DreamScape Farm (IN1) said:

CM Latten said:

But, and here's a big "BUT" if you continue to actually insult GGS Staff, our mods or me, I will check if my ban hammer is still around and bob some heads with it.

Hey Latten, I feel the communications are also done one way ie you are efficient in communicating our views and emotions to GGS staff @100% efficiency BUT WE DONT RECEIVE the info/changes/experiments decided by GGS staff. SO, first make it a 2-way channel for communication, then you yourself can see the politeness you are expecting from us.

and IF the GGS staffs are so annoyed by our comments and criticism and are telling moderators to shut us up, then I have something better idea for them. Anyways MAJORITY will not play during this CC, why not completely ban the game itself.(Big Farm is not the only game for Virtual Farming, right?)

[...]

Before banning me please do send me a message, atleast this can be done, right?

Mira (US1) said:

[..]  I don't even know why I wasted the time to actually tell you these things, as it will likely be ignored again.

Dharu_89 (IN1) said:

@CM Latten 
I dont know about other servers but in IN1, CC is an ego competition. We play very hard and dedicated to get to the highest rps count.Its really a big competition for us. So better try not to spoil all the fun and our hard work by introducing "RPS Buying Prime time" offer like u did in the last cc.

CM Latten said:

While I obviously don't have a real say in the matter, I don't think this Prime Time will show up during the CC. I can't guarantee, but last I checked our calendar, it wasn't there. There may be booster prime offers, of course, but - to my knowledge - no straight-up RP offer.

Mira (US1) said:

The problem is that this underhanded way of "testing" things has become so much the norm that your customers don't have any goodwill or faith left that you are actually treating us with respect.  As I said, retaining repeat customers requires your customers to trust you and enjoy the way we're treated enough to hopefully recommend the gaming experience to other people.  

When all we feel is scammed time after time because these "bugs" are clearly not bugs, but intentional ways to try to trick people who don't know better into clicking on spending gold by accident through giant pop-up windows centered over harvest areas, buying reputation points at the last minute in a supposedly team-oriented "challenge", it destroys the whole purpose of the original gameplay, which was fun in good faith.

Sorry only goes so far.  At some point it must be acknowledged that something is clearly not working at all on either the development expectation front or customer communications, and likely both, as support is one of the most unresponsive of any gaming company I've ever supported with cash.

If you actually expect people to continue spending cash on this game, milking people and tricking them into spending unnecessary gold because they didn't know better, mis-clicked, or bought books because you advertised a release as one thing and changed them the next day, is not going to cut it.  At some point your customers will correctly realize they are being taken for fools and cut you off.

When you continue to act this way and disregard increasing customer complaints, all we can conclude, likely correctly, is the company is in dire straits and needs to resort to grabbing as much cash as possible before it shuts down, which makes it even less likely we'd want to pour any more money into a sinking ship.

Honestly, this is just business and marketing 101, not to mention basic common sense.  So many of us should not have to repeatedly spell it out.  I don't even know why I wasted the time to actually tell you these things, as it will likely be ignored again.

Mira (US1) said:

CM Latten said:

While I obviously don't have a real say in the matter, I don't think this Prime Time will show up during the CC. I can't guarantee, but last I checked our calendar, it wasn't there. There may be booster prime offers, of course, but - to my knowledge - no straight-up RP offer.

Let us not forget that last CC, the RP purchase was called a "favorite offer".

Hi Lattern

I can understand that you would like to move on from the 'nature' of the debacle or vice versa the debacle of nature though the post about the new fun things to come was probably a little insensitive of those who lost gold or other game assets. As a freeloader, non gold player, I really don't have the rights to criticize the developers/owners of the game however  I would like to make a couple of suggestions. I have been playing because I like the challenges re strategy and time management. I don't belong to a co-op because I would feel pressure to play or contribute when I didn't wish to. 

1/To me gold is to prop performance eg through the water tower etc rather than replace performance and of course provide for a beautiful farm. Using gold will certainly help one go far but to simply buy results devalues the game. 

 2/So the nature game was a trial. Then it was extremely poorly thought out for all the reasons players have given. Don't try to defend it, your heart doesn't seem to be in it.

3/There seems to be an undercurrent of profit turned from using peoples addiction to achievement within the game. I hope this is not the case and players take responsibility to opt out of challenges/islands /whatever rather than go under.

Lastly as others have said respect is a mutual commodity.

Cheers mummalou

CM Latten said:

The short event is not a bug,

Jiesta (NL1) said:

Mira (US1) said:

The problem is that this underhanded way of "testing" things has become so much the norm that your customers don't have any goodwill or faith left that you are actually treating us with respect. (...)

Well said!! 

amyk (US1) said:

Artmaker (GB1) said:

Ok FOUR TIMES NOW I clicked a thread about this event only being three days long, and it keeps sending me here.    WTH?

This thread?  It says  Merged: in front of the title.  The moderator must have merged it with this one.  I suppose to keep all the comments about the Nature Event together in one place.