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It's a few months old (it was written after Halloween), but if, like me, you don't understand all the references in Tapped Out, this is a cool article explaining what episodes some of the character tasks/actions are based on:

 

10 Amazing References in The Simpsons: Tapped Out

 

It's funny to note that the author was hoping for Krustylu Studios, and it was eventually added to the game, even though it's a premium item!

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It's been about two and a half weeks, I'm on level 14, and overall the gameplay is feeling rather stagnant and uninspired. The repetitive hurry up and wait element just doesn't really do it for me. If it didn't act as a time filler throughout the day, I probably would've quit several levels ago. It's free though, so I shouldn't complain.

 

EDIT: Case in point....I just logged in this morning and collected my bonus (or whatever) for playing today, which was a Mystery Box. Cool, so I click it and it's another Mystery Box. Okay, let's see what's inside....a wooden fence. Seriously, an effin' wooden fence?? That's supposed to inspire me to keep playing? lol

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They really need to do a major update. I'm really sick of these one level or no level updates with one or two buildings. They take about 2 days to do, and that's it. The prices don't relate well with the levels. They usually don't cost that much, so there's no need to try and play more to raise a bunch of money. I've been sending people on 24 hour tasks, and am getting really bored with it. They need to do the old updates of 2-3 levels that took quite a while to complete.

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Grr... my game is stuck. Currently working through the Hibbert Family Practice quests, according to the FAQ the next quest will be to get Krusty to promote a product but that just won't pop up. I'm just getting the random tasks but no progression. Hopefully an update will come along to fix this soon...

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I finished all the quests after building the Adult Education Annex. I actually thought it was a good length and kept me busy for over a week which is nice. Same thing though with the weird 'are we done or not' ending.

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That was pretty awesome. I go a little nervous for a second.

 

I'm really hoping there is an update soon. I'm beyond bored with it. They need a major update, and I hope that's what we get. It's been a while since they've done a major update, and it's definitely time for one!

 

By the way, my 7 y/o nephew started playing, so add him! beastarley

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I'm really hoping there is an update soon. I'm beyond bored with it. They need a major update, and I hope that's what we get. It's been a while since they've done a major update, and it's definitely time for one!

 

Ask, and Ye shall receive.

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Grrr, Lisa is still on a task so I can't get started!

 

The opening to the update though also said we'd get something new on Thursday of this week!

 

Yeah, I thought the dialogue was pretty cool. The sushi place is 90 donuts. I've only rolled my XP over 13 times since the last update which left me with 39, so I now have 78. It would normally take me about 10-11 days to roll over the next 4 times to get to 90. Won't happen now with the new assigned tasks. (I'm now sitting on 11.7mil now though!!)

 

Basically, $$ isn't an issue. Donuts are.

 

And like Elissa, I started a 12hr task for Lisa, 20 minutes before the update. Ugh.

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I figured an update would be coming soon, but I thought it would be on Thursday, so Lisa still has 6 hours left in her 12 hour task. I hope Thursday ends up being a big update, like the proposed Whacking Day challenge, giving reason to visit other towns again.

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Well this doesn't surprise me at all...

 

Yahoo

 

Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – again

By Chris Morris | Plugged In – 21 hours ago

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EA COO Peter Moore (Credit: Getty Images)

For the second year in a row, readers of the consumer-watchdog website The Consumerist have named Electronic Arts "the worst company in America," vilifying the video game publisher more than Bank of America, Comcast and Ticketmaster (which took second, third and fourth places, respectively).

The results of the poll are hardly surprising -- even EA predicted it would repeat the dubious honor -- but they were certainly conclusive.

EA faced stiff competition en route to the championship round, besting fellow disliked companies Anheuser-Busch, Facebook and AT&T before squaring off against Bank of America in the final round of voting. BofA proved no match, however, as EA captured a decisive 78 percent of the vote to take home the not-so-coveted "Golden Poo" award. It’s the second straight "win" for EA and the second straight runner-up nod for Bank of America.

EA was cited for its love of microtransactions, the price of its games and its irritating DRM practices, among other issues. But the disastrous SimCity launch was a particular sore point.

"EA made a royal mess of the SimCity release by failing to foresee that the people who would buy the game -- and who would, per the game’s design, be required to connect to the EA servers -- might actually want to play at some point in the week after making their purchase," wrote the site. "But that’s just the latest in EA’s long history of annoying its customer base with bad support. Customers who paid full price for games, or who spent or saved huge piles of in-game cash in EA’s online products, would suddenly find a problem with their accounts, but attempts to rectify the problem -- or even get a response from EA -- would go unheeded."

EA chief operating officer Peter Moore, in an open letter to gamers last week, admitted the company could do better, but said the label of "worst company" was undeserved.

"Are we really the 'Worst Company in America?'" he asked. "I'll be the first to admit that we’ve made plenty of mistakes. These include server shut downs too early, games that didn’t meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this. … But I am damn proud of this company, the people around the globe who work at EA, the games we create and the people that play them."

Editors at The Consumerist seemed to take umbrage at Moore's pre-emptive defense of the company, deconstructing it as they announced the final round. The Consumerist also shrugged off Moore's criticism of EA being compared to companies that have polluted the planet and evicted people from their homes.

"Make no mistake: Video games are big business," the site said. "A company like EA -- and Activision, Ubisoft, Nintendo, and Sony, etc. -- merits just as much scrutiny as any other business that plays a leading role in a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s only a fractured, antiquated public perception that video games are somehow frivolous holdovers from childhood that allows gamers to be abused and taken advantage of by the very people who supply them the games they play."

Though no company wants to win this kind of award, EA in particular doesn't need more bad news. EA is already dealing with a much more significant issue thanks to the resignation of CEO John Riccitiello last month, not to mention continued fallout from the SimCity debacle. However, investors were undeterred when the company won last year, as the stock price was unaffected, and it didn't hurt game sales demonstrably -- though apparently EA is doing a perfectly fine job hurting itself.

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