Spinner Wheel is ridiculous...

Thecure668 wrote:
I got clausco with my coin this morning. Quite happy about that. I don't know if it's anything that special though.

It is based on the odds that spAnser posted:

spAnser wrote:

Claus Co/Gift Cards 1.56%
Decorated Houses #1/Cash 20.22%
Snow Monster/Gift Cards 1.68%
Decorated Houses #2/Cash 20.22%
Helter Shelter/Gift Cards 2.25%
Decorated Houses #3/Cash 20.22%
Ice God/Gift Cards 2.25%
Mr. Plow & Plow King/Gift Cards 5.05%
Simpson Family Snowmen/Gift Cards 13.48%

So for the "best" prizes, there's between a 1-3% chance of landing on those, and about a 5% chance of winning Mr. Plow or Plow King. Once all the Simpsons snowmen have been collected, those spaces are replaced with Gift Cards, and when one of the "best" prizes are won, those are also replaced with gift cards, though of a higher number (100 if I recall correctly, versus the 25 and 50 versions).

So once all the snowmen and Christmas lights have been won, the odds get quite stacked.


Those odds were the basis of my point, which some didn't seem to understand: that the spinner wheel was a poor and misleading choice when the odds as presented visually are an equal 10% to land on any one, but the reality is another thing entirely. It's dishonest, plain and simple.


All that said, I love this game, and am certainly no JoshSherer. I've spent hundreds, if not thousands on this game, over the past year and a half I've been playing. I've collected or bought everything that's been released, from all donut buildings, items, and characters, all Limited Time and episode tie-in buildings, characters, decorations, and alternate skins, etc. I'm a huge fan of the game and am proud to have one of the few Springfield's out there with everything. And that's why the Spinner Wheel was insulting: it's an inherently dishonest business practice to present the odds as being equal but the programming telling a very different truth. It's a scumbag maneuver, simply put.

I'm merely hoping my critique and the complaints of others on the board will prevent something like this being done in the future.