apathy for events?

[HayDayPlayer2]

"Hay Day has been sinking down the App charts for months now and the lenders who ponied up a couple billion dollars can't be happy - which is probably why these desperate moves to sell more diamonds are happening."


Can it really be that the squeeze HD players are feeling is the result of corporate penny counters fretting over the bottom line?

I enjoyed your whole post, but this is exactly what is happening

[Tiggerr129]

Wow. This thread still going strong. I've had both feast and famine with this boat event. One farm can fill boats, the other has sent all away. Weird, but I haven't been here or on the farm much lately. After Tom quit on me this week, about all I have been doing is sending him for Katie and farming once maybe twice a day. I ignored the town for a full day, which is why I could fill the boats. But my sewing machine is back, I am $150.00 poorer, but I have cute princess , castle and my little pony material to cut into squares for my oldest grand daughter, who loves pink. It just seemed more interesting than the same old same old.......

Plus my goofy city has managed to make national news with stupid people showing their stupidity. So I have been monitoring the news to see if we have to go on lock down and head to the basement. Funny how that used to mean there was a tornado on the way.

Odd. Even the Olympics couldn't take me away from hayday but now.......

SNAP OUT OF IT Tigg.

Ok I'm better. Something tells me we are in for something new soon. SC isn't usually so quiet. Keeping those fingers crossed. Ok ok I'll un cross them before I turn on the sewing machine. Kinda hard to sew that way.

[Sparkly888]

I'm always willing to spend real money on a game if I enjoy playing it enough.
I spent some money on diamonds for extra production slots for Hay Day.

Hey I still love enough aspects of the game to keep playing it for now.
But with them getting stingy with diamonds and prizes and asking for such outrageous boat orders, I no longer feel like spending real money on it.

The level of player enjoyment is directly related to how much money SC makes on this game. Things are definitely out of balance here.

[Shealie54]

Can it really be that the squeeze HD players are feeling is the result of corporate penny counters fretting over the bottom line?

I enjoyed your whole post, but this is exactly what is happening

I have been thinking EXACTLY this same thing all day long. They sold out and the new owners are trying to squeeze every last coin they can. Yeah, well, I'll pay to play on MY terms, but when I feel like fingers are digging into my pocket, I'm going to shut it up tight and not spend another dime. I've barely opened the game today. Sure, here and there to keep the dairy and sugar machines running, but I haven't shopped in the DD in DAYS, nor even in friends' and neighbors' RSSes (or is that RSS's?). I can't remember the last time I didn't shop for this length of time, but, to quote Tigg once again, the bloom is off the rose. BIG time.

Someone said that they suspected a nice big update because SC has been very quiet lately. Let's just hope it's not too little too late. I for one am approaching "too late" status.

[jess1al]

This has been very interesting reading and nice to see some familiar people posting that I haven't seen in a while. I have just been filling what I can and sending away what I can't. For me, and I can only speak for me, it can get fairly hectic trying to keep my town folks fed (they really like to eat), trying to fill boat and truck orders while trying to keep all my stock up. The jewelry truck orders are usually the only ones I have been filling lately.....most of my truck orders want too many items for the small amount of exp they are giving(I have had spells where the exp for all my truck orders was 500 or less), I don't care as much about how many coins each order will give as I have plenty of coins.

Tigg, hope it quietens down in your neck of the woods soon...my brother lives near your town and was just telling me about everything there.

[PerkyCox]

...my goofy city has managed to make national news with stupid people showing their stupidity. So I have been monitoring the news to see if we have to go on lock down and head to the basement. Funny how that used to mean there was a tornado on the way.

Odd.

Tigg -- I was in LA for the week-long Rodney King riots. Steve and I were in the Navy in Long Beach at the time. I watched Reginald Denny get pulled out of his car and beaten live on KNBC. It was a TERRIFYING time -- the whole fabric of society had broken down and you realized that we are safe only because those people around us decide to abide by "social rules" of behavior and get along.

That social compact went by the wayside for a week in Apr 1992.

Most Naval personnel lived off base, but the Navy considered confining us to the NAVSTA or to our ships, until they ran the numbers and discovered they'd have 10 officers per bunk in the BOQ. We stood in the Naval Legal Service Office parking lot and watched explosions rising in the air as rioters bombed the CAL DMV office on Santa Fe Street (next to Savannah-Cabrillo Housing) and burned the S-C Southern CA Edison substation too. They advanced on S-C, but turned back when they MPs made it clear that the Navy housing areas were DEFENDED!!!

