Disney Magic Kingdoms

[hopemax]

Fun Part 2: Working my way through stuff after restarting. Went to look to see if I had any Parade tasks in the new weekly. Noticed there was a green check on the Event tab. Thought that strange because I completed everything except the Welcome 5 Characters. All the event tasks had been reset! So I collected them again, which gave me enough happiness to get Becky!

I didn't pay for the Season Pass, didn't even do any of the mini event thingies.

 

[wiihoo888]

Currently would need to spend 460 gems to get baddie. I have 11 suitcases, 7 hats. One more round of collections to go. In my recollection, I have never had to pay gems to get the final character. If I did, it may have been for 1-2 token drops when I didn’t have time to wait until the 11th hour.

I opened a chat with customer care. Clicked on their frequently submitted issue: “Valuable tokens don't drop for me”

Their stock answer when you click that item…

“We understand that this specific part of the game might bring some disappointments from time to time. These valuable tokens are very rare and thus they drop less frequently. You will have to be persistent with tasks to get the items that you need to summon a desired character. We hope this information was helpful. Have a great day!”

So I continued the chat….here’s my abbreviated version of my note…


“ *Contrary to your advice, persistent gameplay is not the solution for valuable token drops. I play persistently, as I have for more than 8 years now.

*Purchasing the kingdom pass is not the solution for valuable token drops.
I have purchased it since that gameplay addition was added. Purchasing the kingdom pass yields 360 gems, not even enough for a premium character. Not that it matters, since premium characters are not actually helpful in events any longer since the premium character must be leveled up to impossible levels to “help” with valuable tokens.

*Since playing persistently & spending money do not help, it seems you are driving loyal players to no longer do those things. Make the gameplay less fun, place impossible obstacles on players, provide no incentive for playing more or paying more seems to be the current gameplay model.

Understood.”

Their response:
“Hello,
Thank you for writing to us.
First, let me apologize for any frustration caused by this situation.
We value the opinions and feedback of our players.
Our development team continue working on the game's stabilization and we expect it to be better in future updates.
I will personally add your case to our database and make sure to log your feedback.
Game team constantly reviews user feedback and tries to incorporate as many positive changes as possible.
We hope for your utmost understanding regarding this matter.
Best regards,
Gameloft Customer Care”

I wanted to make them aware they are driving long time, loyal, paying customers away with this miserable event model. Not that they will take heed.

I probably should log a complaint just to get it on their tally. Doubt it will make a difference, but I can try

I truly have paid more gems in past events. I am usually Charlie Brown in this game and have paid 500 gems before. I am just that lucky. I never got the end characters before the pass became available. More accurately, I only got them when I somehow managed to save enough gems. Don’t know what I did right this time around to get away with paying just 240 while other fared much worse

 

[PrincessP]

I guess I picked a good event to be sick during. iOS I have not even made it to start collecting for BBW. Windows I will be lucky if I get enough EC to get practical pig. The EC has been a real issue for me with limited play. Poor event for everyone and for all kinds of reasons. They are blowing it, and I don't know if they care. I wonder how much they make on ads vs in game purchases? They can kiss my butt @ $30 for a 100 year old character that is endearing to noone.

I hope you’re feeling much better and soon to be 100% again!

 

[wnwardii]

Oh FFS. I just looked at who can collect for tokens for LRRH. For her Ear Hat, ONLY two of the pigs. For her cloak, only one pig and BBW. Yes, you can get them through tokens, so there is that. For the 3 pigs, it looks to be a very similar situation, tokens are not an option. BBW is worse. The suitcase is only with Fifer Pig OR a 4th Enchantment level for the Three Little Pigs Houses. This is ridiculous. Talking about slowing the game up. These characters will take forever to level up.

 

[supernova]

Well folks, it's been real, but I am now officially done. I won't ibe uninstalling the game just yet, but after seeing the impossibility of collecting tokens for all of these new characters will be, I can no longer justify continuing with this sh!tshow. If additional character sources are not added, especially considering that it is impossible to reach the fourth enchantment level of the buildings, this season will be my last. Great job, you idiot Gameloft interns. Reverse this goddamn stupidity or I'm gone. Here's hoping others follow suit.

