User blog comment:Phineas99cp/My thoughts on SaveTheClubPenguin and 2014 overall/@comment-24657722-20141220131448/@comment-4958019-20141220211822

Somehow I agree with you. Back in 2006, CP hosted small parties, yet they were very succesful. When years were progressing, CP turned "better" in a way they improved. Eventually, CP keeps forgetting of their improvements and still go far beyond.

They released the CP App (formerly My Penguin) in May 2013 and boy, there were MANY bugs. Not only there were many bugs, but eventually hackers discovered vulnerabities to hack CP. What did CP do? Nothing. They kept "evolutionating" by working on other stuff (Sled Racer, Puffle Wild, We Wish You a Merry Walrus...), forgetting about their past work. What CP should have done? Fixed the bugs and revise their work before releasing it.

The Daily Calendar thing is such a pain. I do agree with you that CP should have a "replay value" to keep the parties exciting. In The Fair 2014, this system succeed when CP increased the prices, making the items more valuable and adding more attractions to the party (Bullseye, Marooned Lagoon, 8-bit...). However, CP kept reusing the same system in future parties, whereas those parties didn't really need it. For example, the Puffle Party. Why can't they simply release the items instantly? What if the player's membership expire throughout the party? He will lose the benefits of a member in the middle of the party.

I happen to notice this started with Operation: Blackout; CP's biggest party in history so far. And how was this party succesful considering how CP started utilizing this method, eventually overexploiting it and ruining future parties? Because there was replay value (playing the minigame again would give you coins) and how there weren't member items released in the middle of the party (the only member item CP released in Op. Blackout was the Herbert Disguise and they gave it away at the 1st day of the party).

I am sure CP can do a better work in parties. I still don't understand why they don't do a great work. Ok, 2 weeks the team gets to decorate the rooms for a party. How come for 2 weeks, multiple offices around the world (USA, UK, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Australia, France, Germany, and any many other countries) they manage do decorate usually 7-11 rooms for a party? I've also noticed that they heavily decorate rooms for parties lately. If that's the case, then they should simply use simple decorations and not complete overhauls of nothing that looks like.

And finally, I understand how CP is very illogical in certain aspects, and I accept that since it's a "cartoon". However, CP should be very careful of their details. They should also avoid to "destroy" their game by adding weak storylines that contradicts something in the game.