PREMIUM TO FREEMIUM

juliet603 wrote:

Marozi wrote:
I used to really enjoy tsto and it's the only game I've continually played since buying my ipad 2yrs ago, however it is looking like being deleted soon as I've really hated the last few events (xmas, valentines and Easter).
This is almost entirely down to the 'wheel of luck' used now, we're no longer rewarded for hours visiting neighbors (as I did at xmas but failed to get Claus co), instead you keep getting items you don't want.
We used to be able to put in some hard work for the 'prize' but are no longer getting it despite still putting in the hours!
I've already given up on Easter and have noticed more than half of my 100 friends aren't doing it, if the next event follows this trend I will no longer play it myself.

Shame, it used to be good.

EA mustn't read this forum or they'd know how much people hate this event. Everyone should open a ticket with them to complain about it. Maybe then they'd pay attention!

lol at EA paying attention to support tickets.

You can tell them you've spent hundreds on their silly mobile game and they'll still ignore your support tickets for weeks. You can give them 1 star reviews on the app stores and they don't care. It is such a worthless, miserable company.

Even tinyco is making them look bad.

Mopurglar wrote:

juliet603 wrote:

Marozi wrote:
I used to really enjoy tsto and it's the only game I've continually played since buying my ipad 2yrs ago, however it is looking like being deleted soon as I've really hated the last few events (xmas, valentines and Easter).
This is almost entirely down to the 'wheel of luck' used now, we're no longer rewarded for hours visiting neighbors (as I did at xmas but failed to get Claus co), instead you keep getting items you don't want.
We used to be able to put in some hard work for the 'prize' but are no longer getting it despite still putting in the hours!
I've already given up on Easter and have noticed more than half of my 100 friends aren't doing it, if the next event follows this trend I will no longer play it myself.

Shame, it used to be good.

EA mustn't read this forum or they'd know how much people hate this event. Everyone should open a ticket with them to complain about it. Maybe then they'd pay attention!

lol at EA paying attention to support tickets.

You can tell them you've spent hundreds on their silly mobile game and they'll still ignore your support tickets for weeks. You can give them 1 star reviews on the app stores and they don't care. It is such a worthless, miserable company.

Even tinyco is making them look bad.

I guess we're all screwed then! :evil:

To return to the original question, I've spent around $120 on this game (granted, it was all earned through virtual sources like FreeAppTrailers, which is now completely useless since they updated it, but it's still real money I could've used elsewhere) and had been hoarding donuts and saving money to buy more once the Easter updated came out. I immediately bought Crazy Cat Lady, which I feel was a good choice, and might consider getting the puppies, candy etc store if I ever get the 15 donuts from earning fences. But I don't know if I'll bother buying any more with this update. Whacking Day was painful due to the glitches, the fact that they extended it for a week after many of us bought things to speed up snake earning for fear we wouldn't make the deadline, etc...but at least you knew that if you did spend donuts (and hopefully even if you just worked for it), you would get all the prizes.

I spent 10 donuts for a basket at the start of Easter because I didn't know we'd earn more by zapping bunnies. That basket earned me enough eggs to open a box and win...a blanket. Really? $1 for a blanket?

If EA has decided to follow the path of other games like Avengers Alliance, where it's all a roulette wheel on what you win, I'm out. I played the AA game and enjoyed it until they made it so freaking difficult you had no choice but to spend real $$$ just to earn new characters. Even worse, you had to play for hours to complete a quest, and then the roulette wheel gave you some crappy cheap prize. I once spent gold to spin again, and won the exact same crappy cheap prize I'd just won. Never spent $$$ on it again. Sound familiar?

So if this is the way TSTO is headed, I'll keep playing as a freemium player, but I may just spend my $$$ on clams, even though I personally like the Simpsons better.

Somebody always has to complain when anything new is done. If your enjoyment of this game is dependent on what others think of it, maybe you need a new hobby?

chrisgyo wrote:
these events are money for them

maybe a few losers quit all together...but obviously their revenue increases in the times of events otherwise they wouldnt do them

I'm starting to wonder ... Are the "losers" the ones who know when they're being screwed and refuse to accept that, or are the "losers" those of us who obviously don't seem to mind and stay around for more?

(For the record, I'm staying, but that's not a healthy response to abuse. EA is lucky there are enough people like me.)

mikeydluffy wrote:
Replace loser with sucker.

Lol!

juliet603 wrote:

chrisgyo wrote:
these events are money for them

maybe a few losers quit all together...but obviously their revenue increases in the times of events otherwise they wouldnt do them

But from what I've seen, a lot of people are unwilling to spend donuts on the chance of winning a random useless prize, whereas in previous events where you worked towards certain prizes, a lot of people would pay donuts to speed up getting the ones they want, or the ones further along in the prize list.

The thing that's annoying people is spending money for the chance to still end up with nothing, therefore less are doing so this time.

what have you seen though? a few posts on forums?

they have their internal statistics of how often people are logging in and how many donuts they spending....so they know when events work

chrisgyo wrote:

lyle_catcliffe wrote:

irishladsoca wrote:
Just wondering who else has stop playing premium and gone full blown freemium like myself due to this update. Players are also leaving the game entirely in droves because they are fed up.

Source?

lol exactly :lol:

EA know what they're doing...if these updates and wheels and boxes weren't successful they would stop doing them...they're a giant corporation with a big marketing team

Yeah right... :roll:

Do you realize how much time and work goes into developing an event such as this. As big of a disaster as it is they really have no way out at this point. This is exactly why I've been saying they care about making money more then they care about fixing bugs. They clearly had to use a lot of their resources to make this event, yet they don't seem to want to do that about things that matter.

They should have just kept the events the way they used to be and just reskinned it for this event. It would've cost them less to do that, it would've been accepted very well by everyone, and they would've had more resources to work out the bugs.

What EA is doing is a desperate act of money grubbing. No offense to paying players but I truly feel bad that people let their instant gratification get the best of them on spending money on this disaster. If no one spent a dime on this stupid event they would've been forced to change it right away and not wait out the storm. Oh well now we all have to suffer. :roll:

annettemarc wrote:

chrisgyo wrote:
these events are money for them

maybe a few losers quit all together...but obviously their revenue increases in the times of events otherwise they wouldnt do them

I'm starting to wonder ... Are the "losers" the ones who know when they're being screwed and refuse to accept that, or are the "losers" those of us who obviously don't seem to mind and stay around for more?

(For the record, I'm staying, but that's not a healthy response to abuse. EA is lucky there are enough people like me.)

+1 :thumbup:

Wow I'm beginning to really hate EA suck ups!

It's funny how a game can make people lose common sense.

"Do you realize how much time and work goes into developing an event such as this. As big of a disaster as it is they really have no way out at this point"


exactly

so they wouldnt make events if the previous events didnt make them a tonne more cash

what makes you think it is a disaster?
a few forum posts?