EA is hurting themselves by not offering all items
Yeah, I agree. It blows that new players may not be able to catch-up. I've missed a few limited items, namely limited time show tie-in items, while being away and it's frustrating. For example, I would kill for a Mr. Sparkle billboard.
At least your idea of bring able to trade (with neighbors at least) is a pretty good idea.
At least your idea of bring able to trade (with neighbors at least) is a pretty good idea.
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but yeah I would like to get some past items too
As somebody who didn't own a smart phone a year ago or read whatever "blogosphere" you're referring to, that's kind of not the point of the thread here.
That's a pretty silly thing to say.
LOL @ your best game ever comment. I'm a regular player since the summer of its release and I think the day-to-day playing is mundane, pretty boring even. I just liked The Simpsons, the dialogue and wisecracks, collecting and building. But in the end, its all very repetitive.
Where I live silly is code for smart. Thank you for the compliment.
Trades will never be allowed because people will abuse this by creating feeder towns to dump all good stuff to their main town.
Cool- that's the thousandth time you posted that? Nice!
Wow, that is close to 1/3 of his actual posts... LOL!
Yep I am good
I was thinking of making a thread about this. I started buying donuts hoping EA would re release old stuff. But Im giving up, this game stopped being fun and is really frustrating right now
It's ludicrous but it's the common theme here among longtimers. It's a whole "if you are new don't bother having an opinion" mentality as someone who has "been around longer" will always try to shoot you down for daring to have a voice even if it's a valid one. Don't let it deter you.
You bring up a good point, and it has merit. But the flaw in the logic has been pointed out- it's good business to do it limited time only. That's why they rerelease characters for donuts that used to be free or bought for in-game cash. It's why they make certain desirable characters buyable for donuts but make less popular or hated characters available for in-game cash.
I have absolutely zero sympathy for you because by your own admission you have been playing since the summer of the original release. Therefore, you should have every limited time tie in item, such as the Mr. Sparkle Billboard. If you didn't log in and get that limited time update, that is on you.
Now in other instances, I can sympathize with the new players. Especially the Android only owners who didn't have the game available to them.
I started after Halloween 2012, so I don't have the Springfield Collider, the Black Hole, Mayan Homer, or the Mayan clock. I wish I had all of those items, but I don't expect to ever get them. But that is just the way it is, and this hasn't stopped me from buying other limited time items that have come out since then.
If you are really petty enough to not purchase anything unless you can have all of it, doesn't that say something about you, not the game?
LOL i'm not looking for sympathy. i'm not a completionist, more like an 80-percenter. some premium items i chose not to purchase, like the ugly Barney blimp. other items, i just chose to not play for a week or so b/c life happens. i'm bummed about it, but accept it. so i'm not a snob about it like some of the in-you-face completionist here are.
I do have a complaint of some sort on the Mr. Sparkle Billboard. Since it is (so far as I know) the only decoration that increases consumerism, then I really wish EA would have let us know this, somehow, so we would have been able to purchase multiple billboards to increase the toughest category to get 5 stars in.