Originally Posted by
Ramshutu
I have yet to pay a game where there was so much resentment and hostility towards the games creators. The company responsible are normally always the pantomime villain, there is moaning but it is normally short lived and moves onto something else pretty quickly. In all honesty, what we have been seeing more recently is something very different.
As it stands, with the way the game is organised, the focus has deteroriated from where it was 8-12 months ago (dysfunctional but appeared to be a genuine desire to create an entertaining game) to where it is now, with numerous and sometimes brazenly cynical attempts to simpy maximise profit without significantly caring about how engaging the content is.
I like this game, but I suspect a significant proportion of the top Gold spenders in the game are being held by a combination of loyalty to their syndicate or friends, and the sunk-cost fallacy "I can't just stop now, I have invested so much already".
This has always really been the case, people have been hooked on getting strong and staying strong, but with stat inflation, quick turnarounds of the big events, various disciplinary policies and program Changes, the state of affairs feels as if it is building to a tipping point that will herald a downward spiral of the game and a significant exodus of players where the sunk cost fallacy is no longer able enough to keep enough of the top 1% who fund the game around to make the game viable.
I may well be alone in this statement, but I don't beleive I'm stupid or addicted enough to indefinitely play a game whose organisation, and operation frustrates and infuriates me so completely. Something has to give.
Will this work? Maybe, maybe not, It has a whole lot less chance of working when people say one thing in private, and actually do something different in public. Does it make me feel better, a little bit. Whether this helps, or not, it is nice to feel that I'm at least trying to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
If that makes me dumb, or stupid for trying: I'd settle for it. It is probably an order of magnitude less dumb than being just as angry, just as infuriated with things and doing absolutely nothing.
The problem is, to a certain extent, the more money we as players put in as the game management deteriorates, the harder it is for that deterioration to be reversed and the more likely it is for the game to lose its appeal to those who fund it and simply fizzle out.
You know this, I know this, but I am still surprised that those with the most invested and most to lose, are the ones most unwilling to actually try to change it.
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