“I am tired of hackers in pvp. I am tired of bonus actions when hackers and other players get multiple bonus actions with kami and stego.”
Will be fixed in the update.
“Most of all, I am tired of mods saying that these problems will be fixed in early January.”
It will be fixed as soon as Apple lets it be fixed. Maybe you should be tired of Apple holding everything back instead? Attack the right targets, please.
“Even nerdy developers should have anticipated the problems with just a day or two of testing.”
Doesn’t work that way. These bugs were introduced thanks to issues we weren’t able to test in beta (huge load, non-sandbox Game Center environment).
“Even I could see a problem with timing eggs with little testing.”
Developers changed the eggs last minute on us, it wasn’t nearly as bad in beta testing… here, admittedly, the developers made a mistake. They also snuck those egg-exclusives in last minute as well… big mistakes, there. I can’t support this decision of theirs at all.
“It is easy for the developers to say they will fix the problems of over poweried arks by nerfing their abilities. I have seen this in another game. The nerf is followed by the introduction of even more powerful creatures to stimulate spending.”
Actually, they didn’t intend for monsters to be as overpowered as they are. It wasn’t a scheme to get people to spend money. We’re all human, enough with conspiracy theories. Of course they need to make money, but they aren’t playing it that way. Don’t assume all game developers are the same and think the same way.
“I just wish that the mods at least had the perception that they showed more support for the players concerns instead of the developers profit.”
Have you read any of my posts? I have all the monsters. I can time eggs. I should want egg timing to exist because I can do it. I should want bonus actions to not be capped because my whole team (just about) is rank S. I should not want ANY mission monsters to be released to anyone because I have them all, and I want to have an advantage!
But that’s not how I am at all. I’ve been posting in support of the players in general the whole time I’ve been on this forum. I support everything that would give all players a fair chance at getting everything in the game.
Of course, as a game developer myself, I do understand the need for money. We make a living doing this, and living is expensive. You need to buy food, electricity, heat, internet service… as much as we all would like to do it all for free, we have to make a living.
I’ve always stated, though, that integrity should be kept when doing so. No deception, no misleading, and no making it pay-to-win.
If you want my opinion, in-app purchases should only be used for something such as (as two examples):
-Visual aesthetics (different avatars, specially colored Arkadions, etc.)
-Speeding things up (getting monsters faster, but not having any exclusive monsters).
Bottom line is the developers are trying hard to get things fixed. They understand the issues as much as you do. They have made some mistakes, and they’ll learn from those mistakes like we do as humans.
