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Now we should all start complaining about the people complaining about the complainers complaining. :P seriously though, I also liked the event for the most part, but I like to see the positive anyway. The odds are low, and your chances of getting good prizes drops after you can't find baskets, but all in all I enjoyed the event. There is definitely plenty to do, and the good prizes are worth the effort, and some of the gag prizes are still nice to decorate with.

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  • finagenesse
    514 posts
    edited May 2014
    Really?
  • timberwuf
    520 posts
    edited May 2014
    Spend time on it? That's all I've done. Spending time on this event doesn't even get you close to half the prizes. I'm down to 1 box a day and that's getting as many eggs as I can.

    Some people got lucky and now they get to complain about complainers.
  • annettemarc
    7747 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I'm grateful for this event for teaching me about stuff like "swear word filters" and how to use the Caps Lock key. I'm always thankful foreducational opportunities.
    USA/UK Race To Throw Country Into Utter Chaos = TOO CLOSE TO CALL
  • MrJuanMata
    5343 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    Now we should all start complaining about the people complaining about the complainers complaining. :P seriously though, I also liked the event for the most part, but I like to see the positive anyway. The odds are low, and your chances of getting good prizes drops after you can't find baskets, but all in all I enjoyed the event. There is definitely plenty to do, and the good prizes are worth the effort, and some of the gag prizes are still nice to decorate with.

    I was gonna say the same thing :lol:
  • mr_skeltal_80
    18104 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I'm grateful for this event for teaching me about stuff like "swear word filters" and how to use the Caps Lock key. I'm always thankful foreducational opportunities.
    Im grateful that this event thougt me the existence of this gif. I use i for ll sort of things now. Ive already used it twice on this forum and im gonna use it agan! Best.Gif.Ever.

    giphy.gif
  • annettemarc
    7747 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I'm grateful for this event for teaching me about stuff like "swear word filters" and how to use the Caps Lock key. I'm always thankful foreducational opportunities.
    Im grateful that this event thougt me the existence of this gif. I use i for ll sort of things now. Ive already used it twice on this forum and im gonna use it agan! Best.Gif.Ever.

    giphy.gif


    (Annette pretends she didn't copy/save it within 15 seconds of seeing it the first time eliansukke posted it.)
    USA/UK Race To Throw Country Into Utter Chaos = TOO CLOSE TO CALL
  • juliet603
    17879 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    No one complained just because it might take a while to complete, all the old events took ages to do too - the complaints were all about it being a game of luck, rather than rewards for hard grinding!
  • mr_skeltal_80
    18104 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I'm grateful for this event for teaching me about stuff like "swear word filters" and how to use the Caps Lock key. I'm always thankful foreducational opportunities.
    Im grateful that this event thougt me the existence of this gif. I use i for ll sort of things now. Ive already used it twice on this forum and im gonna use it agan! Best.Gif.Ever.

    giphy.gif


    (Annette pretends she didn't copy/save it within 15 seconds of seeing it the first time eliansukke posted it.)
    Hahaha. I bookmarked the url as soon as i saw it. :lol:
  • finagenesse
    514 posts
    edited May 2014
    I'm grateful for this event for teaching me about stuff like "swear word filters" and how to use the Caps Lock key. I'm always thankful foreducational opportunities.
    Im grateful that this event thougt me the existence of this gif. I use i for ll sort of things now. Ive already used it twice on this forum and im gonna use it agan! Best.Gif.Ever.

    giphy.gif


    (Annette pretends she didn't copy/save it within 15 seconds of seeing it the first time eliansukke posted it.)
    Hahaha. I bookmarked the url as soon as i saw it. :lol:

    THAT is the reason I stopped playing at Xmas, it would have been me and my iPad... :wink:
  • peppers2ndmo
    247 posts
    edited May 2014
    Personally, I think the developers should take the comments on this message board to heart. The "complainers" are simply frustrated customers who spend their money to buy donuts that pays EA salaries.

    Ultimately, companies (EA included) want to attract and retain customers. Without the customer, the company will not survive. Happy customers spend money and all is well. Disgruntled customers complain and ultimately move on. It's fairly simple. Take care of your customers or you're out of business.

    I can see that several of my level 39 neighbors gave up before the level 40 update. Many were folks that had paid bucks to play...they had several premium items, etc. EA has done quite well with this game, but if they continue to be unresponsive to their customer base, they'll end up with nothing.
  • AJtheboss1
    3869 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I'm sorry but are you on crack?

    So let me get this straight. I want understand your logic for a moment. Every event EA has made didn't require time to be spent, and after almost 2 years they finally decided, we need these month long events to have things to do. I'm sorry but that just sounds absurd.

    I don't think you realize it, but that was an insult to EA, and the players. :roll:

    EA could care less about us "having things to do." If that's what they cared about they'd not have speed up options for REAL MONEY. This event is nothing but a scheme to rob people, and EA makes it's money on fools like you. I get being a completionist and all, but even they have the sense not to defend EA's bad decisions.
    "The **** of the future will be the anti-****."
  • Deadshot_DCU
    6437 posts Moderator
    edited May 2014
    Can everyone stop being such Negative Nancy's? I love everything EA and the Simpsons creators have brought us in the game. They made the Easter update like that so it wouldn't be done in a week. They want you to spend time on it. I got all the prizes in the first week because I spent donuts. Now I have nothing to do except the level 40 update. I've been giving the eggs I earned to friends. I'm just sick of everyone bashing the Easter update. Be glad we got one at all.

