Sideshow You was "broken" on purpose.
I never go to my Krustyland, since there's nothing to do -- nothing to build. I don't see the purpose. I can go and collect Tickets, but for what? A small update that *might* happen in several months?...
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teo47 wrote:
I think I'm in the minority who actually enjoys Krustyland almost as much as Springfield - a couple months ago I nuked my KL and have had a lot of fun rebuilding it. I think the thing I enjoy most about it is that unlike Springfield, there is no shortage of available space there, making it much easier to do more large scale designs without severely limiting the amount of available space for other objects.
To the OP's idea that EA shut down Sideshow You intentionally in order to gauge player interest in Krustyland, I think there would be far easier ways to do this than what you suggest they may have done. I would imagine that data is kept or can be collected on how often players go there and what they do once they're there.
EA can pull a report of how much access there is to the KL servers anytime they want. There's no reason to do what OP has suggested, and it's actually kind of funny but I just assume they don't know much about cloud services, throughput, and stuff like that, and that's OK.
I visit KL to collect tickets daily. Do it a while without paying attention, then cash'em in. I just did exactly that today, and exchanged for $200k which is a good chunk of change.
Daily visit habit also keeps me informed when something new is available there.
KL is just a supplemental sub-game, that they were smart to put on separate servers using separate db, money, etc. If it were part of SF we would have more crash issues than we do now, and we'd definitely not be getting more land.
People don't have to play in KL. But the people who do, and enjoy them, are not the minority according to the poll results so far. The anti-KL faction is just more vocal. Anti people usually are...
@lightninghound : . Omg love your userpic that has to be one of my top 5 funniest moments of Simpson ever. Nothing at all! Nothing at all! What is even sillier is I just googled that to watch a clip, and someone made a 10 minute long version of it to see if you can stand it!
