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🧸🍫 Have you played Grow-A-Bear? We want your feedback! 🫵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAO-VDVpJmQ

Joining the Carnival Season of Soda is the new game feature Grow-A-Bear! 🧸🍫 Complete levels to gather coins, use them to buy chocolate for your bear, and watch them grow!

🧸🍫 Grow-A-Bear is available in the game in the two following schedules:

Schedule 1

February 1st - February 8th
February 9th - February 16th

Schedule 2

February 1st - February 4th
February 6th - February 9th
February 11th - February 14th

For this event, we want to hear your thoughts and feedback on this feature! Here are some questions directly from the developers - so let’s hear it! We want to make Soda a better game, so here’s your chance to give us your honest feedback and for us to listen in.

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? 📝
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? ✨
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? 🏆
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! 💭

You can also rate your experience with Grow-A-Bear between 1-10 (10 = high) in the poll below! The votes are anonymous and it will not display your vote in the thread.

Now finally, do you want to showcase your progress with Grow-A-Bear? Head over to the Carnival Season thread and share it there to gain an exclusive community badge!

Welcome! 👋

Comments

KimiKatO52

I like grow a bear. It's fun and mixes up the game a little.

steventseng

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? 📝

At first I was very excited and found it very interesting.

Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? ✨

The little bear is so cute.

Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? 🏆

After I passed 30 new levels and let it grow up, I passed another 15 new levels and found that I got 200 points. The total task time is 3 days and requires at least 1500 points. I simply gave up the idea of letting it continue to grow.

Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! 💭

There are new activities in the game, which are certainly worthy of recognition. But when I feel that the effort is not proportional to the gain, it is difficult for me to persist in completing it.

moe75

Hi @LoFiGummy

1. It was fun.

2. I liked the graphics.

3. No

4. No ideas

teeweiping

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? Not so fun, because it required to pass a lot of levels.
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? Only the rewards.
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? No. Just passing new levels.
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! Please change the levels required to pass to grow the bear.

Racoon7

Hi @LoFiGummy

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? Yes I did, it was great having a new side event.
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? I loved the the graphics as the bear grew.
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? Just pass lots of levels!
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! Gummy Bear has very expensive taste in chocolate when fully grown!!! That's a lot of levels per small section! This put me off trying. It was a big jump in coins required for chocolate. I think is needs to be reduced to affordable chocolate. Other events like bake a cake which helps to shipmates could help here also. I think the end part needs to be more player friendly and inviting.

Courtney1990

@Pitty_Kitty I can't think of any answers the questions grow a bear is brilliant

rebelchild

Hi @LoFiGummy

Here are my answers to your questions

1. It was fun. I like the side events in soda

2. I liked watching him grow

3. No real strategy, just played soda

4. Maybe we could collect fish to help grow the bear. In farm hero saga you need to collect suns and water drops to grow the cropsies.

DieOmimi

Re 1. Yes, it was fun. It was something new and after more than 6 months I have a cute diorama and cool events again.

To 2. No, not really. The graphics are totally beautiful.

Re 3. Since the coins are only available when you complete new levels, it would be interesting to see which strategies are possible at all. Other events also work without new levels by baking a piece of cake. It would be nice if this would work for Grow-A-Bear as well.

Also, I didn't realize why I got 10 coins once and 20 coins another time on new levels. Are new levels rewarded differently with coins? Does it depend on whether a normal, hard or super hard level has been completed? Or does it depend on how many stars have been gained?

To 4. The event is very sweetly realized. The rewards could be better. In order to reach the better Wonder Ball, too many levels have to be completed. However, many players (including me) don't have that many levels because they are very far along the map or have already reached the end of the map.

My first improvement would be: I want the event to appear in the game one day before the new levels come out. Then, at the end of the map, players can tune in to it and have a chance to grow the bear.

Second suggestion: it would be nice if you also get coins for the bear when you have baked a piece of cake.

Third suggestion: Please explain in the game how many coins there are per newly played level and what the player can do for them (e.g. complete the level with 3 stars or for super hard levels there are 10 times as many coins as for an easy level.

Fifth suggestion: When the bear is fully grown, the player needs 100 coins for a chocolate. That's an entire episode. I think this is too much and most players will stop playing. To reach the best Wonder Ball, 10 episodes must be played. I don't have that many available and so do many others. Please make it easier to continue providing the bear with chocolate.

