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Here's To Nature (Tessa Camping) Event

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  • jello (AU1)jello (AU1) Posts: 1,040
    Going by the comments here it seems as though 100% of customers are very unhappy with this move. I was convinced it was a mistake on the part of GGS and would be fixed but to admit you meant it is beyond comprehension. If it was some attempt at getting a gold splurge it looks like it has cost you alot more than it would have made you. Many customers have now lost alot of faith and trust in you.
  • Going by the comments here it seems as though 100% of customers are very unhappy with this move. I was convinced it was a mistake on the part of GGS and would be fixed but to admit you meant it is beyond comprehension. If it was some attempt at getting a gold splurge it looks like it has cost you alot more than it would have made you. Many customers have now lost alot of faith and trust in you.
    very nicely said and 100000000 % accurate!! I AGREE!!! 
  • CM Latten said:
    Hey everyone,

    I asked around a bit, here's what happened:

    We're always testing variants of existing events. While this is not going to be a permanent change and should only apply for this event, we're sorry for not being able to announce it properly and will have internal talks about the handling of this situation.

    Sorry, guys. If I had known, I of course would have said something :(
    "Not being able to announce it properly"???   As the saying goes; "pull the other one, it's got bells on"! 

    GGS were "able" to alter whatever programming/coding was required to modify the length of the event - Latten's comment implies that was not an accidental occurrence, but a deliberate action.

    So (and this is just my opinion, I hasten to add, not intending any criticism of Latten) any claim by GGS to have been "not able" to announce it beforehand just doesn't hold water and is, frankly, an insult to our intelligence!  Unless someone just "clicked the button" immediately before locking up the building for the Easter Break, I can't think of any reason not to have "been able to announce it".  Not impressed.  Not impressed at all.
    I so agree with you on this one, once they realised what mayhem they had caused it would have been simple enough to alter the timer. Or give us all the decoration that we decided we would work hard to get. I have only been playing since Autumn last year and had only just got to the stage where I was completing events. Stupid, but i really felt a sense of achievement. Now I just feel that I have been conned. :-(
  • gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
    CM Latten said:
    I'm sorry I can't bring better news :( 

    I was in a lot of talks about this today though, and I explained the situation - it was completely missed (accidentally) that you can only see the length of the event after you selected your difficulty, and we will see if we can find a good way to share this info directly in the first event window, or to make the needed items adapt better to the event lenghts. 


    This is all just too absurd to believe.  I urged calm several days ago, because I was sure GGS would not purposefully do something like this.  I had faith in GGS to promptly announce that they would fix this.  Apparently (and sadly) that faith turns out to have been misplaced.
  • Brave Ana (GB1)Brave Ana (GB1) GB1 Posts: 254
    I also suppose that somewhere tomorow GGS will count how is their balance in golds with this event.

    If, maybe they need more golds from us they will extend the time. Or maybe not.

    I am still at task 3: Find tracks. I collected 170 from 340 started somewhere yesterday afternoon.

    To complete the task 3400 golds. What a joke, as usual, from you GGS.

  • nola1 (INT1)nola1 (INT1) INT1 Posts: 188
    The highest level of the event was available to me for the first time and i happily clicked on it. The amount of time i have is absolutely impossibly inadequate.  If i had known  the time allotment i wouldn't have bothered. I hope someone has to go suck lemons
  • I have to say I'm annoyed.  I donated 22,200 apples for 4k and some rose seeds.  My market is asking for 1.4 million apples. hmmmm
  • Well I am puzzled, how could an event that previously took 6 -7 days? suddenly be done in 2-3 days? something not right here. Hope it is not that GGS cannot be bothered to correct their mistake, surely they would not have such contempt for their customers now.

    Totally agree with Jello here, though its not just this event is it, several rather unsightly errors recently and the lack of support never ceases to amaze me.  Of the two tickets I sent to support I never actually reached a resolution, just gave up bothering.

    No,  we don't have to play the game, we like to, otherwise we would not bother to complain about it, however there is only so much one company can get away with before they become the not bothered about.

  • Mira (US1)Mira (US1) Posts: 103
    edited 29.03.2016
    It's clearly not a "mistake".  By now, GGS has lost all benefit of the doubt and goodwill of their customers as it's become more than clear time after time that all the new changes are attempts to scam their customers by pulling bait and switches on originally agreed upon or advertised events.  This isn't the only one.

