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Coop Championship: Taking away Gold flowers and mining license prizes?

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  • KarenKay (US1)KarenKay (US1) Posts: 1,036
    Silence speaks volumes.  I spend a lot of time here in the forum, reading, learning and then sharing with the other members of my coop.  I send a coop message whenever a new announcement is given and they always elicit a lot of chatter, private messages, etc. discussing the changes and how they will effect all of our members.

    Today I sent out the latest announcement about the changes coming up in the next Cooperative Challenge, namely the removal of the gold flowers and Gold mining licenses and rewards.  My message was met with silence.  The chat box went silent for hours.  I didn't receive one single message.  I truly can't blame them, what is there to say?  Once again you've removed something that was worthwhile, usable and needed by all of our members.  Am I expected to get them all excited and jazzed up over a change in decos?  

    Let me preface this with the following:  I admire and respect all of our moderators who do their best to pass on our concerns, complaints, kudos, etc. to the powers that be.  But, do you know what I wish?  I wish that we could have at least one representative from each coop allowed to participate in an online forum with those who make these decisions.  Language barriers would have to be addressed and a format for a quality exchange of viewpoints shared without emotional bashing.  My hope would be that once they actually see and hear from us directly, they would truly see the need for some very important changes, and realize that this latest adjustment was a major mistake. Yep, I'm a dreamer.  Ultimately it's all about $$.   :(


  • Let me preface this with the following:  I admire and respect all of our moderators who do their best to pass on our concerns, complaints, kudos, etc. to the powers that be.  But, do you know what I wish?  I wish that we could have at least one representative from each coop allowed to participate in an online forum with those who make these decisions.  Language barriers would have to be addressed and a format for a quality exchange of viewpoints shared without emotional bashing.  My hope would be that once they actually see and hear from us directly, they would truly see the need for some very important changes, and realize that this latest adjustment was a major mistake. Yep, I'm a dreamer.  Ultimately it's all about $$.   :(

    DITTO about the respect and admiration of our moderators!!!  

    And a brilliant idea of a forum roundtable discussion!
  • Damaria3 (US1)Damaria3 (US1) US1 Posts: 1,737
    Great idea karenkay but do you really think that they are so out of touch that they didnt know what a firestorm this was going to start. I agree that the moderators try to do a good job and have no control over changes made. They are alienating their bread and butter we can find other games to play, games that we may not have to buy any gold to keep it interesting.
  • Gloppity (US1)Gloppity (US1) Posts: 99
    edited 14.10.2016
    Let me just add - Value is not the price tag that is put on an item - its what folks are actually willing to spend for that item - I could put a million dollar price on my house and sell it for a hundred thousand - it doesn't mean they just got a GREAT deal!  and a GREAT value!  It means they bought a hundred thousand dollar house for a hundred thousand dollars...  just sayin ;)

    @ DIDDLER YES _ SAME HERE DIDDLER!! NO GOLDING IN MISSIONS ANYMORE!!! Stopped last CC and will continue - Encouraging to hear of others!!!


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  • KarenKay (US1)KarenKay (US1) Posts: 1,036
    Great idea karenkay but do you really think that they are so out of touch that they didnt know what a firestorm this was going to start. I agree that the moderators try to do a good job and have no control over changes made. They are alienating their bread and butter we can find other games to play, games that we may not have to buy any gold to keep it interesting.
    Well Damaria3 they seem oblivious to the majority of our requests, criticisms, etc., that I doubt they even considered it, or more precisely, don't give a hoot if we like it or not, and it's that exact attitude that perplexes me the most.  Yes, we all understand the need to make money, but to turn around and alienate the very people you are trying to lighten the pockets of by taking away the only two things the majority of us "valued" is <insert whatever word works best for you>!
  • ritacba1 (AU1)ritacba1 (AU1) AU1 Posts: 266
    i'll put my two cents in.

    i sometimes use gold in missions. but now only going to do missions with no gold what so ever.
    i only did the cc comp for the gold license and the gold flowers. now there is no reason to do any of that.
    the other prizes were good but not the goal.

    the goal was the gold license and the gold flower seeds. 


