Originally Posted by
AnnirasSweets
Ack! The holiday this week really stole a lot of my free time so I'm waaaaay behind on this goal. I'm usually on goal 4 by now yet I've not even cleared Goal 2. Fingers crossed I can make up some of the lost time now that things have settled back to my 'normal.'
I like the recipes but am sort of disappointed with the rest as a whole. The table, chair, counter, wall and floor are all lovely but I don't think they really work together as a unit which is always upsetting to me. (Though I will give them points and include that it's nice they gave something a little less 'Christmas' and more 'Winter holiday' so even those who don't celebrate the holiday can use the items.)
On the matter of the new decos however.... do we not already have enough (and better designed) holiday trees? A sentiment which fully applies to the Shiny Stack as well; we were just offered an overly large present stack a year or so ago in a goal that I can't use because the gifts look large enough to fit seven customers, lol. And I fully agree with others that they need to take a step back from offering every goal prize on that awful green floor base.
In a perfect world where the team reads these posts, here are my notes for them:
Scale is a thing that I feel they need to be more conscious of and there is more to Christmas/Winter holidays than trees and presents! I get the feeling that the current designers don't really have a solid working knowledge of what items are already on offer in the game and that's why we keep getting items that feel stale and recycled. This game is always so close to great so it's maddening when these obvious (and easily avoided) things take away from new releases. Can the team not check back through the inventory before they 'design' new items to avoid giving us the same items with slight variations every year? If creativity is running low, there are an amazing amount of awesome ideas in the Suggestion Forum and threads, why not utilize them?