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Quellman said:
I feel like my personal happiness has been waning, and just like the game, is hitting rock bottom quickly.
The fact that for 30 days I am staring at a quest to welcome a character who isn't available is absurd. Why even bother including this permanent content in this update?
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As someone on Facebook so helpfully pointed out, Toy Story 4 opens exactly 30 days from when the update hit. Having that quest sitting there is basically a month-long advertisement for the movie.

I think I'm going to try and hold on through the next Tower Challenge. I'm on vacation in another week anyway, and I also have a long weekend coming up with not much going on, so I'll have the time to play. I really want Rajah, and I'm also curious to see what the difficulty level will be this time. Whether I continue to play beyond that will depend on the results. I have no interest in the new Toy Story content, so I'll have no incentive to continue after the Tower.
 
Quellman said:
I feel like my personal happiness has been waning, and just like the game, is hitting rock bottom quickly.
The fact that for 30 days I am staring at a quest to welcome a character who isn't available is absurd. Why even bother including this permanent content in this update? Makes no sense.
At least all of my excess benches are worth more to merlin. I might need to spring for some of those, hold my happiness for 24 hours. They effectively made it more difficult for new players to grind out magic now too, no magic bonus, can't effectively farm magic. So those 1m magic land purchases, good luck with that.
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mmmears said:
My personal happiness with this game is dropping faster than the happiness in my game, which is now not ecstatic. And I woke up to only ONE wish request. Looks like the idiots found a way to make it not worth my time.
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My initial thoughts exactly when it comes to my personal happiness. Enhancements made to a game should be just that... to "enhance" gameplay. Nearly all of these recent changes have had the exact opposite effect. Not to mention that there was never an issue with how the current happiness was running. Which is only incorporated into the game to keep players returning on a (somewhat) regular basis to maintain happiness at a certain level. For a company that sends out so many pointless player surveys and "welcomes feedback", with all of these backwards-moving changes, I'm surprised that Gameloft is choosing to ignore player feedback/backlash.

From what I read above (sorry, can't remember who posted it) that we can't even go to bed overnight and wake up to a still-decent level of happiness after eight damn hours of rest? Go to hell, Gameloft. Just once I'd love to read a 'Hey, we are sorry. We were wrong. We're changing it back. We apologize for being so short-sighted and dimwitted." This whole happiness thing would be a great start. Gauntlet dropped, Gameloft. Your move.
 
supernova said:
My initial thoughts exactly when it comes to my personal happiness. Enhancements made to a game should be just that... to "enhance" gameplay. Nearly all of these recent changes have had the exact opposite effect. Not to mention that there was never an issue with how the current happiness was running. Which is only incorporated into the game to keep players returning on a (somewhat) regular basis to maintain happiness at a certain level. For a company that sends out so many pointless player surveys and "welcomes feedback", with all of these backwards-moving changes, I'm surprised that Gameloft is choosing to ignore player feedback/backlash.
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I left a pretty harsh review of them over on the app store just in case they bother to look. It's pathetic. I'll miss this forum more than I'll miss the game itself. I think that their business model is modeled after drug dealers, though, and it's just scummy.
 
Facebook, Reddit, pretty much everyone is decrying the unhappiness update. And in typical fashion, GL hasn't responded to anything negative. Where people are hitting them now are the game ratings. In Google Play Store the rating went from 4.6 to 4.2 since the update. Anyone who is deleting, make sure you rate it on whatever app store you have.
 


I have been away for the last 10 days so if this has been posted I apologize in advance. Any word on any more rebalancing of character tokens.
 
Hoodie said:
Facebook, Reddit, pretty much everyone is decrying the unhappiness update. And in typical fashion, GL hasn't responded to anything negative. Where people are hitting them now are the game ratings. In Google Play Store the rating went from 4.6 to 4.2 since the update. Anyone who is deleting, make sure you rate it on whatever app store you have.
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Yep that's what I did. Hit them hard, friends, unless you like the game as it plays today.
 


