Happy Friday Clammers!
Well, we’ve all made it through another “work week” (kinda, sorta, almost) and the weekend looms large up ahead. All week we field your comments about your frustrations in the game (What Comic-Con JUST ended and they ALREADY want me to spend more clams?!) and we wanted to give you (and us) a fun new way for you to voice your frustrations and get it all off of your chest.
So welcome to What the Hell?!
-Getting REALLY annoyed that you haven’t unlocked Stewie yet?
-Annoyed that Pesticides are now useless?
-Someone cut you off on your commute this morning?
Here’s your place to vent about anything and everything, Family Guy or not. Consider this your weekly bitch fest and get it all out with a good…What the Hell?! And start your weekend fresh! 🙂
Just be respectful of others & be mindful of the language.
Here’s my What the Hell?! For this week:
-Invisible Stripper…amusing, but What the hell?! (how’s she supposed to earn those ones if she’s invisible?!)
-Not one but TWO late night releases this week! Seriously TC? Come on, What the hell?! Do you not expect us to get any sleep?
-I know some of you say I have a lot of car/driving related WTHs each week….but I live in Jersey, what do you expect? No one can drive around here!
So….I got in a car accident this past weekend. Stopped at a red light and the car behind me thought it would be a good idea to see what the inside of my car looked like. WHAT THE HELL?! Listen lady they’re called brakes…in the future USE THEM!
Now it’s YOUR turn…give us your What the hell?! moments from the past week! Go on, get it off your chest…you’ll feel a lot better! 🙂
Family Guy Addicts 
WTH! Event menu says it ends at 8pm PDT (3am uk) and instead it ends at 10pm uk time with no pre warning! Was going to pay 20 clams for Rollocop and was 2k blam off Takei which I would have got from 30x demon stewie! Left a bad taste in the mouth after a good event.
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Let them know. Send an in game report on what happened. We posted the Correct close down time here many times to try and help avoid things like this.
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My Wth Is The Blimp I Have No Uncommon Parts But All The Blue Plutonium And I mean Aren’t they suppose to not come all at once and the.uncommon once do
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Can I just give a Warm round of applause to TinyCo for being as responsive as they are? Yes I have my problems with the game, and yes there are things that could be done better, but on the whole I think they are doing an awesome job.
My WTH…never got my RolloJo quest to trigger, and no TinyCo answer. Sadness.
Too many of the same charecters needed for different fetch quests with other charecters consistently useless.
I can understand TinyCo not wanting I hand out the clams. To be more honest, I feel like I randomly get more free clams from them than I ever do TSTO, so I don’t really mind them not wanting to have the clam players give clams. But I agree it would be nice if on some of at least the fetch quests with epic or rare drop rates maybe they could be involved.
And just a simple thing like updating the face space posts more often. When I began the game they cracked me up (joe threatening quagmire on Bonnie’s pic!), and part of my joy in unlocking a new charecter was actually to see the updates. Those now seem updated at a glacial pace.
But I do love the game.
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The Rollo cop Joe outfit was an exclusive outfit for android users because something went awry with the programmers and apple users got nearly a week of playtime at comicon before it even came to android phones. If however you were playing the game on an Android phone, then indeed, wth.
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What the hell! Why do I keep waiting for Minion Stewies to pop up, only to remember the event ended… SMH
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What the hell? I have yet to get a single bar of soap for Meg! I’ve gotten more of the extra rare tattoo things and none of the rare soap.
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What the hell apple? As much as I love your phones, seeing as you now have taken the plunge and got yourself into the larger size. I would have liked there to be some sort of pre holding iPhone in the shops. Even a dummy one. Just to get a feel of it and see which one I would prefer. Pre ordering is fine but if I no likey I no buyey.
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What the h? The new U2 album is free on iTunes. That is still too much to pay for a U2 album.
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Ha! I needed a laugh.
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I do wish that characters from events could drop stuff later in the game after the event is over. I understand that people that joined after would not have that character and could not get that character but reward the players that achieved that goal of getting the character. Like maybe have one of the comic con character be able to earn a part for the blimp. Of course make the characters that everyone has earn it as well but like make it a like fourth or fifth option as a not to those that have it. I get some player will be angry that say Stan Lee is not a player they have so they have one less opportunity to get the “stuff” but if they see that stuff that happens in an event can be useful beyond the event than that is an incentive for them to participate in the event to the fullest to get that character or costume that might help later in the game.
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+1! I have played from the very start and it feels like you never even get to use most of the characters you’ve worked so hard to get (if you can call tapping your screen “work” 😉 j.
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Even more so, the premium characters except occasionally Consuela never drop anything. You would think that as people have paid for them they would at least have some reward.
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After spending nearly $20 for 1 freaking character, you would think it would have SOME use after the timed event. Unless tinyco changes their stance I will NEVER, EVER spend that kind of money on a premium charterer again, I don’t care how useful they will be during the event, knowing what happens after the event, I won’t be making that mistake again.
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WTH! Now I can locate all of the characters I haven’t assigned tasks to? Could TinyCo be listening?
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What the hell!? Still haven’t unlocked stewie! I have to collect two plutonium. That’s it. Brian and Lois have both been doing their two tasks since the second comic con ended. Literally restarting them on the dot every time. Not a single drop. And Brian all thru comic con! Not a drop in weeks.