    The library books, the temporary farm recoloring, the Co-op Championships selling reputation points at the very end.  All of these go against the very spirit of good faith gaming and just attempt to grab cash from those who are too uneducated or financially unwise to know better.

    Yes, companies need to make money, but do you know HOW companies retain repeat customers?  By positive word of mouth and ethical business practices that show integrity.  In good conscience, I could not possibly recommend this game at this point to anyone.

    Shame on you.
  • CM Latten said:
    Hey everyone,

    I asked around a bit, here's what happened:

    We're always testing variants of existing events. While this is not going to be a permanent change and should only apply for this event, we're sorry for not being able to announce it properly and will have internal talks about the handling of this situation.

    Sorry, guys. If I had known, I of course would have said something :(
    "Not being able to announce it properly"???   As the saying goes; "pull the other one, it's got bells on"! 

    GGS were "able" to alter whatever programming/coding was required to modify the length of the event - Latten's comment implies that was not an accidental occurrence, but a deliberate action.

    So (and this is just my opinion, I hasten to add, not intending any criticism of Latten) any claim by GGS to have been "not able" to announce it beforehand just doesn't hold water and is, frankly, an insult to our intelligence!  Unless someone just "clicked the button" immediately before locking up the building for the Easter Break, I can't think of any reason not to have "been able to announce it".  Not impressed.  Not impressed at all.
    Hi Penfold, Its lovely this ... I do not have to say a word.... others are doing it for me .... BUT i cannot resist.... seems funny how they "change" it over a holiday period.. how many other "bugs" or whatever have happened over holiday periods. It does not read correctly, they change it to 3 days ... why.. they do it while they are "shut" why.... why so many rather important points to the game change at holiday times... Oh am I correct in thinking the great Wheel of Fortune "bug" where we could not see our rankings, was over a holiday period ? 
  • skaukatt (GB1)skaukatt (GB1) GB1 Posts: 12
    CM Latten said:
    Hey everyone,

    I asked around a bit, here's what happened:

    We're always testing variants of existing events. While this is not going to be a permanent change and should only apply for this event, we're sorry for not being able to announce it properly and will have internal talks about the handling of this situation.

    Sorry, guys. If I had known, I of course would have said something



    That CM Latten is the lamest excuse I have every seen in any game. I for one will not be doing what is supposed to be a weekly again. Unless the time is shown at the start, before you choose the level.
    You are supposed to be the experts running a game , not six year olds learning how a computer works.
  • gavinfarms (US1)gavinfarms (US1) US1 Posts: 2,273
    Latten,

    This must be fixed.  This is no joke.  A lot of things in the game might anger or upset a few people here and there.  But, some things "cross a line" as the saying goes.  I think this is one of those things.  People look forward to the weekly events, and even though they are not new anymore, they are one of the most popular parts of the game.  I think you all are badly misjudging just how important this fix is.  I think that if you don't fix this, it may do more harm to morale than you might expect.  I think you all are badly underestimating the outrage on this one.  You haven't even given a reason why it can't be fixed.
  • Dolphin (AU1)Dolphin (AU1) AU1 Posts: 117
    Going by the comments here it seems as though 100% of customers are very unhappy with this move. I was convinced it was a mistake on the part of GGS and would be fixed but to admit you meant it is beyond comprehension. If it was some attempt at getting a gold splurge it looks like it has cost you alot more than it would have made you. Many customers have now lost alot of faith and trust in you.
    There could be no possible reason why it is not fixed. The same thing happened last year and when they logged back in after the weekend they changed it from being 3 or 4 days to the correct amount of days. So I would like to know why they cant change it this time. I fully agree with all you have stated jello.
  • Artmaker (GB1)Artmaker (GB1) GB1 Posts: 1,495
    Ok FOUR TIMES NOW I clicked a thread about this event only being three days long, and it keeps sending me here.    WTH?

    Not even trying this time.  Not a bit.   GG is fouled up this week.  Forum had problems a few days ago, last day of the easter egg thing was missing eggs for hours.  Then they start an event on Easter Sunday no less with (mine only showed two days) from the start.   NO WAY!

    Maybe next week they will be more alert.
  • amyk (US1)amyk (US1) Posts: 1,201
    Ok FOUR TIMES NOW I clicked a thread about this event only being three days long, and it keeps sending me here.    WTH?
    This thread?  It says  Merged: in front of the title.  The moderator must have merged it with this one.  I suppose to keep all the comments about the Nature Event together in one place. 

