What DON’T you like about Christmas 2018? Only complaining please....

the server didn’t crash?

Listen, I'll start of with the positive so that the negative contrast seems more critical.

The positive is simple, and simply this:

Mino events are less pressure, your own pace, and often less hectic, hopefully they devote this time to fixing bugs and glitches.

( Hahahaha)

The negatives?

Well, most of the ambience is gone, give us something... Anything. If you gave krustyland visitors a festive look or switched them with previous years carolers or NPCs that would have been creative!

Lack of Friendship incentives means it's just another 4hr grindfest. I don't mind, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

You remember the Naughty or Nice gift box Friend visit from a couple years back? That was Nice, I think it was Naughty of EA not to add something similar this year.


The prizes are ok, and no crafting means players can get whatever they want...but you could have used this event template for any other EVENT!


DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM THE PAGAN EVENT?

Fine, the "Winter Solstice" event?

I wrote a somewhat detailed bit of info last time, yup I know about the winter solstice, I know he wasn't born in December I know.

Frankly I don't care about holidays either, yup, I don't really care.

If you care about someone you don't do things once a year, you do it as often as you'd like, daily reminders or some surprise at an unexpected time!

For me all holidays are, are simply days I count until the sale aisle at a store restock on seasonal candies and stuff.


However that isn't to say I can't enjoy the festive look on trees, or streets!

It can be annoying to hear the same song day in and day out, but for a month? I can bear it.


It's interesting, to say the least, but not the smartest time to experiment with ideas.

Opening up a new water attraction at a water park in order to incentivize sales is not a bad idea, Opening up a new water attraction at a water park in the winter makes no sense at all (unless it's a skating rink, and this event dear sirs, is no skating rink!)

One thing I have been thinking is as this is all mini events there will be no bonuts.

Further.

This means premium items purchased for extra event currency generation are of a lower value. There is no point going faster as no bonuts to collect at the end and no addition items from extra crafting currency.

So there is a Boon gone.

☯️?Excellent thread?☯️

...basically already went thru my initial 'joyous friggin freakout' / concerns via my fairly well viewed ?Land Token? thread, but glad to chime in here in cordial agreement of good will, with most points made all being quite valid & having decent relevance...

So, just a couple particular gripes:
•Aforementioned missing holiday music for more complete gaming immersive experience
•Optional neiboreeno earning incentive tasks could also be more fun
•And, some further New character interactive tasks... although engaging previous character skins like Festivus CBG, fulfills things along with the very welcome, PURRRRRRFECTLY bizarre Ms Claws, who certainly is a lovely favorite new addition...

Am glad to contribute in venting playful Griswold flavored complaints here if things further disintegrate, but am remaining cautiously optimistic we'll be seeing more enjoyable additions as things progress????

...??Heads up Santa!!!??...
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I don't like the fact there is next to nothing to do and hardly any new content.

I'm so bored, I visited my neighbor's, half of them anyway! :D
Hopefully, things will get more interesting.

I don’t feel like I’m playing an event..... collecting programs by doing 4hr talks is pretty boring - I always feel this way about mini events, but I usually don’t mind as they are just after labour intensive main events and the break is welcomed, but not enjoying it as the main Xmas event.

The Xmas/Holiday event (along with Halloween) is always one that players look forward to. Having played this game almost since it started, I’ve experienced all the Xmas events and this ranks pretty low so far....definitely down there with the Solstice Xmas.

I’m not massively excited about any of the content - certainly in the first mini event. The bundles are rehashed from previous events and the new stuff seems a bit... I don’t know... ‘Meh’.

And the lack of crafting is annoying - as much as it can be a grind it can give more cool content and you can get what you want and leave what you don’t.

I get that they are trying to keep it fresh by changing the format. I also get that the Economy of the game has changed with more donuts available and more premium content, restricted land and item counts, and (I’m guessing) probably less players, so some of the old mechanisms may no longer work, but I don’t think this one works - especially for Xmas.

"willp_70;c-2025960" wrote:
I'm looking out the window and see snow and cold. Blarch!
I wanna be able to turn the Springfield snow off.

I may have to turn off the sound effects. Hearing the cold wind in the Springfield just isn't fun when it's in the low 20s outside and you're trying to keep warm. The sound actually makes the room feel draughty.

I just wanted christmas lights ?

Will I ever get them?!

Number 1 complaint?

No Christmas lights for newbies. And no chance to get more for newer players.

Other cons...

No friend actions.

No/very few new buildings as prizes*, and the premium content on offer just doesn't interest me. (I was slightly interested in The Screens, but it doesn't seem like it will have any character interaction.)
*Edit: I see there are some buildings coming in the other acts! Here's hoping they're ones I want in my town!

The event play is just like a mini event, which I'm typically not a fan of, anyway (I much prefer the big events).

The content is okay (I love the carousel), but there's no excitement about any of it. I have no doubt that I'll get everything, which kind of defeats the purpose for me.
I want to have to try, otherwise, what's the point?