 

[adamreisinger]

Oh FFS. I just looked at who can collect for tokens for LRRH. For her Ear Hat, ONLY two of the pigs. For her cloak, only one pig and BBW. Yes, you can get them through tokens, so there is that. For the 3 pigs, it looks to be a very similar situation, tokens are not an option. BBW is worse. The suitcase is only with Fifer Pig OR a 4th Enchantment level for the Three Little Pigs Houses. This is ridiculous. Talking about slowing the game up. These characters will take forever to level up.

The event was bad enough (I ended up getting BBW for around 300 gems) but the limited number of tasks that collect tokens for these characters after the event is a slap in the face. I wish I'd just saved my gems, though I have no idea what I'd use them for if this is going to be the standard going forward for event characters.

 

[supernova]

Oh FFS. I just looked at who can collect for tokens for LRRH. For her Ear Hat, ONLY two of the pigs. For her cloak, only one pig and BBW. Yes, you can get them through tokens, so there is that. For the 3 pigs, it looks to be a very similar situation, tokens are not an option. BBW is worse. The suitcase is only with Fifer Pig OR a 4th Enchantment level for the Three Little Pigs Houses. This is ridiculous. Talking about slowing the game up. These characters will take forever to level up.

Why bother at this point, though? It's only going to get worse from here. I'm done.

 

[Arundal]

Seeing the Token issues, I am glad I leveled the other pigs and did not get the BBW. Supernova don’t be too scarce because you will be missed. I will keep playing for now but not going to view this game the same any more. I have been playing since about six months after the game started.

 

[supernova]

Seeing the Token issues, I am glad I leveled the other pigs and did not get the BBW. Supernova don’t be too scarce because you will be missed. I will keep playing for now but not going to view this game the same any more. I have been playing since about six months after the game started.

I had enough currency to gem the wolf, and level up the other four characters, which was how I was able to review the token requirements for all five characters. Honestly, unless those idiots fix the character sources for tokens, I don't have it in me to muster up the time or patience to gather up one token at a time.

 

[Arundal]

I had enough currency to gem the wolf, and level up the other four characters, which was how I was able to review the token requirements for all five characters. Honestly, unless those idiots fix the character sources for tokens, I don't have it in me to muster up the time or patience to gather up one token at a time.

I agree with you totally. I had enough EC and Common Tokens to level the other four characters and have enough to get BBW if I got more tokens, but I did not get them. I had about 1300 Gems but could not see using half of them on the Wolf that I don’t care about. I think I would have used about 660 to get him. I think I got like 8 gems for the remaining EC when the event got over.

 

[wingweaver84]

Wingweaver84: I'm in a similar place as you with the main story line - working on Pan, Lady, Great Prince of the Forest and Burn-E. And it is slow go, for sure. At this point, it will seem like success to have GPof the F by Halloween, Lady by Thanksgiving and Pan by NYE. Burn-E - maybe Valentine's Day....

I highy expect some sort of "gift" here - and it will be something totally useless, like a lot of happiness (when most people here should have gotten Becky weeks ago). Any bets what it will be?

Potions,a decoration chest.....

 

[mmmears]

Why bother at this point, though? It's only going to get worse from here. I'm done.

I feel the same way. I saw that the Season Pass is up for renewal $$$ in a few days and I won't be sending them any cash as a reward for what they have done to the game.

Way too greedy, Gameloft. You're losing people.

 

[wiihoo888]

Oh FFS. I just looked at who can collect for tokens for LRRH. For her Ear Hat, ONLY two of the pigs. For her cloak, only one pig and BBW. Yes, you can get them through tokens, so there is that. For the 3 pigs, it looks to be a very similar situation, tokens are not an option. BBW is worse. The suitcase is only with Fifer Pig OR a 4th Enchantment level for the Three Little Pigs Houses. This is ridiculous. Talking about slowing the game up. These characters will take forever to level up.

What in the world?! I admittedly had not looked at these yet. I assumed it would be easier to get tokens after the event, ad it has been for every other event to date. Just why? Are they trying to just get us to hate Silly Symphonies? Or is this the new normal?

