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2018 - The Good, The Bad and The Downright Ugly
The Good - is unfortunately going to be a lot shorter than the bad and the downright ugly for me which when I look at it in all reality is maybe telling me something, but here goes anyway.
1) The fantastic group of players that have become virtual friends - would miss every single one that I chat to and/or meet in missions, and even moreso in my co-op - what a fantastic bunch - honestly the people are by far the best aspect of this game.
2) The Village Fair - despite all its initial problems makes a refreshing change from CC's and HWE's. The prizes are better than other events too, so with some tweaking and bugs ironed out will for me anyway, be a winner.
3) WWC's - although a bit too frequent as in any other field a WWC usually only happens annually, gives us chance to win things without changing the way we farm too much.
The Bad
1) Bugs, bugs and yet more bugs. They tell us things are tested prior to release - what absolute rubbish - they really do think we have the intelligence of a gnat. Fact - if things were tested thoroughly there wouldn't be so many bugs! A few yes, but nowhere near as many as there are.
2) The 'automated rewards'. For most the higher rewards are totally out of reach in events such as HWE. They have said they are looking into it - again what absolute rubbish - they continue to release new events when they should be fixing what is broken first.
3) The removal of the twins before the new trader is ready. Benny has also vanished off somewhere along with the WWC trader - so now we have all these coins/tokens we cant use.
4) The lag. Enough said.
5) Still too many CC's - despite assurances they would be less frequent.
6) Oktoberfest - c'mon it should be a once a year event, like St. Valentines, Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving.
The Downright Ugly
1) The kite farce
2) The edge plant farce
3) the double xp farce
4) The continued ' we are working on it' story - rubbish - no you are not - you are working on new (broken) events - they dont appear on their own!
5) The feeding of mis-information - ie the FHWE will be longer, there will be less CC's etc - none of which has proved to be true. Be honest - we may moan when you say there will be no reduction in CC's, or that all FHWE's will be shorter, but its better to know that in advance rather than feel mislead.
6) The constant gold sale pop ups - I'll buy gold if and when I choose! Yes the odd BOGOF or offer is great but so many truly puts me off.
7) The most important one for me - the total lack of respect for the customer. We ask for - they do the exact opposite, yet still expect us to buy more and more gold. It may be a strategy that works short term, but it wont last. Players will and already have get so fed up they are leaving the game. New players wont be able to progress their farms without spending a small fortune and if I was a newbie again, I'd not be willing to do that - I'd want to make sure I had time to know whether the game was for me or not. The length of time it takes to fix issues - in some cases over a month totally validates my statement regarding lack of respect.
Hmmm........ 3 good things and 7 downright ugly - time for me to do a bit of thinking.
Comments
The bad-- letting very old, very ancient bugs slide until the new bugs take priority and the old ones simply get forgotten or we are told they are now very low priority, or the team has changed so many times, no one who worked on the first bugs are there to know what to do.
Continuing to bombard us with events when we ask they be cut back.
The ugly -- As predicted, bug, bug, bug happening during the weeks at Christmas when no one is in the office. If you're going to run a game 24/7/365, staff needs to be on hand during that time who can fix things and not feed us the.standard reply things will be addressed "when they get back after the New Year."
Worst Christmas ever -- no snow (I know, I know, but we can miss it if we want to), no Christmas Wheel of Fortune, broken Santa's workshop that actually steals gold, Rudolph going AWOL without awarding the last deco (happened last year, too, or the year before, and guess what, we all were given the Post Box), missing snowman deco and the one we got is of a lesser value than it should be, can't start upgrades in the Village without votes, screwing up scheduling Big Time, etc, etc, etc.
No management or quality control. No one checking work before it's released. They say it's checked, but probably not from ordinary machines using a real game on a regular ISP that isn't part of the company's network. That's how the big boys do it, by the way -- checking things in a world in which the players live.
Lack of respect for customers gets worse by the minute.The mods are fed excuses that a 4-year-old could see through, and they have to pass them on to us.
We'll, of course, receive an apology statement full of the usual buzz words and promises to do better while being given inadequate compensation, and then they'll be wondering why more people have left the game or quit buying gold or cancelled their subscriptions.
The blatant lying is what is bothering me. Give us the REAL reasons for changing things and while I might not like it i'll respect the honesty. This should be a farming game but the lying is making it feel more like an email scam or a Nigerian Love Scam......im here to play a game, not be conned.
I left a coop where 3 virtual friends were, but they too have flown the coop and the game...so left with no virtuals; am saving the little gold which are given as rewards to be able to use to hire researchers to increase the number of recruits in my coop which I'll open when I have the numbers.
I agree with so many of you, the game has certainly changed drastically in the year that I've now played the game. It was so much better and more fun when I started it last year. Seems that things are tough everywhere; and, GGS has not been spared either...what with downsizing, good people leaving and remaining good people getting burned from overworking, overburdened and probably underpaid. Hoping 2019 will be better for everyone. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
the new large cowsheds
Improved appearances (ie Free Range for me, but the rural set looks like it's pretty nice)
World Cup event - great fun, only benefits to us involving no costs (and pretty much bug free iirc)
No snow - awesome
why don't you ask a top 5 coop if you could join them as a guest for a cc - you can be upfront about it, you want a dandy duck and you're happy to help them out to get one
Meh.... Poker for me.
2 days would be better .
@Betty Birken (US1) Leaders and Deputies do have control over who they let in to your coop, right? So that shouldn't be an issue unless you have an open coop. Maybe consider raising your level. At higher levels, they won't be joining just to get the gold, I wouldn't think.
Speed Themed Events! ( They are a nice challenge, once you have a well developped farm )
The Soccer World Cup ( it even got me into watching the soccer results )
The improvment of handbooks ( Getting major improvment )
The Black Friday Sale!! ( That -60% on handbooks, and omg, those tokens for an average price around 40G for 1 !! ))
The Village Fair ( Obviously , Super easy to pick all good rewards from it, + extra good rewards from coop ranking , And also a lot of depth and strategies! )
Addition of Seaweed liquid fertilizer for the flower farm orchards
The Large Cowsheds, They are simply amazing
The Subscriptions , more precisely the convenient package for me !! Unlimited Repeated and Mass Harvest for life
Appearance Boosters for Fields! I'm saving them! Kinda cool concept !!
The Architect Steve That comes visit our farms way more often than in the past !!
Oh, The forum contests!! Because, hm, its just fun !!
Oh, Almost Forgot... The Addition of Ghost Rods ( Even if they may vanish a little bit over time ) ( Still have 1200 in reserve )
Many appearances of all kind for many type of buildings
Construction Tokens and The Extra Slot , to build an extra time, every once in a while
The Decoration Valley ( Waiting to fully open it, before playing with it, i have already have couple creative ideas in mind )
The improvment of the HTML5 format, it was pretty bad in the beginning, but they managed to do a pretty good job on it
its been a long long time since, i lagged while playing Big Farm
The End!