What the hell!? I can visit my neighbors either. Most of the time my game crashes. Sometimes I can get to a neighbor but if it’s a neighbor who has run the recent update, I don’t get coins or clams and then when I click the next neighbor- crash. What’s up with that!?
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This happens to
Me all the time it boots me right out of the game and I sent in a report but I can’t even find where my old comment are or anything I’m so confused and this stewie thing is making me crazy I mean WTH? I still have nerds running around the place ugh!!!!!
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Old comment on our site here? Or info you sent to them?
Is your game saved to an email or Facebook? If so, uninstall and reinstall the app to see if that help. I do know though that they are working on the issue with neighbor crashes.
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Thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one. I have been working on the plutonium for stewie for 2 months. No exaggeration. No joke! It’s sickening. Something needs to be done about that. I tried the re installation of my game- didn’t help the neighbor issue.
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WTH, Why is the prison locked? How is it Meg gets out of prison before the prison gets built? And when will it unlock?
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Lol. She was released? It will come later
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WTH, the blimp hanger drops props, but it’s locked…will it only unlock after we have the blimp and don’t need props any more?
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Damn that was my WTH as well for me they are dropping okay so no worry but would have liked the option before I don’t need it anymore.
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WTH..Jury Duty all day!!
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Did you collect your whole $18 check for your “service”? 😉
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You know I wish they could pay you for the day of work you missed to go do jury duty, especially when you find out 5 mins before they pick a jury they dismiss the case. Those are truly WTH moments. And WTH is it with the small checks that are usually below minimum wage for being there.
Death don’t like jury duty….. unless a Death Sentience is involved. *insert evil laugh*
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I got $200 the last time I had jury duty, but then again I got selected and had to be on it for the entire week, including a three day trial. Had to jump through several hoops with the college I attend, though, to make sure I wasn’t being counted absent for it. They have policies for their staff, but not for students who earn Jury Duty.
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I’m going to half to stop using voice to text actually taking the time to type because I am much more intelligent than my post are making me appear to be because voice to text to size to ignore what I actually speak and put it own words on the screen
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Wth okay so this is for the tiny representative what is up with explicitly stating and promoting that winning the Q hotel where to permanently Spohn nerds with a chance of earning free clams then when the event ends saying sorry we change our mind what is up with the blatant false advertising in my opinion it takes something away that you have a promised something you had no intention of ever actually providing
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False advertising? Or a glitch created by minions that would kill the game along with the Nerds too therefore making the buildings unusable? As I always try to state, there is always a much bigger picture going on behind closed doors that players do not see. Things that may seem simple may have a LOT more to them than what you think. 😉
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I don’t see any glitch fixed…I say false advertising…they need to fix it or start sending out refunds to those of us who spent money on clams to get these “prizes”. Also WTH Rollo Cop…still ticked I had to spend clams on that gift and that the quest line ended, making him a giant waste of lost blam potential and clams.
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You didn’t see any glitches during Con? Not a single one? Interesting. I saw many. Game crashes especially created by TOO much going on in game by Nerds n Minions. Those buildings were won for Blam! Earning awards. Not purchased. They DID help to give more Nerds an Minions during Con. Those Nerds spawned directly on sidewalks, not walking out of Con. So they still helped a lot to get MORE Blam and prizes.
If a change has to be made to a game to provide a better experience for ALL players, I don’t see it as a bad thing. They DID update the info in their FAQs to reflect they would NOT spawn after the event.
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Key word there was “FIXED”. And I think most of us who dropped cash did so to earn blam to get the prizes. I thought it was just taking them too long to fix the spawning glitch…now I’m really extra WTH!!!!!!!!
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Well they DID fix the issue…buy taking them away for afterwords. 😉
I see many other issues fixed too. I was pointing out that the minions n nerds created havoc on tens of thousands of games. So for them to make the decision to NOT have it cause issues anymore to those players was a very smart idea on their part.
See Matt’s response in the comments to what they went through on them. He explains it quite well. 🙂
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Ahhh is that why my game would crash out 5 Times in a row before I could get everyone moving on New tasks during the event. I was totally like WTH man
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There weren’t any clams needed to get either of these buildings. They were free when you accumulated enough Blam! So what clams did you spend to acquire them that you need refunded?
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If the problem was with the spawning nerds they could simply have changed it to rather than the Q hotel spawning nerds to get a chance at a free clam that instead randomly when you collect from the Q hotel it gives you a clam instead of coins
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I don’t know all the ins n outs. Just what they wanted wasn’t able to happen. Such is the life of coding and gaming. Some things work. Some don’t. Sacrifices are made for good of game.
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I just personally believe that you should never ties something that you are unable to provide I understand that they do do some limited testing but things do go unexpected when they go live sometimes the point is if you’re going to make a promise that something is going to happen in the game after a certain point in time I.e. Stating that once won that the q hotel would always spawn nerds with a chance to win clams even after the event ended you should make sure first that it is feasible and possible and if not I think you need to do more than just put something in the frequently asked questions because I’ve noticed from Comments from multiple people that many were unaware of the change to the Q hotel
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I get what you’re saying completely. I just see the other side too. There is no way possible to test every single device out there and how it will accept a game or coding.
No way to anticipate every players way of gaming. The quirks of their device. Their memory limits. Waaaay too many variables.
