Feedback The Mysterious Maze

Another epic fail by bugpoint. The mechanics of the game are tedious and uninteresting. The playing field is needlessly busy and causes a strain on the eyes.

 

I was stuck in the maze so long....I'm afraid to go back. I read everything, just don't have the right kind of skills for this. Please bring back Ingrid, or the dice game or something fun. Thank You. I did not go back, and felt a big sigh of relief. I bought the cr.

 

I like the game very much. I like the drops from all field (even midnight field). It makes me feel like I have an advantage with all field opens (but that depends on drop rate). The drops seem adequate. The first game took me forever, and I thought I would never get it, but after the first game I didn't have any problems.


Since I am in the minority of those who like the game, I would suggest two things to salvage the quest for others.
1. People complain the game is too time consuming. If you extend the quest it would be more relaxing.
2. The how to play video I am told is played badly and doesn't help at all in strategy. I didn't actually see the video, but it seems that many players need more assistance in understanding strategy and a video could help. Since there is no reward for few moves, planing a route is actually easier and quicker. That could easily be shown in a couple video examples.

 

whats also frustrating...I think this might be the 4th event I have not been able to complete...that is a HUGE turn off to me...Makes me not want to play

 

My sentiments too. Boring, too much work which can't be skipped. The awards looked nice, but I really do not enjoy the mini game at all. If I could have done skip with 20 coins as a reward instead, maybe 15 too, I would have.

 

Sorry devs but this is not for me. It’s really boring and I don’t really understand what I’m doing. I’m playing for the coins but not really trying to complete as it’s not worth my time.

 

The maze could have been amazing. However, it is much too complicated and takes ages to complete each one. 55 are needed just to get the cloud row, and, believe it or not, most of us have a life outside of farmerama.
It was frustrating to have to move the maze where there was a clear path to the next flashing item. It would have been better to just let us choose which items to go for and make our own path, activating the scarecrow each time we needed him.
All in all a time consuming failure.

 

Start game 50, players need to collect total 7 treasures to pass the game.
It is really too much. Give alot of stress and make me think.
Endless seraching the path. It is painfuly!
Why set up so high standard for getting the CR, If get 7 treasure is for latter
games, after player get the CR(game 55), if player want to get more reward.
Then need more difficults is acceptable.
But not start from game 50, players had to suffer the highest standard.
Designer team design this event with 85 games, CR set on game 55, So
there had 30games need player to serach the highest 7 treasure.
It is ridiculous!
I really hope, BP had learn from my feedback. Such kind of mini game,
keep it easier, Don’t let us only give you negative feedback!

 

the mazes are easy to complete but it does require a lot of patience, what bugs me is the poor drop rate. Maybe the 55 games is too much for me, I really don't think I can reach it and if one doesn't reach the CR the previous rewards are imo pathetic, the cloud row is what makes this event worth it and I can achieve the crops by skipping a bit of sleep but am let down by the poor lantern cover drop rate.
I have worked out I need to get 27 lantern covers per hour from now on and some hours I am lucky to get 3. Messed up - for me at least.

 

Having just completed my 55 games to get the cloud row, I would like to add to my initial review. The maze was, in fact, quite simple once you figured out how to do it. But the level of tedium was exhausting. It would have been fine if there were one prize per level, or five games total, increasing in difficulty. The sheer volume of minutes that I spent doing this is overwhelming. Also, I would like to put in a comment regarding "additional levels" - lately, every event has "completion" and then "additional levels" usually with quite good prizes, which are not unattainable but require even more time, and more tedium, and frankly, it's a big fat discouragement, that after playing to "win" - there are more peaks to climb.

I love this game. I try really hard to always leave positive feedback as well. But you are overwhelming your players with the volume of events, and with the requirements per event. I personally have brought five people to this game in the past twelve months and not one of them is still playing, becuase it feels like a second job if they want to get anywhere in the game. We used to have two events per month, and everyone looked forward to them. Now we groan when we see the announcement of a new event, because most of us have personal goals within the game as well, and zero time to work on them. And I'm aware, no one is forcing us to do the events - but I will say, the prizes on offer lately are so good that it is difficult for anyone to pass them up!

 

This game is giving me a serious Headache, I finished 26 games and have do not think I have the time or patience to get to the cloud row at 55, I have 18 of these stupid Lanterns made and don't want to play anymore. I only have the time to do 1 or 2 at a time, taking an avg of 15-20min. to finish where now the game is asking me to find 5 prizes to get out of the maze. I want out of this event.

 

This game was atrocious... It made absolutely no sense. When clicking on the puzzle piece that I wanted it would turn into something completely different. I found that to be the most frustrating thing ever. This is a horrible event. PB PLEASE nothing like this again.

 

The game itself is boring and confusing, and takes far too long. I'm yet to actually fully figure it out, I've just sort of muddled around until I've managed to complete the minigame. That said, I appreciate the cursed coins, upgrades and prizes in the shop, but had it not been for the rewards, I would not have done any this event and would not have enjoyed it. And I've only done the maze 4 times thus far. I can't imagine the strain on those who've gone all out.

 

at game 20 I figured out one can add maze pieces from all sides, not just left and right !!!!!

Although I had already completed 20 games this might have made things simpler - or more complicated for some. It just highlights that we hadn't received very good instructions...

Now the baskets are the biggest joke ever. Basically the small basket offers ZERO lantern covers so who would waste their money on that, then the medium one offers a few but if you then look at what the large offers, you would not get the medium, but if you then look at what the gigantic offers and the price difference you would ~edit~ not buy the large, leaving only the gigantic one at £15.

£15 and that is just to help a little with this cloud row.

Just a few hours before this event started you offered an identical cloud row for £4.49 - no work involved.

Considering how cheap and easy that cloud row was to achieve this one can go back to the middle ages.

 

So the cloud row offers more and this announcement with only a few hours on the clock left - sorry still nit enough to entice me since the maze is boring.

 

One word for this event BORING This event had a basket now that about says it all

 

The mini game was a challenge in the beginning! But then I got the hang of it and can finish a game in a couple of minutes now. I do use the lopping off of squares regularly...which helps a great deal.

 

I posted before but I wanted to add something I liked. I especially appreciate the ability to buy 10 of a particular prize. This adds choice in the prize, and I'd like to see more of it.

 

The mini game is by far too time consuming. Between 5 & 10 minutes per round, and far too many rounds to win the main prize. Who has that amount of time?!? On a positive note, the prizes to buy with the coins are nice!

 

Good Evening From New York.
one of the most nerve breaking moments for me..not te drops or event items or evet plans were the problem...Although I had enough ghost lantern, however i was not able to finish the maze challenges to be able get the cloud raw.couse i didn't have enough time. work is taking a lot of time in our real life....that would be the day for me to say goodbye to everyone. .and good luck,Bp should come with solution to redeem what we have lost. so far....i couldn't visited the shop to get the power feeds either i had over 700 stars/coins to use from the maze......I am really upset.....o

sincerely........