8 years ago

(Weirdest) Black Friday is live

what the heck is this?

also login now for 10 donuts + Outdoor Feast Table (if not owned) or Cornucopia (if OFT is owned)

Bronze Box:

Drone Pet, Macaroni's Shed, Abandoned Store, Blocko Store, Inflatable Gorilla and Baboons, Stunt Bike, T-Ball Stand, Quick & Fresh, Shooting Car, Fake Toll Booth, Old West Sign, Donut Truck, Hot Springs, Duff Racer, Guitar Central, Water Show Fountain, Imaginary Bear, Pokey, Mr. Sparkle, Prospector, Dragon Bundle (Red Dragon, White Dragon and Yellow Dragon)

Retail Box:

You Only Own Twice, Abercrombie and Rich, Guinea Pig Rescue Center, Things Unnecessary, Gas and Grub, Stoner's Pot Palace, Know What It Seams, Ordnance Express, Sequel Stop, Try-N-Save, Springfield Farmers Market, Nick's Bowling Shop Bundle (Nick's Bowling Shop and The Other Nick's Bowling Shop), Hammock District, Sportacus, Mapple Store, Springfield Pet Shop, Springfield Mall, Sprawl Mart, Claus Co., Donut Store, Bookacinos, Tomorrow's Costington's, Costington's, It's a Wonderful Knife w/Gino Terwilliger, Lotto 'N' Liquor w/Dewey Largo

Silver Box:

Helter Shelter, Havana Private Home, Wilted Rose, First Bank of Springfield, Duff Statue of Liberty, Springfielde Glenne Condos, Fancy Farms, Lobster Island, Maison Derriere w/Belle, Power's House w/Laura Powers, Hugs Bunny, Baby Gerald, Mojo Helper Monkey, Father Sean, Ice Cream Truck w/Ice Cream Man Homer

Decoration Box:

Five Corners, Satan's Anvil, Little Lady Justice, Training Plane, Chinese Junk, Rolling Rock, Yellow Submersible, Old Mine, Gone Fission, Easter Island God, Radstation Air Fortress, Satellite Station, The Mayflower, Ferris Wheel, Stonecutter Table, Simpson's House Boat

Building Box:

Wholesome and Son's Publishing, Springfield Greenhouse, Royal Tokyo, Bastille, Rocket to Your Doom, Crouching Panda Hidden Egg Roll, Incubator Think Tank, Rio Days-Inn-Ero, Moe's House, Blarney Castle, Beach House, Column Mansion, Simpson's Laser Tag, La Belle Frottage, Little Lisa's Recycling Plant, Duff Center Arena, King Homer's Skyscraper

Character Box:

Motherloving Sugar Co. w/Diabetty, Ling Bouvier, The Wiccans, Shary Bobbins, Powell Motors w/Herb Powell, Italian Villa w/Francesca Terwilligers, Sophie Krustofsky, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers w/Lucille Botzcowski, Unfinished Shed w/Chester Dupree, Ginger Flanders and Amber Simpson, Rocket Car w/Lampwick, Brandine, Shauna, Jimbo, Springfield Coliseum w/Drederick Tatum, Sleep-Eazy Motel w/Miss Springfield, Lucius Sweet, Krustylu Studios w/Sideshow Mel, ESBN Sports Desk w/Anger Watkins

Great Outdoor Box:

Springfield Falls, Carl's Dad Caverns, Sugarloaf Mountain, The Scoutmaster, Half-Pipe, Golf Course, Bear Cave, Mount Carlmore, Springfield Hunting Supplies, Kwik-E-Mart Central Office, Springfield Sign, Kamp Krusty w/Kamp Bart, Tailgate, Springfield Gorge, Murderhorn

Gold Box:

Radish Station, Donut Boat, Shapes Gym w/Muscular Marge, Mars Colony, Shadow Knight's Throne w/Shadow Knight, Polo Field House, Health Spa, Bandit Fort, Mansion of Solid Gold, Himeji Castle, Nerd Bundle (Doug, Benjamin and Gary)

LPNintendoITA
8 years ago
"OhHappyJays;c-1832631" wrote:
The free token I redeemed for the Donut Boat. I didn't like it at the start, but it looks nice (albeit a bit goofy) in my Squidport Dock.

