Performance/Stability before Content?

I mean, you get new content and stability are two different types of job, right? You dont have to have one without the other. And lets not forget there are a LOT of complaints thatre nothing to do with the game and soley down to stupid people and their tech.

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Yes i agree 100%.

The family guy game doesn't crash at all. In fact none of my other games crash like this one does. If it weren't for the Simpsons content I'd have blown this game out by now. So i think they are taking advantage of our fandom to make loads of cash off a really poorly maintained game.

But i don't know if the issues are in bad code, bad scripts, or bad network. Are their servers overloaded? Is one down? Who knows since they don't communicate to us through this website.

It would be awesome if they resolved all of the widespread issues with some sort of higher priority than it appears now.

My experience with this game has definitely formed the most negative opinion of EA.

Fyi I've been visiting your town daily, neighbor. I hope you're getting some handshakes from it. I'm not tracking visitors lately because i can't be sure who's actually trying to visit, but i deleted 20 neighbors yesterday who had not played in over 24 hrs. I don't want to be blaming EA for a lack of handshakes when it's actually neighbors not playing. I still visit neighbors daily even though I'm max FP. I need the cash for the sit n rotate. 6 mil to go!!

4junk3000 wrote:
Yes i agree 100%.

The family guy game doesn't crash at all. In fact none of my other games crash like this one does. If it weren't for the Simpsons content I'd have blown this game out by now. So i think they are taking advantage of our fandom to make loads of cash off a really poorly maintained game.

But i don't know if the issues are in bad code, bad scripts, or bad network. Are their servers overloaded? Is one down? Who knows since they don't communicate to us through this website.

It would be awesome if they resolved all of the widespread issues with some sort of higher priority than it appears now.

My experience with this game has definitely formed the most negative opinion of EA.

Fyi I've been visiting your town daily, neighbor. I hope you're getting some handshakes from it. I'm not tracking visitors lately because i can't be sure who's actually trying to visit, but i deleted 20 neighbors yesterday who had not played in over 24 hrs. I don't want to be blaming EA for a lack of handshakes when it's actually neighbors not playing. I still visit neighbors daily even though I'm max FP. I need the cash for the sit n rotate. 6 mil to go!!

Hey neighbor, yes, sometimes I see your visits, but its entirely random if they show up or not! I've been visiting you too everyday too! :) Your recent re-design is cool btw!

MISTER ZOMBEE wrote:
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Thanks for your valuable contribution.

richardaca969 wrote:
I mean, you get new content and stability are two different types of job, right? You dont have to have one without the other. And lets not forget there are a LOT of complaints thatre nothing to do with the game and soley down to stupid people and their tech.

I see what you're saying, but (and may be wrong) but a lot of these performance/stability issues seem to appear when an event starts or ends.. i.e. a forced update. If there are different EA teams working on content as opposed to the game stability they need a project manager co-ordinating the two IMO.

Agree with OP. Used to be that we'd hear about crashes mainly from new people who came to the forum with the primary purpose being to report (or ask for help with) crashes. They would straggle in, one by one, usually outsiders seeking help.

We have a relatively tiny membership of regular posters in this forum. Old-timers who have had success all along with the SAME devices that are now being blamed for suddenly causing the problem. We are being insulted by statements calling us idiots.

THIS time, a significant number of our REGULARS are crashing. I can't even imagine, if we extrapolate that proportion to the entire TSTO player membership, just how many people are unable to play.

My gut feeling is that unless the game is redesigned and recoded the game will continue to be buggy.

Why? Because I've read the history of this game, and over 35 years of experience as a SE tells me it fits the pattern of "get it coded in a hurry, released before it was ready, underestimated the number of users, feature creep".

Perhaps EA could work on version II of the game, with some kind of upgrade path.

I agree too. What good is new content if I'm crashing every time I try to do anything in my Springfield? I haven't been able to visit my neighbors in almost three weeks now, and I have a lump of buildings that need placement and decorating. Can't do those things when my game crashes every two minutes.

Here's another, all too common, problem...

Program bugs can be really hard to fix. Many people say that the best programmers/debuggers should be put on that job. But many companies put the newest people on fixing bugs. I kid you not! People that don't even know the code yet. I suppose they think it is a good way to learn the code. IMHO it turns out to be a great way to introduce even more bugs into the program.