Feedback Menagerie

:'( I was soooo excited to have a place to put more animals without having to sacrifice the lands I'm now using since I can't be on here very often so I jumped in head first spent every single star I had and went looking for the awesome new field made just for animals..

I guess it is my fault for not reading the thing very thoroughly,but using the star tree has always been to open new fields..so why wouldn't this be to open a new field for just animals?? I am so sad and now I have to decide to rip up something to use this thing that really doesn't give you much added anything or let it sit and be bummed that I spent all my stars that were hard to get..

I wish there had been better clarification and not linked it to the tree which has always been used to open new fields if this wasn't what it would be :/

Getting this alone was costly and I have been playing since the beginning of 2012.. I figured us long term players really were getting something we had been long since asking for..

Btw Teddy I know you have said sorry plenty of times so know this is 100% not directed at you and we do know you understand..I just needed to say what I thought too or go crazy over my frustration and sadness ..

Hopefully things can either be fixed(add extra spacing for those who already bought them) OR there will be something else added for us to get the space we thought we were getting since I know it wasn't just me and my terrible brain that thought this was the case!!

 

What is the maximum amount of stables this menagerie will EVER be able to accommodate ?
Thank you Julie

 

I thought it said 8. I could be wrong

 

Let me begin by saying that I think the Menagerie looks very nice, well done to the artists.

However... 500 Stars/299 BBs? 1,000,000 animal CCs to upgrade? And I hope I'm wrong, but if you get 2 Menageries, 2,000,000 to upgrade?

I've been playing since 2011, very casually (I'm thinking too casually now), and this is well out of my price range. Lately, everything is increasing in price, and decreasing in value/usefulness. At one time, as was pointed out in an earlier post, you could get an entire new field for only a fraction of what these new 8 slots are costing.

This is not a "challenge" for long-time players, this is a huge obstacle for, I'm guessing, 80-90% of the players. And forget about new players... who wants to spend, what, over 5,000,000 animal CCs for a trophy and then another 1 or 2,000,000 to upgrade the Menageries? On top of that, with the incessant events going on, it's hard to find time or space to grow the animals that are needed for all of this and complete the events.

Overall, great idea, VERY poor pricing decisions.

 

I'm in the wait and see group.
Great idea, great graphics, enormous price. I could buy 1 for stars but I really don't think its worth the huge numberof stars that I have slowly amassed.
I'm waiting to see what's coming next.

 

I bought my Menagerie with 500 stars. I'm putting 4 stables in the space I use to put one stable. I have 4 Orange bear stables in my Menagerie I'm getting 16 bears every 30 hours. I love it love it, love it

No Power drills seen yet.

10 days continually using Menagerie - always Orange Bear pens and I'm yet to see a Power Drill, this is so disappointing.

Think again BP, please.

 

I like the design and it saves space, so its a thumbs up from me - I only have one though from the tree as I won't be spending money on them

 

as soon as menagerie was out put on the field still no power drills

 

Stupidly didn't read all info.. Did the Menagerie Quest first, thinking I'd get menagerie... realised my mistake and spent 500 stars, thinking all my breeding animals wouldn't be completely wasted... and I'd get the upgrades once opened... Hmmn no!!!

Now I have spent 500 stars, ridiculous amounts of breeding animals, have harvested Menagerie at least 8 times and not a single drill.. Note to self... Don't try any new introductions unless have time to read the small print....
Great graphics... BUT!!! I wish I hadn't wasted so much for so little!

 

I do like the menagerie concept. So far it has proved a great use of space. I don't even think the 500 stars is that much of a stretch - but for there to be only one, for that price, eh, I'm not impressed. I do like the fact that it allows for more economic use of field space. I can even understand why obviously there can't be an unlimited number available to players. I even like that it is something you have to work a little to obtain, like the Rain Forest - things that are great benefits should require a little effort on the part of the player, and frankly, I like the fact that long time players like myself who have a surplus of stars actually have an advantage over newer players who, let's face it, have things a WHOLE lot easier, by and large, than those of us who have been here since near the beginning. It is soooo much easier to level up these days, so there should be some perks for those of us who have stuck with it for years. But. One single menagerie for 500 stars, nearly impossible to upgrade - that's really not fair. it's not THAT wonderful. I'm glad I got one, but I had 1500 stars sitting there sparkling at me and nothing to do with them.

