People here really need to stop defending EA.

JoshSherer wrote:
It's getting ridiculous. When someone complains about the crappy 10 donuts we received for New Years, you have 50 EA apologists all defending them and saying "they didn't have to give you anything...be happy with what you got." I'm just going to flat out say it: I would have rather received 0 donuts than 10 donuts. Gifts can be insulting. Many of you are married or have a significant other. What if you gave her some crappy nothing gift. Maybe a few dead flowers. Would you say "Hey, I could have given you nothing! Don't be a brat, appreciate it!" No. What if your boss gave you a $100 raise after a year of working for them. Would you appreciate that since he didn't have to give you anything?

10 donuts is only a gift to freemium players. Back when I was a cheapskate like most of you, I was saving up for Kearney. 10 donuts would have given me a nice push. But now I buy boatloads. 10 donuts is nothing to me and won't get me anything worthwhile. A burning bush is 20 donuts, for example. I don't need white picket fences and pink flower pots. If I wanted 10 donuts, I'd buy a golden scratch off for $.99.

These gifts reward freemium players who don't help EA at all while insulting those like myself who put food on EA's employees' tables. I pay these guys and they reward you nobodies.

They need to start giving better gifts to the paying players. Maybe they should charge for a premium account or something. $5 per month would make sense...then us premium people can receive better gifts. If they aren't able to do that, they need to stop inflating the premium content every update or they need to provide more donuts from tasks or something else at higher levels to compensate for the insane inflation after each level update.

Also, the Christmas update is too long and the wheel is rigged. Both suck.

It's always sad to see egos take over and ruin a good thing.