Disney Magic Kingdoms

[hopemax]

Honestly, guys, I think they are trying to slow the game down. They want it to take time to progress, so that the developers can work on the NEXT project for Gameloft and not focus on this project so much. They likely have a schedule of when the next updates will come (maybe something quarterly, not something monthly or every two weeks) and they don't want players to finish an update in 1 week and then hound them for when the next update is coming.

So my advice is don't stress about this. If it means that you only open the app in the morning, lunchtime, and before bed, then fine. The chests will eventually come, the gloves will eventually come. If we start hearing about another big update is imminent and you still have nothing, then that will be the time to complain about the greediness of needing gems.

Since the development schedule is out of most people's hands, that leaves basically two scenarios developers can build. Let people finish everything fast and then have nothing to play for weeks. Or have a small something to do that takes a long time, but by the time players finish it, the next update is near.

 

[darkfiry]

Pretend this update didn't happen and Prince Charming is a premium character. I've welcomed Mother Gothel and now I'm just leveling everyone to 10. If the next set of characters isn't a normal welcome or is a difficult timed event, I think I'll just play something else instead.

Questions - looking for help/advice. Thanks to all!
- Why is it so difficult to GAIN gems. We need mini bonus games because I now need 60 to get Pluto's house. I'd rather a RIDICULOUS amount of magic than gems. It'll still take a long time, but not nearly as long as waiting to gather Gems. I mean Rex is 295 gems, NOT FAIR!

Before the Incredibles event, they were having 1-3 competitions daily that would last from 3-7 days each. The milestones were fairly easy to reach and some gave gems. First place through 25 would get gems so it was pretty easy to place high enough in some competitions. (One of them was the collecting gold coins comp that happened throughout the Incredibles event). For some reason, after the Incredibles event, they've resorted back to the clicking-stupid-creatures competition. I thought we were done with those permanently.

 

[DCNC]

I've had two gold chests so far, one with magic and the other with a decoration. I broke down and bought a platinum and got Auroras crown.

 

[Quellman]

So did the Incredibles story lines just stop after the event? Like I can still unlock the "Upgrade Ms I to level 9" tasks and stuff, but there is no more actual story line. So now the only thing to do with them is level them up to level 10 and just have them exist? And No I didn't unlock Syndrome, I was close but no cigar on some of the items, and didn't feel like I needed to spend the gems. (I'm glad I didn't since he would have been welcomed, but the story line would have been frozen.)

 

[darkfiry]

Yup. Got all of them and finished all of the quests and now they're just there being pretty moving decorations. Syndrome only had a few story quests that was worth 2 or 3 days after he got welcomed.

 

[KM5664]

So did the Incredibles story lines just stop after the event? Like I can still unlock the "Upgrade Ms I to level 9" tasks and stuff, but there is no more actual story line. So now the only thing to do with them is level them up to level 10 and just have them exist? And No I didn't unlock Syndrome, I was close but no cigar on some of the items, and didn't feel like I needed to spend the gems. (I'm glad I didn't since he would have been welcomed, but the story line would have been frozen.)

At the end of the event it said that there would be a chance to get any Incredibles you weren't able to welcome. Not exactly sure what that means, but I wonder if there will be another Incredibles event or promo at some point.

 

[jg291]

I have an excess of 400 gems due to caving and buying the Pluto, Wall-E, and Maximus packs. I was going to use those gems to buy Boo (I've already welcomed all the other Monsters characters, including Randall). Is Boo still worth it, or should I buy a platinum pack of 11 for 400 gems? Or the mixed pack for 200? I really want to welcome Charming.

 

[mydisneyfix]

I feel your pain and also refuse to be forced to spend money just to move the game along. I can find another game to play. I'll hang around for a while longer, since I can work on leveling up my current characters, but if I'm left with nothing to do I'm out.

Exactly how I feel.

 

[Valehikari]

I have an excess of 400 gems due to caving and buying the Pluto, Wall-E, and Maximus packs. I was going to use those gems to buy Boo (I've already welcomed all the other Monsters characters, including Randall). Is Boo still worth it, or should I buy a platinum pack of 11 for 400 gems? Or the mixed pack for 200? I really want to welcome Charming.

You can spare gems and buy just one or two or three platinum chests one at a time and quite probably get the gloves AND splash mountains before spending 400. that is my advice. Also, you can spare and get boo in the future. To me, Boo is really worth the gems btw. She is one of my Favs.

Love.

 

[PrincessS121212]

I have an excess of 400 gems due to caving and buying the Pluto, Wall-E, and Maximus packs. I was going to use those gems to buy Boo (I've already welcomed all the other Monsters characters, including Randall). Is Boo still worth it, or should I buy a platinum pack of 11 for 400 gems? Or the mixed pack for 200? I really want to welcome Charming.

