As we are getting a feel for this new lil game from TinyCo, we are also forming our own opinions of just what we really think of the Family Guy: Quest For Stuff.
This post will be for all the things you think they probably could have done without in the game. Things you would like them to change. Your not so favorite tasks, character, building, etc. All things that you just do not care for in the game. (Please keep your responses to a PG-13. Any abusive comments will not be tolerated and removed. You can place your Pro Comments on the other page instead.)
We want to know YOUR thoughts. So sound off in the comments section below. You never know when TinyCo will pop in and see what YOU are saying.
Until Next Time
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
The new limit to zooming in and out is super frustrating. It makes city planning unbearable. They said it was necessary to help with game crashes, but it sounds like they implemented the first workaround they came across. Now that comic con is over I hope they spend more time fixing some of the annoying graphical bugs. My six flags Atlantis still looks it two buildings on top of each other
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Give them time to fully analyze it now that the event is gone. 🙂
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I hope they do. I’m super OCD when it comes city building games.
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Addicts: can u create a thread petitioning for land and a sell feature. A lot of people r complaining about this as well. We need to voice to tinyco. They usually give us what the majority wants. I sent the following to them this morning. Asking all addicts to do the same.
“Petitioning for a block of free land. Many of us players on Facebook, FG addicts, and twitter are complaining about having too many buildings in storage due to no land to put them on. The comic con event has left piles of buildings and attractions w no where to put them. I know that there is a new district about to come out, but along w that will come more buildings. Please unlock some free land so that we can get buildings and attractions out of storage. A sell feature would also help with duplicate items/buildings.”
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Remember….each time they release a new district they add more land. Just have to wait for 9 to open and more land will be there 🙂
As far as the sell feature…we’ll add something to voice ALL requests soon 🙂
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Im commenting about stewie and his comic con suit i wish it was easier to get stewie bc now all of us that don’t have stewie cant get the comic con suit but we are working on the missions for the suit..idk if you guys are letting us save the suit till we get stewie or we are just doing all the missions for nothing…feedback would be appreciated..thanks
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You dont need stewie to get it. Just collect all the parts and complete Iron Baby part 1 BEFORE the event ends. Then it will wait until you have him to finish the build
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What is up with some of the mini Stewies dropping coin instead of blam? I have written to Tiny Co THREE times over the last week or two with NO response.
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We have covered this in some other posts as well as comments sections. They WiLL drop coins and Blam! combined. Just another item. This will not impact Material item drops. Those are separate. Coins are just an extra.
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Bunny- thank you for replying to my post. In this case, the coins are dropping instead of blam. Is this supposed to be the case? Or are you saying that if i bomb 10 of them I should always get 10 blam can drops and sometimes coins in addition to the cans? Thanks for the clarification.
Also, as a side note, I am more bothered that I have contacted TinyCo (through the in game contact option) 3 times for over a week and have yet to get ANY response.
Thanks again for your time Bunny.
Tim
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Coins are in addition to the Blam! Kind of an extra prize. So no worries, they are a gift. 😉
As far as support, hang in there…they are very backlogged and trying to stay on top of things but this is a Holiday weekend so the staff is gonna be limited.
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Thanks Bunny. That means there is a glitch and i am losing blam. For every 10 stewies i only get 8 or 9 blam cans and 1 or 2 coins.
Thanks again for your response.
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I will double check to see if they changed it, but that was the info provided to us prior. Remember materials will replace Blam!, so if you get a material drop…that will take its place.
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Thanks Bunny. The only issue with that is when they were dropping materials for certain quest lines, I would get blam and the item.
If they are only supposwd to drop one thing, that is fine and there is no glitch. But if they are aupposed to always drop blam and on occasion dropped coins as well…than i have been losing TONS of blam.
Thanks again Bunny. Sorry for being a pain.
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No worries. 🙂
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BtW…I finally got an answer from TinyCo. All it esentially said was “we are too busy to answer your question.”