  • Merging threads only makes sense if the moderator would address the issue and why it came to this.  Is there an explanation beyond too bad, so sad, testing how far we can go?
  • Kleine Jan (NL1)Kleine Jan (NL1) NL1 Posts: 283
    CM Latten said:
    Hey everyone,

    I asked around a bit, here's what happened:

    We're always testing variants of existing events. While this is not going to be a permanent change and should only apply for this event, we're sorry for not being able to announce it properly and will have internal talks about the handling of this situation.

    Sorry, guys. If I had known, I of course would have said something :(
    So they have been testing at GGS. Well i got some news for those NITWITS at GGS
    1.Anybody who use his commonsence and thinking knows that it is IMPOSSIBLE to complete this event in the NOW given time without having the need to use mountains of gold.
    2.This game is played worldwide,so IMO simple opinion GGS is a 24/7 company,well When you messed up things there should be ALWAYS somebody there to FIX that error,and don,t shut the company for a few holidays.At least that is normal in this 24/7 world
    3.It is not the first time that these things happends during the holiday weekend,and i am sure it won,t be the last time
    4.Every game developer has a team wich tests and plays the game to see IF the game and the new introduced feauteres are working properly.But not at GGS the developers are messing around a bit and CM Latten has to find excuses for it. But there are no excuses for this error or test feautere,It has to be brought back by the normal time period as it was before.
    5. Find yourself a good testing team GGS before players move over to other farming game,because a lot of players have allready another farm from another gamedeveloper as a back-up ready wich don,t have somany failures build in it.
    6.GGS has proven to listen sometimes to the players by removing that cinema thing. Read now all those reactions on this problem and take your advantage from this lessen.It will help improve the game

    Gr B Bartels
  • Latten,

    This must be fixed.  This is no joke.  A lot of things in the game might anger or upset a few people here and there.  But, some things "cross a line" as the saying goes.  I think this is one of those things.  People look forward to the weekly events, and even though they are not new anymore, they are one of the most popular parts of the game.  I think you all are badly misjudging just how important this fix is.  I think that if you don't fix this, it may do more harm to morale than you might expect.  I think you all are badly underestimating the outrage on this one.  You haven't even given a reason why it can't be fixed.
    Beacause there is no reason,and whatever they may give us - would be just another big fat lie. For all the rest you've said - I AGREE! :)
  • What makes me really angry is there has been no official apology. Is the perpetrator hiding away somewhere? why can they not just fix it. I am not doing another event if I can't see before I select difficulty level, how much time I have. They are clearly not reading these posts. Only a moron would think the event was doable in 2/3 days. or someone would need to play 24/7 and pay up gold . I stopped playing Farmville because the silly amount of expansions meant you really did need to farm all day and into the night to complete anything. At least the events were interesting and when things went wrong they actually responded ( I have had the occasion to contact  BFsupport 4 times , with no response or action) and gave gold to compensate. I am tired of being ignored.
  • What makes me really angry is there has been no official apology. Is the perpetrator hiding away somewhere? why can they not just fix it. I am not doing another event if I can't see before I select difficulty level, how much time I have. They are clearly not reading these posts. Only a moron would think the event was doable in 2/3 days. or someone would need to play 24/7 and pay up gold . I stopped playing Farmville because the silly amount of expansions meant you really did need to farm all day and into the night to complete anything. At least the events were interesting and when things went wrong they actually responded ( I have had the occasion to contact  BFsupport 4 times , with no response or action) and gave gold to compensate. I am tired of being ignored.
    Everything you said. Especially the part about being ignored---that's the worst part of all of this. They obviously don't give a rat's furry butt about how angry everyone is. The cavalier, arrogant attitude of those in charge is disgusting. I'll never play another weekly event at this rate unless they fix this mess--I don't have the money, time or patience to waste on it, plus I seriously don't need the frustration. I play this game for fun--not to be aggravated. We all have enough of that in real life--we surely don't need it in a game where the main point of it is to be entertained.
  • The time to complete these tasks is far less, but so are the quantities required - so I'm thinking that this was intentional.  Maybe GGS have something up their sleeves :
    Correct! The quantities are much less than usual, and is the happiness of decoration's ! :) Lvl 5 is 83 and lvl 4 is only 3 less , 80 ..or something like that..I don't belive they will " fix" this.... :(  But there should be a warning before they started giving event's like this one... :(
    Doesn't seem less to me, I have to donate 14700 apples in step 2 ... deco happiness is 84, difficulty level 5
    def not less for lvl 6 exactly the same
  • change (INT1)change (INT1) Posts: 50
    edited 30.03.2016
    I WAN'T MY MONEY BACK!!!

