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[ydhuil]

Well, after playing the event for a while and doing some calculations.... I can say that the event is pay to win :(

I was really excited for this event, especially since the halloween event is my favorite, but it's horribly expensive. I'm not going to talk about the change in the extra clothes, which used to cost a recharge before and now it's fifteen euros (kill me), because I can half understand it. But it's just that there is absolutely no way to get the rest of the stuff in its entirety if you don't pay. To get it all you would have to get the maximum score in the minigame every time, every day (which is quite complicated). And even then, we wouldn't be able to unlock all the rewards.

I don't understand why these decisions are made, nor why the event is so short, but it feels like they only care about filling their pockets even more instead of giving a good experience to the players. I'm pretty sad, to be honest. It's very frustrating to know that if you don't pay you won't be able to unlock the full event.

Maybe I'll buy the exclusive pack to comfort myself and promise not to buy any more, but I don't know what to do. I don't understand these decisions, it's very sad :(

[lucycassiopea]

How to reset the Halloween mini-game - MCL New Gen Halloween 2024 event

So, guys, I'm sure ya'll have already figured out that refreshing the page to restart the round doesn't do shit. But there is a way to cheat the system 'cause fuck Shitmoov. This only works on PC. So if you're on app... I'm very sorry, idk how to help you. ( UPDATE! Tips from a user on the American forum! Start the game, and if you're not satisfied with the score, turn off the internet before finishing the round. With the internet off, complete the round and then close the app. Turn the internet back on, open the app and you'll be able to replay that round.)

Anyways, the trick is just to use private/incognito mode. That's it. But let me explain more. I used firefox so idk if this works on chrome and edge, I'm going to try later. (edit: tested! Chrome, Edge and Opera all work!) -Open incognito mode > log-in to MCLNG > start playing the mini-game. If you see that you will go past the 7 moves (so you won't be able to get max tokens) just CLOSE all incognito mode windows. Completely close them. DO NOT FINISH THE GAME AND CLOSE ALL OF THE INCOGNITO WINDOWS. - Open incognito mode again > log-in again (if you're still logged-in then something's wrong and you haven't closed all of the browser's windows) > play again. The game will technically resume... but you will actually start back from the start and with a new board. - Repeat until you get lucky and you can finish the game within 7 moves. By doing this (it took me 30/45 minutes for 3 rounds of the game, mind you) I managed to get the max amount of tokens, 1500. And this way you SHOULD be able to get everything in this event (if you play diligently everyday). I hope this has helped someone, even just one person. This event is a tragedy, honestly. I expected nothing from Beemoov... And they still managed to let me down.

[eldaryasharbinger]

MCL NG HALLOWEEN 2024 ILLUSTRATIONS

The Halloween event has started and, not to brag or anything, I was lucky enough to unlock Amanda's and Jason's scenes immediately!! Like, within a couple of tries? pulls? what do we even call these here? Anyways, here are the illustrations! I'll update it once I get the other ones as well <3

And good luck to everyone!!

I'm SOOO in love with Amanda's I swear😭🙏🏻

They're both so pretty... And Jason's too! I was expecting him to smile a little but I guess I'll have to do it myself with the power of editing once I got the time!! I really want to edit his with Petronilla but we'll see!

[kaumalade]

[SPOILER HALLOWEEN]

🎃🧛🏾 || HALLOWEEN MCLNG (Jason & Renée)

~ I made two versions of the same image, I wanted something more elaborate for Renée!

[0lost-in-my-mind0]

New event sections in the game!

Today they updated the site and both in the game and on the login page they added the events section. There are some problems on the English server and one of the screenshots is not visible, so I took the screenshot from the French server. They posted some previews (too many in my opinion, this way already in October we already know a Christmas outfit and a Valentine's outfit TwT) I like spoilers, but in due time x.x

Also, there are some icons, including the one for the shop on the missions page… this makes me think that there could be some Halloween-themed missions and as much as the idea is nice, given the droprate it could be problematic…

We can predict that there will be some special episodes like in the old MCL~

I put everything under spoiler, as usual, because there are really a lot of them and I understand perfectly that not everyone can want them. I put the spoilers in order: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and the Summer event.

