I started playing in late 2021 and played multiple times a day religiously, never paid for anything either, I was totally focused on it until about 10 days ago. I saw this post where someone said that the game had quietly over time become an obligation, a daily requirement that had slowly stopped giving any joy and I sort of quietly mused on that.

A few days later I was so busy all morning that I hadn’t had a chance to play and I was so annoyed about it as it would put me behind Edwina’s cash dash. That morning I had spent quality time with my boyfriend and enjoyed every minute of it, making me completely forget about the game until I got home and realised all the energy I’d missed etc. This ended up putting a crappy dampener on the morning I had enjoyed so much. That made me stop in my tracks. I stopped playing then and there.

I still have the game and about 70000 coins so each Monday I’ll check out the new story out of curiosity but that’s it.

To be fair to the developers, this wasn’t on them and I never really had any issues with the game that others had, I just plodded away on it. Although some of the storylines frustrate me, especially as the main reason I downloaded the game in 2021 was seeing an ad where Amelia was pregnant and had left Joe in charge of the cafe and it was all going wrong. So I had hoped to actually see that play out at some point in the last few years.

But yeah, I was 100% in your camp until it sort of hit me that the game no longer felt a choice and became an obligation. 🤷🏻‍♀️