Everyone should buy at least a dozen donuts every year. In fact, there should be a requirement to buy a dozen every year or you can only earn 3 free donuts per day."Congratulations, you've been playing a year! Now how about you pony up for some pink sprinkly things and support the game you like so much?"And if you buy a bigger batch of donuts you get longer free periods. A boatload should get you lifetime playability and premier support. (And I have bought more than a couple of boatloads BTW.)Just think how much money would go into the game. They might even... Gasp!!! Hire some decent support people and write some interesting Events.And for Zod's sake - a Dozen donuts is just $1.99 + tax. I spend $8.99 + tax every month on Netflix and I don't even watch it every day. Though I do watch it almost every day. Anybody else watching Ozark? Man is that show good...Now discuss while I go do my physical therapy for the day. (Donuts, not Ozark)All hail Zod!

I believe they should charge 5.00 a month to play it.

I have more donuts than I'll ever spend but around twice a year I purchase some donuts just to support the game, I don't purchase as many as I used to but then again they aren't putting in the effort either.

Why should I pay a damn thing for a game that doesn't work? I've had "the glitch" since March 2018. My idle character button, and MANY other game mechanics don't work.My choices are a rollback to March 2018, or a template town. Would YOU pick either of those options and lose over 2 years of time and objects?Pay? No freaking way.And before anyone asks, I asked for a rollback when I was originally hit, and was denied. They told me it would get fixed. Well, here we are years later........

"wadebear;d-259221" wrote:Everyone should buy at least a dozen donuts every year. In fact, there should be a requirement to buy a dozen every year or you can only earn 3 free donuts per day."Congratulations, you've been playing a year! Now how about you pony up for some pink sprinkly things and support the game you like so much?"And if you buy a bigger batch of donuts you get longer free periods. A boatload should get you lifetime playability and premier support. (And I have bought more than a couple of boatloads BTW.)Just think how much money would go into the game. They might even... Gasp!!! Hire some decent support people and write some interesting Events.And for Zod's sake - a Dozen donuts is just $1.99 + tax. I spend $8.99 + tax every month on Netflix and I don't even watch it every day. Though I do watch it almost every day. Anybody else watching Ozark? Man is that show good...Now discuss while I go do my physical therapy for the day. (Donuts, not Ozark)All hail Zod!This is definitely not against you Wadebear, or your opinion.However my answer is a firm an unshakeable NO.If that would take into account what has been spent previously.....perhaps.However in the end, moving forward the answer is still no.See, I hate to admit it, but I have spent money on several boatloads. (More than I care to admit since I started playing the game all the way back during Tapball.....)I've spent more than triple digits, and as a whale.... I don't feel entitled to say I should be exempt, but feel I've spent more than enough in the game.Still.....even with that in mind if I could extend that exemption to others I would.In the end the problem lies in EA, and failure to correctly manage their game.How long have you been out..... It depends on how long you've been out, but EA implemented a lot of incentives to purchase donut packagesIncluding two buildings that generate 6 donuts every day! ("Costs" $50) I obtained the Lard Lad Factory Version, another versions exists and it's possible they may implement a new version this year....They also Bundled special Characters withe certain Donut Packages.... This blew up in their face when they offered one of these characters in a Mystery Box, where many people lost their collective Shittake Mushrooms and asked for refunds.I don't blame themFreemium players complaining that they were simply obtaining the character that EA offered through a mystery box, Premium players stating that they had to Fork over REAL CASH for this character.As one of those players I was irritated, EA at no point made it seem that those characters would be obtained any other way, but now that they have done that.... Well let's just say most of us did state that we would refuse to purchase any donuts.The forums actively encourage not spending donuts and taking advantage of various strategies. HOWEVER, EA has created several bundles, including an EXP Generator bundle that are highly recommended even by players who would rather stay Freemium.Shelbyville and Hans Springfield are certainly worth it alongside their respective bundles.My suggestion?EA, make better bundles.No Cop Outs, No more Sven Golly mistakes....If you're going to offer a character as a preview, possibly releasing them later on or even Re-releasing them later on through other means, with a donut be transparent, otherwise people will criticize enmasse.The problem with Freemium.....is it's free. If we paid a base fee less people would buy it, however since it's free more people download it!However where in real life certain income brackets pay (most of the) taxes which support the system, with a small group not paying..... This is upside down.A handful of whales, continuously pay into the system, however most whales have been displeased, or milked dry.... With less players coming into the game to replace old whales, the game starts to slowly rot.Sorry, I mean "hibernate".Plus EA implemented something similar a while back.... They capped the daily donuts obtained at 300!You had a twenty four hour period, however if you went over the 300, the twenty four hour period turned into two days for some reason....Anyways, obviously that's no longer the case.... because people complained....Conclusion, not a bad idea, but history has proven time and time again that while the current system does not work....it's been Ingrained for so long that changing it, is not an option without ticking off a majority of the player base.And that will lead to irritation which will be painfully made aware to EA....REPEATEDLY