    PS. EA, if you read this, I would like Lucille Botz (the Babysitter Bandit) and Molloy (the Cat Burglar) added to the game please. They can be added to the villian group or a new group called criminals. I just really liked those characters is all

    This.

    Lucille Botz can go in the villains category & Molloy can join the Oldies category. Both will be great additions. Lucille Botzcowski can come with the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Babysitting Service
  • drosax1
    4860 posts New member
    edited May 2014
    Can everyone stop being such Negative Nancy's? I love everything EA and the Simpsons creators have brought us in the game. They made the Easter update like that so it wouldn't be done in a week. They want you to spend time on it. I got all the prizes in the first week because I spent donuts. Now I have nothing to do except the level 40 update. I've been giving the eggs I earned to friends. I'm just sick of everyone bashing the Easter update. Be glad we got one at all.

    PS. EA, if you read this, I would like Lucille Botz (the Babysitter Bandit) and Molloy (the Cat Burglar) added to the game please. They can be added to the villian group or a new group called criminals. I just really liked those characters is all

    This.

    Lucille Botz can go in the villains category & Molloy can join the Oldies category. Both will be great additions. Lucille Botzcowski can come with the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Babysitting Service

    If Molloy is added he could have this task
    yoink.png

    Also he'd bring a group task to dig for treasure
  • cavemanphoto
    10 posts
    edited May 2014
    Isn't a forum a place to rant in like company? Just sayin'
  • DJDK-ec
    898 posts
    edited May 2014
    Can everyone stop being such Negative Nancy's? I love everything EA and the Simpsons creators have brought us in the game. They made the Easter update like that so it wouldn't be done in a week. They want you to spend time on it. I got all the prizes in the first week because I spent donuts. Now I have nothing to do except the level 40 update. I've been giving the eggs I earned to friends. I'm just sick of everyone bashing the Easter update. Be glad we got one at all.

    PS. EA, if you read this, I would like Lucille Botz (the Babysitter Bandit) and Molloy (the Cat Burglar) added to the game please. They can be added to the villian group or a new group called criminals. I just really liked those characters is all

    How could you have enjoyed everything EA and the Simpsons creators have brought us in the game, if you joined: 02/01/2014?
    If you had played the last Halloween update (and WD) you would be swallowing your words right now. Those were the awesome events.
  • mwdalton
    11557 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    If you want to achieve this goal of less negativity, perhaps your time might be better spent positively contributing to the forum, in other threads, rather than telling people not to be 'negative nancies'. But, hey, I guess that's your perogative. As is every other members' to post what they like within the rules.
  • mr_skeltal_80
    18104 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    mwdalton wrote:
    If you want to achieve this goal of less negativity, perhaps your time might be better spent positively contributing to the forum, in other threads, rather than telling people not to be 'negative nancies'. But, hey, I guess that's your perogative. As is every other members' to post what they like within the rules.
    +1 :thumbup:
  • braydend899
    90 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    I do really enjoy this event but I'm not a fan of the Easter boxes as the main thing of the event. I liked the Christmas and Halloween event because you save up your stuff to get ensured the item, and how there was community prizes and pretty much everyone got those items, there was even a spin wheel to try out your luck.

    But I understand that EA is trying to make every event work differently
  • LinusB09
    96 posts Member
    edited May 2014
    Can everyone stop being such Negative Nancy's? I love everything EA and the Simpsons creators have brought us in the game. They made the Easter update like that so it wouldn't be done in a week. They want you to spend time on it. I got all the prizes in the first week because I spent donuts. Now I have nothing to do except the level 40 update. I've been giving the eggs I earned to friends. I'm just sick of everyone bashing the Easter update. Be glad we got one at all.

    PS. EA, if you read this, I would like Lucille Botz (the Babysitter Bandit) and Molloy (the Cat Burglar) added to the game please. They can be added to the villian group or a new group called criminals. I just really liked those characters is all

    Yes, I see your point, but please consider what it is like to be in the shoes of a player who has not had a basket in 12 days. I have not been able to earn enough eggs to do much of anything. At most, I am able to open a single gold box every 24-36 hours. This is primarily because I have no way to receive eggs from neighbors.

    Having no baskets has made achieving prizes basically impossible without using donuts. Some of us cannot or will not do that, for a variety of good reasons. As this board proves, even spending real money hasn't improved some players' odds very much.

    For two and a half years, I have been willing to "spend time on it," grinding to earn prizes. I did very well, and almost always earned everything that I wanted. However, this current glitch, combined with an unrealistically difficult set of chance requirements, will prevent me from attaining the goals.

    From that perspective, maybe you can sympathize with those who feel the need to vent.
  • cara252
    199 posts
    edited May 2014
    Personally, I think the developers should take the comments on this message board to heart. The "complainers" are simply frustrated customers who spend their money to buy donuts that pays EA salaries.

    Ultimately, companies (EA included) want to attract and retain customers. Without the customer, the company will not survive. Happy customers spend money and all is well. Disgruntled customers complain and ultimately move on. It's fairly simple. Take care of your customers or you're out of business.

    I can see that several of my level 39 neighbors gave up before the level 40 update. Many were folks that had paid bucks to play...they had several premium items, etc. EA has done quite well with this game, but if they continue to be unresponsive to their customer base, they'll end up with nothing.

    Well said, bra sagt!

    Although I think EA can ride a lot on the Simpson brand for this particular game. Simpsons fans will play just for the fact that it's the Simpsons... And if the bad reviews start coming in, they can just abandon the game. They've already made their millions. And it's mostly the Simpson brand that will take the hit, not EA.
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