It may have worked from test, but you just never know til it is live and hits millions of devices at once.
Just like a movie. You may spend millions, years to develop and shoot, and test it to an audience that loves it…but it can still hit worldwide and end up a giant flop and costing you more than it ever makes. Somethings you just do your best and hope for the best.
The plus in all this, at least they try all they can to make it work and if it doesn’t…pull it out. I know other games that don’t care and just leave the issue there regardless. I appreciate how involved they are and that they watch so close for issues. Trying to correct any as they go and ALWAYS trying to make it better for all players.
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I appreciate how quickly this blog and Tinyco respond to issues with the game I’m not saying that they don’t do a good job I’m just saying that it’s disappointing when certain things are promised and then not delivered
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I agree. I am sure they do too. I think we ALL wanted some Nerds in our town and Minions after the event. Me especially. I was all for MORE. Lol. I wish it worked too. 😦
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if they really were to “watch so close for issues” it wouldn’t have ever been an issue…
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We found out late in the event that we couldn’t make this happen due to technical limitations. We try to be very, very careful with changing descriptions and payouts mid-event, but in times like this it becomes necessary.
If the buildings had cost clams to buy, we would have considered a partial or full credit for players who bought them expecting the nerds (and potential clams) to spawn indefinitely. Since these buildings were rewards for progressing through the event, rather than a purchase for coins, blam, or clams, there wasn’t a purchase to refund.
It does suck, though, and we realize some players invested time to get these items for the nerd spawning. Every time we have to update an item that changes how it works, we take a close look at why the change was necessary, and how we can prevent similar instances in the future. We expect changes like this to be very rare, and in cases when it materially changes the item (such as with the Fusion Reactor), we try to compensate players who bought it before the change.
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For the tinyco guy I appreciate all of the updates you give us to keep us interested but maybe space it out a little more so we don’t have multiple things running at once competing for characters for drops I feel several other players frustrations a post on here about only having the same 4 or 5 characters drop everything when we have so many characters that are not contributing what is even more frustrating is sometimes not even the fact that the same character is needed to drop items for multiple task there of been instances where the same characters been needed to drop multiple items for the same costume/task
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In summary, can one of the OTHER 20 something characters help with the drops and NOT have Peter running 4 of the 5 drops just out of him? 😉
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“Just wanted to throw this out there; it would be awesome if I could task a second worker to help with a project that I have a worker currently on. It could deduct time to have more workers on the same project. It would give more incentive in my opinion to upgrade the workers’ house and have more of them. I currently have two, and would be more than happy to have more if they were useable. I simply don’t need more than two at a time though usually. I also believe that other players would love this as well. With the increasing time on clearing land, you would sell a lot more workers to get the stuff done quicker. In that matter perhaps have joint tasks with characters that earn stuff needed to unlock characters and costumes that would have more likelihood of getting the item that you are trying to acquire. But, it would eliminate the character from making an attempt at the item on there own. For example, if Brian and Stewie had joint tasks to collect blimp items, then they would have a higher chance of attaining one. However, you wouldn’t have the chance at getting two with them doing separate tasks with a lower chance of the items dropping. Just wanted to get my opinion out there. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work.”
Just sent this as an in game message to tiny co. Thought I would share it on here in a recent post so others could see it and if they agreed with it copy it and send it to them as well. The more voices saying something the likelier they are to hear it.
As far as a wth; WTH! I can preorder an iPhone today, but I can’t put one in my hand first to see which one I want! Stupid! If I am going to shell out my hard earned money, I want to know what I am getting!!!!
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Personally I would have more workers if they didn’t cost so much after I upgraded to a second worker it’s now not cost-efficient for the price of clams to buy a third worker
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WTH Okay so someone supposedly associated with Tinyco post on this blog he says that he’s heard multiple people complain about the fact that premium and event characters serve no long-term purpose in the game and asked what can be done to make people happier with the characters but everyone suggestion that they should drop items for quest or clams he says is unreasonable and takes away from the specialness of clams and is too much work for the developers now I play a certain another game also inspired by a fox cartoon there the premium or special characters actually have increased payouts so that they earn more money and more experience and also there is an actual incentive for these characters because you can actually earn bonuses by leveling up in those games The game level of Family Guy quest for stuff is meaningless and other games and you love a lot he earned a small bonus of a few premium current see when you buy a certain characters are items they give you a bonus payout in your town for cash and experience in my opinion why energies of characters that you have not fully thought out the functionality in the game if you had only a short-term use for them then why make them a permanent part of the game
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Not supposed…IS. VERY much so IS. 😉
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Well that’s the first time I’ve seen this person posting the blog it I have no clue the as you can create anything ad your name I could change it so that my post so that they came from the king of Sheba that doesn’t mean I’m really the king of Sheba lol
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Lol. He has been posting here since we launched the site. But I can understand you being cautious. We were too with him and ANYONE fronting as a TinyCo rep and verify them ALL before allowing the comments through. Just ask Matt. Lol 😉
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WTH. Why cant we put vehicles on the street? They look so silly on the grass. Also why arent there any pathways we can place to make walkways up to things no directly on a road? Also its annoying we can only turn things in two directions and I cant put my boats and islands directly in the water.
Ok rant over
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My WTH this week is my team ordered takeout from a sushi place for lunch today and they forgot one of my rolls. Extra frustrating since I was the one who went and picked it up. WTH?!