(Gave a nice 5% boost to XP and Money, can't complain about that!)

tap it!!!
docmorrissey
8 years ago
"lilmamasa3;c-1832633" wrote:
"Muhsterino;c-1832629" wrote:
"lilmamasa3;c-1832627" wrote:
So the free token item I got was the Mars colony and it does nothing? No money and XP, no task for anyone, no multiplier, why was it in the gold box?

Possibly because it originally sold for 200 donuts.

Then It will be going straight into storage because it is so big and useless.

Yep, I just finished upgrading thinking it would do something, but nope. Into inventory it goes.
OhHappyJays
8 years ago
I wasn't anticipating getting all those items in the Bronze Box to get Mr. Sparkle; so I'm quitting while I'm ahead.

Save some sprinkles for the Winter event I guess.
mchannyc
8 years ago
"meinaz;c-1832606" wrote:
"baksinengl89;c-1832590" wrote:
"happyone2323;c-1832571" wrote:
"baksinengl89;c-1831663" wrote:
"happyone2323;c-1831648" wrote:
I really like this way of doing Black Friday. I hated the timed sales. There was always one item I missed out on.

What?

The timed sales are much better.

At least with the timed sales in previous Black Friday events, you could actually choose which item or character you wanted to buy.

Rather than this random lottery crap with the boxes for this year's event.

I can see how the timed sales are better for someone who is missing most of the items. I have almost everything so or me the boxes are very convenient.

How so?

You do realize that the boxes, especially the non character boxes are all pot luck?

There is a good chance outside of the character box, that you could up with something disappointing or not getting a particular item that you wanted.

That's why timed sales are the much superior option to this random boxes lottery crap, since with timed sales you can actually choose exactly what you want.

I prefer the boxes. I didn't have much to get and knew I was getting everything that I didn't have. I was done in a few minutes buying things. I understand that for others it would be beneficial to have the hourly deals, but I had no issue with the mystery boxes.

THIS ^^^.
Old timers with higher multiplier would rather spend a few minutes getting everything and spending hundreds to potentially thousands of Donuts. Although EA has gotten smarter with the GOLD box. Need real money instead of IGC or IGD(onuts).

Newer players with less resources may prefer the timed deals, but I personally hate setting an alarm to wake up at 3AM for 2 minutes to buy the item I want.
thatdonald845
8 years ago
At last.
stinkbugger
8 years ago
Imagine if stores did this. Amazon's or Walmart's Black Friday sales consisting only of "randomly get one of these 14 items"!

People who farm donuts and get 1000 donuts a week seem to love this event. People who pay for donuts seem a bit disappointed. They horde their donuts and hope to get buy a specific cool item, not some random item that may or may not be cool. I can't see people paying for a bunch of donuts just so they can get into a box over and over until they get the item they want. But maybe I'm wrong.
fastshadow2
8 years ago
"thatdonald845;c-1832819" wrote:
At last.

was also glad for that to finally finish the character collection :)
simp7fan
8 years ago
"stinkbugger;c-1832838" wrote:
People who farm donuts and get 1000 donuts a week seem to love this event. People who pay for donuts seem a bit disappointed. They horde their donuts and hope to get buy a specific cool item, not some random item that may or may not be cool.

I think this works best with one box per event. Multiple boxes is unfair to those without the means to increase their donut count. I think they should have at least did boxes with max 6 items along with individual items for sale with rebates on them. Like I said before, that's over 5000 donuts for me to get everything. I also don't want everything, but that's basically the only way to get everything you actually want without huge amounts of luck.

If they don't change this new practice in the future...at least I hope that means that I'll have less items to buy in each box because I'm buying everything right now, hah!
drugdemidzic
8 years ago
So I just found out the hard way that not all items in the decoration box come with a multiplier. ...wasted a full day's worth of farmed donuts on a gone fission :/
stinkbugger
8 years ago
"drugdemidzic;c-1833856" wrote:
So I just found out the hard way that not all items in the decoration box come with a multiplier. ...wasted a full day's worth of farmed donuts on a gone fission :/

This is another way that the boxes aren't friendly to the casual player. As far as I can tell there's no way to view the (possible) multiplier of items in boxes. Sure, people who play lots have studied lists of all the TO Black Friday items on various websites, and know the multipliers etc, but how is the average player supposed to know this info from just poking around the game itself? Wouldn't listing the multipliers encourage people to get box items?