For a company that had a pretty spotless record with their service department, this is a pretty crappy answer.
Don’t get me wrong. I still love thjs game, but to me it shows they don’t really care what our “small” issues are.
It just bkthers me tbat I have lost out on AT LEAST a couple thousand blam at this point, and they just don’t care.
Tim
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Was it an actual response? Or just the auto generated one? I do not think you lost any. I get coins all the time with my Blam! Have you been monitoring your count? Checking before and after to see what the total is?
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Yes. I have been. When i kill 15 stewies, i would get 12-14 cans of blam and 1-3 coins. As far as I know I SHOULD be getting 15 cans and then some coins (if they drop coins).
It appeared to be an automated response.
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What is the point of earning money in this game anymore? I have over $300,000 and nothing to spend them on. It would be nice if they added new buildings that could be bought with money. Or maybe some way to trade for Blam!
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Once the event is over money will be needed again. Remember how expensive the new land was the released before District 8…
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Why did TinyCo eliminate the Giant Stewie game without warning today? I had enough saved up to claim the 25x Blam prize and quite a bit more, but I held off on vanquishing Giant Stewie because I wanted to be better prepared for future rounds of vanquishing him with the high amount of pesticides required. Plus I still had several hours left on the timer.
I am furious right now. The event still has 17 days left and TinyCo gave no warning that the Giant Stewie portion would end before those 17 days were up. But POOF, now all my pesticides I had harvested for quite a while are GONE! I had more than 50 orange pesticides, 40 green and 30 red. All that work was for nothing because TinyCo doesn’t communicate.
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Not gone. Not at all. You can use Rupert to trade them in for Harpoons…and get the streak going again. 😉
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What is up with the drops for Stan Lee? The camera drops are way too few. What happened? They were coming out fairly regular with the bomb stewie minions, but now they never drop. I just finished eliminating 700 minions and not once did a camera for Stan drop. I have had Patrick Stewart play with his soccer ball 50+ times and still has yet to drop one camera. What gives?
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Remember they’re still Rare and Extra rare drop rates. With the minions it seems like the drop more often because you’re killing more minions per shot. So say they drop every 20 minions killed…that’s equivalent to making patrick do soccer tricks 20 times. So faster with minions because you get more attempts in a shorter amount of time 🙂
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Add Punch Drunk’s Foxy Boxing Bar and Quahog Arena!
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I am very unhappy that human rupert is in the “characters you buy” menu when I never actually had a chance to buy him. He isn’t a character that is a must-have for me but I already have the other four characters purchased and now I have a blank spot for rupert and the bare bear tanning salon. I seriously hope they give us a chance to actually buy him since I tried four times with the tea party and never won him. How does it make sense to have a character that I can’t buy in a category called “characters you buy”?
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Although they do a great job with continuity for the most part, I hope they can do a little better research through the show. One example, during the episode “Hell Comes to Quahog,” Meg is left at the skating rink United Skates of America. Wouldn’t that have been a better alternative for the Fourth of July event instead of the made up Stars and Skates?
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I hate the fact that you can’t place buildings facing back, it creates a limited way for us to decorate our city. Also the way the roads are being placed is very limiting
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It would be great if there was a currency exchange available, like coins to clams, coins to blam! and visa versa. I have an abundance of coins (350k) and not much of a need to buy anything. I wouldn’t expect an exact swap, a higher rate for clams etc. It would also be good to sell back event currencies at the end of the event before they disappear (I lost 50k moon idols at the end of the last event!)
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Just think how quickly you’ll be buying up land and unlocking stuff when district 9 opens.
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It would be nice if the premium characters (Jake Tucker, Consuela, etc.) would drop items. They used to, but haven’t for a while. It would be nice to be rewarded/given incentive to get the clams to get those characters. Especially if they had a chance at harder to get items or items where only two normal characters can drop them, like the plutonium for Stewie.