  • The gold flowers and mining licenses are the only features ever winnable to get some gold (please excuse me for not counting the ludicrous 50 gold upon levelling up), which can be spent in so many ways while seaweeds have extremely limited usage. And now those are gone? 

    Another stupid (yes, there's no other word; well at least it's the cleanest I can think of) move is about the poll for bugs.
    Why is a poll needed? Fix ALL bugs!
    You introduced the big update when the test server was barely a few weeks old, with the best players still at low-levels (while some features would require to be at a much higher level to be fully tested), you didn't listen to any of the bugs reports or are not very good at paying attention/employing people who have understanding of programming and now you want to hide behind "players told us what they would like to have fixed first" rather than holding your hands up and clean your own mess?

    Pure greediness and total disrespect... Keep checking your bank accounts, laughing at us ("yeah they can moan but what can they do individually? Anyhow there'll always be some to keep buying. Let's cash out on them. Hahaha"). Keep taking your customers for granted and you'll find yourselves out of customers without even understanding why that is...
    My thoughts exactly.... Nothing more to add except that i wont be spending gold on missions in the future....
  • ashim (IN1)ashim (IN1) IN1 Posts: 572
    This was really bad announcement for my coop , we played very hard to reach 78th reward and now u change it :(
    WE will give seaweed  of any kind to ggs if he gives gold to us ( same rate that he is selling to us ) . 

  • tientje64 (NL1)tientje64 (NL1) NL1 Posts: 104
    edited 14.10.2016
    hey,

    The gold flowers are the raison that I play the coopchampionship, bye bye coopchampionship.

    but we have never used gold for the CC. 


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  • For the most part I only spend my little bit of gold during the CC, & I only spend it knowing that if we do well, I will get the gold flowers to reimburse my spenditure.  If we do very well, I will also get a gold license which doubles my investment.  If I can continue upon such a path, perhaps I can obtain enough money to upgrade my fertile fields, or perhaps buy a library book.


    One of the things I liked best about this game was that it provided us with all that we needed to achieve all things, if we were willing to work hard enough toward our goal.  Yes we can reach those goals faster, and achieve much more if we spend real world money, and I have spent quite a lot in the past, but we can still function without it. 


    Without the gold rewards, I will probably move to a different co-op so I don't feel the need to achieve much during the cc, rather than always trying to improve my game so that I do not let down my fellow team members...too bad, we were so close to achieving our collective goal, actually passing BRAT...even if just for a short while.
  • Bufo (AU1)Bufo (AU1) AU1 Posts: 167
    The 48 hour warning has appeared on the AU server, and it is blank, with no option for the Gold League to choose the degree of difficulty.

    Please do something right!
  • Maggiltilda (NL1)Maggiltilda (NL1) NL1 Posts: 546
    There are a lot of farmers who are happy to read here that there is no gold will be used during the coopmissies (the first time I have yet to see).
     It is a pity that the gold flowers and mine certificate expires, but that decision lies with GGS and I hope they will come back on there..
  • anifromid (US1)anifromid (US1) US1 Posts: 103
    excellent..... I hated playing the co-op challenge, and most of the members of my co-op feel that way too.

    so now we don't have to bother with it, since we only did it so our smaller members that couldn't afford gold would have a chance to get some. 

    thanks, GGS, great decision!!!!  Enjoy your weekend, looks like I'll be enjoying mine with no challenge to muck about with!
  • DITTO   :s
  • bdreish (GB1)bdreish (GB1) GB1 Posts: 1,341
    edited 17.10.2016
    If all of the players who buy a SMALL amount of gold a month left the game, GGS would soon find out that it was these players who kept the game afloat.  Why on earth would a business shoot itself in the foot (as others have already stated) unless this is a way to wind down the game?  Maybe it has run its course and is destined to go the way of many other online games :(  

