Re: [Feedback] Sweet Treat Showdown - Catwalk Fabulous
by JustJazzy81Original Post
Positive Feedback
- The Studio made tweaks to the Sweet Tweet Challenge and I honestly feel that they made a positive impact. Somehow the challenges honestly do feel more balanced. Sure, I don’t win them every time, and I’m still spending precious SimCash in the early rounds when it’s cheaper to recover from a dessert disaster, but overall, the event feels more manageable, and I believe I can accomplish it in the time allotted.
- I think the implementation of the side quest to unlock more tokens along the was a positive addition.
- I do feel like the Studio is listening to players. They definitely don’t agree with all feedback from players, but the simple fact that positive tweaks to the game are being made in each update is great, and shows that they are listening and responding to feedback. For example, a) players felt that the event was too hard in the early days of the event, so they removed some of the rounds that didn’t yield as many tokens; b) players did’t like the length of the events, so they reduced them; c) players wanted additional ways to earn tokens, so they added the side quest; d) players wanted a new career/hobby, so they added one. These changes are really steps in the right direction and specific feedback I’ve read from players along the way. It feels good to be heard.
Critical Feedback
- The novelty of the baking event, and even the Wumples quests, was really great, but honestly it has worn, and I’m nervous thinking about how many of these events we have left. Or, is this our life now?
- I think there is a lot to be said about player satisfaction and happiness in a game when they have autonomy and choice in the prizes they receive. The prizes in these events are still loot box style, and there is no self-selection or prizes or the order in which they are awarded. I miss the event style of my three favorite events: Halloween Haunt, 12 Days of Winterfest, and Be My Valentine. In each of these events players still had grand prizes to work towards, but they also had smaller prizes to win (at varying token values), and could choose which prizes to save up for and unlock. Therefore, even if they didn’t win the grand prizes, at least they walked away with prizes they selected in the event. These three events were fantastic, and it was the self-selection of prizes that contributed to that. I don’t want to upset the studio after all of their hard work, but I also don’t want to go into the fall and winter holiday events exclusively doing bake-offs and wumples.
Everything is good so far...
My only feedback, the thing that really annoys me is:
The chance of getting a new item is clearly rigged to favor a new swatch to items that you have earned. For example:
- at the previous event (gardening), I got all 6 swatches of succulent vertical wall planter IN ONE GO, meaning that when I redeemed around 10,000 sweet treats, 6 of those were 6 swatches of vertical wall planters, in succession. And that was during 6th or 8th day of the event...
- at the previous event (gardening), I didn’t get the plumeria shrub at all until I redeemed my LAST 2,375 sweet tokens to redeem 5 LAST sweet boxes in which all contained the plumeria shrubs.
while I didnt really complain for the wall planters bc it was clearly in my favor, it really annoyed me how I didnt get the plumeria shrubs at all. I dont even like the item that much but cmon. When it happens, the game’s RNG is clearly rigged.
- milder but newer example, at the current event (moschino), out of 10 sweet boxes, the game has given me 3 swatches of moschino male pants. While I still havent gotten, the wall light, female outfits, and the mirror. When i redeemed the boxes, the game kept giving me new swatches instead of getting me an item i havent owned yet. It’s really annoying. I get that its luck based but really, look at my gardening baking event examples, can you tell me with a straight face that its not rigged?????
