This is a good event. Why all the hate?

"lilmamasa3;c-1765694" wrote:
My reply is for the OP, I believe the “old-timers” are missing what this event used to be. There was more interaction between neighbors, it was based around Halloween, and Springfield was spooky (sounds, shadows, leaves blowing around and dark green water). They have been better in the past, and the lack of new craftables just sucks. This is my fifth THOH event and I love Harry Potter and all things magical but I’m a miffed.

Just to chime in ... I've been playing TSTO since 2013 and I definitely have fond memories of the first 2, maybe 3, THoH events I played. Last year's event was not necessarily bad, but it was not a particularly memorable event for me. This year's event isn't something I hate ... it just makes me sad. Because it simply is not very good in comparison to the earliest events.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan ... not saying I hate it coz I don't, just that I honestly don't really care about it. H.P. tie-ins and spin-offs and copy-cats are dime-a-dozen ... everybody's done it to death already, and the Simpson's aren't doing anything original there. So I find the story line to simply be ... boring.

Much of my annoyance isn't with the content per se, but with the mechanics. And that is not limited to this THoH, but with just about every major event of the past year or so. This 40-day long three-act structure is just too dang long. I'm happy to grind for cool prizes but only for relatively short bursts. Grinding for a month and a half is not fun. And the lack of interaction with the neighbors is sad. And to make it even more boring, they eliminated the stepped earning levels as well as the counter that tells you how many more 'neighbor actions' you can do for IGC. Why should I even bother visiting neighbors for this event? Neither I nor they receive anything notable or meaningful from that activity.