I would save them for Boo. I had over 550 gems, so I splurged and bought the 11 pack platinum for 400 gems. I got 1 glove, a banner lamp post, 2 mining sculptures, the music fountain, the deer topiary, 2 benches, a mike W. ear hat, and 2 9,250 magic rewards. STILL no splash mountain. Glad I got the gloves, but it wasn't worth the price, and boo is rather adorable running around the park.

 

[mydisneyfix]

I finally got a gold chest today. I am crossing my fingers for the gloves. At least I was able to get all of Aurora's crowns to drop. It took that token out of my chest options so hopefully that increased my odds for the gloves. Now I just need to wait until the chest is ready to open before I level any more characters. I don't want anymore character tokens in my chests.

 

[Princess4]

I finally got a gold chest today. I am crossing my fingers for the gloves. At least I was able to get all of Aurora's crowns to drop. It took that token out of my chest options so hopefully that increased my odds for the gloves. Now I just need to wait until the chest is ready to open before I level any more characters. I don't want anymore character tokens in my chests.

Same here was gonna level up syndrome but the gold gives a bracelet so no more level ups unless it's 8 hours and no gold chest

 

[SunDial]

I have gotten 3 gold chests and received nothing much.

I wish they would fix the time tampering ban bug. Used to be able to leave game open all the time. Now if I don't remember to leave the game, I will see the time tampering ban. I see that message about 6 or 7 times a day since the update.

Even with force stoping the app I am still in 7th spot on the broomsticks game.

 

[ThePopUpDance]

Finally got a gold chest after only pulling bronze and silver, so I guess we'll see what comes of it.

Is anyone else frustrated by how useless the Incredibles are? I wish they would help drop tokens for some of the other characters, but the only thing they're good for at this point is magic and dropping tokens for each other if you have't already leveled them up.

 

[FloranaPrincess]

The Incredibles are useless. I'm quite annoyed at that myself so you're not alone!

 

[dacutebuggy]

So, I've read some posts along the lines that the charming gloves/chest deal is meant to slow game play down because people finish the main storyline so quickly. I truly think this is a money scheme, not at all meant to stall players. If it was truly meant to stall players, then they would've reduced the chances of getting gloves dramatically. I'm sure they know about this forum and know that if a handful of people say they've gotten them, it'll incite others to buy. The odds of receiving a gold or platinum chest in the kingdom for free are SO slim, I think I've found maybe two gold chests, a handful of silver, and enough bronze to make my own instruments. So not only are the odds of getting the chests containing the gloves statistically extremely low, but then the chests contain probably a dozen other items, most of which probably have higher probabilities of being dropped. This essentially ensures that with the exception of some slim percentage, other players will either have to capitulate to the hundreds of gems for a much better chance at getting these things or wait for what could be weeks to get these gloves. But this is available to players back in way earlier levels of the game, so it's not fair to the new players who haven't hoarded hundreds of gems and won't want to pay. Given that the Incredibles event should have been like 80% developed when it started, I don't know why they don't have more developed for the rest of the game play. If they want to stall people, they need mini games (really, it's more like a morning check in and direct characters on 8hour tasks and then check in when you finish dinner, the time spent in the app dwindles dramatically once you get to higher levels) with incentives to distract people from continuing on with the tasks. Just my opinion.

 

[BaxterSaysMeoww]

I found another gold chest before I went to bed last night. Opened it this morning and.. Pluto topiary. The wait continues..

 

[mmmears]

As far as I can tell, nobody on this forum has Prince Charming without paying for him. Getting old. I agree with the pp that this is a money grab and nothing more.

 

[KM5664]

As far as I can tell, nobody on this forum has Prince Charming without paying for him. Getting old. I agree with the pp that this is a money grab and nothing more.

I've seen 1 or 2 people that were able to get Charming gloves after about 2 free chests. But that's it, the vast majority do seem to be paying.

 

[HarvardAce]

I've seen 1 or 2 people that were able to get Charming gloves after about 2 free chests. But that's it, the vast majority do seem to be paying.

Yes, there have been a few that have gotten the gloves "naturally" from a free chest. I've received and opened 3 gold chests so far, and haven't gotten the gloves yet. However, it took me about a month to get all the items to welcome Donald (just got him two days ago), and it's only been a week since the chests were released, so I'm going to continue trying the free route for now. I still need to get Prince Phillip (one item away) and Mother Gothel and do a number of leveling up quests, too, so I have enough to keep me busy for now.

I think their mistake was that it was only one item, so there's no "progress" to be seen. I think a better option would have been to make it take X gloves, and then just have the gloves be X times as common (so the time spent to get Prince Charming on average is about the same). Even though Donald probably will end up being considerably more time consuming to welcome than Prince Charming, seeing that 0/15 progress (albeit slowly) to 15/15 gave you a sense of progress, whereas with Prince Charming it's just a binary proposition.