Disney Magic Kingdoms

[KimRonRufus]

Man, am I relieved today. 2 hours before event end, I still needed 3 queen hats. They cost 124 gems. I had 100. Couldn't spend any more money. My 2 tasks would end MINUTES before event's end, and they would give me only 2 hats, if any at all (doubt it). I was screwed. BUT THEN! It dawned on me. I had a whole mess of characters waiting to level up in the castle! I had myself a parade. I welcomed, like, 10 characters or so, which got me the 24 gems I needed! (And a few extra). I may be gem-poor, but I now am the proud owner of one evil queen! I need a breather. Which, knowing gameloft, will be, like, a week?

 

[Windwaker4444]

If they were to do with Tigger what they did with Grumpy, I'd be devastated. He's one of my favorite characters, but I will not pay to gamble on the chance of getting what I would need for him. I didn't even come close with Grumpy just on what I earned from contests and such.

On another note, I wonder if the interns read the comments on the game's Facebook page. There are a lot of unhappy people commenting on this event.

I'm not on Facebook. What are people complaining about? Grumpy? How difficult the Queen's drops were? Just curious...

 

[rr333]

I was able to get the Queen and Grumpy... I placed 2nd in the final Gold event and got 8 chests. Afterward I had 44/60 owls and 23/40 hats.... I spent 315 gems to finish getting his tokens and actually ended up with 42/40 hats before I welcomed him. That 315 gems was the only time I bought chests.

I agree this event was not fun.

 

[Disney_Princess83]

I ended up welcoming the Queen with about 16 hours to spare. It was very frustrating since I had all three gem characters. The drop rate for The Queen was terrible. At one point, I didn't get a single drop for 18 hours. I'm happy the event is over. This felt like a really long and drawn out event and one I haven't enjoyed which is disappointing because I love Snow White. I ended up getting 20 gems from the event currency conversion.

Like everyone else, I hate the Grumpy lottery. I ended up using some gems I had and I didn't buy any gems specifically to get Grumpy but used approximately 350 gems to get him. If I hadn't placed in all the mini events, I would have used more. I felt the need to get Grumpy as I couldn't stand having only 6 of the Dwarves. Clearly this was their intent but I would seriously consider paying so many gems for a character again.

 

[CaptHook34]

I can see Winnie The Pooh happening as the next event, and or Peter Pan.

Peter Pan
Captain Hook
Wendy
Michael
John
Tiger Lilly
Nana
Smee

 

[supernova]

I can see Winnie The Pooh happening as the next event, and or Peter Pan.

Peter Pan
Captain Hook
Wendy
Michael
John
Tiger Lilly
Nana
Smee

Gameloft doesn't usually release full character sets. Well, except for Toy Story... what the hell happened there?? Anyway, I could see at least Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Wendy. Maybe one of the brothers? Tiger Lilly would be silly. Same with Nana.

 

[supernova]

I'm not on Facebook. What are people complaining about? Grumpy? How difficult the Queen's drops were? Just curious...

Probably both. I mean, give people nothing to complain about and they'll eventually find something to complain about. This time they had two things. In the end, I'm not sure how much Gameloft cares. They've tried experiments before. Bogo had his items for sale with Merlin. Same with the Alien. A couple of attractions difficultly available through Platinum chests. Players complain that things are the same. Then they try something new and people complain about that too. Doesn't mean they'll release one Grumpy-style character with each new update. The end game for them is cash. If they get $10 from ten players, they scored $10,000. And there are far more than a thousand players. But that's still not a lot of money when considering business operating expenses. Salaries alone would tear that to shreds (another great reason to keep using interns). People will flock to Facebook and complain. And the interns will laugh. Will some people stop playing? Sure. Is Gameloft concerned that seven people stopped playing? Of course not. They know exactly how many players are active, how many are casual, how many completed each event, and how far along those who quit were in their game progress. Unless there is a massive departure of players, of money completely dries up due to their boneheaded decisions (neither of which is ever going to happen), we're not likely to see things return to their old ways. Ah, to return to the days of complaining about a lone glove being hidden in these brand new things called "chests". Or six-minute Snowgie quests. Or playing through and actually having to figure things out, before life was handed to us in fan Wiki pages.

 

[AJGolden1013]

I can see Winnie The Pooh happening as the next event, and or Peter Pan.

Peter Pan
Captain Hook
Wendy
Michael
John
Tiger Lilly
Nana
Smee

Gameloft doesn't usually release full character sets. Well, except for Toy Story... what the hell happened there?? Anyway, I could see at least Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Wendy. Maybe one of the brothers? Tiger Lilly would be silly. Same with Nana.

They did set a precedent with toy story, so when we ask for more characters they can’t be surprised, also the crocodile would be good. One of the tokens could be a gold pocket watch. Tick tick.

 

[Acer]

Do these events make anyone else take a break from the game. I've logged in twice since it ended. Need time to recoup.

Got the queen but not Grumpy. Didn't even try. Will be interesting to see if they go that direction again with the next event. If yes, may be time to retire.

 

[Mattimation]

Do these events make anyone else take a break from the game. I've logged in twice since it ended. Need time to recoup.

Got the queen but not Grumpy. Didn't even try. Will be interesting to see if they go that direction again with the next event. If yes, may be time to retire.

