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Feedback: Unfair gold offer

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  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 15.03.2014
    Curiouser and curiouser, as they say. The same person I mentioned when I started this topic just got the same 200% offer again this morning. Nobody else in my coop of 33 people received it. 50% offer does not count. It is not individualized and is available to everyone
  • rie222rie222 Posts: 1,074
    edited 15.03.2014
    um I could care less anymore. I could get a 5000% offer I will never buy again.
  • mork2262mork2262 Posts: 15
    edited 15.03.2014
    i used to buy a lot of gold but no longer and i have received this offer for the last three days running.

    get this ggs

    IM NOT BUYING ANY!
  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 18.03.2014
    Wow, talk about a bit too much coincidence here - the same person just had the 200% offer for the fourth time. She is still the only one in our coop
  • Woodstock MWoodstock M Posts: 110
    edited 18.03.2014
    I guess she did not buy lol... So she still fit the "selection" criteria.
  • MeadowLeeAnn (US1)MeadowLeeAnn (US1) Posts: 67
    edited 18.03.2014
    I haven't had the 200% offer yet either! Beginning to think GGS cheating by playing "favorites".
  • William466William466 Posts: 1
    edited 18.03.2014
    I don't see why anyone should spend money, yes ok it supports the game but advertisements do that for them to. i find that the game would far more enjoyable if you did not have to buy gold to purchase items in the game. I myself don't purchase as i find it a waste of money. i play plenty games and don't put a penny into it. i just wait and wait till i go up levels. please do away with the gold.
  • Dave 20133Dave 20133 Posts: 9
    edited 19.03.2014
    yeah i to have never seen and until i read this didn't know that anything over 100% was possible. 100% i have only seen twice. 200% would be nice.
  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 19.03.2014
    William466 wrote: »
    I don't see why anyone should spend money, yes ok it supports the game but advertisements do that for them to. i find that the game would far more enjoyable if you did not have to buy gold to purchase items in the game. I myself don't purchase as i find it a waste of money. i play plenty games and don't put a penny into it. i just wait and wait till i go up levels. please do away with the gold.

    But that's not the point here, is it? The point is that the offer seems to be given (over and over) to the same 'hardly ever buying' or 'non-buying' players to entice them to start buying or doing it again. And that, in my opinion, is very unfair.
  • rie222rie222 Posts: 1,074
    edited 19.03.2014
    Yip i think its a complete lie that this is random. Because I used to buy gold..yes past tense thank you. I have never gotten a random offer. I will keep you all posted if this changes. Because I bet I will see those random offers now.
  • Suzy34Suzy34 Posts: 3
    edited 19.03.2014
    i didnt see any 200% offer. and the gold is realy expensive!!! i think there would be more gold buyers if they drop the price or more gold for the money.
  • thaddeus5thaddeus5 Posts: 13
    edited 19.03.2014
    I am a regular gold buyer, weather I get the offer or not I will continue to buy gold and improve my farm, any offer 50% or 100% offers are a bargain.
    Good farming all.
  • JeffCivJeffCiv Posts: 2
    edited 20.03.2014
    Lots of screaming kids in the house now. Thanks GGS. :huh:

    Some kids (who I have not bought gold for yet) get tons of 150% and 200% offers, and barraged with nonstop popup ads. On extremely rare occasions, the gold-buying players get the offer (once each for two of the 5 gold buyers). But mostly the historical gold-buyers in our group get lots of "50%" offers, and the "100%" offers for the gold-buyers seem to be about as frequent as the "200%" for the goldless.

    So, its a flat out lie that all players get the 200% offer. Period. :rolleyes:

    This, and the backstabbings of things like the Happiness, the incomplete "new" things around the farm perimeter, the Gormet Farm fiasco which has paralyzed that part of the game, the poorly though out design changes, the almost child-like management of the game itself by the GGS staff....

    The money spigot is now turned off, no matter how many 200% offers come up. 8 people paying (my) $$$ will now go to another family oriented game to play.


    Post-Mortem of BigFarm

    Although it has been an earful from some of my kids, this ends now, and I count ourselves fortunate that we are less than 2 months into this game, and did not start it last summer or a year ago and waste quadruple digits in cash. Three digits, and its a learning lesson for getting into another German-based game. Its a different mindset in Germany. I have a Masters in game design from KTH Stockolm (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), and know something about various culture mindsets, especially European and American, in gaming and micro charge business models. Visit the slow-moving train wreck of a (formerly in the 2007-2011 time frame) very good German game called game name removed as they have destroyed a very good game making the same mistakes GGS company has done recently.

    Its seems a fairly predictable and consistent Cultural mindset peculiar to Germanic game/management philosophy that takes what promises or proves to be a great game concept and snatches defeat from the Jaws of Victory. By that, I mean players that want to play, who pay for premium/gold (often not only for themselves, but for a baggage train of kids and others), are driven from the game and find new ones.

    The kids liked this Farm game, so we went along with them. I cringed, having examined how this company operates. But games are for fun, and kids often get their way (at first). However, it did take me by surprise how rapidly GGS imploded this BigFarm game in the few weeks we have been playing it. True, the Kids do not really notice some of it. But then, neither do they pay the piles of money for it. I do. Until now.

    They can continue to play BigFarm (though I'm hoping we can all just simply stop now), but we will not bring anyone new to it, nor buy more "gold". I'm hoping we can get our community of Adults and Kids switched to another non-Shooter 'decent' game in the next few weeks.