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I don’t have a Facebook account and don’t care for the fact that you have to have a Facebook account in order to have neighbors. I wish there was an alternative way to add neighbors for those who don’t have a Facebook. Like maybe creating a name for your town and being able to “search friends” and type in their town name to send a request. Then people on here could exchange town names to befriend each other. I know a lot of people have Facebook but it just sucks that those of us who don’t have one don’t get to enjoy the having neighbors feature.
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I can’t believe there are so many complaints about how ‘hard’ it is to get quest items. Each quest item has different rarities. If it takes long to get an item it’s only good, meaning you have to work for it. I’m very happy with the statistics of this game, it’s very balanced. I just think it’s sort of unfair that people were able to get a glitch and gain lots of clams/items.
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I’ve been playing this game for awhile now and I have a couple complaints. 1) When are the new districts coming out? I was hoping that after this event they would at least have one new district. 2) This one kind of goes with the first. If you are not going to have any new districts any time soon at least open up some more land so everything isn’t crammed together.
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I have an issue with not being able to scroll across the decorations without the app shuting off without notice. I am specifically trying to place the dry brush garden, a task for Lois. It is very annoying when this keeps constantly happening, the app is updated to the latest version. I don’t know what to do.
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Are you holding down then sliding the item or scrolling the screen and having the item “chase”?
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My only complaint is that this month long event is taking WAY too much time to be over & done with. A month is simply too long for one event. The first few weeks I was enjoying it, but now I’m just waiting almost another week for this event to end. I am happy that I unlocked Cleveland, his 80s costume, and the Swordsman (50,000 pts). On the other extreme, the circus event was too short – we only had a weekend for that. If TinyCo can initiate events that are a week long, that would be reasonable.
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I am a big fan of the Family Guy Quest For Stuff game. I have been playing since its launch and have bought clams on five or six occassions. All in all, I enjoy the game and its quest lines and content. There are however a couple of major hitches which really bug me.
1) Premium content. FG sells a lot of items through clams (the petercopter etc. and in the latest update lava pools etc) which is fine. My problem is, these items don’t do anything! In The Simpsons, even the most useless of premium items give you a little boost to XP and Money. If I’m spending real money on premium items, the least you could do is improve my game somehow or else what’s the point in spending my hard earned cash on it?
2) The Friends List glitch needs fixing fast. I can sometimes visit 1 or 2 friends before the game crashes and shuts down.
3) The placement of roads, buildings etc. needs to be as flexible as TSTO. I mean it really is way too limited the way it is currently.
If these three things were fixed the game could be incredible and just as good as TSTO. The new event with the pyramid is a great start to expanding the game but the problems I listed above seriously need to be addressed. Obviously hoping that guy from tinyco sees this although others have probably already complained about the same things.
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Just installed the update for the game and my game got deleted. Not restarting it all again so goodbye to a game I was enjoying
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Did you make sure you’re logged on to your game?
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I don’t see the purpose or the fun in being able to pick up the characters. It always annoys me when I’m scrolling to the other side of town and accidentally pick up a stowaway lol.
Also, I am getting pretty frustrated about the rare and epic item drop rate. Since the day Anime Peter became available, I have only had one eyeball drop. Lois has been Tai-Fu-ing for what seems like weeks with only one bandana drop. It is starting to get a bit ridiculous.
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There is a lot of water, they should let us use it. Move the boats and the island away from the shore.
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1. Requiring Facebook account to add friends is BAD!
2. There needs to be a different way of finding characters on the map, so you can assign them tasks. My work around is to only have a small area of street laid down, to which the characters will hang around when doing outside tasks (or no tasks). The characters are easy to find that way. However, this means that the rest of my town doesn’t have any streets. 😦
3. The rare or ultra rare items need to be eliminated. Waiting days (or weeks) for items to be dropped is really pi$$ing me off!
4. There is no incentive for buying decorations with clams. They add no value…
5. The text is too small to read. I play on an iPhone5.and wear bi-focals… If you want me to read the text, please make it larger!
