All Game Center friends gone!

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Maybe they are no longer planning on supporting Game Center for friends. Only Facebook.
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chamilet wrote: 06 Dec 2020, 22:36 Maybe they are no longer planning on supporting Game Center for friends. Only Facebook.
I haven’t been able to use Apple’s GameCenter in over a year. Since I refuse to link my FB to the game it’s useless trying to do the Social Tasks.
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chamilet wrote: 06 Dec 2020, 22:36 Maybe they are no longer planning on supporting Game Center for friends. Only Facebook.
That would be pretty short-sighted of them. They must know that many players prefer to be Facebook-free (I wouldn’t sign up if my life depended on it). I sure hope they’re able to fix it.
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My ticket is open with no activity and no attempt to respond.
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I received a second reply to my ticket which said the same thing as the first one (that friends are only available through Facebook). But I am signed in to Facebook in my game, it’s just that none of my friends there play this game. Yet I used to have friends in the Party Boat before the update, and now they are not there... some of them were people I had added from this forum a long time ago, maybe it was when it was still possible to use Game Center. Maybe they have now deleted all those friends, I don’t know. If so, that is incredibly frustrating as it makes playing the game pretty difficult.
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On apple help it seems still possible to add Game Centre friends via their email (not nickname) outside of any game. Anyone willing to test this?
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I finally updated and my friends are still there and I only log in through Game Center.
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chamilet wrote: 09 Dec 2020, 06:55 I finally updated and my friends are still there and I only log in through Game Center.
Thanks for letting us know!

After reading your post I have re-installed the game. Unfortunately with no success, but there‘s more hope to get my neighbors back with the second part of the update :)
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chamilet wrote: 09 Dec 2020, 06:55 I finally updated and my friends are still there and I only log in through Game Center.
I have updated my other town on another device this morning. My few GC friends are gone :(
Maybe you could keep them on an older iOS? Both of mine are on iOS 14.2.
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ErinPW wrote: 10 Dec 2020, 12:52
chamilet wrote: 09 Dec 2020, 06:55 I finally updated and my friends are still there and I only log in through Game Center.
I have updated my other town on another device this morning. My few GC friends are gone :(
Maybe you could keep them on an older iOS? Both of mine are on iOS 14.2.
Hmmm. That's an interesting thought. I only checked my friends on my iPad, which won't update past iOS 9. I just assumed my friends were also still on the game on my iPhone.

Just checked my iPhone. Currently it's on iOS 13.7 since I haven't apparently been asleep during what it would consider "overnight" in order for it to update. I wonder if they'll disappear when I update to iOS 14.2?
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