Also, as mentioned above, WTH with Nathan Fillion riding his unicycle where I can’t watch??!
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Japan got the new super smash bros for 3DS today and some lucky people got codes for the demo early….what did I get? A stomach bug.
What in the name of bloody hell?!
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It’s tough to stay focused today:
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I have no idea what you mean…this is only PART of my “work station”. Lol 😉
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Since the event ended I saw one random oranged shirt nerd roaming and figured “yay! This is my free nerd that will randomly spawn forever since I earned enough blam to get the permanent “Q” hotel”! So I click on him, the clam pops out….aaaand my game immediately crashes. Did a hard reset and didn’t get credit for the clam and the nerd was gone. Now it’s been 5 days and I haven’t seen a single nerd. By “randomly” spawning did they mean once every couple months?
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He was a glitch. Sorry. 😦
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I see Matt was lurking around here again! I’m not clear on something – is he one of the bigwigs at TinyCo or is he someone at TinyCo that you happen to have direct contact with? From his responses on here, he sounds like an important TinyCo guy – probably a Family Guy too! LOL
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He is a REALLY cool guy. 😉
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He’s ok 🙂
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Well…fine…he is only OK…but with the Hat and Smoke Bombs…AMAZING!! 😛
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Are there any other cool TinyCo guys (or gals) that visit and/or post comments on this site besides Matt?
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Yes 🙂
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My only What The Hell is…
WHAT THE HELL!!
Why didnt we get The Covention Center As A Free Gift
like King Butts Event We Were Given The Museum,
Any way I was So expecting to Get It, Had well over 225000 Blam Collected
All Guests were Collected.
I Had Major plans for The Convention Center…
And Thats My What The Hell..
who else wanted the convention center?
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I have another WTH item and since you wonderful people running this blog seem to have connections with TinyCo, please share this with them.
I enjoyed the King Butt and Comic Con events and worked hard and spent clams to get all of the prizes. And what do I have now… a bunch of characters I send on day long tasks to keep them out of my hair because they do nothing beyond earn coins. So, I’ve spent clams on the Horse, Jake, and Nathan and I worked hard to get King Butt and George but they are now useless (and the Horse and Jake didn’t do much other than their own quest lines). I don’t see why I should ever spend any clams to get any of these characters in the future. I’ve got a small office farm earning me all the coins I need.
I would propose to TinyCo that characters that cost clams or that are the final prize in an event (see the list above) should periodically drop a clam. It can be at the epic rate but they should be worth something and not just take up space. In addition to tasks by the earlier characters, all of these earned characters should also have tasks that drop items needed for costumes and things like the blimp. I teach game design and one of the things I talk about is that games should reward good players. Well, the good players earned these characters and so they should be rewarded. Adding tasks for these good players would make earning more stuff easier but that’s the reward for being a good player.
Just my two cents. Thanks for listening. 🙂
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We responded to a similar comment below on this. It’s very popular feedback, and we’d like to add value to limited time and premium characters 🙂
My challenge to y’all, though, is to consider ways to do this without a clam reward.
It’s not that we don’t do clam rewards. We love them. Clams are great, and they get people very excited!
But if EVERYTHING gives clams, they become less special.
What’s worse, because clams are a currency, they can actually make players enjoy the item *less*. It means Consuela becomes a cash register rather than a flavorful, fun character. (Gato.)
So again, it’s not that we won’t do clams. It’s just there are more ways to make items valuable, fun and interesting.
If you’re interested, there’s an AWESOME Ted Talk by Dan Pink about motivations. I can’t recommend it enough.
Thanks for posting this 🙂
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At the very least they should always be included in item collection. Free characters are a given so why not the clams characters.
They don’t need to give clams. I already used clams to get them. That would end up being like a refund and it never crossed my mind.
Just give them something to do. Wth even if it’s a 24 hour task it’s something.
Thanks. Love the game. By they way
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Thanks for responding.
I wasn’t suggesting clams all the time but if they only were possible on 8/12 hour or longer tasks and dropped at a rate of no more than one a week or so it wouldn’t be that special and it would take 6 years to earn back the clams spent on Consuela and 10 years to earn back the clams spent on Bryan Cranston. And besides, visiting neighbors seems to drop a clam every other day.
With an addition like this, the current animal offer wouldn’t seem like such a cash grab.
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I watched the video and it seems reasonable for work environments where people are getting baseline rewards – a salary. But we’re talking about a game here that someone can drop without any significant impact in their lives. So, I’m not sure the incentivizing discussed in the video applies.
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how about having “premium” or even characters used in tasks as well just the main 4 or 5 characters so those who have them can send maybe 4 characters to collect extra rare items rather and just 2 or 3 characters at times….especially on tasks such as the current blimp task where many items need the same characters to collect them (e.g. Stewie and Brian)
I kinda agree with the clams thing as you do want to keep them special and most people will get 1 free every day or so from collecting from friends worlds.
Even just introduce extra story lines for these characters once in a while so you can do something with them rather than sending on one day tasks as they dont do anything helpful
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what can be done instead can be a special even followup – commemorate the event with some costumes for the event characters – sort of an early adopter prize or a way to sell some of the characters (like king butt) for clams later on. it can also be used to brighten up the quiet periods between major events.
the characters we got in the comic con event are excellent candidates for costumes.
