Quote Originally Posted by sterrre View Post
i don't really care about milk and cookies, (i wouldn't have paid for it anyway). but what i do care about is that many people didn't even know about the merge because they were on holiday, so they had to restart the game. those of us who were planning on a New Years Eve vacation had to instead spend that time making sure their city survived (or they went on a vacation and never came back)
This is a great point... many people have invested months and months of their time into developing their character and cities. In theory some could have gone on vacation with an alliance that was looking out for them only to come back after new years and find they are no longer in an alliance, some of their cities have been plundered and their best heroes gone. Nothing like motivation to keep you play (sarcasm)