If you want to see only the Halloween ones they are the first. I wrote the names of the events, in different colors, as in the list above. As soon as you see green if you don't want to go further, stop because the Christmas ones start.

So the team gave us quite a few spoilers, what do you think?

These are the new sections in the closet and you can also see what is supposed to be the Halloween event icon!

This could be the background of the special episode

For Christmas we have "bigger" previews, because we can see an outfit and also a scene from the episode (I don't know if the dialogue is real or if it was created just for the preview).

I don't know if it's true, but it seems to be set in the mall. Obviously Roy is always naked… I don't want to seem like a prude, but dressed like this all he needs is a gagball in his mouth and we can take him straight to Christian Grey's red room… it doesn't really feel that Christmassy x'3

They also blessed us with a preview of the Valentine's Day event icon and an outfit.

And last but not least, we have the icon of a probable Summer event~!

[trashytrashsblog]

new outfits for my sucrette halloween themed

I did like a halloween themed town fair were they dressed up; like the colour scheme and concept overall.

[tetrakys]

A few thoughts on the Halloween event

The first event of New Gen was released today, and as usual there are some positives and negatives. I'll start with the negative and put everything under spoiler.

Negatives

The system in my opinion isn't well calibrated. I personally hate gatcha, years ago I swore to myself I would never play another gatcha game in my life. But alas most games have some form of gatcha embedded mechanic, and I know generally people are not as negative toward them as I am. However, even if I want to set my personal feelings aside and try to be completely objective, there are some issues.

I think it all boils down to: games should either have a luck component or a timing/difficulty component. At the moment the event relies both on luck (the gatcha and the minigame) and timing (it's too short). This means that while it's impossible for f2p players to complete the event in full, it's also extremely expensive for them (and everyone else) to catch up.

Side note: I don't think it's outrageous that f2p can't complete the event in full. If we look at other games it's basically the case everywhere (I'm thinking of Ikemen games especially, but also MLQC and other similar mobile games). Companies have to make money somehow so it makes sense that they incentivise people to invest in the game with additional rewards. The issue here is that by adding too many obstacles what is achieved isn't a desire to invest some money to keep playing, but only a feeling of frustration that puts people off completely.

I did the math, f2p players by entering the event every day will only be able to obtain around 10-12 items when the total is 25 (including clothes, room elements and moments with the crushes), which makes for only 40% of the event. The gap is too large. If it had been 70-80% instead, maybe some players would've felt encouraged to spend something on the event to complete it, but when you're missing more than half and would need around 650-750 gems the feeling is instead anger mixed to a resigned 'what's the point?'.

Of course there is the possibility of someone being extremely lucky and obtaining perfect scores at the minigame and also unlocking all the dates and items they really care about in those free rolls they are able to obtain. It is true that not everyone wants to maximise the event and unlock all clothes and scenes. In which case yes, the event would be very convenient to them. But 40% odds of obtaining exactly what you want are still too low in my opinion.

Hence why I think this would be solved by either making the minigame easier, or extending the event for a few extra days.

Positives

There are indeed some very positive aspects. The outfits and items are all really pretty in my opinion, plus I already mentioned being a fan of how the crushes look like in their Halloween attire.

But what I think is the main improvement of this event is the scenes spent with the crushes, they seem to be much longer than what we used to have in the old game. Plus personally I really liked these scenes, they were both funny, cute and a bit romantic/hot. I can tell it's an early days event because there's nothing overtly romantic going on, but it feels right for the pace of the game. Also, I think all illustrations are 10/10 chef's kiss (I wiiiish Jason's illu had been a bit darker, with a dangerous/spicy undertone, but alas that's just my personal taste).

Also, what really sold me on these scenes is that they are all saved in our library, and we can replay them in full whenever we want and even pick different choices. This gives my completionist soul so much relief, I've always hated that I couldn't test different choices in past events without spending most of the event currency.

So, in conclusion, there are both things that work and don't work in this event, I hope for Christmas and Valentine the high quality of art and scenes will be kept and the system will be reworked to make it less frustrating for everyone.