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I feel like the premium characters we buy especially since I bought Bryan Cranston!! Should do tasks for item drops.. Example.. Bryan Cranston could do something to help get megs blue glass.. But preferably they should help on the extra rare or epic items all the ones that are hard to get.. And since they are premium they should have a better drop rate. Kind of like a thank you from guys for people like me who have been here from the beginning and who spend money here and there..
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came to post this, Premium characters helping to get stuff and Event “free” characters having a low rate to drop that “stuff”
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OK, kinda not buying the whole ‘clams would make premium charachters less fun’ thing, but you want ideas?
Ok:
Alternate animations.
Have an alternate, funnier rare variant animation that appears once in awhile when the char is sent on that task. That or an outdoor animation for a noally inside task. Then everytime you set the task you hold your breath and wait that split second to see which animation starts.
Don’t know if your code allows it, but that would take some of the sting out of the (outrageous compared to Nathan Filion) 500 clams I wast-, er, spent on Bryan Cranston. 😉
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My other What The Hell!
WordPress, if your reading this, What The Hell is up with the “keep me signed in” box???? I check it ALL the time and still i get kicked out and have to sign back in?? Utterly ridiculous!!!!
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Wasted lots of clams on batteries to get fabu bus and fabu jet
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I don’t usually comment on everything but I love family guy and this game is more addicting than TSTP. That could be though because I *****
My WTF? I was enjoying comic con but because I work last shift I didn’t get to trade in Blam!, as was the given option. Why can’t they end events at midnight? Just a thought. I’m having the opposite problem with drops, I am getting all the common and no rare.
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I play this game with my 3G, my service provider gave me free 100 mb this Wednesday afternoon. This morning I received a message that said my 100 mb is had ended. Reviewing my consumption data in my iphone, I found that the game has consumed 90 mb in less than two days while other apps like TSTO only has consumed 15 mb. What the Hell??
Sorry for my spanglish.
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I almost forgot, I installed the app store update using Wi-Fi
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Watch your device. Make sure it is set to ALWAYS tap into WiFi first and NOT your data plan. These app games will drain it to death. I have hit 4GB of data in no time at all playing the games.
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I have a 6 GB plan. I never usually go over 2 GB but this past month for some reason I hit 4.8 GB on my plan. thanfully my data resets the 10th of ech month 🙂
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I have 10GB on mine. Still annoyed they cut my “grandfathered” plan that was unlimited data.
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my provider wanted to cut my 6GB grandfathered plan as they were cutting them all for share everything plans as of August 1. So on July 28 I phoned them and got my new Iphone 5s and signed up for my Super 6 GB plan locked in for another 2 years. my grandfather 6 GB plan is $60 a month, their 6 GB share everything plan which is the only way they have the 6 GB plans now is $120 a month. glad they let me lock it in another 2 years.
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FWIW, I think the last update refreshed all the building graphics in the game so that was probably it.
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I’m convinced the Giant Stewie streak challenge was designed to require the type of pesticide of which I had the fewest, and similarly, the Demon Stewie challenge usually required the type of harpoon of which I had the fewest. The King Butt Jello Shots challenge did this also.
So, when the ComicCon event ended, I had about 8 old-timey harpoons, about 4 modern harpoons, and … 108 hi-tech harpoons! What the hell! (I did not use clams to purchase any harpoons or pesticides during the entire event. Most of those came from the Blam mystery box and from zapping latcher Stewies.) This is especially annoying because completing the streak with those harpoons would have given me Blam which likely have won me at least some clams from the mystery box.
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250 clams to get 3 useless decorations and a coked up giraffe decoration. WTH !!!!!
I would rather spend 300 clams on Consuela. Hey tiny co put her on sale for 150 clams and I will by her. 300 is WAY TOO MUCH WTH!!!!!! 150 clams is more reasonable reasonable.
aside from the game….what is up with drivers that do really stupid things……I HATE RUSH HOUR AND STUPIDITY ON THE ROAD WTH !!!!!!!!!! this morning I got stuck behind someone for 55 KM /H (34 M / H) on the bloody stupid highway. I coldnt move over to the center lane as there were a line up of 18 wheelers going 100 Km/ H (62 M/H) and I was getting off the next exit. for an entire 1.5 km stretch I was stuck behind this bloody idiot. STAY OFF THE HIGHWAY IF YOU WANTE TO GO SERVICE ROAD SPEED…..MORON !!!!!! wow, thank you that has been on my chest all day. I fee better WTH !!!!
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I feel your pain, I’m always stuck behind slow trucks overtaking other slow trucks on a 2 lane road to work. Your speeds are virtually the same, what’s the frickin’ point! Pretty sure they’re just trying to piss me off. AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!!! And relax… 😀
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i bought consela with the clams i won during the comic con event.
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My quahog isn’t collecting my coins… They just disappear after I collect and never get added to my total… Believe it just started happening today
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When games ask if they can send you push notifacations, and you push “don’t allow” and the friggin game sends them anyway…what the hell?
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We’ll talk to the team about this. Notifications for apps come in two varieties: “local” and “push.”
Push notifications are dynamic content sent from the developer, while Local notifications are triggered by in-app events. Local notifications tend to be much more static, such as “your stuff has finished building.” Push Notifications can be explicitly disabled with that permissions popup, but for some apps, local notifications still trigger.
