WarHawk: you can only reply to your OWN topic in that forum unless you're a moderator+
People can make their own topics that if need be, Thanks for the topic btw.
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WarHawk: you can only reply to your OWN topic in that forum unless you're a moderator+
People can make their own topics that if need be, Thanks for the topic btw.
lol good to know for future reference, irregardless peeps can still check it out, and your welcome. simply giving credit where credit is due
You are absolutely correct WarHawk. It is obviously foolish for potential cash paying customers to personally mention the parts of the game that they find undesirable. After all, the creators of the game would definately respond just as quickly to one lone post that gets quickly buried as they would to half the active gaming population keeping a thread active.
Well, maybe not quite so foolish. This game is labeled as free but the creators are probably hoping to make a profit on it. In any economic situation there are two acceptable ways for customers to let the sales people know what they don't like. The first is to tell them. The second is to take their business elsewhere. In the first case, the sales force can make appropriate changes and keep the customers happy. In the second case, not only do they loose customers that they will probably never get back but those customers also continue to spread unfavorable reports about the product.
In this case, multiple people making the same complaint about the exact same problem is an indication that the problem should be a primary concern for the programmers. If everyone simply reads through the thread and decides that the problem has already been mentioned and doesn't add their voice to it, then the creators only see one or two comments and doesn't feel nearly as much pressure to fix it. Thus the problem takes longer to fix and many more people decide to just leave for a game they like better. So when you complain about 'NOOBS' whining and repeating themselves, just ask yourself which the game makers would prefer. A lot of potential cash paying customers complaining about the same thing for a short period of time, or a lot of potential cash paying customers leaving the site.
By the way, I really do agree that Gazza is doing a magnificent job explaining the situation and keeping the fact that repairs are in the process in the forefront. I admire her stamina and perserverance. I hope she doesn't give up because the constant complaints are not intended as personal attacks against her. She is probably the main point of light here. Seriously.
PS Edit: Yes, I know that they have said that they are already fixing it. And we all know that most technical support numbers 'Value our business .. please hold'. And we all know that absolutely anyone can win the lottery. But for some strange inexplicable reason, we tend not to really believe in these things until we actually SEE it.
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As a Dev you are allowed to have "your view", but when it comes to having a successful game, it is not the Devs who have to be happy. It is the players who have to be happy. No players, no game. QED. Time for them to put egos, attitudes, or high moral standards on a shelf and give the people what they want - a fun, playable game.:eek:
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If a game was ever made with changes that are brought on by people's recommendations alone, that game would fail.
WOW doesn't do that. It is successful based on the devs experience and their plans for the game, not based on user input. Yes they take consderations of compiled input on their forums, but they do not make a game based on what people want.
This game if it took everything that a community member *****ed about, it would become a garbage of a game. I'm glad they actually do listen to us, but game communities these days tend to be a very complaining type. Like people losing their minds over a couple weeks of the medal system even after it was very, very broken the other way. Give them time and it'll be worked out.
You cant compare a browser game to a mmorpg, theyre not even in the same league.
back on topic all we are asking for is a chance to get medals, as is its impossible by raiding to get lower medals, and i have now spent cash on the " lucky dip" medal package and didnt get any medals from it that i wanted,just the other 2 in it.
I and many more people are willing to pay for these medals but not as a lucky dip, if i pay i want what i pay for not 2 other items that i dont.
Personally, I am no longer going to play until they make medals winnable. All I want to do is build a third city. That is not unreasonable. It should not be difficult.
The cities should be progressively more difficult to obtain. It was pretty easy to build a second city. It should be fairly easy to build a third. I didn't have all the quests rewards to help me develop my second city, so I should have the capacity to have third city now that my second city is the same size as the first. Then, the fourth city should be about twice as difficult to obtain as the third. Maybe the fifth one is three times as hard to get as the fourth. I don't know. But right now expansion is impossible for me. :mad:
When I log on now, there's nothing to do! This isn't a boycott so much as a natural result. I've spent ten dollars on amulets so far hoping to get some medals. I refuse to pay more money just to make basic progression in a game that is labeled "Evony- FREE FOREVER" at the top of the browser.
Well the game is not Free Forever. It's only free until you build your second city. Then you have to buy medals. It's ridiculous.
I will not continue to help the new players learn the game. I will not build my cities. I will not pay for game coins. I will only leave my cities the way they are, with warehouses protecting my resources. (My forum name is not my player name, by the way)
can someone tell me exactly what improvements have been made to the game, that we know for a fact have been implemented (besides the graphics and the change from civony-->evony)?? i'm probably wrong and i hope i am, but as far as i know, there hasn't been one actual thing done except telling people what is to come in an irc chat.....
Gazza,
Can you make a post ( locked ) with only the offical status on the medals patch. I just want to know when it's fixed, and any thing we know for sure.
thanks
As I was reading through this topic, I saw more of the concern appearing that when you get a medal (even with the new system that will be launched when the patch is released) you still have to hope you get the medal you need.
I wondered to myself, what if they changed the new system ever so slightly. Instead of giving a random medal, allow the player to choose what medal they want to receive. Obviously you would only be able to choose medals within the range of the difficultly of the attack so you could just attack a level 4 npc village, kill 5000 or so troops win and then choose the highest or best medal as a reward.
I dont know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing. I guess I'll just wait for a new system and see if you are still having to send out many many attacks losing days worth of production time replacing military that was KIA just to get that 1 elusive medal you need to upgrade your rank.
Another idea I had just as I was writing this was, what if they changed the level up requirements. Not lowered the number of medals. But add options, get X amount of appropriate level medals, or get <insert a much larger amount> of many kinds of low level medals.
IE: need 5 x one kind of medium rank medal, add the option to hand in 30 of the lowest medal plus 15 of the next medal up instead of the 5 medium ranked medals.
why not let us buy and sell medals (and other items like teleporters) in the marketplace for in-game gold?