Sideshow You was "broken" on purpose.

I think I'd be more interested in my KL if the game programmers were more interested in it.

I too only visit when it occurs to me, probably a couple times a week. And since I'm on multiple times a day that's not a lot for me.

I have gotten excited about events in part because I always have the ever-present hope that KL will be included in some of the quests, or they will offer a new ride or building for it. I've said it before, I can't see a reason why KL can't be included in some way in an event, other than in a decorative manner. I was irked that the only tie-in we got in THOH was aliens instead of park attendees, and all we got this time was snow and a few wreaths.

I don't know enough about programming in games to say but maybe someone else who is more well versed can comment: how difficult would it be to program something, logistically, for KL during an event?

I visit my KL daily or more. I always keep as many characters as I can in KL except if an event is on. I really like it and I miss the balloons!

I visit daily and I'm bummed it's still broken.

I didn't even notice.

I used to go daily, actually multiple times a day. Every time the racetrack was ready I knew the balloons were ready to be popped in KL.. I used the racetrack as my timer.. But now since the balloons have been removed I think I have been in there maybe twice.. Although I do get a little tired during events and I stop collecting from buildings and sending people on tasks multiple times a day, since im in the game enough just doing whatever is required for the current event.

I don't think the devs needed to break Sideshow You to know that no one cares about Krustyland. I used to visit twice a day to pop those diddly balloons in a clear manifestation of hope over reason.

I haven't visited since Sideshow You has been broken and it's been liberating. I waste a lot of time being a Freemium player but no busywork actions have a lower return than popping those darn balloons.

It seems to me that whoever championed, envisioned, created, or fought for Krustyland must have moved on from EA by now and the dev team is left with this white elephant that they have no idea what to do with.

I go several times a day, but that's not because I like it. I put off starting KL until the game made me by not letting me do any other quests until I placed the shuttle. Because of that I'm still building KL. Now I just go there to collect tickets so I can finish all the quests and get it out of my task book.

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.

I try to go every 2 hours to collect from the entrance. I'm technically finished decorating (I still need some trees, but I'm waiting until they go back to normal so I can see what they look like), but you never know what they'll release next so I'm still saving tickets. Plus I may decide to get more land at some point. So yeah, the lack of Sideshow You popping has definitely affected me.

I was going pretty regularly, because I still need to buy some of the land, but I haven't been since the Xmas update hit. I didn't even know Sideshow You was broken until I saw a thread about it here yesterday...