[FUN OR IS IT?] APRIL 1st UPDATE
Feynmann
Hi guys,
Today I was inspired by the admins’ April 1st update to go with another article.
Now the first time I read it I couldn’t believe that. I was like
But then I read it again. And I found something deeply bothering – not the “switch strength option”, which in my opinion is fun, but the way the admins introduced this option.
I’m only a month and a few days old and I don’t know, for sure, how and old player would feel about that, but I would guess he/she won’t be laughing. I guess what they read in this message is:
“Hey noobs, are you tired of all the old idiot spenders having so much strength, gained for years of clicking and money spending? Yeah? So you know what, we wanted them to spend even more money so, some time ago, we introduced the Maverick pack. Buying it with RL money, they are not only a lot stronger than you, but they could steal all your BHs even in low divisions – go HATE THEM now. So today and only today, to make things even we allow you to get your revenge by “ASKING THOSE IDIOTS POLITELY” to switch your strength with theirs for whole 2 hours. HAVE FUN TODAY – LOVE YOU – SPEND MORE RL MONEY”
I am not sure what your PR & Marketing guys were thinking or if they were thinking at all, but having some vague experience with marketing from years back, I can tell you – that is not how you treat your clients, especially your best ones. How do you think they felt reading that message?
They spent years playing this game spending their time, devotion and money and that’s what they get??? It’s not fair.
Don’t get me wrong the idea was, again, fun. But the way it was introduced was idiotic, at least. You could have gone with something like:
“Dear citizens,
Its April 1st today, so in order to celebrate the day we decided to introduce .... switch strength .. whatever update... In that way the new players can get a glimpse of what is it to have a lot of strength and the old players can remember their old days from the early years of the game. Hope you all, old and new alike, will have a lot of fun on this day”.
Or something similar.
So, admin guys – please spend some money and send your marketing guys to a marketing seminar or something so they can learn a thing or two about businessclient interactions.
As I said earlier I am a new player and I greatly enjoy the game. I even consider spending RL money on it, but things like this update give me second thoughts. So please don’t ruin the game with bad PR and marketing.
I also decided to add a few more April 1st suggestions:
- Switch your rank with some other player’s rank for a Day.
😉
- Switch all the player’s companies with some other player’s companies for a whole day. Now how cool that is. And it’s fun. I am sure the old players will love that too.
- Switch Q1 weapons’ stats with Q7 Weapons’ stats for a whole day. Wink Wink
- Give everyone 50 April 1st Energy Bars that will expire by the end of the day.
😃
The list can go on …
That’s for today guys
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[FUN OR IS IT?] APRIL FIRST UPDATE
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rude admins 🙁
looks like old fags are happy to share 🙂
Let's make an experiment. Switch strength with me and see how many medals you can get. the you post the results here.
Not that much if I stumble upon TugAvenger and Aragorn II again 🙁
😃 😃 😃
Try it!
KK, but I will PM you later cause I got to work now 😃
I want to have the time and make the most of it 🙂
OK; I hope I want change it with somebody else. and I will be also around.
stop crying
Where did you see the crying part?
As I already stated I greatly enjoy the game, in fact I think its one of the best browser games I have played.
So I just hope it will get better.
Fair point. On my wall, though, I see more big tanks offering theirs than I see people asking for it. Just saying 🙂
I think this is a nice and fun feature, it lasts only 2 hours, so I guess all those damage-beasts will have no problem swapping it with noobs like you and me.
The swapping of companies is unrealistic, to complicated to program it, regarding the database.
I hope we won#t experience bugs even with this feature.
Nice article, btw!
o/
Tnx Phil.
As I wrote, I think switching strength is a nice idea. My problem was the way it was delivered.
As for the other suggestions - its April 1st. 😃 They don't need to be realistic 😃
I wouldn't be defending D1-2 people with thousands of BHs if I were you.
Those guys just farm and farm BHs with IK and the inflated BH prices lead to more and more new players quitting the game.
Also many of them are players that had earlier accounts, but after divisions were introduced they made new accounts in order to grind huge strength and then just farm BHs
Nowadays when there is IK they don't even need to consider the amount of hits they use to get a BH
I am not referring BH hunters in any way. And I personally don't really care about BHs anyway - I don' really have the strength and the skill to get them - they are out of my league even without Maverick in place.
I am just trying to have fun.
And as I stated earlier I liks thd April 1st treat, I just don't like the way they introduced it.
Thank you for thw comment 😉
"I am not referring BH hunters in any way. And I personally don't really care about BHs anyway"
Well you should, they are big business and people who get to farm them get a lot of gold which they can then use to further advance their goals political or other.
This game is in dire need of radical changes if Plato intends to increase the retention rate of new players
Instead of linear gain a regressive gain would be hugely beneficial for new players and older players with little strength
As you begin from 0 as a new player you could reach like 500 strength/day/max train
But as you get closer and closer to the older +180k strength players your max gain regresses closer and closer to 90/day
The max amount of strength you can gain with max train starts to drop until you reach like 75% of the strongest player's strength then you both would have linear gain.
Agreed
"spent years playing this game spending their time, devotion and money and that’s what they get???"
It’s good with me... SPECIALLY cause I'm about a 80% economics player AN... 2-4 clikkr
Thank you.
It would have been way funnier when the stronger one doesn't have to agree to this change, like:
Hey Strongman. I took all your strength, deal with it.
Nice writting.