Then I have one more request: leave out the constant pop-ups after each level. It's totally annoying for me when I get a popup after every level played:

1. Popup to weekly contest. This is annoying and useless. I need to actively close the popup

2. you have collected coins, use them (the game branches into the event and I have to actively close it to continue playing)

3. Your progress for Rescue Buddies - also something I don't care about if I want to be the first to complete an episode. I also have to actively close this popup

4. Kimmy's Fishing Contest - this popup is also annoying and holding me back from progressing. The pop-up must also be actively closed.

So I click the pop-ups away 4 or 5 times to be able to continue playing.

Since all of these events can be found on the event map, it is sufficient for the player to check their current status there.

bearwithme

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? 📝I loved the grow a bear event! It was so much fun!
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? ✨I liked that he grew when I fed him chocolate.
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? 🏆No
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! Award the top wonderball when you go thru the cycle a third time. Also-once he is initially grown - maybe you could feed him something different (honey?) or you could earn an outfit piece for the bear to wear.

Anyway - I really enjoyed the event and can't wait to play it again.

😊🐨💕

MountainMom

1. What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? I enjoyed growing the bear, but I stopped when it required 100 "points" x5 to grow it after the first level.

2. Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? The graphics were clever!

3. Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? No

4. Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! I am not nearly as creative as the game developers, so I will just add my admiration for their talent.

Creative_Elsa

I loved it and hope that we can get more events like this!

Courtney1990

Amazing grow a bear

Pitty_Kitty

Hello Soda Players

Do you have any feedback about Grow a Bear?

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simplyP

75-100 levels to get master ball 😳That is insane. So, this bear feature just like an addition to Batula’s wonderballs? With bear and bat together, you pretty much double up the wonderballs, right? I’m just curious cuz I don’t play new levels much.

Pitty_Kitty

Hello @DanishWolf and welcome to Soda community!

thank you for reaching out and share your experience and insight 🙂

I'll be sure to pass on your post to community manager 👍️

DanishWolf

Hi,

Great that the 'Grow a Bear' is back, but have the developers realised how many levels you have to play, to get the master ball, after getting the first initial 5 balls are collected?

I have reached that ball, and you have to collect 100 Bear Coins 15 (FIFTEEN) times, to get that last ball. That's 1500 Bear' Coins. You get an average of around 15-20 Bear Coins per solved level. That's means having to play 75-100 levels, within 2-4 days to get this reward, depending on how fast you get the other reward balls. That's absolutely insane.

Laura-34

It seems like a lot of work and many levels and coins to accumulate to get the same reward that Batula offers by passing 10 levels.

simplyP

@MINI1949 totally agree with you. Bear Bat....it's all the same 🙄

michimune

You could earn FREE boosters by playing bake a cake. This event do not need lives and new level.

You could complete different cake at different teams or just specific layers for specific rewards.

MINI1949

This is new challenge is not innovative at all!! it is just another treasurer hunt., Batula in disguise. you only win rewards when you win levels. Needless to say I am not impressed. At the higher levels ( I am on 5322) the only option to win hard levels is to purchase boosters. Playing is getting expensive now, time to stop!!

Comments

KimiKatO52

I like grow a bear. It's fun and mixes up the game a little.

steventseng

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? 📝

At first I was very excited and found it very interesting.

Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? ✨

The little bear is so cute.

Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? 🏆

Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! 💭

There are new activities in the game, which are certainly worthy of recognition. But when I feel that the effort is not proportional to the gain, it is difficult for me to persist in completing it.

moe75

Hi @LoFiGummy

1. It was fun.

2. I liked the graphics.

3. No

4. No ideas

teeweiping

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? Not so fun, because it required to pass a lot of levels.
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? Only the rewards.
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? No. Just passing new levels.
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! Please change the levels required to pass to grow the bear.

Racoon7

Hi @LoFiGummy

What was your experience with Grow-A-Bear? Did you find it fun? Yes I did, it was great having a new side event.
Do you have any favorite parts of Grow-A-Bear? I loved the the graphics as the bear grew.
Are there any strategies you use to help the bear grow? Just pass lots of levels!
Any cool ideas to make this even better? We're eager to hear your ideas! Gummy Bear has very expensive taste in chocolate when fully grown!!! That's a lot of levels per small section! This put me off trying. It was a big jump in coins required for chocolate. I think is needs to be reduced to affordable chocolate. Other events like bake a cake which helps to shipmates could help here also. I think the end part needs to be more player friendly and inviting.