love the game, don't jump all over me for having an opinion.

#grumple

There's websites which cannot be named that show how much each game is making if you're really curious about the profitability of the game. You don't have to speculate or wonder about the games financial health, they have GRAPHS!!!

Penguins :D

I'd really have liked something along the lines of showing where a lot of the traditions of Christmas originated.

I don't mind what EA is trying to do with this Winter event, I just wish they had done it better.
I know it's a parody and it's intent is humorous. I have no problem with mocking things for fun, it's just, well- it hasn't been done well. The jokes are poorly written and they just go to satanic tropes, etc.
There's more clever ways to mock paganism. So many ways.

"heyababy47428;1521284" wrote:

"bluntcard;1521021" wrote:
There are bazillions of pre-winter event posts about what people would like to see from Simpson's episodes. Hanukkah, Christmas episodes, classic stuff that people ask for year after year, Santa would have been a nice NPC. Ice skating would have been fun.

I think donut farming has ruined the game's profitability and it will just be used to promote upcoming Simpsons episodes from now on.
Love The Simpsons, love the game, don't jump all over me for having an opinion.

#grumple

There's websites which cannot be named that show how much each game is making if you're really curious about the profitability of the game. You don't have to speculate or wonder about the games financial health, they have GRAPHS!!!

@heyababy47428 why cant the website be named? If its not something hacking the game, it shouldnt violate any terms. Id love a PM if you dont want to post. Thanks!

I would have liked two things.

1. For the developers to omit or generally stow their obvious hatred for the Christian faith. In the VERY FIRST DIALOGUE they called people who read the Bible "nut jobs," and it isn't difficult to see how they feel about religion in other aspects of the game, such as the "first church of lard lad" and their pot shots at religion every chance they get.

That's fine, they're entitled to their opinion, but when most of the country observes the Christian faith in one way or another, what they're doing is obnoxious and uncalled for. Can the insults at the very least.

2. I would also liked a Christmas season update to have a single thing to do with Christmas. Paganism?! What the f*** is that? Far as I can tell, there's one Christmas tree in the entire update. No Santa, certainly no Christianity, no presents, nothing that typically marks the season except snow.

Absolutely the worst update ever.

To those of you whining about no Xianity in the game.....let's see, there are at least 3 Xian churches (first church of SF, Notre Dame, Medieval Catherdal), a statue of Jesus, and a nativity scene that animates. Not to mention tons of Xian decs and skins.
But no, you'd rather WHINE and play victim when the game is not all about YOU and your belief system.
Grow up, face the real world, or quit.
You're sounding just like the a-holes that whined and screamed when TSTO did Pride Week.

Rant over.

"jmn120176;1521535" wrote:
I would have liked two things.

1. For the developers to omit or generally stow their obvious hatred for the Christian faith. In the VERY FIRST DIALOGUE they called people who read the Bible "nut jobs," and it isn't difficult to see how they feel about religion in other aspects of the game, such as the "first church of lard lad" and their pot shots at religion every chance they get.

That's fine, they're entitled to their opinion, but when most of the country observes the Christian faith in one way or another, what they're doing is obnoxious and uncalled for. Can the insults at the very least.

2. I would also liked a Christmas season update to have a single thing to do with Christmas. Paganism?! What the f*** is that? Far as I can tell, there's one Christmas tree in the entire update. No Santa, certainly no Christianity, no presents, nothing that typically marks the season except snow.

Absolutely the worst update ever.

I know you're just taking the p.i.s.s. but you know they make fun of everything on The Simpsons.

I mean, paganism has absolutely nothing to do with anything they've given us "pagan" in the game

It's called the Winter Update

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Might makes right mentality is a slippery slope to go down.

I like some of the pagan aspects but find the association of paganism with satanism pretty annoying.

I think a broadly Christmas theme such as snowballing etc would be fun, along with the inclusion of a slightly less evil version of pagans! (For example I love the talking tree!).
Christmas lights for normal houses should definitely have been available.

The standard winter clothes that the characters wear in the show.

Basically a happier event with nice prizes. I like the springhenge and the talking tree, but the weird satanic overtones, the really uninteresting prizes and un-cheerfulness of it all isn't great imo.