WORST event ever: let's settle this

Mumble_Taker wrote:
I'd rather be kind of bored and get all the prizes than be pissed off when I spend cash (on a free game) for a chance to win something besides an easter tree.

I totally agree with you. If I spend donuts it is because I am getting a premium item.

I voted easter even though I liked every prize except the fences of course i spent about 300 donuts to get all the prizes
cOc comes a close 2nd because of the length of the event

neuroheart wrote:
I'm not at all shocked by the landslide. One of the longest threads on this forum was one of frustration at Easter. There are members who refuse to speak its name. The rating in the app store plummeted to an all-time low. Et cetera.

L_B_123XD wrote:
Easter was easily the worst, they took everything we hated from Christmas and vallentines( mystery boxes(I'm ok with them in small amounts)) and made them insane- it was actually possible to play te whole event and get nothing you wanted if you were incredibly unlucky and couldn't play enough to get the guarantees number.

Mystery boxes are bad enough, but the fact they made it hard to even receive a go on certain mystery boxes( gold and te other colour) is what made it DAMN RIGHT UNFORGIVABLE


And actually that stupid fabargie egg that was almost impossible to unlock and meant no one could get egg baskets for weeks too.
Definitely Easter was the worst

Agree 100%

Easter was horrible. Starting with dismal odds, then taking the wind out of players' sails by making the baskets go away was a poor strategy. The chore of checking in to zap bunnies was a huge waste of time in terms of how little it'd net you. Of course, you had no choice but to waste your time after being left to the mercy of a random number generator, which contained the tiniest probability of popping a faberge egg, so you could advance and get baskets again. For me, that took more than 2 weeks.

That said, one aspect of events that was better then, but has been getting progessively worse, is neighbor interaction. At least with Easter, neighbors could tangibly help each other by visiting and filling baskets. For CoC, while neighbors are free to raid each other, it's more a gesture that is mutually detrimental.

jraffa50 wrote:
Easter is very unpopular around here. Regardless, I still enjoyed it more than I'm enjoying this event. I got some nice prizes out of it and enjoyed the bunnies.

I am clearly in the minority, but for me CoC is still the worst, because I don't enjoy playing it and I don't like the prizes.

I couldn't agree more. I know the Easter boxes were a little shifty but I still got a lot of good prizes and got some free donuts out of it. And even though during that whole event I was basically screaming and threatening to throw my IPad at the wall whenever I got more Easter Fences (I got A LOT of those), I still loved to zap those cute lil bunnies and try to gamble my eggs in hopes of winning a prize I was really wanting. CoC is definitely the worst for me. Not excited about the prizes either.

:lol: Easter, no doubt.

monicaL9 wrote:
I know the Easter boxes were a little shifty but I still got a lot of good prizes and got some free donuts out of it. And even though during that whole event I was basically screaming and threatening to throw my IPad at the wall whenever I got more Easter Fences (I got A LOT of those) ... CoC is definitely the worst for me. Not excited about the prizes either.

This puzzles me. How is screaming and wanting to break an expensive piece of technology out of frustration better than being "not excited"? I honestly don't comprehend this. Please explain.

It's a love-hate relationship, and is generally what drives many gambling addicts. The highs of winning, and the lows of losing.

Or the person just likes being frustrated. Who knows?

roshigoth1 wrote:
It's a love-hate relationship, and is generally what drives many gambling addicts. The highs of winning, and the lows of losing.

Studies of the brain mostly eliminate the "lows of losing" part of that. What drives most addicts (gambling or otherwise) is the rush of the high. In gambling, a win activates the reward center of the brain, and since that involves dopamine, our pattern recognition becomes active. Successful games of chance trick your pattern recognition system into thinking you can "crack" the game and get more big wins. This is, of course, nonsense, as most games can't be cracked. Even games involving some skill, such as poker, can't really be cracked, though they're going to be more reliable if you have some skill. But the house always wins. And when that's the only way a business is supporting itself, of course it will endeavor to win at these games of chance.

(Easter, for me and many others, gave one big "high" early on, and then ground players to dust with egg piles or trees. Not only did it turn tapped out into a game of chance, it wasn't even a very good game of chance. Also, the game is supported through premium items, of which there are many, clearly labeled. Making (for example) Shary Bobbins a premium item that was labeled as something you could win without having to pay real money was, again, just dishonest. And frustrating.)

neuroheart wrote:

monicaL9 wrote:
I know the Easter boxes were a little shifty but I still got a lot of good prizes and got some free donuts out of it. And even though during that whole event I was basically screaming and threatening to throw my IPad at the wall whenever I got more Easter Fences (I got A LOT of those) ... CoC is definitely the worst for me. Not excited about the prizes either.

This puzzles me. How is screaming and wanting to break an expensive piece of technology out of frustration better than being "not excited"? I honestly don't comprehend this. Please explain.

Okay I definitely exaggerated a little when I said I was screaming and wanting to throw my tablet during the entire Easter event. What I was trying to say was that besides the frustration of getting repetitive prizes and certain prizes that were downright impossible (Father Sean, Mary Boppins, etc), I still got a lot of prizes that I really do like whereas in CoC I'm not really interested in any of the prizes or buildings. Easter May have been a sham but for me it still beats out CoC.

I hope that makes more sense

Bravewall wrote:
:lol: Easter, no doubt.

I'm sure you get this all the time, but that avatar is hawt.