    Edit:  our small coop doesnt take part in the challenge - I dont do missions AT ALL, and only 2 members do missions in order to get certs - so we have no interest in the coop challenge changes.  HOWEVER I THINK THAT COOPS WHO DO PARTICIPATE IN IT SHOULD BE TREATED FAIRLY, AND THE SAID CHANGES ARE ANYTHING BUT FAIR !!!
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  • WELL DONE! GGS you just made a good game not worth playing. It has no incentive to achieve any of the goals.Seaweed is superfluous when it comes to gold 
  • Are we being taken for a ride? Really you believe we're going to believe in  that? Let those who want to buy the seaweeds they can to pay them with the golds earned in the championship. We are no simple-minded to accept these as something good for us. I beg you reconsider this nonsense.
  • edited 14.10.2016
    well this doesnt really supprise me, this game is driven by  ways for GGS to get us to buy gold ever increasing cost of bonus deals and the junk they put in them, now they take away the only 2 prizes worth getting in the challenge, unless you use a lot of gold in the gold league it is Impossible to reach the 100 million  end goal for the  top prizes, it  has become a huge drain on resources with the challenge comming  around so soon after the last one GGS said last xmas they would reduce the frequency it would be played to me it is now more often than it ever used to be giving GGS  even more opportunity to rip hmm take advantage of its customers, having just been through a  difficult period with job cuts you would think that GGS would want to keep its customers happy unfortunatly this will only lead to one thing players buying and using less gold and more job cuts as a result in the loss of income, GGS need to understand that this game has a lot of  dedicated players who support them and they should learn how to treat us with a little more respect because  doing something  that might seem small in their eyes  ( removing gold seeds,  possible gold from these is 3 x 1,200 = 3,600 gold use 2,000 gold on  mine with license won total possible gain from these 2 prizes 5,600 gold this is a great reward)  will have a huge knock on effect to player participation in the co-op challenge and gold sales to enable players to reach the point where they got this reward, and i also think its time that GGS realise that  we dont all want more stupid decors why do they think all we want are decors, there are enough decors to win in all the numerous events we already take part in,

    DO THE RIGHT THING GGS  GIVE US BACK WHAT WE  WANT  AND STOP RUNNING THE CHALLENGE SO OFTEN 

    This is starting to be a love hate relationship i love this game i hate GGS they really do suck when it comes to understanding what players  want, they NEVER listen and they wont this time, a total gold ban is a great idea and im all for it as im sure my fellow players in our co-op  will agree, not only to win missions but also to use gold rp boosters, lets look at the gold used during challenge, gold to speed up collecting during missions, gold used for co-op and personal  rp boosters, gold used on  co-op challenge wheel of fortune, buy gold  recieve the same for your co-op.theres prob a bonus deal conected with challenge but i cant remember,  so we give them all our money  and they take away the only prizes worth playing for nice one GGS. the gold flowers were fun to win seeing what  everyone managed to get from them, even if ggs say they will put them back for next challenge why should we even believe them as they have never kept any promises in the past ;)

    ok rant over tear me apart if you like i dont really care GGS suck  ra ra r a


    very disgruntled gold buyer

    Andyh
  • Aside from the fact that the only way some of the players achieve gold is through the flowers and mining license and the only true way we achieve them is through CC Hardworking event, and if you are REALLY REALLY lucky through the wheel, and if you have the gold through Omar.
    You are not seeing the chain of events here.  
    1.  Do missions so coop advances so we get gold flower seed and Mining License
    2.  Use gold seed to acquire the limited amount of gold that you allow the seed to produce.
    3. Use that 2000 in gold to use the mining license to get 4,000 in gold 
    Then repeat as needed.

     What are you leaving us to look forward to?
  • 24KSan (US1)24KSan (US1) US1 Posts: 95

    I am an admitted gold buyer and I too love getting the gold flowers and licenses, they are great prizes for everyone.

    Don't get me wrong, seaweed is nice, but I don't usually use my gold to buy it because there is not enough bang for my buck.

    GGS knows exactly what they are doing by taking away the gold flowers and licenses, if they really wanted to increase the value of the prizes for their loyal Big Farm Family , then they would  have increased the amount of gold flowers and licenses they were giving during CC, NOW that would be something to get excited about.

    They know perfectly well that those prizes are the ones that most players want.

    If they don't want to give more gold flowers/licenses, then why don't they try getting rid of some of the crappy prizes they have now, that no one cares about.

    Unless everyone at head office thinks that we are all a little behind the eight ball, then I can't imagine that they would think that we would be happy with this.

