No Halloween Decor in update? Is this not the "Halloween update?

[HayDayPlayer2]

Its been autumn for 4 weeks now! This update should have been the Halloween one. They did this last year and it doesn't make sense.

People have Halloween decorations up now, and take them down after Halloween. Supercell will release 1 day or 2 days before, and then run it through Thanksgiving. I don't understand the poor planning on release dates and duration - always late and behind what is normal/reasonable

[Snowflake004]

I agree with you. They keep saying they will release it when the time is right. However, even Greg's farm is decorated, so I think that means the time should be right. I just wish they would release the decorations,so we can at least decorate our farms. I understand some people don't like the animals when they are dressed up. If they just sold decorations, it shouldn't bother people because you can choose whether, or not to buy them. Hopefully they will do it soon though.

[LuluHulu2409]

Many of us feel that Halloween is way overdue!!! Then, it will be with us until Christmas...

[IvyintheGrove]

Note to Spartan1, who said that maybe the developers don't think the same way as Americans.

Please note that Americans aren't the only nationality playing the game. :-/

Ditto to the others from the US who are complaining that they want to start thinking about Thanksgiving as soon as their Halloween is over.

[angelz969]

Note to Spartan1, who said that maybe the developers don't think the same way as Americans.

Please note that Americans aren't the only nationality playing the game. :-/

Ditto to the others from the US who are complaining that they want to start thinking about Thanksgiving as soon as their Halloween is over.

I was going to mention something like this also being from Australia!

[IvyintheGrove]

And the developers aren't American either...

[Darcelle]

Well, out of curiosity, I did a quick search and found out Halloween (or some version thereof) is celebrated in quite a few countries around the world and that it did not originate in the US. Interestingly, it seems Australia and New Zealand are among some of the last countries to get into it. I also didn't read anywhere about the countries that do celebrate it doing so after November 1st.

All that aside, it doesn't really matter where the developer is located, it matters who their audience is. Many Asian game developers, for example, cater to western audiences by observing their holidays (or some version thereof) as in game events. Since I don't have access to Hay Day player statistics I have no way of knowing what percentage of their players are or are not from Halloween-celebrating countries.

I generally like holiday events of any kind, whether they're from other countries or completely fabricated. I just don't like when they exceed the date of the actual holiday and it seems kind of pointless to me to only have it active in game for a short amount of time, but maybe that's because I'm used to other games typically using a 4-week timeline for their holiday events.

[Mtgirl]

I for one love the fall update. I dont even have Halloween decor out yet in real life. SC will never be able to make everybody happy. For every one that loves an update 2+ will hate it. Cant we just be happy that SC is listening and the keep trying to inprove the game. Ok off to fly on my unicorn, lol.

[IvyintheGrove]

Darcelle, my issue wasn't with Halloween (though I wasn't a fan of the theme). My issue was with the assumption that the entire game should fall into line with USA timing.

[IvyintheGrove]

Well said, Herbladyman!

Taw13, the early release was an accident, and hastily withdrawn :-)