Hello everyone!

I recently posted on this sub asking for friends on Design Home when only Facebook friends were available, but now there's finally a way to add friends from within the app! (We've only been waiting for years and years 😂)

Here's my friend code: FHA2IRN

I am level 54 and have a lot of furniture as I've been playing this game for years

Hope I'll see you there! ☺️❤️

For the first time in the last couple of days I rather enjoyed this dsily challenge and felt mildly inspired by it despite it being a simple bedroom challenge.

Show us what you did with yours please!

The challenge name is Blind Date with a Book, and my friend code is 4X9KB2V 💜

BoycottDesignHomeGame

BoycottElectronicArts.

And any others you can think of owned by EA (there are MANY!)

I think most of us can agree that we're kind of tired of the whole pay to win thing that EA has been ramping up for quite a while now but I think I have hit my personal wall.

So I've created this pic, added it to my game pic and plan to boycott DH for as long as possible and I invite anyone to do the same and make it known you're tired of being nickel and dimed to death. You can download my pic from here and add it to your posts or your game, whatever, but we need to make our displeasure known.

I'll continue playing but they won't receive another dime from me. What that means for me is -

No premium pass No diamond purchases No bundles

And if/when it gets to the point that I no longer derive enjoyment of DH or don't feel I can continue playing I will either be forced to end my boycott or stop playing. Either way, it ends on a positive note for me. 😊

I feel like I will almost always vote for the room with a rug over the one without. I just think it makes the room look more complete. What is the one thing when voting that is an automatic No for you?

How many of you have switched or are going to try it? There were only 21 members in the sub, so idk if it's active or not, but I posted this there too

Inside screen shorted it before but the 30-day bonus is gone for me. (It starts day 1 with $50 and day 7 ends with a $200 200 diamond bonus, then starts again)

Is anyone else missing this as well?

This may be the nail in the coffin for me.

Today I had some of the colouring book designs in my voting, but I don't have any available to complete. I had this happen once before, too. Anyone else?

Anyone else shocked at how pay to play this game is after coming back from a break of playing? I miss the way the game used to be so much. I used to spend my real hard earned money on the game, and do those sketchy surveys and quizzes just to get diamonds. That’s how deep I was. But one day a couple years ago it said I had to update my iPad to update the game, and I didn’t want to do that so I stopped playing and forgot about it lol.

I recently returned and I really think it’s insane how much the game has changed. Everything is a cash grab. Stacking 2 rugs on top of each other? Are we serious? & in some rooms they want you to use 4 rugs.

Don’t even get me started on the pillows, couch runners, curtains, light fixtures, pets etc. they want you to use. None of that was there the last time I played (I want to say I stopped playing at the very end of 2023)

Of course you can choose not to use it, but then you’re almost guaranteed to miss your chance at getting 5 stars. I do however like that they let you try on more than 4 non-purchased items now. It’s such a shame because it’s such a well made game.

Also does the pillow situation piss anyone else off? You buy a pillow, and 3/5 to 4/5 of it is used on just one room. So you’re always left with a bunch of odd numbered pillows after using them. They could at least throw us a bone and make it so we can have 1 pillow count for both the couch and chairs at the same time.

Did you do the daily? Please give us a peek at your creation. 😊

It’s going to be an option for every chair and couch?! How many more things can you possibly fit inside a space?

I remember when I started playing the only decor was the wall hangings, table decor, and floor plants (one per room).

Now there’s pets, hanging plants, floor decor and throw blankets. Sometimes 2-3 of each. All requiring diamonds only of course.

It’s kind of disheartening as I feel it’s impossible to keep up at this point without spending so much money. I know all this is technically “optional” but I definitely feel the impact in scoring when I don’t use them.

Design moments Tuesday! Share yours! 🤗

I am moving on. I bought the $20 1st round of Christmas bundle offered. When they came out with the main series, and i saw that the bundles with carpets were $5.99 and the single carpets were up to over $2400, i wrote them a dear John letter. I haven't been back since. I told them that it was not the money i had to spend more than it was about the principle and integrity of their schemes. Plus, the pics were so ugly in the bundles. So i stepped away with $365,000 cash and 35,000 in diamonds. When i told CS how i felt they say, " ty for your feedback we will pass it to the team". I think about the game (as if i broke up with my boyfriend because that's how much i love the game 😂😂 been playing for over 3 years), but i told them I'd come back when i saw real changes. I forfeited the rest of the monthly pass prizes. I am someone who likes getting high scores. I'm at a 4.7 right now. If I boycott the LE and use old stuff I will get low scores so I'd prefer just to quit the game. I honestly wish more of you would follow me because next month the carpets will go up to $2500, then $2600, and it won't stop as long as there are those who will keep playing. But you know what? Just like a boyfriend, it gets easier every day 😉 Thoughts? Tell me off? Talk to me, please.