    I had my say,

    Peace Out : )





     

  • edited 14.10.2016
    im quite a generous guy so this is something i give GGS for free  yep for free ;)

    a guide to running a good business,
    1 treat your customers with respect, 2 the best way to build up  your business is by word of mouth, player satisfaction is good for this, 3 GIVE and TAKE is essential to building up a good foundation, not take take take, 4 your not always right and its good sometimes to take notice of your customers, 5  ALWAYS remember no customers no business...........


    Solution, give us back our gold flowers = customer satisfaction, you give for once, happy players telling their friends about big farm, customers stay with you simples  ;)
  • maggie02 (INT1)maggie02 (INT1) INT1 Posts: 524
    I wonder why the only rewards in coop champ that requires 'enhancement' and 'replacement' is the ones that involves giving gold to players. In fact these are the most desirable rewards every player is looking forward to win and is a great incentive. There are other 78 rewards which could be replaced, especially the ones we don't need at all like catalysers, etc
  • I wonder why the only rewards in coop champ that requires 'enhancement' and 'replacement' is the ones that involves giving gold to players. In fact these are the most desirable rewards every player is looking forward to win and is a great incentive. There are other 78 rewards which could be replaced, especially the ones we don't need at all like catalysers, etc
    yep and horse shoes, premium feed, and , and ,and, and so on  ;)
  • farmerjohn 22 (US1)farmerjohn 22 (US1) US1 Posts: 37,770
    edited 15.10.2016
    I agree completely that the changes in the rewards for the CC are terrible. I would also like you to know that since the restructuring of GGS that eliminated most of the CM's, GGS has basically cut us off from player interaction with the company. Our Mods are our the only connection that we have, and they do the best they can with what they have to work with. Things could be worse, we could have been cut off from Support like the players in several foreign countries. Here's a link to an Official Announcement on the Romanian forum.....  https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/ro/discussion/131994/discontinuation-of-customer-support-for-ko-hu-bg-cz-tr-and-ro#latest

      I've been disappointed by this company far too often to be surprised by anything they do at this point.  To be quite frank, I sincerely doubt whether anyone from GGS will ever read this thread. And if by some miracle they DO, nothing will ever come of it. :(

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  • Angelas Place (US1)Angelas Place (US1) Posts: 669
    edited 17.10.2016
    They still are not listening to us before the game just shut down they had a gold buying promo where you spend 40. bucks and get 125% MORE gold...WAKE UP GGS!!!!!!!!!!! I will not spend another dime purchasing ANY gold and I encourage others to do the same til they actually take the players seriously and listen to whats best for us NOT THEM!
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  • Janisss (AU1)Janisss (AU1) Posts: 63
    edited 14.10.2016
    So it has been suggested over & over & over that the catalyzers are pretty much a useless reward for most players & in response GGS takes away the rewards that involve gold!!!

    THAT is a slap in the face........OUCH!!!

    But it does not end there. Trying to pacify us by explaining that the overall value of the rewards has increased with these changes only shows that GGS does not have a high opinion of our intellectual capabilities either. So bogus!!! 

    That is another slap in the face.....DOUBLE OUCH!!!


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  • TheGabi (US1)TheGabi (US1) US1 Posts: 117
    This is a travesty to take away the best part of the CC awards to give us seaweed ...... really?     
     
    YOU MISSED THE BOAT ON THIS ONE GGS !   

    Plz reconsider and bring back the gold flower seeds and mining certificates.. they were one of the best prizes to be won for CC.   
  • question,
    why should we help you guys with the test server when you take away our gold flowers ?
  • edited 14.10.2016
    I wonder why the only rewards in coop champ that requires 'enhancement' and 'replacement' is the ones that involves giving gold to players. In fact these are the most desirable rewards every player is looking forward to win and is a great incentive. There are other 78 rewards which could be replaced, especially the ones we don't need at all like catalysers, etc
    DITTO

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  • WE will give seaweed  of any kind to ggs if he gives gold to us ( same rate that he is selling to us ) . 

    OH YES BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!  I would even give them a 10% discount - 20% when I am feeling really generous!

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