[seirei-bh]

Oh Amanda my vampire queen, you can bite my neck whenever you want <3

[ryibka]

My little vision of a Halloween event 😅 I just couldn't get the idea out of my head that Jason was a gentleman thief and MС was a detective who wanted to arrest him. But, as always, something went wrong :D

[thomasrheault]

Thomas' illustrations with Turin! <3

[candysweetposts]

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[ydhuil]

guys!! It looks like they're at least reading the players' comments, but 500 gems...which is only one chance more...I don't know if it's the solution to the problem :'( We need to extend the time of the event sos

[eldaryasharbinger]

MCL NG Halloween event day 1 yapping 🎃

I really like the new event and how it works, so let's skip to the parts I DON'T like first!

I hateee that the different colors are limited to the event... Let me buy it whenever I want once it's unlocked omg!!! Especially since they're all SOOO expensive individually!! I definitely won't be able to play the next episode and I don't know for how long (Also because I'll be gone that weekend so even if I had the AP and Gems, I still would have to wait,, I'm consoled since the next EP for The Sims 4 is coming out Thursday and I'm eating that pack up but now we're going offtopic...)

I guess that it makes sense that they're "exclusive"... Since that's like the main way to get money

🐝: "Oh, you want different colors for this item? Too bad you either spend ALMOST 200 AP for something (which we know you dont have❤️ so pay us up❤️) or you have to wait another year!!"

Put me in jail for hoping and being delusional ig😔🙏🏻

I'm also just joking right now so don't take me too seriously but yeah,, I wasn't expecting everything to be cheap, BUT OMG !!! So EXPENSIVE and for WHAT?!? (I say, again, as if I don't know why already)

I also don't like how we only have two outfits and one paid outfit, I guess I should count the free gift as well since that makes it 4 and I'm okay with that?

It's also nice, we get a free outfit, then we get two more from the event and there's another extra for those who want to pay the price (me...)

I love the new eyes and mouth! Was really looking forward to getting more and these did not disappoint!! I also love how the bats have different variants... I got many... And they're priced 77AP so yeah don't ask me how I'm doing

I don't really like how the doll outfit's dress is only one piece tho :( It'll be hard to style that with other things but I shall do it anyway...

I was also hoping to get more short haircuts but the ones we got aren't bad at all and we definitely don't have anything like those already! I knew people wanted a longer curly wig so I hope you all enjoy it!!

And since I've moved from the things I hate let me pass to the things I've enjoyed (again?)

Like I said at the beginning, I like the new minigame and how it works, it's fun and quick too? I also like the way the points are given out (because it's easier to get many points than just a few)

The site's layout is nice, I like the new colors and I also really like the new rooms we get!! (Somewhat offtopic from the layout but I just remembered lol) I haven't unlocked anything so far from the F2P room, but I love the vampire-themed one! (oh well of course I do, I'm one myself after all...)

Last thing that comes to mind are the Illustrations and scenes! I've only played Amanda's and Jason's so far, but I enjoyed both (Amanda's more too!!)

The illustrations are MESMERIZING (I'm looking at you again, Amanda!!!!) I've only seen the other ones quickly from other people's posts and the third one that looked really good to me was Thomas's! Roy's and Devon's didn't particularly catch my interest, IDK what's going on in those so I'll have to wait and see!

I love all of the LI's costumes so much too!! My favorites probably being Thomas and Devon because they fit surprisingly well!

I wasn't that sure about Vampire!Amanda but she's sooo gorgeous like!! Her platinum blonde hair fits very well... I'm glad I'm getting back into her 😭❤️🙏🏻

Honestly you can't be surprised that I like almost everything since it's an Halloween event, I'm also cutting this short (as if it's not a long af post already) because I have to get ready for work...

Let me know what you all think of it so far! I'm always going in with 0 expectations so that's my trick to never get disappointed (See where the only thing I wish we had was the permanent items in the wardrobe and that's like the main thing I was disappointed in? That's what I mean)

[kaumalade]

|| HALLOWEEN ADNG 🎃 || - DRÁCULA (Jason Mendal) 2/?🍷🧛🏻

[0lost-in-my-mind0]

Another Halloween hint~!

This time regarding illustrations!

I'll put this under spoiler because it's about the illustrations and some people might not want to see them until they get them in the event~!

It looks like the Joker's makeup 👀

[queenkamisama]

he looks like he just escaped from Assassin’s Creed or something lol

anyways… i thought he’ll be Dracula or just some random vampire, i think that’d suit him better

but now i’m curious👀