You know what? I do approve gizmo amazing feature of 100xgold per message in world chat... but let's go further how about we put this feature on Alivia forum's account 100xgold per post, 500xgold per topic if she want to donate so much.
Now how about trivia time with 5 year subscriber (though 2019 was gifted to me because I would not pay anymore)
Updates were much faster during first 3 years. You can check this on official page and compare the number of pages full of updates to updates in past 2 years. All this while subscriber count was significantly lower. This is priciest subscription game on market as far as I am aware, World of Warcraft / Final Fantasy cost 12 to 13 Eur per month counting taxes. This game is 24 Eur /month or twice the price. Obviously it is cheaper when you pay for 6 or 12, but there were cases and studies that shown that monthly revenue and people who visit subscription games for month or two are usually largest part. And no, I really doubt majority of people get winter deal as that's available only 1 month out of 12. Most people likely aren't even aware of it as they don't visit or know that forum even exists nor it is indicated anywhere in the game or on the login screen like other updates are. I wonder why. This game got microtransactions (xgold and all related xgold purchases even if you get daily strip of them, I am aware of multiple people who purchased xgold even some more crazy values like 50k +, I seen and I know people with 15 gallery slots, people with 3000 gifts, usually gifted by same person 50 gifts in row without even text on same day, I really doubt that's from their daily income. This is an additional stream of income. If you want to support devs just buy xgold. Servers are dirt cheap in 2019 like seriously dirt cheap, people could run WoW servers back in 2004 with 2 000 active players from their basement with the help of donations, now? You can rent servers anywhere in world for next to nothing. People who done content for this game that I personally know pretty much told me how they were ignored by developers here or got told to do something they didn't wanted to make and then ignored for months to come anyway. So they all given up and said fuck this. Example: Make item in a day > sent it to devs > wait month for reply only to get told to fix something > fix something in 5 minutes > wait month for another reply > repeat for very long time until people on forums started to asking where these things are. Maybe I am jaded but I do feel like everything in this game is going to downhill. Server stability in past few months been worse than past several years. In my opinion it's because devs just stopped monitoring the game daily like they used to and when shit goes down they notice week later and hit reboot. Because these outages are looking exactly same as they did in past but back then you seen devs on forums daily so if shit went down, they were aware of it same day but now they are invisible on forums so we really can't check when it's the last time since they checked. Still I can be wrong but the fact that during the last long time downtime we weren't informed until the servers pretty much went back on tells me I can't be too far from truth. Communities are dying, all the events that used to happen are gone, all the trivia nights are gone, no matter what time of the day it's just fuck rooms usually or same few groups. I know that people who were active and were doing the events for public, bug reports and so on quit on sole reason that they should not be doing all devs work to keep this alive and they are right. Not to mention all the drama that we had about DJs and all other beautiful stuff. Empty promises by devs. We had big topics in past where devs for example 2 years ago promised all FM poses will be ported to FF, they shown us fancy excel sheets of that and here we are 2 years later and still not even halfway of that... the topic ofcourse got deleted. Remember when this was running on old unity engine? We were told the new engine is going to speed up updates and make it easier... ya know rust updated their game in 30 minutes and their devs said it's easy automatic process. Here it took over 8 months and updates slowed from monthly to every 3 to 6 months. Remember when we raised pitchforks and people said they would unsub? Suddenly we could get 3 or 4 updates a month but people don't do that anymore, pretty much everyone given up thanks to the little trolls that chased away anyone who was even semi interested in helping of making this game grow or better place. Now you post negative thing and get swarmed by alivia and some other semi newish ppl who tell you how you are wrong and how devs work 26 hours per day on updates for this game and how they live in gulag and didn't see their families for years as they need to work hard for updates. Let's add controversial point remember remember thing called pandora? So this thing also had beautiful stat page ie how many unique accounts there were logged past idk 10 or 15 days. The number after that large downtime and before the patch was around 13 000. So monthly subscriber could been twice as much. Idk I think that's a lot of income for doing fuck all for most of the year don't ya think? And let's remind people of how much they are cared for. Remember game anniversary gifts for players ala "the big updates"? Remember saloon that cost whole 25$ on unity store and goes to sale for 15 often or in another words 1 player subscription? Idk how you view it but personally for me that was beyond insulting. And IF we are resolving to lows as adding 20$ shitty asset to game for anniversary, why not keep adding these on weekly basis as I am sure there are commercial licenses or free to use items for everyone there.
I suppose you don't read criticism on principle, because otherwise you would have improved your behaviour towards your customers. Because you want money from us for making your gaming platform available. We pay you the money to have access to the game and that is a contract. This contract includes that we can use your game. Apart from maintenance intervals, you have the obligation to always give us access to the system. If this is not possible, it is your responsibility to inform us of any problems that prevent us from using the game, and since you will be liable for lost time, we expect at least XGold compensation. You should be aware that we have a class-action lawsuit against users for compensation for lost game time.
I'm writing this because I'm hoping that by doing so, you're going to stop treating us like the last piece of filth. I guess you don't want your customers to migrate to other games.
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