    No hard feelings to BigGame. But you all really blew it. I'm actually thankful that you at GGS were so over-the-top outrageously out of your minds, in Stomping on us. If you had done it slowly, bit by bit, it would have been much more difficult to put an end to this, and we all would be much deeper into it by the summer, and much harder to walk away from.

    The Emperor Has No Clothes: You at GGS might think you are just running (and messing up) a game concept/company. But there are those in the industry who actually are cheering that you continue. They compete for the dollars of gamers, and like it when competitors screw up and that money pool becomes available. But I'm writing this as a consumer, not a designer or marketer or executive.


    BigFarm will limp along. Whatever the future holds for it, two things are certain. No money from me, my family, friends, nor industry coworkers. Most will not in fact never even post, and BigFarm will never reach the potential it could have. Many of your current customers, and even some of my own kids may look at you and think you have nice Clothes, but sadly on the Big Farm.... the Emperor Has No Clothes.
  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 21.03.2014
    The same person just received the 200% gold bonus for the FIFTH time in 9 days. Still think it's 'random' and 'coincidence'?
  • Twiglet (GB1)Twiglet (GB1) GB1 Posts: 1,174
    edited 21.03.2014
    i used to buy gold wont anymore but i never had the 200% offer
  • rie222rie222 Posts: 1,074
    edited 21.03.2014
    I do not like being lied too...
  • farmerjonny3farmerjonny3 Posts: 2
    edited 22.03.2014
    I agree, one of our members got it too. I will not buy gold again until I get that offer and I wish everyone would do the same
  • Da Kid3Da Kid3 Posts: 28
    edited 22.03.2014
    200% gold offer, I never got one of them, and I do buy gold , MMMMMM, looks like I'll wait for that to come my way or even 100%
  • AphasiaAphasia Posts: 223
    edited 22.03.2014
    My exclusive offer is only worth 50%. I guess my hard work isn't worth as much. >.>
  • nana28282nana28282 Posts: 133
    edited 22.03.2014
    Aphasia, that offer is for everyone and is available quite often. Unless you got it personalized "Dear Aphasia. We appreciate hard-working farmers and are offering you this 200% offer, which means when you buy..." And the 50% offers are not personalized.
  • FarmingGamerFarmingGamer Posts: 107
    edited 22.03.2014
    each of my coop members are getting this 200% bonus like more than 4 -5 times now and i haven't received a single time.and they say it is random for players.this random that these same persons receiving and i do not fall in that random list :O
  • Slodge (AU1)Slodge (AU1) Posts: 46
    edited 22.03.2014
    Ive never seen an offer like that yet... prob wont either... lol
  • AphasiaAphasia Posts: 223
    edited 22.03.2014
    nana28282 wrote: »
    Aphasia, that offer is for everyone and is available quite often. Unless you got it personalized "Dear Aphasia. We appreciate hard-working farmers and are offering you this 200% offer, which means when you buy..." And the 50% offers are not personalized.

    Um yeah - actually it reads just like that. So yeah - i got a personalized +50% offer.
  • edited 22.03.2014
    Members from my coop got 200% and 150%.
    Why I didn't, don't know...
    I'm higher level than them. I'm buying gold on any 50% 100%, but I never got this offer!
    I'm an active player, online from 6h to 22h.
    What's happening here? Is this only for chosen ones or for those who stay up all night?
    Not fair...
  • Farmer HanneFarmer Hanne Posts: 5
    edited 22.03.2014
    same happend in my danish coop to..people who not buy offen get the offer. I buy every month for a lot of money..and I have not seen the 200% on my farm..I stop buying untill I get the 200% also....
  • edited 22.03.2014
    Well then it sounds like a bait for those who do not by gold to get hooked buying....
  • Kat Nip (GB1)Kat Nip (GB1) GB1 Posts: 3,796
    edited 23.03.2014
    In the interests of the conversation, I've seen the 200% offer on all of my farms. The EN one I often purchase gold, the AU one I've stopped running and have once purchased gold with and the US and WWW ones which are sitting at level 14 and I've never purchased gold with. I don't know that there's really a set pattern to it at all.

    Kat. Kittie_by_otomosc.gif
  • AphasiaAphasia Posts: 223
    edited 23.03.2014
    I've never seen it. When I first started playing, I saw the +100% offer a few times, but haven't since. I wouldn't be surprised if GGS has a faulty algorithm that has determined I will buy gold for less incentive, and that's why even my personalized offers only amount to +50%.
  • Arun PrasadArun Prasad Posts: 2
    edited 23.03.2014
    200% gold is only for the players who wont buy a gold for long time. for regular gold buyers we are the fools for buying in 50% offer. The other prime day offer to buy gold , for 200 dung, 50 chicken feed, 10 onions and 200 corns . Who need this? You think this is a offer for buying gold??? and the other offer is for 7000 gold they will give $600000. it is worthwhile???? GGS is doing comedy track in online game I think so. plz dont think we users are sheep as we go whatever way you show. If this comedy track trend goes on then GGS have to loose lot of players.
  • chicaachicaa Posts: 437
    edited 23.03.2014
    I have never seen this 200% offer, I have heard of many people in my Co-op who are received.. wondering if I will ever receive it ;(

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