Is the Halloween update destined to be a huge disappointment?

Bravewall wrote:
I don't buy into this idea that people deserve exclusive items, just because they found out about the game earlier then most, but they are entitled to their opinion. If thats the way some people feel, then I don't see a reason to be upset with them. Its not like they have any control over what EA puts out.

I think its pretty clear that no matter what EA releases, some people are going to be upset. But we might as well save the bickering for when we know for sure, because there is no point in bickering over pure speculation. It's only a few days away, so it's not like we are going to change the developers mind at this point.

I agree with your first sentence in each paragraph. But I am not sure you are correct in the rest of your assumptions. As far as I see it, there is only two things that could make EA NOT releasing previous limited items again:

1. They don't bother re-releasing previous items, for whatever reason. Perhaps they think it's boring doing the programming for for making them reappear, maybe they deleted the coding, perhaps their dog ate the programming, I don't know. But from a money-making stand point, this wouldn't be espescially smart (see my previous post in this thread), and I don't think this would be valid point.

2. They want to heed what they believe to be the majority of their playerbase, or atleast what they believe to be their most important players. And guess what the most important players is the ones that give them feedback continuously through mails, forums, fansites and whatnot, in other words: US.

Our opinions count. EA has recently just showed that they keep atleast a halfopen, sleepy eye on this forum. If people really want previous limited items to reappear, I believe EA will make that happen. If we don't want to, or don't care, EA won't make that happen. So, Bravewall, this IS actually a fight worth taking if you want previous limited items back. EA has a golden chance to make that happen now, and I hope they take it.

I do believe you are right that most of the coding is already done, but I think that making old items available would be easy to add or delete from an update, if they want to. Therefore this "fight" is needed :wink:

What EA have to understand, and I believe they do, is that this forum is very skewed. The majority in these forums are long time players on iOS, they either don't want or care that previous limited items get re-released. But they are in no way representative for the huge playerbase out in the world, from where only a few ever finds their way to these forums.

So EA, please do add some of last years limited Halloween items this year too, if not for any other reason, to check if re-releasing some items might give you more income! :wink: