Make Grumple Free!

marco_rosa833 wrote:
I think its fair that EA has some premium content this Christmas.

They should have some premiums, of course. No profit would mean no game.

However, I have seen dozens of people talking about how much they spent on donuts to just keep spinning the wheel until they had all those prizes. I have several neighbors who must have bought the packs of gift bags to be able to give me gifts daily. There's no way that EA has not already made an absolute killing on premium holiday content, so money is not really a strong argument in favor of charging 120 donuts for a seasonal character that does not seem to come with a building or decoration of any sort.

And let's not forget that a full set of snowmen would cost 160 donuts, mostly to just raise vanity. (And then anyone who does that screams themselves hoarse because a lot of the snowmen are on the wheel.) And if you want a couple more elf houses? That's 120 right there. So, sure, the only big-ticket single item might be Santa's Village, but all those 20s and 60s for those who spend them have to be adding up rapidly.

This isn't to say, either, that the Grumple should be free. I would like to have the Grumple and I'm not paying any 120 donuts for it, so of course I think it would be nice if everyone got it for christmas. I'm not going to insist on it or even say I deserve it, and I'm not going to cry if I don't get it. But please don't try to make charging $10 for a character about fairness in the premium content, or about how EA needs more money. EA has made nine digits off this game, they aren't hurting for Tapped Out money. Additionally, as I said, for those people who do buy donuts regularly, the amount already spent on the wheel and on gift bags and on other premium content will dwarf the profit EA would see from charging for the Grumple. They could technically afford to give us this one. They don't want to and they won't do it, and that's fine too, but they actually released quite a lot of premium content this update, along with their generosity with the gift card prizes.
(I'd like a Backwater Brewery, just because it would explain how Cletus brews all that moonshine. But I'm stuck with assuming he brews it in the tub, and that's why the young 'uns never take baths.)