Disney Magic Kingdoms

[Arundal]

Didn’t work here. 25 attempts, 1 hat. Still need 2 more. It would cost me 150 gems to get him at this point. Would leave me with about 30 left if I do it, so anything else that comes up would be out the window. Just…..Gah. This has ceased to be fun

Keep trying. You have until around 2pm tomorrow, well east coast time.

 

[anya.sparrow]

Didn’t work here. 25 attempts, 1 hat. Still need 2 more. It would cost me 150 gems to get him at this point. Would leave me with about 30 left if I do it, so anything else that comes up would be out the window. Just…..Gah. This has ceased to be fun

Yep, I spent all of my speed up thingies on Kevin and didn't get one hat. Pathetic.

 

[supernova]

Yeah….feels like they should have let Carl become available just a little bit earlier. This is ridiculous

Five days is just tight enough to have people panic and go for the $14.99 bundle. On top of the $19.99 they probably paid for the pass. Of course, if they made the drops a bit more consistent, which they could very easily do, there wouldn't be an issue. And why bother with the time wall when we were waiting days for the character to unlock? Oh, right. Because then players might have 7-8 days to try for him rather than just five.

 

[Arundal]

My last pick, a few minutes ago, gave me two more pair of glasses. Only need 1 more.

 

[Yayadeb]

Need 1 more hat and 1 more glasses. Right now, it would cost me 80 gems, although I have 643 (pass bulked them up), but I’m stubborn and will hold until tomorrow. I would rather not spend any gems on Carl. And then Orville will be mine.

 

[supernova]

My last pick, a few minutes ago, gave me two more pair of glasses. Only need 1 more.

Need 1 more hat and 1 more glasses. Right now, it would cost me 80 gems, although I have 643 (annual pass bulked them up), but I’m stubborn and will hold until tomorrow. I would rather not spend any gems on Carl. And then Orville will be mine.

You should both have this!! Here's hoping, anyway.

 

[anya.sparrow]

Dear Interns:

When one of the reasons to spend gems on a premium event character is the promise of said character helping to collect to obtain other event characters, please remember to write your code so that the items actually drop. (See: Kevin, 60 minutes and zero drops for Carl hat).

Sincerely,

Anya.Sparrow

 

[lme30005]

This is definitely the worst event yet. I’m an average player but have been logging on every 4 hrs or so, still only at 7 glasses and 5 hats after 3.5 days. Costs around 700 gems to buy him so no chance. I’m in the U.K. and he costs £17.99! They charge other countries more than the US so even more of a con. Didn’t buy Kevin, or the pass. And only on 65 of season pass so I have no chance there either. So I will only end up with 1/5 characters. Have been playing since the start but I think I won’t bother much in the future

 

[Arundal]

You should both have this!! Here's hoping,

Woke in middle of night and of the three collecting glasses, I got the one I need and was able to welcome CARL and sent on first quest.

 

[wiihoo888]

Woke in middle of night and of the three collecting glasses, I got the one I need and was able to welcome CARL and sent on first quest.

Congrats Woke up and got one more stupid hat. Still need two more stupid hats here to welcome him. Stupid hats

 

[wiihoo888]

Dear Interns:

When one of the reasons to spend gems on a premium event character is the promise of said character helping to collect to obtain other event characters, please remember to write your code so that the items actually drop. (See: Kevin, 60 minutes and zero drops for Carl hat).

Sincerely,

Anya.Sparrow

Dear Interns,

I second this wholeheartedly. Spent gems to get a premium character and the bonus I got was insomnia.

Sincerely,

Wiihoo who still needs two more stupid ear hats

 

[Jason_V]

I hit the Carl roadblock nearly 3 full days before he became available. That was 3 days in this event where all I could do was collect EC and level up the other two characters (which I didn't want to do because I wanted to make sure I had enough EC to welcome Carl when the time arrived).

I've been saying this for a long long time: stop with these artificial roadblocks. Let people progress through the event or challenge at their speed and have everything open and ready to go when the player gets there. If that means the player gems everything and is done in a day, fine. If it means players take the entire event/challenge time period to finish, fine.

I understand why Gameloft does this...I just don't like it.

All that being said, finished the event this morning. And for the first time in forever, I have zero characters ready to level. Got lots that need to level and I'm token hunting now. But no one is ready to go. Finished two weekly tasks already and should have a third and maybe a fourth done today. And then it's time to grind, grind, grind for those tokens.

 

[adamreisinger]

I got Carl early this morning without having to use any gems. I won't get him to level 2 to "finish" the event, but since there's no actual reward for that, I don't care in the slightest.

Now to begin the years long journey of getting him to Level 10 (because his drop rates will somehow only get worse after the event)

 

[lme30005]

Well I got 1 glasses and 1 ear hats in 2 days, despite playing fairly solidly for 16hr per day. Not willing to spend 660 gems to buy him so I only have 1/5 characters.

 

[hopemax]

I had to use gems in my IOS game. I got down to 3 from the 7 I started with on Wed night. I tried about a dozen skips. Nothing. I didn't want to burn through all my skips when I know I might need some when I am on vacation to get my tasks done. So 150 gems, almost like another Premium character.

 

[hopemax]

The good news: lots of characters help with Up tokens

The bad news: the tasks are super long. Who wants to tie up two wish characters Jessie+Bo Peep for 24 hrs for a chance at Carl's glasses?

 

[supernova]

The good news: lots of characters help with Up tokens

The bad news: the tasks are super long. Who wants to tie up two wish characters Jessie+Bo Peep for 24 hrs for a chance at Carl's glasses?

Yes, seriously. Not sure what these dumbas$es are up to. Outside of not looking to develop new material any time soon. Easier to artificially slow down the game once again.

 

[Yayadeb]

I needed a glasses and a hat this morning. I didn’t get any hat drops, but got the last glasses. I just didn’t want to deal with it anymore and spent 50 gems on last hat.
I did notice there is a 16hr collection now for one of Carl’s items. Never have seen a 16 hr., but it will help with the 12+ hr weekly pass events.
I had to get rid of the weekly float events, since I had none of those floats. Now I’m stuck with 6, 8, and 12 hr events, and they aren’t low numbers, so I’m sure several of those will be carrying over to next week.

 

[Jason_V]

And we're back to Mermaid and Nightmare for Legendary Chests. Come on...I want Luca. It's the one I don't have. I wouldn't mind so much if Lock, Shock and Barrel were included, but they're not.

 

[anya.sparrow]

It is not healthy to be this angry about a game, so I am really going to have to think about if I want to go forward with this game long term. That is a shame, because I started playing during the first year.

Another night that I didn't sleep well, so I moved my people at 3 a.m. At 7 a.m., I still only had 5 Carl Hats. I looked at things, and found that if I was able to collect ONE more hat, I could spend $4.99 on gems to buy Carl. Yes, I would have to crawl in here and admit my hypocrisy that I spent money, but I figured after all of my time spent on this event that for my own sanity it might be worth it. Ten minutes before the event ended, still no hat. I used speed up tokens. No hat. So, I would have had to spend $9.99 to get enough gems to buy Carl. I decided Gameloft could go eff off.

I logged into the game VERY regularly throughout the entire event (every 1-2 hours except when God granted me the occasional sleep block). I am just steaming mad about this event, but I feel good about the fact that I did not cave and give them my money. I have spent some money on the game in the past. I don't think Gameloft will EVER see another dime from me again.