The sheer amount of events this last year have definitely made regular game play completely irrelevant, at least to those of us who've been playing a while. Yeah now I have all the Snow White characters to level up, plus some of the Alice in Wonderland and Maximus who arrived in my emerald chest, but...there's not really a point in leveling them up anymore. They can't help with anything, the story has completely stopped and likely won't continue for a while, since regular game-play updates are few and far between. I don't know what IP the next update will bring (though I feel it'll be something from the 90s, since our last three updates have been golden/silver age Disney), but I would bet it's another event.

 

[Windwaker4444]

Do these events make anyone else take a break from the game. I've logged in twice since it ended. Need time to recoup.

Got the queen but not Grumpy. Didn't even try. Will be interesting to see if they go that direction again with the next event. If yes, may be time to retire.

I feel the need for a little break too. It's like when you just spent an entire month with your significant other 24/7. You end up needing a little space afterwards to remember why you ever liked them so much.
" I'm sorry DMK. It's not you, it's me. I just need a little time to evaluate our relationship. You see, Santa brought me a Switch for Christmas and I need to see where that takes me. But we'll always be friends..."

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I know Snow White ended today, and that’s cool, I need a breather as it is. My own thoughts and wishes, the next section is Winnie the Pooh, as a main story line event.

Winnie the Pooh
Piglet
Tigger
Eyeore
Owl
Rabbit
Kanga
Roo
Christopher Robbing
maybe a Hephalump?

“I’m just a little black rain cloud, hovering under a honey tree, I’m only a little black rain cloud pay not attention to little me.......”

well, we know what the "tapper" event will be .... get ready to tap on a bunch of those "little black rain clouds"


I was thinking about next characters to have (be it an event, or, ideally, part of the regular story and one name I don't recall seeing much mention of is Pinocchio

you could have:
- Pincchio
- Gippeto
- Giminy Cricket (probably a premium character)
- Figaro
- Candlewick
- The Blue Fairy
- Stromboli

For Attractions could have
- Pinocchio's Daring Journey
- The Canal Boat ride from Disneyland that starts with going into Monstro's mouth
- Something themed to Pleasure Island
- Pinocchio's Village Haus from Walt Disney World

The parade float could be Stromboli's Caravan

 

[TheMaxRebo]

If they were to do with Tigger what they did with Grumpy, I'd be devastated. He's one of my favorite characters, but I will not pay to gamble on the chance of getting what I would need for him. I didn't even come close with Grumpy just on what I earned from contests and such.

On another note, I wonder if the interns read the comments on the game's Facebook page. There are a lot of unhappy people commenting on this event.

I actually liked the idea of trying something different for getting a character but they made it too hard to get Grumpy and the real issue was the gambling aspect.

If it was more that you only got the items from completing different tasks - sort of like accomplishing various quests in a role playing game to get different pieces of something to assemble or something - I think that would be interesting, but the gambling aspect I think turned a lot of people off

 

[supernova]

well, we know what the "tapper" event will be .... get ready to tap on a bunch of those "little black rain clouds"


I was thinking about next characters to have (be it an event, or, ideally, part of the regular story and one name I don't recall seeing much mention of is Pinocchio

you could have:
- Pincchio
- Gippeto
- Giminy Cricket (probably a premium character)
- Figaro
- Candlewick
- The Blue Fairy
- Stromboli

For Attractions could have
- Pinocchio's Daring Journey
- The Canal Boat ride from Disneyland that starts with going into Monstro's mouth
- Something themed to Pleasure Island
- Pinocchio's Village Haus from Walt Disney World

The parade float could be Stromboli's Caravan

Doubt they'd do Candlewick, and I wonder if they'd take Honest John over Stromboli? Jiminy Cricket would probably be the premium character, unless they need him to start off the story?

 

[Peachkins]

I'm not on Facebook. What are people complaining about? Grumpy? How difficult the Queen's drops were? Just curious...

Yeah, pretty much everything. No one cared for gambling for Grumpy, and several have questioned how appropriate the game is for kids considering.

 

[JamesGarvey]

Complaining about it and posting righteous indignation on the internet is one thing, but GameLoft has the metrics. What we say and what we do can be very different things. If the structure of the event made more money than previous ones, then they've found a new model to maximize profit.

EDIT: there's also the new edict from Apple about disclosing odds of loot boxes so how that is implemented and it's requirements could shape the future of the app.

 

[mmmears]

Complaining about it and posting righteous indignation on the internet is one thing, but GameLoft has the metrics. What we say and what we do can be very different things. If the structure of the event made more money than previous ones, then they've found a new model to maximize profit.

Totally agree. I hope people also voted with their wallets and didn't pay actual dollars for Grumpy, but I'm afraid that many people did.

 

[supernova]

Totally agree. I hope people also voted with their wallets and didn't pay actual dollars for Grumpy, but I'm afraid that many people did.

You can be certain of that. The percentage of total players to those who are actually on these (or other) forums is quite small.

 

[Busybee46]

PSA: If you are still working on collecting tokens for Alice or the Queen of Hearts, don't forget to put Mickey & Minnie back into their Halloween costumes so they can work on those tokens.

Is this the case? Oh I thought they were just for amusement! How to find out which costumes are needed for which tokens? What will I miss by taking Mickey out of his Santa outfit?

 

[Peachkins]

Complaining about it and posting righteous indignation on the internet is one thing, but GameLoft has the metrics. What we say and what we do can be very different things. If the structure of the event made more money than previous ones, then they've found a new model to maximize profit.

No doubt. One guy on their Facebook page was complaining about this event (as well as the legendary chests they've been selling) and how he was going to write to GameLoft, while in the same breath mentioning he's spent at least $500 on this game in the last year. I'll bet there are plenty who have paid more.