Idiots cut of feed & water supply
Howdy Farmers,
Beginning this afternoon we are rolling out a change to how many times you will be prompted to post Watering Cans and Animal Feed.
The Feeds we are changing are:
- Posting Watering Cans when you harvest an Orchard
- Posting Watering Cans when you grow a Mystery Seedling half-way to the full tree state.
- Posting Animal Feed when you harvest an Animal Pen
But we're leaving all the totally useless feeds that do nothing to improve your game play - Trading post pop-up; your market is full (because we are too stingy to give you more room to store a reasonable amount of bushels for the # of crafting buildings you now have), you mastered this whatever, and my personal favourite, you planted a seedling, why not beg for water now!
What changes are we making?
In each of the three changes, you will be prompted to post one shared item per day. One Watering Can when you harvest an Orchard, one Watering Can as you grow a seedling, and one Animal Feed when you harvest an Animal Pen.
Harvesting subsequent Orchards or Pens, or watering more than one seedling will result in no further prompts to share these items into your feed.
This change also means that you will get NO feedback when you harvest orchards or feed pens. None. Isn't that ~fun~?
Why are we making this change?
You may have noticed that many Farmers report issues posting items to their feeds. They get messages such as "An error has occurred, please try again later." and the feed never posts.
A leading cause of this is posting a great number of feeds in a day. The platform begins to limit the number of feeds you can post, and locks you out of it after you cross a certain threshold. After that, feeds stop posting and your animals, trees, etc. can't be shared with friends.
We studied the feeds that FarmVille posts, as well as the feeds Farmers claim, and believe that these feeds are an ideal candidate to consider for reduction. A great number of Watering Cans and Animal Feed gets posted every day by generous Farmers, but the bulk of it is not claimed, and triggers the platform limit without providing a benefit to Farmers.
And if you believe any of this line of BS, have we got a special deal on FC for you! The truth is we are doing this because several of us here at Zynga are only here because we got picked up in a merger and we really think all of you players are idiots. Oh, and we think it's pretty funny to destroy Zynga's biggest money maker from inside cuz, well, you know... it just is. If Zynga's dumb enough to let us, and the players are dumb enough to keep playing, why not have our fun? And guess what?! We get paid to screw with y'all!
Things to Note:
This does not change or limit the number of Watering Cans or Animal Feed posts you can click to receive from your friends. It reduces the number of times you will be prompted to post, but not how much you can claim.
Well, except for the minor little detail that once it rolls out fully, there will only be two watering cans and two feeds posted per player each day so there won't BE any to claim, really. Details, shmetails. Who cares?
This will not impact your ability to share Mystery Seedlings, Animals, or fully-grown Trees.
...although of course, since people won't have water or feed, they won't be able to grow those mystery seedlings or animals.
This will reduce interruptions to your game-play while harvesting orchards and pens, or watering seedlings. For those of us with dozens of pens and orchards, this means we can harvest and get to our rewards all that much faster!
but you'll still have all the rest of the useless pop ups and other assorted crap you don't need, not to worry. It's just the stuff you DO need to play effectively that will be gone. Isn't that ~fun~?!
This is going to roll out slowly over the next week. Not every Farmer will see a reduction in prompts to post up front.
As usual, we'll punish the players we don't like - you know, the loyal ones that buy farmcash regularly - and reward the ones we do ...the ones that MIGHT buy farmcash someday if we just keep offering them extra special this and thats.
After your one prompted post for the day, when you harvest an Orchard or Pen and would normally receive a Watering Can or Animal Feed, you will still receive it (in your Gift Box) even though you are not prompted to post a feed to share with your friends.
Please share your feedback with us, and your results if you see this change on your Farm....so that we can ignore it for weeks like we did with the throttle, feed limits, and pretty much every other change we make. It amuses us.
Thanks!
Last edited by Grimwell; Yesterday at 04:12 PM.
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