Please - make us able to have four menageries for our 500 stars. Then it would be a very fair deal and very much worth the cost. Maybe open the rune and then have to pay CCs for the other three, or complete some (manageable) quests. There has been WAY too much use of breeding animals lately. Every time we turn around, we are having to give breeding animals to some event or other. Yes, there has been more PF made available - but even so, the demand for breeding animals is out of control. I used to make a good bit of my CCs by selling breeding animals. Now I hang onto them because I might need them. There is too much speculation required in too many areas of the game. It used to be much more simple - and frankly, way more fun. I don't need another job. The one I have is plenty stressful and requires me to wear multiple hats. I play Farmerama to relax. That is harder and harder to do. I used to actively play three farms. Now I have one - because that's all I can manage to do everything for. Each of those farms had a BB subscription, a mill subscription and random BB purchases. Now, there's just one. Increasing the demands of play actually decreased revenue.

Introducing new features that make people frustrated is NOT a way to build customer loyalty. I am firmly in the "work for rewards" category, and I feel very strongly that the prizes offered for events have increased dramatically, and there are many, many new features that are wonderful. But - it takes longer and longer to do a routine harvest, and some of the recent events require something close to an engineering degree to figure out. When you start making your players feel dumb - you lose them. When you start making them feel like they are expendable - even if they are - you lose them. When you start making your players feel pressured - you lose them.

Don't give with one hand and take with the other. Start by making the Menagerie a worthy goal. Make us have to work for it - yes - but give more for the effort, please. I think we've all proven that we're willing to work hard to get great features - but when we feel frustrated - as by twelve harvest without a single power drill drop - you're going to have very, very unsatisfied customers. And unsatisfied customers take their marbles and go play elsewhere.

 

I agree with this completely.

 

Hear hear.
I DID take my marbles and I DID go spend them elsewhere. I now only spend the absolute minimum, and a whole lot less than the first few years in this game! Harvester only. The rest.... sorry, not paying for it. It's ALL virtual, what we get, and if we have to work like crazy, for hours and hours and weeks and weeks to gain a certain amount of stars, and then see this price for ONE menagerie....

sorry, skip.

I feel like bp is laughing at us, at least a little:

BP:

Us:

BP:


Us:

 

A nice idea, but with too many disappointing kinks that make it unattractive for me. It does require a lot of effort, stars and donations to use the menagerie in full operating mode - but doesn't offer enough benefits with only four slots. And after opening the rune, one must pay for more??? I see this as very discouraging to new players and an expensive frill for many longer term players.

With all the events requiring animal donations, the increased use of PF in breeding events and extra event milling, I see little value in wasting resources to get this new item. I can do better buying many animals than trying to grow them.

 

put in the menagerie yesterday 1pink bever and 3 pink chameleon harvested this morning no powerdrills
can harvest tonight again maybe i get lucky then you never know

 

I let you farmers comes to conclusion How Come we are not getting Power Drills. How Many Times do we need to Harvest Menagerie to Get a Single Power Drill I have put my Menagerie Back into my Barn. As it seem to be a Bug Preventing us getting Power Drills

 

Mooboy are you shore a dutch friend of my has on 2 accounts 1 drill myself i have tryed different kinds of animals
now 4 pink stables but no luck yet but i keep hoping and it saves at least the space of 3 stables

 

I've had the menagerie since they were implemented filled with frogs (four each) no power drills whatsoever. Glad to hear it's not just me but at this rate, we'll never be able to upgrade.

 

farmingfreebird - ROFLLLLL!!!!! Your post was so funny!!!!! Thank you for the laugh of the Day!!!
"Many a Truth is spoken in jest!"

 

Would be good if we could gift these drills to neighbours or they could be bought at the store

BUT tight fisted Farmerama.... probably wouldn't allow that... that would be far to easy for us ....silly for even me suggesting it

 

Refinements, we need refinements, if the idea is for long time players to feel good as they fall over years of playing gotten goodies to feel like they belong in the game after doing everything then they should be able to acquire things to get the goodies. Like refinements to go with all the new crops, maybe a tree that takes twice as long but gives drills.
The refinements are low enough, a lot of new crops have come, yet nanna in the refinements.
Give them drills, to use the new buildings, I get the rare tool thing but to make a game feature for a good thing to your loyal players so hard it's like a slap in the face, give us your stuff, we give you empty hope.
Make them rare, but make more paths to keep them jumping, more they have to do the more they give, but it needs to give back.