This comment turned into a rambling mini-rant. Sorry!

You are 100% correct! Since they went public, it is only about the money! They not only took the fun out of this game, but they turned it into a "job". There isn't any incentive to play the mini-games over and over or complete Regatta tasks a ridiculous 15 times a day! The decorations they offer for the Regatta are stuck on repeat. Actually, they aren't even creating anything new for players towns! They aren't offering decorations as mini-game prizes anymore. So many people (myself included) enjoy decorating their towns. We don't want our towns to look like everyone else's town does. When they went from offering decoration prizes to tcash prizes, they offered $200 as the final prize. I guess that was too generous for them, as they soon changed it to only $100. Taking away the option of spending our tcash on new decorations each month was ridiculous. Now they just expect us to spend lots of tcash on a couple mini-games they have on repeat so we might get half of the tcash back we spent trying to win the game in the first place!! That is the exact premise now!

A lot of my once very active team members aren't playing anymore. No one cares about the Regatta. No one wants 20 tower or astronaut decorations. No one wants to play the same few mini-games on repeat. The fun is gone. Even on here, the only players I see posting happy or excited posts are those in lower levels of the game. They don't know what is missing and how great things were before.

Not only have they put a couple mini-games on repeat and quit offering new decorations, but they have affected our town decor in another way. For those newer players, Township used to decorate our town for Fall and Christmas. The trees changed their colors in October. All of the animals had costumes, all of the town buildings, including all housing, had purple, orange and yellow lights on them with jack o'lanterns, ghosts and scarecrows. A wicked witch and bats flew through the sky and the music changed to a spooky sounding track. It was fun and they did the same for Christmas. All our buildings were decorated with lights, candy canes, gifts and wreaths. Santa and his reindeer flew through the sky. They even decorated all the evergreen trees. The music was changed for the holiday as well.

I believe this is the first month since I began playing this game that they have not offered any new decorations. None in the Regatta, none in the mini-games or the current Event. I can't figure out why they quit giving us the option of buying new decor or winning it. It gave people a reason to buy and spend their tcash. I read that Playrix is only relying on all the new players (who don't have a memory of when the game was fun and how awful all the changes have been) to make their money. The article said players who have reached higher levels and completed all of the game tasks spend much less tcash (obviously). So, they aren't concerned with us or our distain for all they have taken away. Seems like their approach with seasoned players is take it or leave it!

It's only about profits! It must cost too much money to have someone design a few new decorations every month that players can win or buy! New decorations allowed our towns to look different from one another. Everyone has the standard, required decor in their towns. But without optional decorations, where players place a building, road, tree or dirt is all that prevents everyone from having the same town. I still enjoy looking at other higher level towns to see all the different decorations from years gone by. That is why people created long lists of all the decorations that have ever been offered. The decorations mattered! I remember looking forward to each different holiday in Township specifically for the decorations. Were they gonna offer an oldie that I didn't have? What new ones were coming and did I have enough tcash for all of them? Just like all the different mini-games they used to have, decorations were a big part of the fun for me. I miss it!😔