    Now I have 15 hours to finish this event.I'm on stage 5 and from yesterday till today have collected only 900 / 1800 map pieces. Still will have to do collecting of the feed - for wich I will have NO MORE TIME to do!! 
    For stage 1 - I went the normal way,easily, thinking I have 6 days! 
    Then I saw the timer!!!!! And hurried!!!!!!!

    Stage 2 --  I've paid over 5 million dollars for buying the apples! ( had no time to collect them!! )

    Stage 3 --  Started collecting the footsteps/ tracks - AND WENT INSANE!!! BECAUSE :  

    1. Special crops gave me s**t!! ( no tracks or one/ two out of 5 fields, and I've sawed SUNFLOWERS, violet, roses........)
    2. Normal crops gave me s**t !! ( 1/2// 5 fields!! , maybe 5 time all 5 fields gave me 1 frea***n track! )

    But somehow I've collected it!!!

    Stage 4 -- I've paid over 4 million dollars for buying corn and eggs ! ( HAD NO TIME TO COLLECT THEM!!!!! )

    Stage 5 --  And last night started collecting/ finding map pieces! 

    Now, this one really ****** me of!!!!!!
    Why?? BECAUSE :  

    a) I spend 6 hours sleeping and all the rest playing the event, since it started!
    b) I WENT BANKROT B A N K R O TTTTT!!! buying all this to see is it possible to finish without spending gold ,but spend dollars! 
    c) I' ve left sunflowers from last night till this morning ,and only 1 / 5 sunflowers gave me maps!!!!!!!!!!!!
     Till stage 6 I belive I will not even get!!!!!!!

    946 / 1800 maps currently found ,and 1/5 corns gives 1 map!!!!!!

    Have prepared with 200 cow feed for stage 6 - but I will not get there 'cause I CANNOT COLLECT MAPS WITHIN SO LESS TIME AND SO WEEK GIVEING FROM THE FIELDS AND proccessing buildings!!


    So , " dear" GGS ->>> IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO FINISH IT WITHOUT GOLD!!!!!!!!!!  

    To mention, I've picked level 5 of hardness, without haveing properly beeing noticed that event would last only two/ 3 days! 
    I gave myself to finish it! I've spend all the possible money on it!!! Hours of not sleeping! And IT IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!!! 
    If I knew the event would be lasting so short - I've would SKIP IT!! 

    So ,now , I WANT MY MONEY BACK!! Or refund in gold!! Or some other way! Or make it last longer!! That is the least you can do!!!  

    Forum is burning ,dear GGS, burning !!!! 

     Correct your mistake,because you can do it!!!!!!!!!! You can!!!! If you dont do it ,and you can , means - all of us here are just simple idiots.........

    Hey everyone!

    It seems we got ourselves some amazing deals today! Prepare for spectacular offers and sales the whole day! Missing some Halloween decos still? We got you covered for a last chance! Needing some books for the library? Find one new selection of the favorite books of 2016 every 30 minutes! Sales, sales, deals, deals, the entire day! 

    Have fun!

    (Oh, and tomorrow we will have a calm, nice day with no events, so everyone can prepare for the Coop Championships  )
      




    AND THIS IS WHAT I JUST SAW!! 

    So means - "(Oh, and tomorrow we will have a calm, nice day with no events," - no duration of the event????!!!!!!!! Tessa's event!!! Thank you GGS............YOU ARE DISSAPOINTMENT AS BIG AS A TORNADO COMEING BY AND LEAVING NOTHING BEHIND!! :P !!



    Post Merged | Cuddly
    Post edited by CuddlyFoxes (FormerMod) on
  • Hey everyone!


    Have fun!

    (Oh, and tomorrow we will have a calm, nice day with no events, so everyone can prepare for the Coop Championships  )
      




    AND THIS IS WHAT I JUST SAW!! 


