Why is it that evony have absolutely no problem spamming our mail boxes with marketing offers but when it comes to game changes and patch notes they refuse to even entertain the idea of sending us in game mails? :soapbox:
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Why is it that evony have absolutely no problem spamming our mail boxes with marketing offers but when it comes to game changes and patch notes they refuse to even entertain the idea of sending us in game mails? :soapbox:
those types of mails don't generate revenue.
It's all about the money.
I don't have a mail about the comforting thing, that would seem to be a major change. I got the new one today about the oktoberfest chest & beer
I'm sure we will get a mail in the next few days Mary, as for evony giving us the high hard one. that should be expected! I'm a Big player and a Big spender, but these "changes" are getting out of hand. The lag and many other issues are getting out of hand. I think its time too find a new place too spend my time and money.......
It's even too much to ask to put up an announcement in the forum called "Patch Notes - All the Evony Patch Notes in one convenient place!".
So don't ask them to send a system mail about it.
evonygame.com
All the patch notes you could ever want.
another lame website to go to?
no.. we want it all in one convenient place, bbs.evony.com
and yeah evony seems to focus on gaining more and more profit and not care what any of the customers want.. less lag and more enjoyable game experience. but no... they say fck you all, we're adding lag, we're adding retarded little patches that p*ss the vet players off, and then we'll top it off that the only way to be as good of a player is either bot or coin, or both. and we all damn well know evony wont stop bots, so where do people go? DING DING DING, the bots, free to use compared to expensive coining.
Evony caused botting and sit back wondering how to stop it. It's like shooting your wife in the head and wondering how to save her... retarded ass corporate evony
The forum actually isn't the place for game updates, this is just a social site that they put game updates here as a convenience for you.
See, its very easy to lose game updates in the massiveness of this forum. With hundreds of thousands of threads, it is quite inconvenient for finding information. Their blog, on the other hand is run by Evony so everything is kept in one place and is nice and tidy.
Also, I'm very sure that in their development meeting last week, they all agreed to add lag to the game.
Also, stop b*tchin. You play a free game. Don't like it, go somewhere else.
Not all of the game updates make it into that section. Sometimes you have to scroll down on the main page.
The most recent was the dead cities they are removing, posted on September 18th. I, like you, am unaware of any other big changes to the game since then, probably because there havn't been any.
As for why patch notes is there, I would guess so they can make notes on their patches. I dunno. All I know is that I have always found their blog site to contain all the information on patches and new things. Its also much easier to see as its in one contained place.
You haven't seen all the topics about the changes in comforting? There was a MAJOR change today in the mechanics of the game.
Yeah, there is a glitch at the moment with comforting. (Maybe its a change, but I doubt they are seriously going to make comforting 10 million food).
Just like it was with the 'blue boxes' appearing on the screen, I don't think they made an official announcement until a few days after they were appearing.
** Also, I don't know all of this, but ya'll sound ridiculous complaining like this. Seriously just give it some time, I'm sure they are doing more important things like fixing it or finishing their experiment.
Or they could just use 1 of the many many servers they open up to run 1 as a PBE server, and make all changes there first.
Of course, competence isn't their strongest point.
10m res to comfort.........?
if a change happens i try to find out what it is by going to various threads and talking to various players. now if you already told me in a system mail i would have more time to buy happiness chests ;)
wow you're like amazing.....i never knew there were "special places" where evony announce game changes :rolleyes:
the sad thing is though is that the forum is dead anyway and the majority of players only come here when a glitch or bug needs to be discussed.
Yeah, I wasn't aware that the patch went live this morning. Sorry. We'll get notes up soon.
ahhh so its an actual patch and not a glitch.....i like it! but on my server it does not work, the 10m food its supposed to cost does not get subtracted from my food stocks.
BUT....this is exactly the kind of thing i'm talking about, if a system mail got put out about the patch then it would save a lot of confusion and you would be seen as providing your customers with a valuable and much appreciated service that would only strengthen the evony game and make your business more successful.
Let me get this straght !!
A player, proberbly a paying customer ask a question, and the companies representative on the forums answer:
"Was there a big change that didn't make it to you?"
The same representative later states:
"Yeah, I wasn't aware that the patch went live this morning. Sorry. We'll get notes up soon."
So evony fails to inform their own Community Manager about changes, and we players wonder why we are never told????
lol - great communication skills, great customer service... come on, try to do it a bit better next time evony.
Mistakes happen. He apologized because it would SEEM that they might have implemented it a bit early.
Stop bashing him. Dawn's not a punching bag, folks. At least he's telling you about updates as he finds them.
(And yes, I play the game just like many of the people here do.)
Well, the patch/fix/addition to the game doesn't actually work from what I hear, so he has a good right to believe that it didn't go live.
It may say it costs 10m, but it doesn't take away from food. (at least that's the response I'm getting from people I know, I don't play a server atm)
it do no good to complain as evony do not knows wot they are doin... they first take a way all ressies above 500bil aftre a prograqmming error(they says it were to "balance server") hahahahaha and that sends market prices to the roof!
i sold lots of food at 1900 and fast i get over a tril in gold..that is useing proper game mechanics and were not a "glitch or cheating in any way!!!!!! and now i log aftre maint and they take it all away and left me with 250 mil! they are idiots and they are killing this game!!!!! so many are leaving game now and going to othre games and not new servers. i haves notice so much less buying now since they start all this whackery... even with the free food now and the special going on rite now there is so very little coining goin on in out alliance and before this all started many many where buying stuff but who is going to spend money on a whack game now!