 

[Donalyn]

Okay, so I only have the pigs, but their token sources don't seem unusually limited to me. And if you were me, you'd be very used to only having one source for a token (or none, as the case is for like 25 characters I have since I restarted). Like one source for Burn-E's ears (and it takes two characters), and one source for Great Prince of the Forest's ears, and one source for Lady's ears, and zero current sources for Tia Dalma's locket and I could go on and on.

I definitely appreciate that it is annoying, but I have bigger fish to fry here - like the impossibility of getting things to start with, the changing of the odds in the LC, etc.

Maybe think about it as something to do during the TC, when there isn't that much to work on.

 

[wiihoo888]

Oh my gosh…another gem grab has been unearthed. Who in the heck is in the new Mulan sequence on the right?! He doesn’t show up in the characters. Just….what? Who? Why?!

 

[wiihoo888]

Oh my gosh…another gem grab has been unearthed. Who in the heck is in the new Mulan sequence on the right?! He doesn’t show up in the characters. Just….what? Who? Why?!

Oh, its a freaking Warrior Mulan costume gem grab. Again….why?!

 

[wnwardii]

And they have brought up some of the costumes again. I noticed that Winnie the Pooh's Bee costume is $3.99. Just noticed the new bundles that have appeared. $29.99 for 180 common tokens, 60 suitcase and 30 ear tokens for BBW. Practical Pig has a similar 'deal' for $24.99. LRRH has one for $19.99. Then Fiddler and Fifer have ones at $14.99 and $9.99 respectively. At least LRRH's tokens can still be purchased in the Token Shop.

I would guess that this is the new normal now. Will be interesting to see how much their new "club" will cost. Also, wonder if the Kingdom Pass will be more expensive with the next season.

 

[wiihoo888]

Okay, so I only have the pigs, but their token sources don't seem unusually limited to me. And if you were me, you'd be very used to only having one source for a token (or none, as the case is for like 25 characters I have since I restarted). Like one source for Burn-E's ears (and it takes two characters), and one source for Great Prince of the Forest's ears, and one source for Lady's ears, and zero current sources for Tia Dalma's locket and I could go on and on.

I definitely appreciate that it is annoying, but I have bigger fish to fry here - like the impossibility of getting things to start with, the changing of the odds in the LC, etc.

Maybe think about it as something to do during the TC, when there isn't that much to work on.

I hate to use this pun at the moment, but I did not ever consider your issues as the kid who cried wolf. Newer players are not going to have the same ease in getting things. That is a given just based on what they have to work with

I assumed your issues were based on the above. None of the requirements for those characters can be seen by the majority of us as we have already maxed those characters out. If the tasks have indeed become more limited because they have changed, it truly is news to us. Once again, it is not that we did not believe you and it was not personal

Are there really only one or two token tasks for those older characters now too? Or is it that you have to get more characters to unlock those tasks? Think this may answer a whole lot on if this is the overall picture of where this game is going

 

[anya.sparrow]

It seems pretty sad that a lot of us playing for either close to the entire game or close to it are so turned off at this point. They won't be getting my money.

 

[Donalyn]

Well, as they "rebalance" they have made a lot of changes to token requirements for characters, basically making everything harder. More tokens required than before, differences in who collects them, differences in their rarity, differences in what buildings drop what. No tokens available in chests any more. Unfavorable changes to the odds in legendary chests, etc. So, some of my issues are based on these changes. Some are based on being newer back to the game. (Basically, the only change that has been favorable that I can recall is the removal of the common token requirement to enchant buildings, but that was paired with the crazy number of relics needed to do the same, so not really a favorable change over all.)

My comment about only having one source (or none), is really to say that it isn't terrible to have to grind to things, over and over. If you don't like it, I get it (it does suck), but it is my every day in the game. And for the pigs, I don't think that the available token sources are that different from the bugs in the last mega event (or at least are the same as they were for me, with my more limited resources and I have Flik to 10, Atta at 9, Dot at 7 and Hopper at 4 (not upgrading him, to focus on other characters with legendary tokens)).

And I get it - as a newer player (although, one with 5 years past playing history, so I've actually been all of you before, with almost everything and a long term player point of view), I don't expect to get everything and I can live without getting everything. But I did get the final character in the three events before this one, so there is that.

I've been thinking about the uproar with Grumpy lately. Remember that? This seems vaguely similar...