Post by Deathclank » Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:55 am
I am a software guy by trade, and have done well enough out of it that I now do things for fun rather than necessity. I am also a crown in a couple of worlds and top 40 player in one. I have spent plenty of money on this game - more so than on any other ios game.
A couple of points:
* Sort your QA process out - this is a great game concept marred by as bad an execution as I have ever seen - the ONLY reason i have stayed with this game is because i dont want to let my team members down. The icing on the cake was being locked out of my world the other day for 24 hours because it would refuse to connect on my ipad. No there is nothing wrong with my internet connection. To resolve it I had to load the HD version on my iphone and xferr my account. I cant read the bloody screen!
* Stop gouging your players - 5 gold to change a city name - please!
* Stop developing new features and start fixing existing bugs - refer back to the first point
* Focus on streamlining the experience - why are you doing synchronous updates? I cringe every time i move to another city and then suffer the inevitable lag while the games updates yet again - i have grown to hate this. I am on a fast broadband connection and wifi share it - this still sucks. Seriously.
* Stop the crashes every time you flip between apps. I hate that with a passion as well. How hard can this be. Look at the logs in xcode!
* Focus on usability, not features. Its doesn't need new features - it just needs to be made less painful. Why - really why - should i have to flip thru all my cities to build scholarships. It is sucking the life out of the game.
* When are you going to learn that this game is about people working toward a common goal, and then build out tools that support this. The existing collaboration tools are very basic. Thats why we have to flip out of valor and into other apps.
My intuition tells me that the only reason this thread isn't longer is that most people really couldn't be bothered to create an account to talk about it.
Its a great game. Sort your **** out and you will grow it. Keep this up and I am over it.
Cheers,
DC.
I am a software guy by trade, and have done well enough out of it that I now do things for fun rather than necessity. I am also a crown in a couple of worlds and top 40 player in one. I have spent plenty of money on this game - more so than on any other ios game.
A couple of points:
* Sort your QA process out - this is a great game concept marred by as bad an execution as I have ever seen - the ONLY reason i have stayed with this game is because i dont want to let my team members down. The icing on the cake was being locked out of my world the other day for 24 hours because it would refuse to connect on my ipad. No there is nothing wrong with my internet connection. To resolve it I had to load the HD version on my iphone and xferr my account. I cant read the bloody screen!
* Stop gouging your players - 5 gold to change a city name - please!
* Stop developing new features and start fixing existing bugs - refer back to the first point
* Focus on streamlining the experience - why are you doing synchronous updates? I cringe every time i move to another city and then suffer the inevitable lag while the games updates yet again - i have grown to hate this. I am on a fast broadband connection and wifi share it - this still sucks. Seriously.
* Stop the crashes every time you flip between apps. I hate that with a passion as well. How hard can this be. Look at the logs in xcode!
* Focus on usability, not features. Its doesn't need new features - it just needs to be made less painful. Why - really why - should i have to flip thru all my cities to build scholarships. It is sucking the life out of the game.
* When are you going to learn that this game is about people working toward a common goal, and then build out tools that support this. The existing collaboration tools are very basic. Thats why we have to flip out of valor and into other apps.
My intuition tells me that the only reason this thread isn't longer is that most people really couldn't be bothered to create an account to talk about it.
Its a great game. Sort your **** out and you will grow it. Keep this up and I am over it.
Cheers,
DC.