This is what I wrote for my review:

I have been with this game since a few weeks after it was released. I am so disappointed with how the game has progressed. They will throw a small gimmick to compensate for the other crappy updates. The happiness and this previous event has made me think about deleting the game. I’ve noticed that I haven’t really been having fun playing this game for about a year now. I’m going to wait a little while to see if they make some significant changes but if they don’t, I don’t know if I can stay with this game. I’ve had enough of them saying that they listen to the community when they really don’t. I’ve never seen this many people angry with this game until now. Also, if you haven’t started the game from the beginning, it seems almost pointless because they promise you can get the limited time characters but there’s always a catch.
 
mmmears said:
I left a pretty harsh review of them over on the app store just in case they bother to look. It's pathetic. I'll miss this forum more than I'll miss the game itself. I think that their business model is modeled after drug dealers, though, and it's just scummy.
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that is basically the model of all games like this - the focus is on the small percentage of players that are truly addicted to it and spend thousands of dollars on it, not the larger group of players that spend nothing or very little
 
supernova said:
Go to hell, Gameloft. Just once I'd love to read a 'Hey, we are sorry. We were wrong. We're changing it back. We apologize for being so short-sighted and dimwitted." This whole happiness thing would be a great start. Gauntlet dropped, Gameloft. Your move.
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Due to all the complaining I have a feeling yesterday that this will be the one issue they will do exactly that. Well minus the we were wrong, sorry or shortsighted part. My guess is that they will come out with some statement (soon) that they hear us and will be changing it back to the previous state. Of course they will probably also say that the happiness changes they made were a great improvement, but due to a technical glitch or something out of their control, didn’t work as intended.

I truly think they are so oblivious they weren’t aware that they were gonna get this reaction. For some reason they have really been on a kick of making changes that require us to log in more often, ideally every hour or two?
 
TheMaxRebo said:
that is basically the model of all games like this - the focus is on the small percentage of players that are truly addicted to it and spend thousands of dollars on it, not the larger group of players that spend nothing or very little
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Exactly! Especially after they have been around for a few years. Usually they can be more generous early on or for the first year, but see a drop off in revenue and/or user base over time and miss a quota or two and start making more and more changes like this. They will gladly sacrifice hundreds of FTP or rare spenders for one WHALE. It’s never made much sense to me, since they should be able to make both happy, but I’m sure they have the data to show that they made the “right decision “.
 
hopemax said:
I thought the gems were from an Instagram "if we get enough likes" thing. Not because of any change of heart, or smoothing things over.
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Not sure. Since day one I have never bothered reading any of the pop up information, and includes storyline dialogue. I see something appear on the screen and I just keep tapping until it goes away. Not sure what the paragraph about the gems referenced, but it really wouldn't make a difference if I knew anyway. It's not like they're going to come and take them away from me for ignoring all of their social media stuff. I'm not on Instagram and even if I was, I wouldn't follow them. I am, however, on Facebook, and I don't follow them there, either. No liking or sharing their posts, no time spent wasted watching their dumb live streams.
 
supernova said:
Not sure. Since day one I have never bothered reading any of the pop up information, and includes storyline dialogue. I see something appear on the screen and I just keep tapping until it goes away. Not sure what the paragraph about the gems referenced, but it really wouldn't make a difference if I knew anyway. It's not like they're going to come and take them away from me for ignoring all of their social media stuff. I'm not on Instagram and even if I was, I wouldn't follow them. I am, however, on Facebook, and I don't follow them there, either. No liking or sharing their posts, no time spent wasted watching their dumb live streams.
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It did say it was from Instagram, where I don't follow nor like their posts. I do post on the FB page occasionally, but it's only when I want them to know they are idiots. ;)
 
From what I realized this morning is Happiness drops quickly out of the top 10% zone but appears to be regular rate in 4% zone. It also does not gain 10 for each Happiness but normal 1 point for each Happiness used in the 4 % area. So does not appear to drop as quick after the 10 % zone. Check it and let me know if you agree.
 
Yeah, just logged in again and while they may not fully restore the old happiness system, they are gonna have to make some changes because the current one is beyond broken. Case in point, I was just at 87% joyous, clicked on a smile which obviously took me to 97%, right? Nope, it took me to 88%. Then opened up a gold crate that gave me 10 smiles, and it took me to 18% Ecstatic. So 10 smiles took me up 30% or 3% per smile instead of 10%. They always made it tougher near the end of each level, but with these changes, shouldn’t that be removed.

BTW since typing this, less than 15 minutes, I’ve dropped to 13%. :rotfl:

EDIT: Looks like @Arundal made a similar observation and posted it the same time as me. How much time did they waste “fixing” the happiness system? They woulda been much better off just scrapping the happiness system entirely!
 
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