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and referring to the christmas event being broken, i'm doing fine in chapter 4 and will be done with the list early even tho i had to upgrgade a building 3 times just to be able to make an item.... and ggs gave the decos for the messed up chapters, not just to the players that actually played but to all active players... the deco happiness is not super but the vhp are good and the reality is the deco points would have never been spectacular for this anyway. the most i've seen someone say they reached was something like 51 personal happiness points but i have seen none complain about the vhp on the decos given... everyone has been given chapters 1-3 marked as complete so as long as they finish chapter 4, they can play chapter 5. any gold spent has been compensated by just the decos really because that is what you would be spending the gold on during the event, to earn the deco, that is the prize, plus they gave us all some extra @Rmaybe (US1)
and sure players can 'ban' the developers, quit p@"Rmaybe (US1)"
the object of the game is to build your farm so you can EARN the money so you can expand your farm so yoy can earn more money and continue to play. to say that the game money is FAKE is where you are in error... it is not actual legal tender but is is real in the game... you need it to produce everything but wildflowers.... in this game to play this game, it is very real... and very necessary that is why the give yo some to start off with. for those that took advantage of this situation and now have a zero balance, well, think how hard that will be to come back from. but for ggs to just move on, that makes it unfair ti many more that did not do this as well as is bad for the game. it would be similar to having someone misbehave during work or school or in public or what ever and nothing being done about it. as they say, it would be anarchy... lol someone else here said that some games would permanently ban you for doing something like this
just saying...
Actually there are several other ways they could have handled this - unfortunately GGS handled it in one of the worst possible ways -
it was said players "exploited" GGS coding (the coding doesn't appear to be a "bug" just something not done correctly by GGS or an error in coding) while many also reported it - sale of goods for lots of $$$ - i remember the same thing with DSF enormous amounts of $$ that people used very happily and reported or questioned the amounts at the same time - gosh only about a half a year ago!
So again it is by all reports a GGS problem not a player problem - same as a a coding error that allowed co-ops to exploit a co-op booster for CC - having all players temp "leave" the co-op and add the boosters (very cheap then with 1 player) then "rejoin" - with many co-ops participating
this was a coding ERROR not a bug or glitch and went on for MONTHS with GGS doing nothing about it & support saying it was "in the game" - now when those of us protesting and telling GGS we would follow suit (even though we believed it to be UNFAIR and EXPLOITATIVE) we were WARNED if we would do it (I guess by putting GGS on notice) we MIGHT have our accounts banned it still took another month or two before that ended - either by warnings or because the code was FIXED - this too was just this spring/summer
Nor does GGS do much about multi accounts - as a mod told me "GGS CAN ban the account doesn't mean they will"
GGS often takes players farm dollars, gold etc due to real or intended glitches in the game on almost a daily basis. Like someone said -we can't fire the programmers or even get our stuff back - it's GONE! &and for the most part we have to accept it or quit the game.
It's not just that GGS came in and took players money; they took it and then some without giving the products back. Players are reporting they lost the inventory, the $$ and even more $$$ and some are now or will be banned over an error that is 100% the fault of GGS (so sayest the powers that be).
I don't care that someone received FARM DOLLARS in the millions or even billions that allowed them to buy expansions and upgrade buildings and I didn't. Didn't that happen with DSF?? Lots of people didn't "exploit" the $$ that I earned in DSF.
In order to mass use those $$ (with the exception of some land purchases) lots of GOLD would have been needed to be used.
Please GGS don't even use the phrase "unfair to (other) players" because that is all the company does -- day in/day out 24/7 - you have no clue about the meaning behind the words "fair" and "unfair".
And what purpose does a "tempt ban" really do or who does it serve? It's absolutely pointless and punishes players for what GGS employees --either current or past-- put into the game (i am reminded of many "timed-released" or on timers malware and viruses & there were many disgruntled and angry people employed at GGS in the past 15+ months)
Once again though GGS shows us what makes them great!
And the Players go wild!!