I believe you can turn these off completely by going to Notification Center and removing all notification options from the app. If that doesn’t work, though, please let me know. In particular, if you let me know the messages you’re still getting, I can take a look.
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My only complaint this week is the new selling system. I was excited to see that I could finally clear some unwanted stuff from my inventory, go in to it and find that I can’t actually sell most of it. Seriously?!
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I think it is to prevent “accidental” selling of Limited Time Items that can’t be brought back. Also, try selling from your town and not inventory. Place the item there individually and check.
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Posted previously but needs to be said again:
Okay let me start off by saying that I love this game, but would it be that difficult to give bought/earned characters more of a purpose other than to earn coins and XP (which btw serves no purpose whatsoever other than bragging rights). We have our new celebs doing nothing to help with Stripper Bonnie, District 9 or any other “items needed” quest! What the Deuce! Unless they earn a crapload of coin, they are useless after the event that we earned them in. The same can also be said for Costumes as well. The Fabulous 4, Iron Baby and Rollocop are no more than trophies now. Does anyone else feel this way?
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This is becoming more and more prevalent feedback.
What else would you like to see premium/limited characters do? How can they feel more useful and valuable once you’ve heard all of their quotes and read their Facespace?
Is there a way to make them fun and useful aside from dropping items? (Having all premium characters contribute to a content release has implications for the economy, flavor and sheer workload for the designers.)
Perhaps this can be a full post 🙂 what would make limited time (say, Patrick Stewart) and premium (say, Consuela) characters more rewarding long term?
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Are you trying to give us MORE work?! 😉
You know…we had a bunch of posts planned for the Comic-Con lull…but then you had to go and release D9….
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We try to only give you work at 3am 🙂
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Uh huh…suuuuuuuuuuure 😛
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And I’d expect nothing less…If you didn’t I’d have nothing for my What the Hells 😉
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Hope no one minds me butting in here. 🙂 I get the problem with event characters dropping items – aside from programming needed, it will inevitably lead to newer players feeling left out. But the Clam-bought characters could help with items — I’m admittedly not an engineer, but I don’t see how it’s harder to program Consuela to drop an item than to program Peter to drop 3 different items via 3 different tasks towards the same character or skin. Personally, I’m still trying to unlock Stewie and Carter – I have 4 of my 27 characters trying to collect items and the other 23 annoying me with their uselessness. I do purchase clams – and I bought Consuela, B-D Horse, Jake Tucker (regretted), Bryan Cranston, and Nathan Fillion (plus the much-regretted Sommelier station). I’m happy to give TinyCo my money – with a little coaxing. I won’t buy Buzz Killington since he doesn’t drop items and doesn’t seem to have many voiced-phrases (as heard when tapping Buzz in neighbors’ Quahogs). That all said, I love how responsive TinyCo is!
P.S. I think it’s just cruel to offer a Nathan Fillion “ride unicycle” task then put it indoors so we can’t SEE it! 🙂
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As previously mentioned, dropping a clam every now and then would be nice, but not necessarily even at epic rate. Keep it super rare so it’s a nice surprise.
And also agree that sometimes helping with item collection would be welcome. Doesn’t have to be all the time but having these characters involved with that occasionally will help keep them relevant to the game and more of an incentive to buy them as you know they’ll actually be useful. Otherwise yeah, it’s just endless 24hr tasks for these guys which isn’t overly rewarding.
How about more Facespace updates? Not necessarily just for premium/limited time characters but just a few more in general would be good. Don’t recall seeing many new ones recently for the characters I’ve had for a while.
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My game occasionally does that (crashes) when visiting neighbours, but recently I’ve noticed after the recent update when I visit neighbours and help them out I no longer get coins or a clam. Not to seem greedy but It did make me think ‘What the Hell?’ So I figured it fit. XD
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Post coming soon on this issue. Report it for now. It seems the images don’t show but the items still count to your total.
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Oh cool, thank you Bunny, you’re very helpful and your site is very informative/helpful too, glad I found it a little while back, thank you for all the help and information you give!
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Happy to do it. 😉
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– I didn’t have enough time to buy the Mutant Stewie skin before the event ended on Monday. Why did they release something for 20,000 Blam at the very end?! What the hell!
– I have to get stuff for two skins and, for some reason, a blimp all at once! It’s overwhelming! What the hell!
– I’m sick with a temp of 104 and all the doctor had to say was that it was “a virus who is kicking my ass” and basically I just have to let it beat me up for a week. What the hell!!
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Oh no! Feel better!
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Oh let’s see. Good morning we have a special event. Spend $20 in clams to get a coke head giraffe… Not exactly my idea of special. Considering comic con used up plenty of clams and I got great decorations I see no need to waste clams on a giraffe.
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Coke Head Giraffe is one of our favorite decos we’ve ever created 🙂 that animation! The Community team giggled for probably 10 minutes when we saw it yesterday.
That said, we realize it’s not for everyone. Most things in the game are designed to delight specific groups and audiences. Of course, we want it to delight as many audiences as possible!
Everything’s in there to delight someone, but very few things will delight everyone. If you see something that makes you go “wth”, that usually means it’s not meant for you 🙂
The flip side of it is that there’s (hopefully) a ton of content that makes you go “omg” while making someone else go “wth”. It’s a big ol’ ecosystem of exclamations and emoticons.
