Save Our Springfields

"4junk3000;c-2066332" wrote:
Please describe how it "appears" to be winding down. I'm not seeing this.

Events went from being full, mini, full etc to mini mini mini
No new content in events
Wholesale dumping of old items at deep discount
Mechanisms in place to get land and donuts easily
No attention to glitches and crashes, even less than the usual
NDA group, set up by EA now ignored
Radio silence on all social media platforms
Missing Easter / St Pats etc. There is a record of occasionally skipping one or other, but everything is being skipped.
Out of ideas floated in game dialogue

Its a pattern, consistent with other games in the past of the end being near. Look at the comments, people are bored and leaving. Down the road there will be one or two people here at a time instead of dozens. An end game announcement in January would have sparked outrage. The same after a couple more months of attrition will be no big deal.

I for one feel that the base has to speak out. Only if there can be brand damage if the game ends will they consider that. If there was not an issue, by now something would have leaked. EA is locked down silent, and it would be improbable that they are if they are hiding a huge new event for a years old game. They are probably debating how/when to pull the plug. Intervention will only succeed before that decision, not after.

I also doubt that the writers will know they are out of work before it happens. That's not how it works in the corporate world. Mushroom treatment until door is slammed.

"Willy9292;c-2066341" wrote:

"4junk3000;c-2066332" wrote:
Please describe how it "appears" to be winding down. I'm not seeing this.

Events went from being full, mini, full etc to mini mini mini
No new content in events
Wholesale dumping of old items at deep discount
Mechanisms in place to get land and donuts easily
No attention to glitches and crashes, even less than the usual
NDA group, set up by EA now ignored
Radio silence on all social media platforms
Missing Easter / St Pats etc. There is a record of occasionally skipping one or other, but everything is being skipped.
Out of ideas floated in game dialogue

Its a pattern, consistent with other games in the past of the end being near. Look at the comments, people are bored and leaving. Down the road there will be one or two people here at a time instead of dozens. An end game announcement in January would have sparked outrage. The same after a couple more months of attrition will be no big deal.

I for one feel that the base has to speak out. Only if there can be brand damage if the game ends will they consider that. If there was not an issue, by now something would have leaked. EA is locked down silent, and it would be improbable that they are if they are hiding a huge new event for a years old game. They are probably debating how/when to pull the plug. Intervention will only succeed before that decision, not after.

I also doubt that the writers will know they are out of work before it happens. That's not how it works in the corporate world. Mushroom treatment until door is slammed.

Dude, you're seeing what you want to see, like looking at shadows and thinking they're alive. Every single thing you've listed, is not an indicator of anything. You're grasping at straws and working yourself into a frenzy over NADA. And I'm very well aware of how things work in the corporate world. You need to get a grip.

This is the last I'll address this issue. The death attitude in here is ruining the forum.

"Willy9292;c-2066341" wrote:

"4junk3000;c-2066332" wrote:
Please describe how it "appears" to be winding down. I'm not seeing this.

Events went from being full, mini, full etc to mini mini mini
No new content in events
Wholesale dumping of old items at deep discount
Mechanisms in place to get land and donuts easily
No attention to glitches and crashes, even less than the usual
NDA group, set up by EA now ignored
Radio silence on all social media platforms
Missing Easter / St Pats etc. There is a record of occasionally skipping one or other, but everything is being skipped.
Out of ideas floated in game dialogue

Its a pattern, consistent with other games in the past of the end being near. Look at the comments, people are bored and leaving. Down the road there will be one or two people here at a time instead of dozens. An end game announcement in January would have sparked outrage. The same after a couple more months of attrition will be no big deal.

I for one feel that the base has to speak out. Only if there can be brand damage if the game ends will they consider that. If there was not an issue, by now something would have leaked. EA is locked down silent, and it would be improbable that they are if they are hiding a huge new event for a years old game. They are probably debating how/when to pull the plug. Intervention will only succeed before that decision, not after.

I also doubt that the writers will know they are out of work before it happens. That's not how it works in the corporate world. Mushroom treatment until door is slammed.

Never take a troll's bait. Good answer by the way.

I don't have an answer but my iPad takes really nice video. I know it wouldn't be the same but you can take videos of fav areas, you'll capture the music and sounds and you can save them onto a little drive and or transfer them onto a computer, etc. I hope that the game, even without new updates will be playable for a few years as there will be lots of content for newer players to still buy. Hopefully this is the strategy with the box that contains everything for 30 donuts. :(

I would love to take a picture but it doesn't work on my tablet :(

"cinthiafer260;c-2066194" wrote:
I would love to take a picture but it doesn't work on my tablet :(

You could have someone else use their device and take the picture and email the picture to you. Of course, EA terms of service forbid you from deliberately sharing your sign-in information with others.

So it would need to be, like, you were sending a message to a close friend or relative who plays TSTO to tell them about your favorite Thai restaurant and you totally by accident sent your TSTO sign-in information instead and then they totally by accident entered your town when they thought they were entering their Town and got all confused and disoriented and totally by accident their finger slipped and totally by accident they hit the camera button and got a picture compiled and then totally by accident, thinking they were sending their grandmother a picture of their new dark blue chenille sofa, sent you the email and totally by accident attached the image of your town instead of the image of their new dark blue chenille sofa.

Naturally, the odds that all of those accidents could happen are infinitesimally small. Plus their grandmother would be upset because she'd feel ignored and she'd write them out of her will and they'd blame you. .

Unfortunately, I highly doubt they’d develop an entire PC version of the game at the end of its life cycle just to let players continue playing. That would expensive to develop and there wouldn’t be enough people to make it economically viable. That issue is only compounded further with business models development companies are using nowadays, I.e. micro-transactions.
It’s an interesting thought though. What do developers do with apps that have outlived their economic usefulness? Even if they allow players to continue playing on mobile devices, after a piece of software loses its support, it eventually fades away with newer hardware and later bugs. I guess those who spent hundreds or thousands of dollars just have to accept the fact they spent money on previous entertainment and not future entertainment.

Please describe how it "appears" to be winding down. I'm not seeing this.

I wasn't referring to a screenshot. EyeVoted4Kodos is correct: I was referring to an endgame clone of the app which contains one's Springfield assets rather than having them hosted on a remote server, in the event that the latter is turned off someday.

4junk3000: I do hope I'm wrong. But there are a number of concerning signs (Willy9292 outlines several, and the increase of Bart screens suggests that the number of servers running the game have been cut back). I do realize that even once updates end, the game may go on for some time, but It's probably better to put the idea out there early, rather than after any interest in the possibility has dwindled away.

Which is also why I mention that I'd be willing to pay for it. If EA sees TSTO as losing its revenue potential, there is at least this means of generating profit, and make fans happy at the same time.