I’ve spent way, way too much money on this game. I have a main farm (level 206) and a baby farm (Level 107). I buy Farm Passes for both plus all three helpers for both. I spend a LOT of money upgrading my barns and silos. I literally blow through the diamonds trashing/reactivating Derby tasks and speeding up machines. I usually play for an average 9 hours a day, no lie. I’ve not played either farm now for over 24 hours which is super rare for me. Even before this update, I have been increasingly annoyed at their complete lack of customer support. None of my issues ever get resolved and it’s damn funny that every always falls in their favor, never mine.
We’ve told them of many bugs that have gone unresolved for over four years at least, i.e. the timer issue on Derby tasks, the Bingo achievement doesn’t record our Bingo wins, and there’s been multiple times the Derby scoreboard hasn’t recorded our completed tasks causing us to lose 1st place.
I have a fully upgraded main farm and I was still collecting permits as I knew they would add more land to unlock eventually. Several months ago, they suspended my ability to receive any further permits and of course, BOOM, now I need them again. I.KNEW.THAT.WAS.GOING.TO.HAPPEN and I am way pissed it did. I would have stacked up a big pile of permits if they had been letting me collect them. That’s so not cool!
What has sent me over the edge, though, is the screwed-up functionality of this update. In keeping with prior dates, it appears zero testing went into this massive update. You would have expected someone, anyone, to have said hey, the ingredient list is ridiculous now and greatly slows down gameplay. You would have expected someone to say that hey, this thing messes up left-handed players now..
I know they aren’t going to go back to the old format so it’s time for me to find another game to occupy my time … a game In which the Developers are still hungry to provide a quality product and who eagerly engage with their customers., not hide from them.
I won’t be spending another dollar with HayDay.