"chronicshawni;c-2136274" wrote:I believe they should charge 5.00 a month to play it.Do you also believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Yeah, a $5 monthly charge would kill this game in... One month.

Opinion: Everyone should buy at least a dozen donuts every year

simpsonare
5 years ago
Just looked at r/freedonuts it is 5k per request. Idk why EA allows them to remain open and operate.
camihendo1
5 years ago
When they first released the yearbook i probably needed all 700 or so items due to being on/off the game for years and didn't have a clue about donut farming back then! If i did i'd never have spent as much, now i'm totally cash, donut and land dependable so have no real reason to inject even more cash into it.
Dougie_Powers_1
5 years ago
And here's me thinking it was a sponsored post for Krispy Kreme ... *shrug*
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New Traveler
5 years ago
"chronicshawni;c-2136274" wrote:
I believe they should charge 5.00 a month to play it.

no
someonewashere
Rising Novice
5 years ago
"Dougie_Powers_17;c-2136460" wrote:
And here's me thinking it was a sponsored post for Krispy Kreme ... *shrug*

That idea I can get behind.
I fully endorse that idea.
KLmaker
5 years ago
There is no money in this household to pay for ANY game.
If they put a price on it, then the app goes.
End of.
KLmaker
5 years ago
If I was able to, I would have paid during Moe's Ark, and I am not able to pay now either.

But who knows what the future will bring???
After redundancy, night cleaning, recession, Austerity, Brexit, saying Bye-Bye to the EU, Covid, job, career, money, then... Yeah... I dare say I would pay, but I want something from EA... uummmm... EA's list...
(*sucking noises* that's going to be a big job luv),... am I going to invest if the broker can't be bothered???
Dougie_Powers_1
5 years ago
"shirey1315;c-2136507" wrote:
Wow I didn't know so many people wouldn't wanna pay 2 bucks a year for a game you like to play I can understand people who have been playing for a long time and really have nothing left to do but who knows maybe one day if everybody payed a couple bucks they would put more effort into the game I'm very new so I don't know what it was like in the beginning I'm sure it had alot of support

As your new you probably don't know the can of worms you've just opened.. :joy:

It may be $1.99 to you.... but in the UK it's £1.99.. which according to the mid-markets rates at 16:00GMT on 8th June 2020 is equal to $2.53...

So some people over this side of the pond tend to be a little upset at having to pay more than others...
shirey1315
5 years ago
I get it sucks they gotta pay more and don't worried I don't take any offense to anything just my opinion everybody not going to agree all the time and that's ok I'm never gonna get mad because some people disagree where all here because we like the game and I don't mean to ever offend anybody either ive been on another forum I just support the spending some money because I have some friends who play this never going to pay a time and they complain that they want this and that I told my friends look how can you complain about a free game that you've spent no money on it's free they will pay 60 bucks for a game pay for Xbox live I always like to support games that I enjoy and I know everybody may not be able to afford it so I'm not bashing anybody just saying a little support for the game may make a difference or honestly it may not because it's ea and they are very money hungry and tend to have terrible support case and point my bob post from a few days ago where it took 9 tickets to get then to add him to my game
flinchywiggles
5 years ago
I suggested the same thing a couple times on here over the years, but I feel like it falls on deaf ears.
When I started this game is consistedly with the top 50 grossing games, now it doesnt seem to make any lists.
You can trace the rise of donut farming with the reduction of quality in events. I meant if no one is buying donuts, no one is getting paid. I imagine they only have a few people working on the game now. We know they usually outsource animation work, and it sure seems like they are in desperate need of some coders to fix all those bugs that have been around for ages.
I would like to believe if they really nailed it with a couple decent events with a ton of items, people would pay and put money back in the game, but I think we are beyond that at this point.