Thank you all very much. Whether you posted on our blog, on Facebook or on Twitter, we really appreciated every comment and every idea. As you might have noticed from the Poll, the winner was Option 2, which was that we would release Pie and leave Bonuses, but you would have to buy the Bonuses again.
However, we decided to look at that option once more.
Your feedback was overwhelmingly clear and we agreed that if we were going to make a change, it behooves us to make a change that respects as many of our community as possible while also allowing the product to move into the future.
So, what here is what we will do:
a) We will release Pie #7 and Pie #8
b) You will continue to be able to buy More Dessert and Even More Dessert Bonuses to break the Pie maxes by 100 or 200 shares.
c) We will change the bonuses so that they are perpetual between two members once “used”.
Let me explain what this means exactly:
If you have bought a bonus that pushes beyond your maximum shares boundary, when you buy a new pie upgrade, that bonus still applies for that person by the amount of the bonus. For example:
Dups has a shares maximum of 300. Dups buys a More Dessert bonus to go beyond that maximum by up to 100 shares. Dups purchases 350 shares in Ric and hence uses his More Dessert Bonus once. Later, he decides to buy the 400 Shares Pie Upgrade. Going back to Ric, he can continue to blow past the maximum for Ric and buy another 100 shares for a total of 500 without having to re-purchase the More Dessert bonus.
If you use a bonus on someone, from now on, that relationship will always have the extra shares, even if you sell and even if the Bonus is no longer available.
We will enable this for all your past More Dessert and Even More Dessert purchases. This all will be made live when we move up Pie #7 and Pie #8.
We believe, as so many of you have voiced, that this is the fairest option that gives balance to both new members and old members, and certainly also honours those who spent money or eaves purchasing bonuses while allowing people to continue to expand and engage by using new Pie Upgrades.
Again, these changes will go live when Pie #7 and Pie #8 are out. That will be sometime this week.
[ It's only fair to everybody who bought them - It's certainly not fair to people who didn't buy them because they were explicitely a time-of-purchase bonus - But I guess I'm in the minority on that one so .. - Still never going to touch those desserts now .. I feel deeply penalized for skipping an item for which I considered the description as accurate so really I'm gonna skip on them - Glad for everybody who wasted a fortune getting a great permanent upgrade - I would have used this bonus the second it was available if it would have been described as such - This is a total rewriting of the rules and I'm disappointed ]
Well done. And I take back my comment that you wouldn’t listen. I see that you did, as much as you could.
For growth more pie will be needed in time and I look forward to see if the sky will be the limit.
Thank you to the whole EA team.
LIKE
Perfect. Thank you.
Thank You for listening. Very Fair and Very Equitable. Very Impressed.
Thanks. This is good. I think this is quite fair and that moving forward will allow both options to be in play.
EXCELLENT option you guys that is just awesome. Thanks for listening!
Good stuff!! Thanks EAv!
Thank you. Glad you listened.
I think it’s great that people won’t have to buy the Bonuses again. It’s such a hassle, even though there are many high level players now, many medium level players couldn’t afford to do that over and over. Good call.
Nice – Thankyou
Dups, thank you so much! Glad to see my investments in the previous desserts will go forward into my next set of investments!
Thank you again!
Allie
Having shelled out a considerable amount of hard cold cash, it’s good to know you found a way to honor the expenditures.
Thanks so much for listening to your members’ voices. That is really refreshing and uplifting.
Best news to know you were listening.
It sounds like a fair way of expanding the game to me.
See, I told you that you could find one more option LOL This is great news for us, active members, thank you once more for taking our opinion into consideration. Happy Easter and thanks again for providing us with such a fantastic, fun, interactive and useful platform as Empire Avenue
GREAT news Dups! Thank’s for comming up with a solution that everyone can benefit from. LOVE Empire Avenue by the way. Thank’s for your awesome work here
What DES Daughter said – and seems a creative way to keep the dessert bonuses “alive”. Thanks for listening indeed!
WOW, very nice, thank a lot for listening to the community!, very fair and very equitable and Impressed and keep on the good work!
An equitable solution to a knotty problem . Well done
Awesome news. Thanks for listening!!!
thankyou for listening, this is exactly the option that I wanted
Busy saving for pie now !!
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Thanks, great job guys.
- RG
woohoo , thank you !
Thumbs up!
P
Awesomeness!! Thank you!
W00t! Great call, you listened and we are happy
I’m lost, I thought too many Pies were bad for you … hey ho … count me in whatever)
Wow so we can go to 1000?
I think this is like one of the options that I mentioned and I appreciate that you listened. Thank you.
I’ll be excited just to buy back that share I accidentally sold. Then I’ll know it’s okay to buy dessert again
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Wonder how many eaves those pies are gonna cost me =0
This is the ideal solution, and exactly what I and a number of others suggested, so I couldn’t be more pleased. It also makes later upgrades “future proof,” so to speak, if you decide down the road that you need still more pies. As someone who has put real money into eaves and upgrades, and as someone who has invested a lot of eaves in the deserts, I am again confident that it may make sense to continue doing so in the future.
Dups has DUPPED the members (players) again!
This game really sux!!!
EA cheats the members at every chance!!
EA SUX!!!