    OMG---for REAL??????????? "a calm, nice day..." SERIOUSLY?   :o  Yeah--never mind all the angry players on here... Let's all pretend this whole mess doesn't exist and that everything is just FINE. 
  • Kleine Jan (NL1)Kleine Jan (NL1) NL1 Posts: 283
    Very strange Latten not mentioning the short event and or GGS is gonna do something about it. It seems to hard for your IT-Specialists or IT-Amateurs to difficult to exctend the time for this event. But surprize surprize what shows up Gold Gold Gold offers for byuing things to complete the event. Wich NUMBNUT has brought up that idea. But no time extencion for the event,then i hope that many player think the same as i do. Stich that Gold Offers in a nice dark brown very humid place. This has nothing to do with a game. This is Scamming from the higest ranking. 

    BTW have fun with your new (cough cough cough) improved C-C this time. And let the gold roll,sure there will be RP-Offers at the end of that competition. Reasons for me and many others to DON,T play ANY missions during the C-C And sure not spending 1 dime,cent or roeble in GOLDGOLDGOLD
  •  Wich NUMBNUT has brought up that idea...
    ROFL.....haven't heard the word "numbnut" in ages---love it!! It's the PERFECT word for whoever's responsible for this whole thing.
  • Kleine Jan (NL1)Kleine Jan (NL1) NL1 Posts: 283
    Farner loki thank you for liking it. I used it because it is not on the list from banned words,but i guess it won,t be long before it is on that list. So lets use that word as long as we still can >:)
  • Dharu_89 (IN1)Dharu_89 (IN1) Posts: 209
    edited 30.03.2016
    Everything is gold gold gold.
    Poor strategy by ggs.
    This small charm used to b available for 3 karma points. now its 5 karma points.
    Now what? buy karma points also with gold?
    Buying Rep points with gold will come during cc.
    Also going to put up a karma points gold "Prime Time" offer??
     @boer bartels (INT1)  Thank you for coining new terms. 
    These 'Nitwits' and 'Numbnuts' need to find some better way to make us buy gold.


  • CM LattenCM Latten Posts: 542
    edited 30.03.2016
    Just to be clear, the event and the "Winter Sale" of today are completely different things :/

    And, to be clear again, since my previous comment apparently led to more confusion: The short event is not a bug, it may be poorly planned, and it may be annoying for a ton of players, but it's not an accident - The devs always want to test new things, and this is one of those things. There won't be a "fix" for the event, guys, I'm sorry.
    Post edited by CM Latten on
  • Dharu_89 (IN1)Dharu_89 (IN1) Posts: 209
    edited 30.03.2016
    CM Latten said:
    Just to be clear, the event and the "Winter Sale" of today are completely different things :/

    And, to be clear again, since my previous comment apparently led to more confusion: The short event is not a but, it may be poorly planned, and it may be annoying for a ton of players, but it's not an accident - The devs always want to test new things, and this is one of those things. There won't be a "fix" for the event, guys, I'm sorry.
    Finally.
    There is no fix. Done.

    @CM Latten Really you are going to be getting lot of hate mails for this one. And its not over yet.
    Pls ask your devs to find some better ways for making us spend gold.
    30% off on handbooks, increase in karma points for buying small charms and putting up decos for sale.. Really, these are not intelligent.

  • Kleine Jan (NL1)Kleine Jan (NL1) NL1 Posts: 283
    So in short words. Thank you fools for working hard and donating the apples,corn and eggs for nothing. 
    When you read between the lines at GGS they don,t care anymore for the players.Well in my own words i don,t care or give a brown thing for it at GGS. 
    I am just starting to get angry. Do you NUMBNUTS at GGS that only children play this game?? And there are people who take every explanation for grantage from GGS. But the way of explaining from GGS is using a lot of words and doing AND saying nothing.
    A smart dog niver will bite in thand wich feed him,remember that GGS.
    Or do we get a political awnser when it is to late by saying,Wir haben das nicht gewusst. In english,We did not now that???
    Hiding away behind lies and still thinking we accept that kind of non-sencens. 
    I think now it is time to let them know at GGS what is the power of a big group of angry players. But there will be some brown-noses wich complain now and spend all their belonging to get that new improved prizes at the C-C. 
    I have 1 question to GGS. Can you remove that Deco tower from my farm because i don,t need it anymore. Or is that to hard for those NUMBNUTS to achive???



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