People understand you have to make money as a busuniss however successful businisses do not deliver packages and then change the terms. Whenever a business makes a mistake they own up to it and move forward not in a manner which is underhand! Again success comes through working with customers not working against them, I wonder who's business model you follow or maybe termed better as a dictatorship! If you simply believe you are only getting even with the players who caught evony out you need to think again, if you make 1 person suffer who was working hard to achieve what they gained through their time and effort the shame is placed heavily on your shoulders. If you treat customers like dirt be careful where you walk that dirt may not be there for you to walk upon again!
the food "glitch" really were a programming code and the so call"glitch" were given direct from a evony programmer that plays on server.. but they do not own up ta fact it were there own employee that cause all this and they make every one suffre cause they can not control there programmers
i still dont see any patch notes there about the now 24+ hour old comforting change - not a minor game mechanic by any method - nor a game mail about it. Evony's own TOS deems it necessary to pre-notify about game changes. but of course they ignore this.
and again - resources over 500b were cleared again last night - there goes two weeks of market trading down the sh!tter.
http://evonygame.com/?cat=58
It's there. posted yesterday.
lol wow first it was a resource reset, now they reset gold to 250mil whats next evony? you guys sure know how to crash a business into the ground.
Good morning Evony
I think it is time to let us, your customers, know where you are heading with this game. I truly believe we have a right to know. To us you are totally screwing everything up and you have a LOT of upset people.
You say money is your business yes ? Well more money equates with happy customers not with irate customers.
You are going to lose a lot of people. You know, all it will take is for one person to develop a game that is very similar to here, and actually SUPPORT their members and you will see people just drop everything here.
Well just for all people to know, there is a rumour going around that you - Evony - are gong to take away food in NPC's. Is this true ? And then how do we survive ?
To me it really does not matter if you have spent a lot of money or not here, each of us are all important. With out us, you have NO business. Maybe it is time to remember that very important concept.
Hmmmm so why is this thread no longer showing under new posts ?
Probably the simple reason that there doesn't happen to be any new posts. :duh: they call it "new posts" for a reason.
kill thy neighbor
This is a great change, takes me back to the old days. Now, we can cap cities again, the markets are settling and Evony life is good.
These changes are excellent and a few people who were sick of not being able to cap cities due to the helpers comforting 24/7 are coming back to the game.
Thank you so much for these changes, and as for the whiners, you'll just have to find another way of chaeting.
So you don't play, didn't check the patch notes to which you referred, but you're still defending them?
This was a valid thread about a profound change being implemented without any communication on the subject being announced anywhere, and yet you're so evony-centric you decried everyone 'whining' without even being bothered to check to see whether the comments were even valid.
Shame on you.
i stand corrected - still doesnt change the fact that we werent notified until around 12+ hours after the change went into effect.
these are significant changes to game mechanics that have been in effect since the game launched.
we as players - some of which who actually spend REAL MONEY on a game you dont even play by your own admission would like to simply have a defined set of rules we can play by - clearly announced and enforced - so that we can make a decision as to weather we want to continue spending our money to support said game. We dont want arbitrary enforcement and changes of the "rules" as one or two ppl see fit at random times and without notice. Especially if they're basing their decisions off trolls like you who oh by the way dont even play!
the free players do NOT contribute to the (financial) upkeep of this game - those of us who coin do. So while many come on here and rail against the big bad coiners - EVERY player who has never coined (and EVERY evony employee) have US (the coiners) to thank for keeping evony around for the last 3+ years because as noted
business 101 - no income = failed business - SOMEONE has to pay for the servers, equipment, admin staff, customer service reps, the coding department, the marketing campaign (Google ad-sense isn't free either!) etc etc. Your "free" game isnt quite as free as the marketing has led you blindly to believe it is.
the big problem is that stuff like this is becoming a HUGE pattern lately and as its being handled will drive off more players than it will keep - this quote is symptomatic of a bigger issue than just the comforting change that it references.
this goes for the comforting change, the city cap change - the list goes on.
Then once a change is acknowledged by the admins - and we're told "its going to be <insert platitude>" we find out again that this may or may not be correct or that the lasting answer. Often times we simply get "shut up and deal with it" - i'm paraphrasing not quoting there.. but thats what it often ends up boiling down to.
and then when we come on the forum to ask for clarification about it little wise ass trolls like you hiachi who dont even play the game come onto the thread and add insult to injury.
we have VERY legitimate complaints - and they've all been marginalized over and over - and someone like you blindly agreeing with the admins on this without even being involved in the consequences of these decisions/implementations is poor form at best. Move along troll. :attack:
Well said Plant One
I am one of those bad "coiners" and one of those that is definately keeping Evony up and running. So what happens when us coiners all leave the game because we are not looked after, and all the non coiners return ?
The question then is, who will keep Evony FREE Forever solvent. The non coiners ? Yea right ! Start looking after your actual CUSTOMERS. And non coiners, stop blaming all the woes on the coiners and start looking at where really the problems are.