We had a few would-be rioters approach the gates of the Navy base, but they turned around and scattered VERY QUICKLY when they saw how many enlisted men they'd have to deal with. Not a shot was fired, but the message was sent: LAPD may be on the back foot, but the Navy is NOT.

We had direct military orders to leave from work at 1400 (instead of 1630) and we had to muster with the CO or XO when we reached our homes, and once there, could only leave to return to the base. No side trips, no dinners out, no using the freeways: you shall proceed from the Station to your home, using no freeways and making no stops.

Steve and I saw rioting and looting in so many places in Long Beach. The Pine Street mall and that whole shopping area downtown was filled with celebrating looters, just blocks from the street we were on. I remember a woman running out of a store with a barstool -- one barstool! She waved it and jumped for joy with the pleasure of having it, until a man punched her and took it away. Looters started to throw cans of food at her -- it was animalistic and scary.

The great irony is that the folks who were rioting were destroying their OWN neighborhoods and the infrastructure that supported THEIR quality of life -- retail stores, grocery stores, movie theaters, shops, gas stations, etc took a huge hit in S LA, as did representations of government like police storefronts, DMV offices, power substations, and public health agency offices. It was tragic for the vast majority of folks who WEREN'T looting. People were out of food or diapers and afraid to venture out -- REGARDLESS OF RACE.

It took decades to recover in LA.

I hope your city is spared that.

[PerkyCox]

I have welcomed this boat event for my daughter, who needs vouchers for pets. So I guess we are not apathetic about this global boat event, even as I admit we have been for the last few. We did not complete the boat goals either time the last 3 events.

I am working her baby lev 32 farm this week as she is at grandparent's house this week. I am really enjoying her farm -- and have decided that maybe it is the TOWN that has gotten me off balance and out of harmony with the game.

SO -- now that I am fully expanded in the town I have decided to leave it lie for a while. The outrageous greedy demands of the visitors were no fun.

I am back to the simple pleasures of farming and filling boats. Life is good in HD land. Drop a ! on your boat -- I may be by to fill it

[Tiggerr129]

Perky, it is just crazy. People from outside areas were arrested for the looting and kids who wanted to help clean up were turned away because the business owners were scared. They are also destroying their own neighborhoods, but starting to trickle down to mine. Mostly they are helping to perpetuate the stereotypes they want abolished. They claim to want justice but what some really want is revenge. They want to lash out at people who would be on their side if they would bother to talk instead of throwing rocks, bottles and shooting guns. One reporter wondered why the same people weren't outraged when a middle school boy was shot while doing his homework in his own home. He was shot by members of his own race trying to shoot his brother. And a grandmother walking her grandkids down the street who was caught in the crossfire of a gang war. Why is this current kid's life more important than the others. I am not absolving the cop of all blame but the death threats in social media against the family of different cops is just out of line. If these idiots will loot and injure totally unrelated people, of course they will hurt police and their family members. They complain that there are no cops of their own race, but the recruiters tell us that these kids don't want to be police officers. I don't see an end in site. It's been four days already.

[Madge]

I have welcomed this boat event for my daughter, who needs vouchers for pets. So I guess we are not apathetic about this global boat event, even as I admit we have been for the last few. We did not complete the boat goals either time the last 3 events.

I am working her baby lev 32 farm this week as she is at grandparent's house this week. I am really enjoying her farm -- and have decided that maybe it is the TOWN that has gotten me off balance and out of harmony with the game.

SO -- now that I am fully expanded in the town I have decided to leave it lie for a while. The outrageous greedy demands of the visitors were no fun.

I am back to the simple pleasures of farming and filling boats. Life is good in HD land. Drop a ! on your boat -- I may be by to fill it

It feels quite liberating, leaving the town for a while, doesn't it. Far less stressful when there are no hungry townies to keep fed.

Also, I'm noticing a distinct improvement in the DD now. I hadn't realised quite how bad it had become. I actually seem to have time to buy something I see now, without it disappearing right before my eyes, time after time. Maybe this will herald the wind of change?

[d2l5p2]

Also, I'm noticing a distinct improvement in the DD now. I hadn't realised quite how bad it had become. I actually seem to have time to buy something I see now, without it disappearing right before my eyes, time after time. Maybe this will herald the wind of change?

Yes, I've noticed this as well, and I am hoping you are correct!