(What GGS thinks)
(What players think)
My fear is this: because they aren't disclosing what the affected items were, or what the sale amounts were, how do we know what to look out for should it happen again? First thing in the morning, I am half asleep when I try to breeze through the fishing areas and farms to harvest ... it's "click, click click," selling off the excess without looking at the prices or my bank account before starting the day in my real life. And should I realize I had a windfall, I honestly would have thought it was GGS making good on all the losses we encountered this year, and would have bought land or upgraded or whatever.
The point being, it could have happened to me or you. And we'd find ourselves wiped out and banned. And that's a very sobering thought.
Player accidentally spends 50,000 gold on something they don;t want due to a misclick or error,... GGS reaction is "be more careful next time because it was YOUR mistake to click the trolley"
GGS accidentally mess up a code in the game that gives the player much much more farm dollars when selling items.......My reaction, "be more careful next time GGS because it was YOUR mistake"
Spare me the fairness drivel, The player finally benefits from something and now GGS claims its unfair.
Luckily I slept though this entire debacle so I don;t have to worry about this issue but banning players because of something YOU did wrong is ridiculous. You have been fleecing players of their gold and real money for years through accidental purchases and mistakes yet now that the shoe is on the other foot all of a sudden its all unfair. I'm not one of the players affected, neither is anyone in my team but I still felt the need to put in my 2 cents worth here.
Has the money already been removed from accounts?
Does anyone know what these items were?
In guardian phase of christmas preparations, I noticed that wet pig feed, cow sillage, alfalfa, rubataga are "bugged".
so even not knowing what event you are referring to, i would say no, it is not unfair.
I personally had honey cream maxed in my inventory for some time but was making it every 10-12 hours or so and would sell w/e was the excess over inventory as I normally would do - I sure don't look at those $$ amounts but i never had a huge amount in my farm $$
I agree - I don't think they have "recovered" all or are done "banning" which I personally don't feel is right in any way shape or form
I have done this for months to pay for the crew members for DSF and make a little bit for upgrades here and there. Currently doing Trawlers and they take a good bit of farm dollars. I don't normally sell out of inventory items i am using for market orders, or donation events. but if your barns are full you don't really have any other choice if you don't have a contract for items.
I can only hope that GGS will eventually allow us to know what item it was that was mistakenly priced for out of inventory sale that caused this "exploit". Because I don't LOOK at the prices paid for selling items, I just sell them. It's not like these selling prices are leveraged to a differing amount every day like a commodities market.
I can only hope a full explanation is forth coming for my own peace of mind.
The whole banning of players ... I do not believe is in GGS's best interest. This would hurt a lot more than those players. This will hurt MANY coops. Coop membership is so low lately with so many players leaving the game that many cannot afford to lose anymore members. Depending on how many players are removed from any one coop, it could be crippling to the coop.
i saved up for quiet a while to buy land and that is the only thing that has been different.
my account has slowly gone up, apart from this xmas event when i donated what my co op needed. i used most of my seaweed to help my co op, i have recently started using the fishing market as well.
I have been a customer for over 4 years, and i feel the treatment of banning me for no reason rotten on GGS part.
no they cant replace my gold. i didn't cheat, but they can ban me.
i feel its time to say goodby to this game
they give no reason for the ban on the email. just that its for 72 hours
https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/169509/my-acc-blocked-farm-dollars-gone#latest
I am glad I was very busy today. I don't think I could have dealt with another mess and restart of the CHWE.
I am guessing the problem happened after the first reset today?
See sometimes it pays to take a break and spend time with family.
This problem with the shortened HW is unacceptable. I was so much looking forward to December and the variety of events. It has been the worst, most stressful time in the whole 4+ years of the game. Finally I was excited for the HW to come again to distract me from the debacle of the Christmas Prep Event. And then they went and ruined the HW. And they won't even tell us the truth, which makes it all worse.
Notice that whenever things are bad, there is even less of people from GGS on the forums.
Plus, they promised us more communication months ago, and there has been less. I used to think that the "situation" was salvageable. I now honestly wonder if the game will disappear soon. The level of incompetence is just staggering. I think we now may be near the time where we have to wonder if those in charge are actually capable of doing what needs to be done. I used to think so, and that they just went through rough patches from to time. I am no longer certain of that.
why did I have to make 6060 soap?