Hay Day in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ 2+ years

I have had this game for over 2 years on and off. Overall I enjoy the game, there are plenty of individual tasks as well as “derby” or group tasks to accomplish with other online players. The game is updated regularly and during the holidays special tasks/in-game activities occur, which is a fun touch! My rating is 4/5 stars for the sole fact there are a couple of “improvements” I would love to see within the game: 1. An option to lock/close the farm store front to sell items to fellow farmers in our neighborhood. Sometimes we are not online at the same time and would like to sell specific items to another to help them out and although I don’t advertise these items in the newsletter, other farmers still intercept and purchase the items before my fellow farmers can. 2. The gift catalogue where we can purchase a package with tickets we have earned from helping other farmers outright makes me mad!! Although it shows potential items and then the possibility of a random item, it is ALWAYS a random item! If it is going to be random, just advertise it as such, not as a potential to get an item you would like, but never receive! 3. If a farm needs help/the advertisement is shown in the newspaper, it should only be shown if it isn’t an option for the neighborhood to fill. It is so frustrating having the “help” derby task and wasting time visiting a farm to only find out you cannot help/fill orders since it is only for neighbors to fill.

★★★★★ Lowering my rating

I have enjoyed this game for years. The obvious greed of the developers in the last several months is the reason I am reducing my rating. They are withholding previous deals to purchase the diamonds necessary to play at a high level, where hiring Tom and being able to speed up tasks require diamonds. They added a $4.99 per month feature that gives good benefit, but adds $60 to my annual expense. I used to be able to spend $70 to purchase 4000 diamonds twice a year, bringing my annual cost to $200. Now, I am not seeing the $70 offer. In the Valley, they are making it impossible to complete all the tasks by not having needed resources available without paying diamonds to allow more movement. I settle for not finishing all tasks everyday. This session, my team may not make the requirements to gain benefits at the end due to lack of “chickens” to capture. An Easter production feature that is short-lived would require 20 plus diamonds to be more useful. There are increasingly frequent offers that would take more money now. All very off-putting and making me think of leaving the game. Benefits of the game for me are the social interaction with teammates, interesting challenges to manage production and resources to maximize outcomes, and the beautiful graphics. I am 82 years old and able to play off and on during the day which makes achieving goals doable. I believe the mental effort I must expend keeps my mind sharp. I am a CoLeader on my team.

★★★★★ LOVE LOVE LOVE, but one change PLEASE

I absolutely love this game, I’ve been playing it on and off for years but only recently started playing it seriously, and there’s a few things I want changed but major one is I wish they would make an update that double checks with you before spending diamonds. A lot of the time I’ll play in between doing things so I’ll be in a rush and I’ve had multiple instances where I’ve accidentally clicked an option to pay diamonds to replace crops or whatever it is, even when I dont need to. I wish they would make a screen pop up before you spend diamonds asking you if you’re SURE you want to do that action. Especially for newer players diamonds can be really beneficial and when you spend it on accident like that, it can be really frustrating. Another change I’d suggest is adding a search button to the daily dirt, or categories to make it easier to find supplies when you need to fill a boat or truck order. Although this might make it a little leas exciting, the daily dirt is 80% indigo, wheat, strawberries and other spam crops, and very rarely can you find expansion items or ingredients for orders. And I also know Tom is used for this service but he costs a lot in diamonds which isn’t accessible to new players and only available every 3 hours after a task. which goes to waste when you’re sleeping, at work and/or school, or are busy with other responsibilities.

★★★★★ Wow! I love it!

