I mean if I suggested that inno give everyone cookies, but they gave us cookies and a kick in the bikini area, would you blame my cookie idea?
Each time we ask inno for a cookie, they kick us in the bikini area. So yes, if you ask inno for a cookie and they kick us in the bikini area, I will say "SoggyShorts, please stop asking inno for a cookie, my bikini area can no longer sustain this abuse."
So ya, they are related.
With that said, I have come to love this game over the past few years. What I have noticed is during the last two, the makers of the game are finding ways to devalue everything we enjoy. The AWS no longer has a "humph" to it. Daily prizes have taken a nosedive. Grand prizes are practically nonexisting because you look at the value, and your first reaction is "ugh." If I am starting the event with an "ugh," how much effort do you think I will even put into the said event? To make it worst, you start to stalk beta daily prize release, and you are left with no care to give attitude by the time it makes it to live.
You have to understand at least a little bit from the players' point of view
@Marindor. As a long time player, I feel I am being pushed out with each scale back you do. I realize new members are who sustain the game because it is like fishing....the more fresh fish you catch, the more enjoyable your meal becomes. I mean, who will like to bother with a fish that has been refrigerated for weeks or months, when you can grab a fresh fish?
By giving you guys money, you are taking into account what I spend it on...to decide the difficulty of the tournament. By buying expansions, you are telling me it will be a deciding factor in the challenge of a fight. By investing my time to upgrade my wonders to make battles easier, you are using the levels I gain to decide the difficulty of the battle. Wonders are not easy to upgrade, I am not a pusher, so the way I see it is you are negatively impacting me for playing the game honestly and for giving the game my excitement and joy.
What I cannot stomach with this new change is the exponential growth in fight difficulties and the fact that expansions I have spent money on, are being used against me in any shape or form...hell, I do not want them to decide on how EASY the battles should be either, I feel they should be REMOVED completely from the equation. Of course, we expect squad size to become more prominent when you combine FOUR provinces, but why should they become exponentially hard?
I feel inno big problem is, they do not think about sustainability. If people cannot sustain the military to the tournament each week, you will start to see your revenues disappear I guarantee you that. You guys have made this game more than just a city building game. You did not keep your loyal members because they like to wait 6 months between new races to make more pretty buildings....you kept them by enticing their interest through spire, tournaments, and events.
Unfortunately....with each passing day, you are finding ways to devalue those. I have spent a lot of money in this game because I wanted to support you guys. The developers and all the CMs for their hard work. I am at a point where I can no longer justify such action, and it leaves me rather disappointed
@Marindor . I realize this is not a "stat" feedback you were looking for, but this is my feedback for the game and the direction I see it taking. I will have to consider changing the reviews I have done for Elvenar across the platform and updating the blog post reviews I have done across my gaming communities if this get push to live world with no regard for the things mentioned by everyone.
Have a wonderful day.