After playing for two weeks I can say that this event sucks as compared with Halloween last year, IMO
here is why:
1 - Atmosphere is not as spooky as last year, nice autumn colors for the trees, but not eerie enough
2 - No special effects for buildings, to see the Dream House in action is really fun
3 - No community prizes
4 - Only 6 personal prizes and difficult to get unless you use donuts
5 - Allowed to buy old Halloween prizes drop by drop, some people missing out due to the availability being a "mystery"
6 - Cleverly hidden fact that we are dealing with three mystery boxes/wheels in the shape of Gift Bags, that deliver random tokens to "craft" prizes - at least you can use donuts to end the frustration and not chance to buy. But this is no consolation to fermium gamers. (In my donut free town, I already missed the last prize of the first stage, and far behind in this - in the "crafted" goodies I haven't got the Haunted House or the Grand Pumpkin)
All in all I find that there is a lot of grinding with no fun and nothing to look forward to.
Sorry to be so negative, but I'm hating the event, rat race in real life we can only avoid if we are very lucky, to suffer it in a game willingly is masochistic.
Thumbs down for Halloween III Booooo to EA