Our job is to make sure every person and play style gets their OMG moments. They just don’t all come at the same time.
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Love the coke head giraffe, hilarious! But why no ‘Haha’ audio clip for the live studio ostrich?? Audio just ripped from the actual episode would do the job. Especially confusing as the porcupine did have audio.
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Believe it or not… it’s because we couldn’t secure the rights from the Ostrich.
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Thanks for the response Matt, truly appreciate having TinyCo representation here to respond to our bitchy questions and comments, so two thumbs up for being awesome 😀 If it makes any difference I’d be happy with a soundalike for the Ostrich but I won’t bang on about it anymore as I’m sure you’re all super busy over there. I work in mobile tech as a software tester so I know it’s not easy keeping all this stuff ticking over on multiple platforms. Got an iPhone 6 on order (yay!) so as soon as it arrives I’ll run the game on that for a bit and report anything unusual.
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So I have been stuck on Anime Peter for over 4 weeks and have only gotten one of the 3 eyeballs. Is it something I’m doing wrong? I have looked at what amounts to every trick and gimmick to get them but to no avail. Who do I complain to?(no one) but still, really getting irritated since other quests I have open require him.
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Those eyeballs are the death of us all. Lol. My suggestion is keep the same character doing the same task over n over to try and get them. The rate is set up for them that the more times you fail, the greater your chances increase of getting them. They made that change recently to give you better odds when you don’t get one after a few tries.
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With prison meg and district 9 update ive checked my quahog like 30 times today. I feel like a kid with a new toy
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Not happy with the weird sounding voiceovers. I’m hoping it’s just that they wanted to add more dialog, the FG Actors weren’t available, and they will fix this once they are available.
For ages you could have multiple mini-marts. I saw a hint here to build more to get drops for prison Meg. But my workers were busy clearing land so I figured I would buy a mini-mart once they finished clearing only to find the extra mini mart is no longer available.
Ps sorry to hear about the accident. I hope no one was hurt.
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We’re all good, thank you!…no ambulance was called. Just one of those..ugh! And I had ice cream in the car too!
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now if it was me and i had ice cream or coffee and someone bumped my rear, i would flog them endlessly! that is outright war!!!
Very glad you were not injured Alissa!!!!
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Using the same characters to collect items for more than one quest or costume (Lois – tattoo machine for Meg or the blimp control panel) and all the others including premium ones with nothing to do but menial coin collecting tasks! Especially frustrating when some of the items are extra rare! WTH
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WTH?!? I like the timed weekend challenges, they are fun and exciting to see if I can get them done. But I have to buy animals to win an animal that does nothing… No thank you
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my wth is i still dont have update yet contacted amazon they gave me blah blah blah sooooooooo sad to be behind i hope they release the holloween stuff on time(would put a sad face but dont know how)
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Agree…I contacted Amazon too and got the usual kiss-off. Now this animal update which we probably won’t get until it’s over.
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Hi what the F is what’s up with a weekend quest line that is literally nothing but spending clams to buy animals appreciate everything tiny coated with the comic con event at every thing they made available for freemium players but I need to have a weekend only event that is solely for the purpose of getting people to spend clams shaking my head
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Im enjoying the game even though the drop rates of items are not consistent. For example, extra rares are dropping rather often but im missing out on the poop buckets (common) its frustrating haha.
Also I wish tinyco would develop more Silver coin based buildings and decos, as a way of rewarding players who have been playing for a while — I have over 2 million coins and have nothing left to spend it on 😦
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Bunny, I’m curious as to what your “what the hell” is. I always hear Alissa’s, but not yours. Give us a what the hell rant!
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Lol. That would be TOO long of a list. Mine she usually incorporates into it anyway. The late night releases are a killer to be honest. I attempt to get in SOME sleep here and there.
But I will give you one. My What The Hell is Airports…
Airport crazy people. I travel a lot and am amused but at the same time annoyed by people that are extremely impatient when it comes to flights. If there is a delay or cancellation it is not just ONE person impacted, but EVERYONE on the flight. So why do some still think THEY are more important and need priority attention? Stand in line and take your turn like everyone else. Screaming at the top of your lungs at those trying to help you and everyone else will not make it better. Rushing the desk and bypassing everyone else waiting is just ridiculous. Let them HELP you when its your turn. Give them a lil smile. Show them some gratitude. A smile goes a LOT further than hate. Trust me. Kindness is rewarded.
Give us MORE places to charge our devices. I know there are some here and there, but when you spend hours commuting and trying to write for two blogs/ play multiple games/ take multiple phone calls/ etc…you are gonna drain those batteries. So I get annoyed when I see an airport with THOUSANDS of people traveling and like 8 plugs in the terminal to charge devices (I do carry portable charging packs with me, but they only recharge so much and security don’t like them). If they want us to be there 2 hours early and 30 mins prior to flight, they can at least offer some extra “juice” for our electronics.
Loud talkers at airport. I can’t believe the personal phone calls people make while surrounded by thousands of others. If I was a dishonest person, I could easily now have the complete profile and history of many people. Do NOT give out your date of birth, social, credit card number, home address, etc…while sitting around strangers. Not unless you WANT someone to steal your identity. This goes for any public locations.
Fights at the airport. Really people? Do you really have to yell and scream on the phone to your significant other while in a crowded airport? Do you really have to make threatening phone calls to people? Keep personal situations…personal.
