Worst. Event. Ever. (The search for consensus.)

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2nd was Christmas 2014 (NOT the GAMEPLAY but tne PRIZES where not so cool)

annettemarc wrote:
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. :)

:mrgreen:

If it wasn't for those chanced Easter boxes I would of put the event top 2 but it remains bottom 2

This is how I rank it

Thoh 2013
Thoh 2012
Xmas 2014
Xmas 2012
Xmas 2013
Thoh 2014
SC
Whacking day
Vday 2013
Vday 2014
Easter
CofC

Ataccounting wrote:
Easter all the way. You could grind for 24 hours straight (I did) and still not get enough Gold eggs to spin the premium prize wheel.

The only realistic way to get the eggs you needed was to swap your common colour egg in a neighbours basket, except no body had any baskets, especially when people started to go for the Faberge egg which stopped free baskets dropping.

I spent over 700 donuts on baskets for my neighbours to use and all I got was 50% of whatever they changed. Managed to get the last prize with less than 48 hours to go (700 donuts and only just get the last prize!).

So to people saying CoC was the worst because it was too easy, try sitting up all night and still not getting a prize at the end of it. CoC was relaxing.

On the other hand I loved Wacking Day. There were no restrictions on how many eggs you could drop into a friends town. This meant you could go and dump 200 eggs into a neighbours town and get them over the line for a prize. Heck one of my neighbours with a large empty area found swear words written in eggs the result of a few people independently deciding to do it! (His response was to rearrange the eggs to tell us exactly what he thought!).

Edit: Poor speeling

Not only were a few people short on baskets the ones we did have glitched on occasion. Don't hate me for saying this, but I find all the glitching endearing and it gives us something to discuss. P.S. I am not endorsing Easter by this comment.

Easter was so bad. I was elated when I got the stupid catholic priest because he was playable and actually semi-useful. Literally the only prize I was pleased with with that event and in the grand scale of prizes, it was pretty bad.

Three colored currencies, three prize boxes, one of the currencies requires winning several times at the other two boxes, multiple glitches, baskets that could lower your currency with an accidental tap, and no winning currency until you finished a task that required a random drop that could take days or weeks :roll:


Only one event had everything that the forum deemed to be bad for an event: Easter 2014.

:lol: Easter by 2/3rds. So overwhelmingly fact.

Still the Scottish Event/MacBeth event/Event that shall not be named (first two terms credited to JohnColumbo and Neuroheart, for those who are curious) gets my vote. I shudder still when I think of the grind/frustration of those boxes (technically 3 wheels disguised as something else).

Glitchmas (thanks again to JohnColumbo for the term) was doable. The prizes weren't the greatest ever, but I still really liked most of what we got. And we got a lot of prizes. And two decorations for free as a gift from EA. That was nice too. The server issues sucked, but that was not EAs doing. But it was pretty glitchy (hence John's term).

Stonecutters was the best, iny opinion, although I know of people who did not like the dynamics. But it was a classic event based on a classic episode! Prizes were all obtainable if you put the work in - great prizes and skins!

neuroheart wrote:

0ReganPOOP wrote:
I voted Easter. Was it even possible to get everything in that event without spending donuts?

Technically, but I know of about two people who did. All my neighbors with all the prizes spent many donuts. (I tapped my fingers off and missed four of the major prizes.)

Yes. A lot of donuts were lost to obtain the "prizes." I got all of the "prizes" only because of donuts. They should not use the word "prize" if it cannot be obtained unless you use donuts. That's a "premium item" in my opinion.

I used many donuts, but I also was a lot luckier than a lot of people in actually getting the prizes. Again, I actually got the fabreg? egg naturally (no donuts spent) about 3 or 4 bunnies after the quest line made it available. Many people spent a lot of donuts and didn't get everything. Another reason why it will most likely remain the worst event in my opinion.

I WANT THE BLOCKO STORE!!!! (Sharry Bobbins and the egg would be nice too.)

Stupid Easter.

suetopia wrote:

neuroheart wrote:
All my neighbors with all the prizes spent many donuts. (I tapped my fingers off and missed four of the major prizes.)

Yes. A lot of donuts were lost to obtain the "prizes." I got all of the "prizes" only because of donuts. They should not use the word "prize" if it cannot be obtained unless you use donuts. That's a "premium item" in my opinion.

This. Exactly this. Premium items are great, but they should be labeled as such. I think many people feel deceived when a premium item is labeled a prize.


The top level cannon this Glitchmas got the same complaint. The gold band was a premium item under the facade of earnability through cog collection. At least that's just one skin for one item, not as bad as the multiple items last spring, but it's still understandably frustrating.