This post contains a rant and I'll mention so before the rant starts.
For starters, it's incredible to see the game being offline and issues patched so quickly. Massive thanks to the person/people (?) for addressing the premium lots and hierloom box acquisition so fast. I hope you know how much you're appreciated.
Few questions about future directions:
I was wondering if it will be possible to get the limited time sim festival house templates available for players in the upcoming patches? And will we be able to get the limited time NPCs as well?
Few limited time quests require llamazoom quest completions, so is there a workaround?
Also, can we expect to be connected with other players for sticker quests and similar stuff? I know it needs common servers but I'm not sure if the game has one since it's offline now; just curious if this could be managed sometime in the future.
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Rant starts here.
I was going through old posts in the sub to look for events and event items as I'd stopped playing the original game a few days ago. It seemed like too much of a cashgrab and any novelty furniture or clothing was locked behind paywalls. And OOF. THE TOXICITY was real. Specially against f2p and modded players - it was horrific.
Keep in mind a lot of us modded players had linked the game to our Google/Apple accounts and had actually spent a lot on the game. Possibly even more than these "sim gurus" who like got the items for free and got paid to promote them, who I feel were the most toxic. Yet, comments like "oh, it would be so sad if their data got deleted 😜" were rampant (yes, I'm still salty about that). Did ANY of us get reimbursed when the game got taken down? (I think we should look into petitions for the current community.) There was still pushback when the game was decidedly going down and ea continued with micro transactions regardless, only made everything available for a few weeks - because "they're doing players a favour, they didn't need to" when players were rightfully outraged.
I've got that out now. Goodbye.