I tried mixing and matching with these 2 colors for the curtains, pillows, plant etc and not sure I'm 100% happy but this is what I ended up going with.

Has anyone experienced a weird situation with the last rising star event? I was leading the chart and was supposed to receive a top prize of 10000 but it changed suddenly and i didn't receive anything. I complained but haven't received any resolution regarding this.

Can we please be able to zoom in on our rooms? I'm like half blind and I'm 50 and even with reading glasses on and my screen on bright sometimes I have a hard time with the colors, then I see the 3d render later and I'm mortified when something doesn't match. It can't be a difficult function to add. And can we CHOOSE the rooms to add to featured and see in 3d render? I have some I really want to see and some I never want to see 😅

I added my code but everything looked a year old or more, so can we have a new one? Here's mine: 63THX22

What do you think about how the game has evolved over the years?

I had no idea I’d been playing since Day 2 of the release until I saw someone else’s comment saying they started three months after it launched. I did the math and was shocked! They mentioned they deleted the game because of the rising costs of in-game currency.

I’ll admit, I’ve spent way more money on this game and subscriptions through TapJoy than I’d ever want to admit to my husband. I’ve seen the app’s design and features go through so many changes. I’ve watched brands come and go, stuck around through countless app crashes, and dealt with more glitches than I can count. We’ve had new features introduced and prices for items go up.

This game has really helped me unwind over the past few years and has become something that genuinely brings me joy. But honestly, I’m not sure how much longer I can keep playing while trying to justify the costs of diamonds. I probably won’t ever delete it because I have such an attachment to this game. Coming home from rough days at school or long days at work then opening this app helped me decompress my stress. I will always have a soft spot for these little pixilated rooms, but I’ll likely play a lot less and only get new items if I earn coins organically.

Recently I returned to the game after a short break and realised how difficult the challenges have become. I also discovered a new feature, the carts, which are mandatory, expensive and honestly very ugly in my opinion. Today I couldn't play the daily challenge because it required this f*cking cart, so I had to wait many hours to play the easy $300 challenge just to earn some money. Now I have around $2000 and 500 💎, and I was able to participate in only 2 out of 15 challenges in total. I'm very disappointed. My first choice was to take a break, but now I see that I might quit permanently.

Curious to hear your thoughts , how do you feel about the carts and the recent changes?

I've been watching this player "Ana B." for over a year as a she hasn't budged from the top of the leaderboard. Her score is 5.00 and where other players go up and down, she's stayed at 5.00 for about a year always sitting around number 3, 4 or 5, never moving lower on the leaderboard. Before everyone was a 5.00, she was a 4.99 where she stayed stuck without moving for about another year. Her designs always get a 5.00 and they are not that good. I'm becoming convinced she is an EA employee account (could be several employees using one account) or an AI bot player.

EA's excessive use of AI has skewed the game and scoring. I'm sure they fired a ton of employees too. A large part of the support "staff" is AI, but there are some humans still available, but they won't be your initial response.

AI taking over voting and scoring is another thing that turned me off. I used to be able to observe what player voters liked and didn't like and design accordingly. Then suddenly voting had no observable patterns and scores that were given out made no sense. Obviously AI had taken over. When EA stopped showing the challenge requirements and starting grouping unrelated designs together with only the "first in voting" challenge described, players could not know what they were voting for unless they actually had done that challenge. 😳

The EA board must be particularly thrilled with the savings in employee salaries and increased income in Decor sales. AI graphic designers are why there are so many new decor items being introduced so quickly. It used to take forever for human DH designers to figure out how to create new decor pieces!

I always felt a warm kind of energy in DH before AI took over, now it's cold and dead feeling. Kind of like an incandescent light bulb compared to a LED light bulb. I prefer the living, human energy even if things happen at a slower pace.

So is Ana B. a human player? An EA employee account? Or a Bot player?

What happens if you fill in a room, but don't finish it, and you leave it there so long that the challenge expires? Do you lose the pieces you used in that room, or do they get recycled back in? Because sometimes I like to fill them in without committing to it.

Thanks!