Speaking of Personal…personal hygiene. You are about to spend a LOT of time sardined with a LOT of people. Can you PLEASE have common courtesy to shower, wear a clean outfit, put on a lil deodorant, w/e it takes for you to NOT smell “gamey”. I get when traveling some of this may be difficult, but there are bathrooms EVERYWHERE that you can wash up a lil bit. If you ask nicely, some of the airport help desks will even offer a few amenities if you need them. (Many people lose their luggage so they have some essentials.) This goes the same for TOO much scents. Don’t overdue the perfumes, colognes, and body sprays.
Overall…just common human courtesy at ANYTIME you are going to be with a group of people. Regardless where it is.
There….a lil bit for yah 😛
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I agree with all that. As you can tell from my what the hell, I have to deal with customers. Some are ok, but alot of them need some serious attitude adjustments. Nothing is more rage-inducing than pain in the *** customers, people that know they’re annoying as hell but continue being that way because they have that “customer is always right” mentality. Anyone who works retail knows that is complete B.S. – most of the time the customers are flat out wrong. In my eyes, customers are the worst species ever. Inconsiderate, all high-and-mighty, a-holes, I could go on all day but I feel I made my point here. UGH…
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I have been in the Customer Service industry since I could work. It is saddening on how people feel it is OK to treat others. We see it here too. I don’t understand how common courtesy can be lost so quickly. Especially when someone is only trying to help. I have learned to deal with and understand the angry ones. Sad it comes to that, but I make due. 😉
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Yes, and I thank both you & Alissa for the service you provide to us – not sure I would refer to the users of this site as “customers”, but you get what I’m saying. I truly appreciate the understanding and professionalism both of you express to us each and every day, regardless of how much real life rears its ugly head. Again, thank you for providing an environment where an addict can be an addict!
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More than happy to do it. 😉
We created this place to be somewhere WE would want to go.
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Exactly!!! I can seriously relate on every thing you said plus when ppl jump up so fast when their zone is called cause they feel like the plane will leave without them or their assigned seat will be stolen!! Another thing i really hate is how ppl can get lost as to what seat their ticket says!! Really? You cannot tell the difference between 5c and 5d? sheesh
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Hehehehe. I giggle on the zone stuff. I fly Southwest and you STILL have a number for when you can go, but people ALWAYS just go right in front of me when they have the very last number. That impatience and “all about me me me” mentality really gets to me. I also get ticked when people complain they have to wait for people with handicaps to be loaded and unloaded. It is like no one else’s life is important anymore. Everyone for themselves.
I am the kind of person that will give up my seat to those in need. Randomly pay for other people’s orders, meals, groceries, etc. Mostly anonymously. I ask for nothing in return. Always just pay it forward.
Got pissed at some “entitled” acting people in line at grocery store making fun of a woman who obviously was just trying to feed her lil babies. That she was counting out change in coins to buy them a simple meal. Having to put back item after item and decide what she CAN afford to feed them. Tears in her eyes as she heard the people too. I had enough, pushed my way past the rude people, tapped the lady on the shoulder and told her get EVERYTHING she needs…its on me. She looked at me in shock. Cried her eyes out and hugged me. Grabbed her food and went. The cashier made a comment as to the total, I jumped in and said “I don’t care, I will pay for it”. Suddenly looks of guilt on faces of those being mean behind me. (Cashier and bagger in shock and thanked me for making their day.) Can’t believe the cold heartless mentality of people at times. THOSE kind of people are my “WHAT THE FRAKKIN HELL!!!” all the time.
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Aw Bunny, I love you for that 🙂
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Thanks, I appreciate it. I honestly…the more I have, the more I want to give. Sometimes I wish I was a millionaire or billionaire…then I could give even MORE. 🙂
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Wow, you truly have a heart of gold. Bless you for that. My girlfriend has been struggling financially for awhile, so I help her in whatever ways I can to make sure her and her little girl can eat. Alot of times I go without so they can have something. She told me I may be an angel sent down from Heaven in human form. It sounds like you may be one too. If more people had wonderful hearts, this world would be a more pleasant place. Thank you for being one of the good ones.
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Awww well thank you. I love helping others. Makes me happy. 😉
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Why have I always reinstall the app, when upgrades are needing? 🙂
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I’m on vacation this week, and I only have a few days left! Vacation is nearly over ALREADY? I actually have to go back to work? What the hell?! When I do go back to work, I have to deal with annoying, stupid customers! What the hell?! I have to be nice to the customers no matter how they treat me, when most of the time I want to tell them to go F themselves. What the hell?! If I did that I would be fired, which would mean no money. What the hell?! You can tell I love my job right? Retail – WHAT THE HELL!!
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Why do timy co make it so hard to unlock everything in this game they need to make the rare items and the extra rare items easier to get
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The game crashes when I visit my neighbors. Happening for anyone else?
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Yes. Me too.
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Yep. And Ollieland people don’t drop anything when I tap on them.
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Same here, some friends, including Ollieland drops nothing and when i visit a friend, I crash…. Getting annoying now too… and of course when the update came I had almost everyone doing 12 hour jobs…..
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Post coming soon on this issue. Report it for now. The items seem to collect but images don’t show.
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Ever since the comic con started mine crashes all the time when I try to visit friends, still does
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Let them know please.
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