I refound this game around 3 months ago and put in some fairly
serious time trying to grow to grow my guild and keep up with the few
members left. Around a month later, I bought 2 months of Preferred
Player, confident that with all the talk of updates and plans for the
game, I would see some progress in that time. My Preferred Player runs
out in 2 days and I feel we rarely even see the game staff, let alone
any possible updates to encourage people to stay. Every day of those 3
months, I check Help New Playersand
click the links of the players in there, with the crazy hope that
perhaps one of them will see it before they give up on this game and
decide to stay.
With the migration to the new server aside (that happened almost a year
ago and is STILL the "Current Topic" in the chat room), this game is in
the same state it has been in for the last 5 years, if not longer.
I've offered my help to the staff in a desperate attempt to try and
help the game myself with what little I have to offer. I've spent hours
of my own time, adding to and tidying the Wiki in the hope that new
players will get info on how to play and decide to stay. I've spent
somewhere between £70-100 real money supporting the game through
Preferred Player and purchases of Points. But I, and we, can only do so
much.
Any sort of constructive criticism (such as this post) is shrugged
off with a smiley or jokey comment and never acted on. The players want
this game to succeed and become like it was 10 years ago, but we need a
light at the end of the tunnel. Promises of bug fixes and maintenance
fall on deaf ears now because it's what we've all been hearing for years
with no action.
I'm sorry if this post is difficult to read for some but I feel
that from people I've spoken to, many feel the same way. I'm more than
happy to have a civil discussion about this, but please don't take this
thread as an excuse to throw hate around. That's not my intention. With
that in mind, I'm keen to hear other people's thoughts.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edited by Mightyafro @ Sat May 12 13:37:15 EDT 2018
Welcome to the FRP...
Everyone here feels the same...
Quote from Cirno
I understand that CK probably is very busy and that results in zero updates, but my problem comes from that there is no communication from him. The very little communication that has happened did so 8 months ago, in the form of a long list of 'promised' updates that never happened. Literally none of those ~40 features have made it into the game. Another problem I have is that about half of the features listed as part of the "Preferred Player" packages have "[Coming Soon]" listed next to them. My question is: Exactly when? I appreciate listing features as [Coming Soon] in the short term, but in the long-term that is misleading advertisement. Those things should be added in, as to make good on his part of the transaction, or they should be removed as features of the Preferred Player package. It's not a good ethic to have, as it currently stands.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Godfather was taking a larger role in the sites development. At least that is how it was when I left. Almost all contact was transitioned to Godfather instead.
Maybe one day the game'll get bought out by a coder who can put the time into it?
I think there is still potential of making decent cash from this game, so long as more players can be brought in. Since points and even credits aren't all that useful (except for upgrades), there isn't much of incentive to buy some.
It's got potential though, it's a solid base right now.