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I think that the coffee shop and the newly added Dansu Dansu should be fixed. I was mislead when it says they earn 30 per hour, but right now it isn’t worth the 25 clams/7.5k for them.
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Send your suggestion to TinyCo via your game menu. Feedback helps to bring attention to items.
I know that all the buildings show their hourly rates, not the complete payout like 300 every 6 hours or whatever it ends up at. Just the hourly rates. Sorry.
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I think if you’re forced to buy decorations as part of a quest line they should give you coins and or XP. I had to spend close to $13k on the flammable dry bush garden and gold digger island. And got what, $500 back from that? As hard as it is to earn money in this game those should give back. Even if it’s only like 5 per hour or something like that. Other decorations, that I buy just buy, I’m fine with not getting a return on them, but if they are part of the quest line I should get something from them.
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1) fonts are small, I have lots of room on my seen but the dialogue bubbles are small
2) actin bubbles are too small/to close together. I often click the wrong bubble. I zoomed in in the character but the bubbles didn’t get bigger or spread out any.
3) really hated the push to buy clams so soon. I’m nit spending money till I’m sure I’m going to play this quite a bit. Way too pushy.
4) I want an easy way to see who is available and not in a task. I like the little face icons in the corner on TSTO. Otherwise I’m looking for characters walking around and then tapping and going they are available.
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While the “task” about buying clams is not a task, it’s an offer. But everyone is getting very angry about it, thinking they need to pay to progress.
I don’t think the offer should be in the Task menu. I think the icon should be changed to Al Harrington, since he’s a salesman, and he should be making the offer. The way it’s set up is causing a terrible misunderstanding.
Also, many people feel that they need to pay to progress in other aspects of the game. Maybe some more explanation about completing tasks, how Clams work and so forth are needed in the game’s design. I have never seen people so angry for absolutely no reason.
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The German translation is really really bad. Most times I simply don’t get what they want me to do. This mingled pseudo German is just incomprehensible.
And everything is really tiny on my screen (Samsung Galxy S 3 mini). It’s not very comfortable to play. So more of a tablet game than a smart phone game I guess.
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Do me a favor? Please use your game menu, go to Help and Support, and contact TinyCo with that information so they may correct it.
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I’m going to do a “compliment Sandwhich” where I say something good then things to improve on then something good.
I actually didn’t mind setting up a new Facebook page just for gaming . I’m online a lot. But, I don’t think that should be the only way to have friends.
Not being able to build more than one thing at a time is aggravating to say the least. They are also being really pushy about spending real money. They haven’t given me much reason to though.
They’re funny. It makes me laugh.
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Does that Sandwhich come with chips and a coke? 😉 I skipped lunch today, i’m starving! lol
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I started the Ethnic hand shake quest at about 3:30 am. My tablet at some point went into sleep mode. It’s now 12pm and the game says it has another 39 minutes until it’s completed. What gives ? Do I have the game running all the time
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It should continue regardless if you are in the game or not. That is an odd glitch. I would suggest you try and force close the app and see if the refresh will help to put it back to where it needs to be.
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It did it again. Four hour quests started at 5pm are sitting at 3 hours 34 minutes as of midnight. Very frustrating. Has anyone else had this happen?
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I haven’t had this happen on Family Guy but it happens to me on TSTO a lot. Usually when it happens I store the character/building to cancel/reset the task. However, that doesn’t work with this game. Your best bet, in this case, is to contact Tiny Co directly from inside the game and let them know of the issue. You can contact them by following Bunny’s steps outlined in her glitch post here I know it’s for a different issue (the post), but the contact info still applies 🙂
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I did just a little while ago.
On my phone, I have the Chris’s socks glitch. On my ipad mini, the countdown glitch. TSTO to the rescue! 🙂
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I get this timing glitch occasionally too.
