Worst. Event. Ever. (The search for consensus.)
Bet this is gonna be a nail biter. (Not.) You might want to run a follow-up poll, asking what was the SECOND worst event. :)
Forum Discussion
22steelpaw wrote:
I'd only just started playing when Easter 2014 came around so I had no problems with it. I assumed that items described as "prizes" were prizes in the usual sense of the word, ie items that were won through skill or chance. Therefore, I was not particularly bothered that I didn't get all of them. I have, over my lifetime, entered many contests that I have not won and I have learnt to deal with this.
Now I understand that prizes in TSTO are supposed to be much more like the prizes at a kindergarten awards day - you get them just for turning up, and if anyone misses out, there'll be tears and tantrums.
NOT AT ALL.
since you started with that event, you obviously weren't coming into it with the same expectations as veterans, so your opinion is moot.
The history of previous events clearly illustrates that major events in THIS GAME were based on EFFORT and TIME SPENT. Or you could spend donuts.
At Christmas that year, they introduced a wheel of chance, which significantly increased anxiety over the game, but DID award most players all of the awards. But they took it too far with the next event and relied too heavily on CHANCE as the award mechanism. The odds were so high that even spending money did not guarantee a prize. This was a huge change from historical game mechanics.
So it's not about "just showing up for kindergarten". It's more like showing up for class, taking the test that you studied for, maybe even hired a tutor for, and the teacher just used a random number generator to determine your grade.
SEE THE DIFFERENCE? :evil:
