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You must realize that as of now, we (the players) care more about the game in whole than the upper-management. If they really cared of the game, they would devote their time, money, and skills into the game. At a time this was once true but year after year the interest of the management started to decline. Honestly, I bet the management doesn't care as much of us as we do of them. As we the players are easily replaceable. Look at the facts, if all of the life-time classic members got up and quit today, they could fill the void pretty quickly. Just advertise the PC game on iPhone and revert back to lifetime subscriptions for a limited time and a storm of players would replace us and everything will be like it was. You cannot replace the personalities but over time that would be forgotten and new personalities would take over. Developers will spawn because the kids that spend thousands of hours on an iPod have nothing better to do.
Yet that being said, the management needs to revert back to why they started this game. Although I personally don't know the reason, they could have even thought of scrapping the idea before it was ever published, but they need to have the same inspiration and enthusiasm they once had. Young(er) talanted developers they were, striving for success in a growing on-line environment. Why has that internal flame for a game they created to insight prosperity, gone out? Why have they turned to simply making a quick buck instead of going back to the main reason they started the game. Remember that this game only survives due to the time and other players. We can't stop playing because we invested too much time, and to stop now would be a waste (an excuse we love to use). Our friends keep us here, because we get a long with these people in a sort of family-styled way depending on your situation.
Don't force people to pay you for making your game. Take the initiative and make a game worth telling our friends about. Honestly, when new players ask what they can do when they log on, there isn't much to say besides pk, idle, spar, and events. That only lasts so long, and then we all have long bouts of forum-posting and time off from the actual game. Then we go back, to check up on friends and we become attached again. I went slightly off topic, but these words should be uttered. I am okay with how the game is, I understand what will happen. I am not okay with how this game is treated by the creators. Its a game, make it fun or shall we suggest you failed? Because if you cannot make the game fun again, you have literally failed the thousands (hundreds) of players that keep some slight sense of hope. |