Spending money on the game?
Just a few thoughts...
I started playing "The Simpsons Tapped Out" in 2014 oder maybe 2013. There's no other game I have ever played for such a long time. I've tried others, but there's nothing comparable to it.
The dialogues are fun, the buildings and characters have been designed with heart and with an eye for detail. Also the little description-texts you see when you tap at the buildings can make you smile. And many events (not all) have really been funny and thrilling.
I've looked it up: All in all I've spent some 300 EUR on the game, over the years. But I haven't spent any more money since 2017, because it wasn't necessary any more. I'm on level 939 and have a lot of characters running around in the game. And I'm KEM-farming since then. So I can produce a hand full of donuts every day.
Now we've got the yearbook, and it's easy to buy many buildings, characters and decorations, which I would never have been able to afford otherwise. Some of them are really great, I've fulfilled some of my desires, for example the Krustylus Studios. But being able to buy one or two items a day makes that I'm not as happy when getting them as I was when I received other characters in earlier times. There are some figures and buildings for which I saved donuts for a long time. One of the first ones that I ever bought was Prof. Frinks and his laboratory. It is still fun to watch his visible tasks, and the laboratory is really a cool building.
Yesterday I received the mountain "Murderhorn" from the yearbook. There's a little jolly dialogue when you place it. I wasn't able to take screenshots (problem of my smartphone), but surprisingly (?) it said there frankly that EA would stop the game immediately if they didn't make enough money with it. I think it's Lisa or Grandpa who tells this to Homer. So Homer thanks the player for buying the Murderhorn and starts climbing it. I suppose they have not changed the text since they installed the Murderhorn in the gamecontent. But it tells us precisely a problem that might be a reason for this long time waiting for an update in the game: Does EA still make enough money with the game?
I wonder if they could really foresee that so many players would profit that much from KEM-farming so that they are no longer forced to spend money for donuts.
"Spirits that I've cited my command ignore"...
Installing the XP Collider in the game was maybe like digging a hole in the ground that became a part of the grave of the game...
I for my part have spent some real money for buying donuts today. Let's see what I will buy for this - there are not many premium items left outside the yearbook.
What do you think about spending money on the game right now?
What would you think if EA stopped the XP Collider or if they introduced a new currency which you cannot produce by means of percentages and KEM-farming?
There are voices here who say that EA doesn't owe us anything - except for a sign of life and a short message about the status of the game.
I for my part want to thank EA for all the fun this game has given me so far and I hope that we will be able to play on for years and years. But of course EA must be able to finance this - all the people working and developing on the game, the servers and so on (I'm no IT-expert). I'm willing to show my thankfulness by paying for the game from time to time, like I did sometimes in the beginning.
BTW something different: In the gamedescription in the playstore there's always a short funny note about the latest update (I suppose this exists also in the English/American version of the playstore). The latest text (from the last update in march) says something like "Learn what normality is like in Springfield"... I hope normality does not mean: "No more events". I wanted to add this point because I read in several forums but never saw somebody mentioning this remark in the playstore.
I started playing "The Simpsons Tapped Out" in 2014 oder maybe 2013. There's no other game I have ever played for such a long time. I've tried others, but there's nothing comparable to it.
The dialogues are fun, the buildings and characters have been designed with heart and with an eye for detail. Also the little description-texts you see when you tap at the buildings can make you smile. And many events (not all) have really been funny and thrilling.
I've looked it up: All in all I've spent some 300 EUR on the game, over the years. But I haven't spent any more money since 2017, because it wasn't necessary any more. I'm on level 939 and have a lot of characters running around in the game. And I'm KEM-farming since then. So I can produce a hand full of donuts every day.
Now we've got the yearbook, and it's easy to buy many buildings, characters and decorations, which I would never have been able to afford otherwise. Some of them are really great, I've fulfilled some of my desires, for example the Krustylus Studios. But being able to buy one or two items a day makes that I'm not as happy when getting them as I was when I received other characters in earlier times. There are some figures and buildings for which I saved donuts for a long time. One of the first ones that I ever bought was Prof. Frinks and his laboratory. It is still fun to watch his visible tasks, and the laboratory is really a cool building.
Yesterday I received the mountain "Murderhorn" from the yearbook. There's a little jolly dialogue when you place it. I wasn't able to take screenshots (problem of my smartphone), but surprisingly (?) it said there frankly that EA would stop the game immediately if they didn't make enough money with it. I think it's Lisa or Grandpa who tells this to Homer. So Homer thanks the player for buying the Murderhorn and starts climbing it. I suppose they have not changed the text since they installed the Murderhorn in the gamecontent. But it tells us precisely a problem that might be a reason for this long time waiting for an update in the game: Does EA still make enough money with the game?
I wonder if they could really foresee that so many players would profit that much from KEM-farming so that they are no longer forced to spend money for donuts.
"Spirits that I've cited my command ignore"...
Installing the XP Collider in the game was maybe like digging a hole in the ground that became a part of the grave of the game...
I for my part have spent some real money for buying donuts today. Let's see what I will buy for this - there are not many premium items left outside the yearbook.
What do you think about spending money on the game right now?
What would you think if EA stopped the XP Collider or if they introduced a new currency which you cannot produce by means of percentages and KEM-farming?
There are voices here who say that EA doesn't owe us anything - except for a sign of life and a short message about the status of the game.
I for my part want to thank EA for all the fun this game has given me so far and I hope that we will be able to play on for years and years. But of course EA must be able to finance this - all the people working and developing on the game, the servers and so on (I'm no IT-expert). I'm willing to show my thankfulness by paying for the game from time to time, like I did sometimes in the beginning.
BTW something different: In the gamedescription in the playstore there's always a short funny note about the latest update (I suppose this exists also in the English/American version of the playstore). The latest text (from the last update in march) says something like "Learn what normality is like in Springfield"... I hope normality does not mean: "No more events". I wanted to add this point because I read in several forums but never saw somebody mentioning this remark in the playstore.
