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Lord Name: Tyrosus
Server: 2 & 7
Prestige: 355,000 & 50,000
Alliance: Iunctus & UFOB
Reason for quitting: Lack of communication of changes, remove the "Coming Soon" forum since you OBVIOUSLY don't use it...and I thought Blizzard was bad by leaving a few things out of patch notes, you don't use patch notes at all!
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Server: 4
State: Romagna
Alliance: NOTÆW
Player: Aedonis
Prestige: 260k+
So this morning I finally broke the top 100 players on the server, and now I'm quitting. I didn't even lose anything to the recent changes, but the principle of what the evony developers have done is frustrating beyond belief.
At this moment I have an army of about 140k archers, and about 4k ballista - but with the npc/ballista change I have no way of sustaining them indefinitely. What this does mean is that my sustainable army is closer to 60-70k archers plus the various support troops, but with the way I've built my cities, this represents about 2 days production for me. I could go through the arduous process of destroying my lumberyards and building farms, but to be honest, why the heck would I do that when I know they'll just change it again, without a moment's notice, and all my work will have been wasted.
The irony here is I don't mind paying to play the game - if I appreciate something enough for it to command my time and energy, I think the creators of that should be rewarded, and as a matter of principle I'll fund them in some small way. Well it is that *very* kind of commitment that they have betrayed today.
So here's a big screw you from a paying customer. Learn what beta means guys, and when you make gameplay changes, vet them in a *test* environment with player input *prior* to implementing them in a production system.
Aed out.
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Server 5
Summarius
Achaean Alliance
Prestige 220k
I have personally sank about $50 bucks into the game, because I like games and this seems like a fair way to spend a chunk of my monthly game budget.
Up until today, I had budgeted about $20 bucks a month for the game.
Either this gets fixed in the next 72hrs, or I am walking, and will find every gaming forum that this game is advertised on, and post how ****ed up the game is.
http://battle5.evony.com/default.htm...cb57195faa.xml
You hear that? I am a paying customer. I'm gone in 3 days.
I will not only walk, but I will scream to any gamer who will listen, that this game is a ****ing waste of time and, for the love of all that is Holy, don't give these morons any money.
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Server: 2
State: Carinthia
Alliance: Apathy
Player: Shazzam
Prestige: 250ish
Reason: I get all the people complaining about the army sizes... Since it has been happening though, it is exceedingly unfair to log into not being able to feed your troops. If the game had been this way all along, then you could say "army sizes this large were never intended." If it were not intended, then why could I support them more than adequately a week ago? To all of the sudden "unintend" what everyone has spent over a month on is ludicrous.
I have supported the game in the past and would be willing to do so further, but not after you make me spend a month of my time building an army that starves to death because YOU planned poorly. I had provided for my army. I had a steady stream rolling in and food stuck in every corner. Now because of changes in the last week, I can no longer support my people? /sigh @ u all
I intend to check back and see if things are fixed. And by fixed, I mean actually corrected. Not like the lag or the missing troops or the scout bug or the constant transport vs reinforce bug or... meh, who am I kidding? People here aren't listening.
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PinkQueen
Server 3, Romagna
Prestige: 376,059
(I have just risen up to top 100 ^^)
When quitting: When I run out of food :(
Basically I enter the game because my bf did, and I am hooked with it. We have been doing good... until now. My concern here is not that you change the battle mechanics (or improve, or whatever you would like to call it) but it is:
1. Completely lacks of communication. So far only moderators, who are not directly related to (if not to say, knows nothing about) the change of the game play. There are no GMs in game and not even from forum. We are all blinded not knowing what will happen and even what has happened unless we experience it in game :confused:, which cost a huge lots of armies (and hence the time we spend to build them, and even real money). At the very least we should know what you have done to the patch right when it is released, which, until this point, I haven't seen once.
2. Officially released? I won't say that you can not change the game mechanics after it is officially released. But changing this much and this sudden is not acceptable in my humble opinion.
3. Ignorant towards players. And I would say this is the most important feature that would put this game to an end. It is not saying that this change is not good or this mechanic is not better, but this change happened so suddenly and so quick. It shows a complete ignorance towards the time, effort, and even real money that long-time players have spent into the game. Now they are used to a large size armies, what would they do? Leave there armies die for hungers or begin plunder anyone on sight (<--- this is apparently not a very good option, as new players don't have that much food! Not to mention this will wipe out any new players to want to join the game)? Do we have other option than these two? Have ever Evony listen to our voice and answer a question? (For Evony I mean GM of the game, if there are any)
It is not that we can not adapt with change in game play (in fact, we can play with any consistent mechanic) but this huge ignorant and totally lack of communication are driving us away.
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Lord Name: Berad
Server: 2
Prestige: 200,000
Alliance: BB
Reason for quitting: Isn't it obvious? You ruined the game.
If you guys ever get smart and fix it, I'll come back. Chances are though that it won't happen because you don't care about your costumers.
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im not quiting i have been server boucing since i started trying to keep up with all the changes but i tell ya what its been really hard for me to keep up i could care less when the changes come or how many times they do but one thing i do ask as a donating player here is STOP changing things that work good enough the reason people kept playing so long is because the way it was, Was good enough now its all changing and becomming harder and harder to do things like promotions, the in game store used to have the medals you needed to buy now it doesnt BIG problem for those who are donating to try and keep up with the older players on this game if your going to take stuff out make sure to replace it with something better because in 2 weeks this game doesn't improve by the end of june you will have lost almost your entire player base that actually support the server and pay to play along with myself I have been paying to get things i need to keep up with other players since i started now the items in the shop i used to buy are starting to disappear... Im giving it 2 more weeks nd not donating again till i see some changes if not im out ill find another game that wants to accept my money and not screw me over
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Patton
Server 4, Swabia
Prestige 16,800
Reason for quitting: friend who got me into playing just quit because of the ballista nerf. Also quit because I found the game boring - it takes far too long to do anything. I'd rather play Civ IV. Also not big on the game coins thing. If you need money that badly just charge a fee and let people have demo accounts to get a taste for the game first. It's more honest that way.
And by the way, having a US$3,000 option for the coin purchase? Absolutely hilarious.
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Lord Name: Malastrahn
Server: 3
Prestige: 130kish
Alliance: Entropy (53rd or so)
Reason for quitting: This game has no lasting appeal, no substance, and the development team doesn't communicate and wastes time trying to slow the players down instead of making the game more fun. Unannounced major changes are absolutely ludicrous. I've been playing since server 3 was new and nothing has been added to the game that is what I would call more content or changes that add funfactor. You make changes that slow the already glacial pace this game has and your whole medal concept is terrible. You've done nothing but make the game slower and less fun the whole time. You've done NOTHING positive other than slightly improving the reliability of the servers. It's pointless if you've nothing to do when you're online anyway.
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Kemikill
Server 4
150some k
IronClad
Reason: Lag, Bugs, Crashes,Lack of communication from Devs apparently also with their employees, basically all the reasons listed above.
But this last server crash was last straw for me.
I will never even bother trying another UMGE game.