People here really need to stop defending EA.

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.

Whoo Hoo! I go to walk the dogs, come back and find another attention seeking thread by the forum troll.

Anyhow, while I do agree with the sentiment expressed to a point, there is some faulty logic presented in the argument. The complaint that freemium players are getting all the good stuff for free is an impossibility, unless those free players are going to certain external website, mentioned in the game yesterday, and getting free donuts, thanks to some hackers - who also happen to be forum regulars. :lol: Based upon the amount of donuts given away and the costs of the premium stuff, there is no way, any free player will ever be able to collect everything unless they continually play for the next few years. Even by then, there will be new content that will still be unattainable by free players, because of cost.

I do agree, that at some point, all content should be made available at a specific price. IE - pay 50 bucks and get everything for the year. Kind of like they did with the Sims expansion packs. This charging $10-$20 bucks or more everytime there is an update is a bit much.

But again, the blame rests on us, the consumers, not EA. If people didn't snap up these premium items and continue to fork over the cash, then EA would no longer continue to offer new content that costs an arm and a leg. I'm not an EA apologist and I set specific limits on the amount of money I will spend on a game. If something isn't worth it in my opinion, then I simply don't buy it and move on - I don't blame the company.

It's a business - its goal is to make money. Unfortunately, this company understands the weakness of the general population and releases a sought after product at outrageous prices and people buy it. Then people complain about it. :lol: Still, you buy it.

I decided to buy and support what has already been made available with no expectations on future content.

The idea that premium players should get extra rewards isn't really necessary. Premium players are already getting rewards by buying the items that they want that freemium players can't afford. And from these premium items, extra money, experience points - which in turn earns extra donuts, are already being released.