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I find the interrupting narration screens quite tiresome. Also annoying are the little bubbles above a character head when you’re doing a task and there is ore than one step to it. It’s got so much potential but it needs to be less long-winded and clunky (placing items/buildings). It’s very similar to the Simpsons game, but given that in the past Family Guy have made a joke out of plagiarizing the Simpsons I think the similarity might be toungue in cheek…cheeky cheeky 🙂
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In addition to the FB issue, too soon with trying to get me to spend real $ on the game. You should wine and dine me a bit, get me hooked on the game and THEN start luring me into going premium. We’ve just started and I already have 2 quests requiring purchase, seemingly without a way to clear them. Not a way to win me over.
I don’t mind the gamble of whether or not you’ll get an item you need, but I feel those should always be available as a chance on those tasks, not just when you need them. That way, you might already have one or two when you need them.
And maybe a confirmation that you want to give game $ to unlock a character. I inadvertently gave Mort money that I needed elsewhere way before I really needed to give it to him.
But I like being able to move characters (and the animation is funny) and that the characters themselves have to level up. Also, we’ll see if it keeps up, but they seem a bit more generous with clams so far than TSTO is with doughnuts.
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My only 2 complaints so far are the Facebook connect, and that it is seems EXACTLY like TSTO. It looks like they didn’t go out of their way to make it unique at all
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Looks like TinyCo is working on a fix for the Facebook thing.
“We are aware not everyone has a Facebook account and are working on alternative means of connecting with friends as the game progresses.”
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The idea that you set characters on tasks but are not sure whether you’re going to get the reward is nonsense. If they’re doing that to try to avoid people just blasting through the game like certain players do with TSTO then make the tasks longer. I would rather do longer tasks than think that this was my fifth attempt at this 8hr task and I may not even get the reward this time.
The facebook thing is crazy too. I understand that it means you don’t have to create an additional account (if you have facebook) but making players sign up to facebook just to play this game is so obviously going to limit how many people play.
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I don’t mind the Facebook thing. My main complaint has already been stated. No incentives for premium items. A smaller complaint is that I don’t see any normal houses to fill the town with, just offices. Overall I’m happy with it and I’ll continue playing it from day 1 like I did with tsto and see what changes they make.
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There is a small amount of houses once you progress through the levels, but I do see what you mean – mainly offices.
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So far so good except…. The Facebook deal stinks. Connect via game center or whatever tapped out uses. The times for certain tasks jumps from seconds one time to hours the next?? Have set times for things. Some of us don’t spend our lives playing the game so be consistent.
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So along with everyone else
I HATE Facebook!!! Please let us add friends by username please!!
My game keeps crashing 😦
Also had a little trouble moving items around.
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I was really excited to get this game and was waiting patiently for it to be released. I downloaded it first thing this morning and honestly I’m bummed out. I may play a few more days to see if I change my mind but so far it looks like I’m going to end up deleting it.
Cons:
-You have to have a facebook to visit multiverse (I don’t have one)
-When collecting items you run into the issue of having to wait several hours for a task to finish only to not get the item and start the process all over again with no guarantee that you will get the item the 2nd go around. I think you should be guaranteed the item after the task in my opinion. I’ve even had two people on different tasks to hopefully get an item and they didn’t and I had to restart only to have it not happen. I gave up and bought it with clams. This will probably lead to me deleting the app because I don’t want a game that ends up irritating me because I failed multiple times at getting an item so I give in and spend money.
-Moving buildings isn’t a smooth process
-Kinda boring and seems to take a long time to get things going.
-I’ve had a few glitches with in-app purchases where I’d get charged money or clams and it didn’t show up in the game (this is a new game so I can understand the glitches)
Pros:
-They responded VERY quickly with the first glitch issue and resolved it. It’s late at night and I just messaged them about the 2nd one so I don’t if I’ll hear back tonight or first thing in the morning.
-Can’t beat Family Guy!
-Initially I didn’t like how you had to level up the characters to unlock tasks but now I think it’s a great idea.
