User blog comment:Cavia porcellus/What's 2015 in a nutshell?/@comment-25546049-20151230204511

Community:

This year had more than enough drama, I can tell you that.

We saw a few B-Crats/Admins go inactive/retire. Some like JackNinja5, Minh, TZM (who was one of my best firends :, A Graal who went inactive/retired and came back.

We had a bunch of new contributers and staff position shifts this year. A lot of which I gave my vote in. (I think the one I supported the most this year was Insert Your Name Here's apllication for Chat Mod.)

A lot of discussion was sparked, a lot of arguements were made, and a lot of opinions were thrown around, criticized, and bashed.

Honestly I felt like I was a part of the community this year more so than last year, mostly because my account wasn't 2.5 months old at the end of this year.

The hacking scene exploded this year. While the obb encryption period of Q2 did bring down my play time of PVZ2, when a certain user (I'll mention him later) found a way to unpack the obb, I was right back to playing. Even I took an interest in hacking here, and while I became a pretty good hacker myself, I'd like to give mentions to people who I think are better than me.

On Wiki: ADVENT-UR-TRON, CrazyZombie168, ErnestoAM, Brainulator9, 1Zulu (see? I mentioned him :D), The PVZ and Angry Birds Fan

Off Wiki: Kho Kho (The Autistic Tweaker), TimespaceLY (he's on the wiki sometimes, known as lhl123 if I recall correctly), Ginta Gaming, Kimza TH (though he doesn't hack anymore).

These guys are all crazy good at hacking, props to them for breaking a game they love to play :D

PVZ:

While I personally only play PVZ2, and I don't really care about GW2, (If you like, it great. If you don't, great) I must say that this year really showed me how strong a presence the Garden Warfare fan base. You guys keep trucking, I'm sure GW2 will be great!

In my area of expertise, I'd say this year for PVZ2 had massive ups and downs. We got 4 worlds this year. Frostbite Caves, Lost City, Neon Mixtape Tour, and Jurassic Marsh. While I personally love Frostbite Caves and Lost City (I think they're the best worlds in the game), I hated Neon Mixtape Tour (though the community's response was rather positive, I'll give you that), and I'm mostly indifferent towards Jurassic Marsh. There was plenty to like about this year, but plenty to hate as well. $7 Premiums, Gemiums being discontinued, and a large slump of bad plants leaves Q3 of 2015 with a sour taste.

Best Plant unlocked in a world: Primal Potato Mine

Worst Plant unlocked in a world: Spore-shroom

Best Premium: Cold Snapdragon

Worst Premium: Electric Blueberry

Best Plant: Cold Snapdragon

Worst Plant: Electric Blueberry

Best Zombie: Troglobite Zombie

Worst Zombie: Breakdancer Zombie, Hair Metal Gargantuar

Best World: Frostbite Caves

Worst World: Neon Mixtape Tour

PVZ2C: The year for this was all over the place. Plants here range from cool to cute to ugly, from very good to uterrly useless. It was a very strange year.