This is a free game that has given me many hours of enjoyment, and very few bugs - some, but not many. It looks fantastic. It has Original content from the Simpsons people. After EA’s recent major fuck-ups, this is an amazing accomplishment.
Again, it’s free. And it’s a game - maybe don’t compare it to the healthcare.gov debacle.
I think it just opens dead center on the grid (which for me is in the middle of a park)
Your reply is curious to me…
In my original post, I clearly spoke about the quality of the game. However…
You speak about the freeness of the game*. Certainly, there is a correlation between cost and quality. However, it is ridiculous to say that no cost means no (or low) quality. Would you drink free beer with rat-droppings in it?
You speak about the hours of enjoyment the game has provided you. Not the amount of satisfaction (very satisfied, not very satisfied), but the hours (many hours of unknown levels of satisfaction). There is no correlation between duration of satisfaction and quality.
You speak about very few bugs of the game. How many bugs are acceptable? Stink Fish Pot says, “This game is becoming unplayable. My town isn’t even that big, and the houses disappear and reappear as. I move through it.” For FPS, this one, singular bug is not acceptable. Would you drink Guinness with only 1 rat-dropping in it?
You compare the game to others in a historical context. The past does not dictate the future. Past results should not influence future ones. If you don’t understand this, you probably shouldn’t play roulette.
In my original post, I clearly spoke about the quality of the game. Based on my own experiences, and many, many comments in this thread and others, I feel that this game is of low quality. I don’t care if it is free or expensive, if people love or hate it (for minutes or weeks), or if it came after other low-quality games. This particular game is of low quality.
Finally, my comparison to healthcare.gov used the words “well-known” vs. “little-known”. I was trying to express the idea that “sadly, low quality software is everywhere, even if you don’t hear about it on the news”.
Entitled? Yeah, I guess so. I want my free beer to have 0 rat-droppings. Am I allowed to be upset with the people and process that is “ok” with producing rat-dropping beer? Yes. I’m entitled to that.
*and make no mistake…while this game may be played for free, it still makes EA money. Lots.
Also…sorry to the rest for hijacking the thread. I guess I’m just frustrated with the wheel and never getting Claus Co. Back to your regularly scheduled thread…
I was happy to see that a new store is available with the new level. I need only to bump up my consumerism a half star to reach a full five stars. I was starting to overload on Kwik e marts to try to get there.
Question for anyone.
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How often do you see sideshow bob showing up?
He is in my town at least once a day. Usually, i see him twice, and occassionally three times.
Is this your experience? I read online that he should pop up maybe once every other day or so, but that hasn’t been my experience.
Anyone else have a similar sideshow bob experience?
Maybe every other day or so for me.
To add to SFP’s questions - sometimes the map zeros in on Bob (making it ridiculously easy to find him), sometimes not - anyone had a similar experience?
Yeah, that’s pretty normal. I think if he’s out running around when you log in, the game zeros in on him. If he’s ducked into a building when you log in, the game does now.
I like all the new stuff in the update, but I’m a little bummed. I just spent a bunch on donuts on the Try-N-Save because I thought my town needed a grocery store. Now we have one for in game dollars! Figures.
I only see him maybe every third day in my town, but as I’m going through my friends’ towns, I’ll almost always see him in the 20 or so towns I visit in a day. More interestingly, you can (or could, I haven’t tried in a while) make him move: ignore Sideshow Bob in a friend’s town, and he’ll automatically be in the next friend’s town you look at, without the “announcement.”
Anyway, I don’t think he’s on a timer at all, I think he just has a chance of popping up every time you load your town. So the OCD types are probably seeing him more often, and possibly a lot more often – I only load my town a couple times a day at most.
That’s a lotta hyperbole in that post. I disagree with you.
/hijack
In my town, every couple of days is right. But I see him in at least a few friends’ towns daily.
If you’re in a friend’s town, and get that message, but it’s not centered onBob, go back one friend, then comeback to the current friend’s town. It centers on Bob this time. Helpful in a BIG town.
Ned Flanders: Well, I guess this is a case where we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Principal Skinner: I don’t agree to that.
Ms. Krabappel: Neither do I!
I get Sideshow Bob at least daily in my town and several of my friends’ towns too. He’s almost always in Other Springfield. If I know he’s in a town and I can’t find him, I go to the next town and return right away to the first town and it zooms right in on him. If I can’t find him in my Springfield when I know he’s there, I go to Krustyland and he usually follows me there.
TimeWinder, when your corn is ready, don’t tap on it. Let your friends tap it and collect the handshakes, always leaving one up.
Does anyone if they’re planning on expanding the size so we can buy more land? I’m getting to the point where I’ll have to either start sticking stuff in the inventory or developing my wooded area (which I want to keep).
Just1Lurk, how are you on boardwalk area? Can you possibly move some of your businesses to the boardwalk?
I don’t believe you can move non-boardwalk businesses to the boardwalk.
Ok, all.
Now that the great ticket/wheel debacle is over, what are some of the changes you’d like to see in the game? They can be anything…
I’ll go first!
1). All characters should have a voice. I don’t see why almost everyone speaks, but there are characters that are mute. Milhouse is a perfect example.
2). I know this is nitpicky, but it would be cool if they gave you the time left to visit your friends on the home page somewhere. I don’t want to waste the time to load the friends page only to see that I’m early and have to come back later.
3). I wish they would do something about having the game start accidentally in anonymous mode. I have to shut down my iPad and reboot to get it to give me the screen with the login button again. This one would be high on my list.
4). The disappearing/reappearing buildings has become very bad on my screen. I know some of you don’t experience this, but i do every time I visit. My playing has slowed significantly since Christmas, which is a good thing… But I’d still like to see this one fixed.
5). My single biggest one. Each time I hit the KL bus, the program crashes. The only time it doesn’t is late at night. I have had this problem since I loaded the program originally, so this one is a must fix. I now go to KL only at night if i remember/have the time.
Please don’t tell me it is free. I know it’s free. But i also know that EA is making a boatload of money on this app with in-game purchases. If they weren’t, they would stop coding and supporting this thing. This is a money-maker.
Add your own to the list!
To balance out my critical post, I’ll add a few of my favorite things.
Ralph’s activities and his verbal responses are the best. I love making him run in a circle playing whatever that game is. Lisa is always so upbeat when you send her on a task. “Yes!” Or “alright!” Always makes me smile. I love Chief Wiggum as a character on the show, so i’m glad they made him a talking character in the game.
The voice thing is annoying. EA must not want to pay the actors or something. It’s stupid that there’s no voice for Fat Tony or Milhouse, and there are characters like Herman who do nothing but grunt.
I also think the donut prices for the premium items are a total ripoff. If you felt like paying $20, that should get you a significant amount of stuff, not 2 or 3 things. I almost spent a few bucks during the Xmas deal, but the prices, coupled with the fact that the game itself explicitly reminds you how dumb it is to spend money on crappy timesinking tap games like this, dissuaded me. Yet I would gladly spend $5 or $10 if that could buy me more than one lousy building. The fact that there’s a $99 donut purchase offer available is an insult.