-I like how there are a lot of different tasks that require a 2nd character
I’m going to play a few more days and I really hope I end up liking it after all. But so far it looks like I might end up deleting it. 😦 I’m trying very hard to not compare it to TSTO but with TSTO you are guaranteed to get the money when you send them to do a job and this game you aren’t guaranteed to get the item you are hoping for after a task and I REALLY dislike that.
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A lot of good points. Thanks for sharing. I am glad to see their response time is quick and thorough. Always a plus in my book. It is so new and I foresee many possible changes to come. I personally do not like the Facebook thing. TOO personal for me. In the end, it comes down to what makes YOU happy with the game. If anything, you can always step away and come back later to see if it has improved more to your liking. 🙂
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I don’t like only being able to build one building or clear one space at a time without spending clams on more workers. And like everyone else, I don’t like the Facebook connection, and don’t intend to use it.
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Oh, and the premium items are overpriced, even when compared to TSTO items (which are overpriced themselves). I like Consuela, but I can’t see ever spending $17.70 on her and her house. (590 clams at $.03 per clam).
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I notice that the price for Consuela has dropped to 300 clams. I wonder whether that was planned, or if TinyCo is listening and making adjustments.
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That is a nice little adjustment.
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My only argument is that there is no incentive to premium items other than to have them (that I can see) in most games that I play they add some sort of bonus. Even decorations have no incentive other than being pretty. But the game is young 🙂
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Facebook and crashing when visiting multiverses
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yep Facebook and crashing
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It crashes a lot in the multiverses indeed!
And do you even notice them visiting you? It’s to bad if you can’t see that…
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Using too much in Game data!!!! I don’t have wifi at home so I use my network data off my phone! in a space of 10 mins, I used up 50MB which is BS!! Simpsons tapped out doenst use up so much data like this game does!
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Thank you for posting this. I downloaded the game on wifi, played a little. Then got some in at lunch on 4g and again little later (farming some 6 sec fat leap frog 🙂 ). Took a look last night and up to 80MB! That’s a prob for me.
Also most def the Facebook issue (sorry though I have a fb account it’s really just for irl friends and family.
Clunky moving objects around as well.
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I have to add my two cents re: Facebook connect- not gonna happen.
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FaceSpace is cool – Facebook friend add only is not!
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I agree with everyone else. Get rid of the Facebook only neighbors.
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Ive gotten “Consuela Screens” a couple times (can’t connect, loss of connection). I’m thinking Consuela is gonna become synonymous with Bart Screens for TSTO.
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Pretty much. Lol.
“You is no here…noooooo”
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Placing/moving items is very clunky and not very responsive, there is no reason to buy premium items that arent building character combos cause it does nothing for you as I see, the guy that builds/rebuilds stuff is the same that clears areas not cool
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Yes, this and the facebook thing are certainly my biggest complaints.
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– facebook, get rid of it!
– simply clicking the task should be sufficient to activate it!
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I agree BBla….the “drag-the-thought-bubble-to-the-character” is getting old fast.
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In addition to the aforementioned comments about requiring Facebook by Alegna and Chris, I also wish that like TSTO they would show they actual amount of XP required to level up rather than just a yellow bar where you have to guess the amount.
I wasn’t planning on getting this game as I honestly haven’t seen three full episodes of Family Guy, whereas TSTO was the very first app I’ve ever downloaded as soon as I joined the smart phone/tablet era this past summer as I have seen and religiously watch every The Simpsons episode and in fact have all 500+ episode downloaded on my computer. I don’t know all of the characters in this game, which is a personal con for me. However, I really regret missing out on earlier TSTO limited time items so I figured may as well join now and can always delete it in the future if I don’t like it.
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Oooh…I hate that they are requiring a connexion with Facebook in order to visit friends! I must say that the way you interact with your neighboreenos in TSTO is much more satisfying and you feel much more involved in the game. I do not now or plan to ever have a Facebook page and it is soo aggravating to need one for community play. 😦
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Only being able to add friends through Facebook is a major con. I don’t have Facebook, and I don’t want it. I hope they change this aspect because I’d like to visit some other universes.
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