Maggie Special event, what's the goal?

I think I'm one of the lucky ones.

I already had a full collection book before the problems. After the various fixes I had one farmhouse roof missing from the collection book; everything else was there (except for the greyed-out new birthday event ones).

When Maggie arrived this morning she offered me the missing farmhouse roof for 100 coins. All of her other offers were just 25 coins, as they were already in my collection, so attracted the usual 75% discount. Some of those were expensive decorations.

I'm not saying this to "brag" or to score points over other members who have once again been disappointed. I mention it simply because I suspect it was how Supercell had hoped it would work.

Iam one that never got into the collection book... I just picked thing I liked. Be it a color theme, something kind of seasonal etc. Thus I still have my ghostie.... who now comes out to see if anyone is on the swing... he used to play hockey and then he played with Easter rabbits....

I didn't lose anything during the update, unless it's something I had in storge. Neither did I get any abundance of anything... just my 1 windmill (I would have liked 2 or 3!) Very lucky me! 😀 the same is true for the others in my hood.

I hope sc can and will fix this for all those affected- even if in a worse case scenario they could roll back the update and get it fixed and re issue it. Compensation for everyone.

For me, 8 out of the 9 items for sale were new to me and were priced at 100 coins. One of the 9 items was something I already had in my collection and it was priced at 200,000 coins. Not sure what to make of any of this. I did buy the 8 items I didn't previously own since the price was so low. If stuff disappeared in the update debacle, I have no idea! All in all I agree with what's been said above...this has been a confusing mess!

I thought Maggie was going to offer the items we’d lost at 100 coins each. But none of the designs she’s offering are the ones I lost. The amount of “compensation” I got from Alfred wasn’t nearly enough to replace everything I lost—it was short by more than 300,000 coins and a lot of vouchers. I’m unhappy with the way this has been handled by SC.

Neither did I, but with the mindset something is better than nothing at all. Out of the 9 design options, four were new in my book. They were cheap this time, so bought all. And yes, the way SC handles this is very very poor to say the least.

I was lucky, I wasn’t affected too much by the “ glitches” with the update. Though I did lose some items from my customized catalogue inventory. I was hoping to do another “style” truck with this week’s available purchases. But the pink wheels were no longer it my inventory. I had already used them to do another “style” truck. I was disappointed with this week’s Maggie specials. For some reason I was expecting ALL of the inventory to be 100 coins.

I thought ALL the items offered by Maggie were ugly, ugly, ugly. I bought none of them.

I am blessed in that I lost nothing in the upgrade debacle and I feel for those who have not been made whole my SC, but I honestly don't know how they could possibly do it on an individual basis and I'm sure this is their best attempt at making everyone happy(ier). From what I've read it's been a failure so far.

Then, of course, there are those who feel they should have gotten something for nothing and are crying "foul" and "unfair" because they didn't get 600 windmills (that was overkill in my opinion anyway) or 300,000 coins or.......fill in the giveback they're focused upon. I feel like it's a matter of you can't make everyone happy no matter what you do and SC should focus instead on making sure all future updates are bug-free before they release them.

My farm was not one of those affected but I still received 600 windmills, 598 of which are still in storage. 

WP and I were also discussing the possibility of this happening as well. I also thought it would be great for those of us who received the extras to gift to those who had not received any at all.

I think it's a "solution" which fits best for SC. They considered to satisfy as many players as possible and hence established a reasonable compromise.

Speaking from a compromise it's clear that this would not please everyone, it's a so called "Golden Middle Solution". SC tried to offer something valuable as many players lost a lot of coins, vouchers and sometimes diamonds, too.

On the first glimpse I was disappointed and refused to take any offer, but after some time I decided to accept it as an "excuse". (For my babyfarms, not for my main farm) Meanwhile I got used to it, although in my opinion it wouldn't have hurt to make Maggies offer available for 1 day.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not going to "praise" the behavior of SC, the opposite is the case. In terms of handling the update issues and delivering information to their customers - all players - accordingly they failed. Or better said I think there's still adequate room for improvement in these sectors.

At the moment I'm tired of any further negativism and I accept the status as it is. We can't change it, so we have to change our attitude. On the other hand it's absurd that a game can affect so many things. (I refer to both the game and RL) As far as I remember this was stated previously from another member in this forum but I don't know who it was. It's absolutely right. I know I have to work hard on myself to ensure this for the future.

I hope, this will never occur again in this scale. Fingers crossed!