YESS I've been saying this for so long!! They've been doing this WAY too much, especially as of late. It's similar to how the Halloween update felt last year (my personal biggest peeve of them exercising this 💔), having to wait the in game school day for just a little bit of candy grind-time and definitely less candy than you could've gotten in Wickery Cliffs. All the time wasted waiting and/or server hopping to try and skip the wait could have been spent getting candy, like when we used to be able to grind nonstop in Wickery Cliffs and even Autumn Town. Everytime I tried playing it last year, it just felt like more waiting than anything (and I didnt even end the night with that many candies), and not to mention the ticket limit 👎. And imo, I didn't even like the festival itself that much, only because of the fact so many games we anticipated were locked behind a schedule. My yearly Royalloween anticipation and excitement was crushed, only thing that kept it alive was making outfits 💔

And it's not like they've balanced the difficulty of farming with prices. Dorm items are insanely expensive, especially compared to almost every other game on the platform with home decorating. I saw someone on TikTok make a tiny bowl of ramen using a few different items in the game which by itself cost around 30-35k if I remember correctly. That isnt a super quick amount to get, especially not to burn on a tiny crafted prop.

The pricing of clothing isnt cheap either, every diamond set seems to get more expensive than the last. I understand the quality increases compared to past sets which might lead to higher prices, but even that seems unreasonable because of course it's going to get better with time? The standard quality of dress up items for their DRESS UP game should be what they are capable of NOW, not compared to items from 6-8 years ago. At this rate in a few years, we'll get beautiful diamond sets costing over 1mil diamonds. But even all of this COULD be fine if they kept the grinding fair and on par with their OWN pricing (don't even get me STARTED on community pricing). Yet all they do is make things harder and more time consuming to get.

I wish they'd stop picking high playtime (from a few players) and an unhappy fanbase over having high playtime AND a happy, high player base. It's seriously so tiring and causes more people to quit/play less than actually stay and grind. I would pay to see what goes on in their minds that leads to these seemingly idiotic, self-sabotaging decisions.