Okay so I have been playing this game for 3 years now! I really, really love it! When I was younger, I downloaded this game because I saw animals and I am in LOVE with animal games! I played the game and I didn’t understand and I only made it to level 6 back when I deleted and completely forgot about Hay Day. When I was looking through my purchased games, I noticed hay day and I was like, “Ohh, I remember this!”. So I downloaded and started a whole new game. I am on level 14 and I am so addicted! Every time I get a notification like; “Milk is ready to be collected!” Or “Your animals are missing you!” I click the notification so fast and spend as much time as I could on the game. My favorite animal on the game (so far..) is the pig! It is really cute and chubby 😻 and when I tap on them they wave! How cute!! Everything adds up to the game and everything is homemade! We harvest crops, use those crops to make goods, and get money for selling them! Everything grows in the game and nothing will ever stop growing! I also adore the way we can chat with other people and trade! It’s a really good way to meet people and help other farms out. I am in a neighborhood and I am really good friends with everyone in the neighborhood. I also like how the game isn’t cruel and we don’t slaughter the pig for bacon, but we do put hem in a machine and take their fat! I really love this game and I hope updates will come on their way soon! Keep up the good work XOXO ~Angela’s Farm

★★★★★ Would like to see a warehouse!

I have been playing this game for many years. I have read the other comments and ideas and agree with all of them. The one thing I would like to see is a warehouse for storing building items, expansion items, saws, etc. Expansion items take up a lot of room in the barn. Many require 90 or more of 3 items and then only give you 50 more slots in your silo, barn etc. That is a lot of items for very little return. I would also like to see a hardware store that building and expansion items could be purchased for coins. It would be a lot more fun if you were able to upgrade or expand buildings a little easier. I spend a lot more money on this game as I it is the only game I feel like I get any worthwhile return on what I spend. I would like to add here that I am retired and on a fixed income. I don’t have a lot of extra money to spend. I always hire Tom to help out my game. I don’t like the Valley season as it hasn’t been open in some time and I keep getting gas for it when I can’t use it. Seems senseless to me. It also takes forever to get the zoo animals and some of the farm animals that require tickets from the farm pass. That is the other thing I always purchase. The only reason I give this game 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the items I’ve listed. Thanks for the upgrades! Keep them coming!

★★★★★ Just kinda confused

Hey everyone, so I'm having an issue regarding only certain objects in the game, and the objects aren't any of the new ones you recently added in. Which I love the update and how I can see how long a crop will take to grow because I always forget so that is so helpful, thanks. But my issue is with purchasing items, specifically buying axes or saws; not with diamonds or real money, but with in game money. I've notice that for the past day or so whenever someone was selling an axe or a saw in their stall and I bought it the animation of the saw going to my barn would appear; but then I would go to my farm to try and cut down a tree it would say that I don't have any saws to do the action. What I would do is I would go back to that persons stall and see if it was purchased and it would say sold. I know things can be bought out right from under you by other players, so I assumed that was what was happening, but in Greg's stall when he is selling those items I also buy them. Again the same animation appears so I would try to cut down a tree and it would say I don't have that item. But I'm pretty sure that no other player can buy from someone else's Greg. I might be wrong, but I thought that every player gets their own Greg's stall specific to where they are at in the game. Again I could be wrong and someone just keeps buying things from under me, but I don't think so. Thanks for the help !

★★★★★ Ideas to add

My aunt is level 131 and she plays everyday she just recently got the squirrels and was disappointed that you can’t make anything out of it except like peanut butter. On behalf of her and the rest of us I think new foods need to come out for the peanuts, what would be cool is if you could get a puzzle piece collection for foods. I think that another cool idea would be to make the hay day pass for gems instead of money because I am a free to play person and when I redownloaded the game I was so happy that it kept updating and I was so happy to get the pass but found out that it was 5$. Also I think it would be cool to have a hunting range it wouldn’t be to kid friendly but I can think of a ton of animal meats you could add and new recipes! Can you also get new style cats and dogs? I don’t love the design of them to much. I think what would be awesome is if you added more club things, like club boats where you have to work as a club to fill it up first to get a certain amount of rewards! Fishing needs a new something it is getting boring over there, you could add like a secrete farm area where there are different things you have to re-build or like mermaids that could give you pearls to make rings and necklaces out of. I have to tell you that I’m level 27 so if I bring up something already in the game I’m sorry. Hope you take my suggestions and I love you supercell keep up the AMAZING work!!!