Ask Us Anything!

[T_T]

When are we going to get rewarded both avis again. We used to be rewarded both M and F when we got to a certain drop rate. Then VIP for completing the side story.

I remember the reason was to adjusting to the economy. Since then you've added more VIP subscription options, story/battle passes, always available avi shards, Dog star party, and many more microtransactions for us to fund your game. Throw us a bone plz ata.

 

[SIothy]

Why are you killing the game

Peteee , I want to know the same thing! Plus- why are you now focused ONLY on the people who spend lots of $ to play rather than the population of players in general. FTP is basically impossible now for a huge amount of people. Trust, I spend $ and no t going to deny it, but even with what I do spend, I feel like I get nowhere. Please even the playing field for ALL of your community. This game has changed so much from when I started and I’m still only a baby player at almost 3 years in. I can’t imagine, for those who’ve been around from the beginning or even 5+ years, how drastically this game has changed. It’s not even about community anymore. Or chatting. Or partying. It’s ALL about $$$$$ and who spends the most.

 

[SIothy]

Why are yall making everything difficult .. like the rate of the lite wave of light boxes that drop from the parties are insane

Especially considering you HAVE to have 3 of the Avis when the Avis kinda suck. And they are NOT cheap. Once again, geared only to those that ptp.

 

[SIothy]

When are we going to get rewarded both avis again. We used to be rewarded both M and F when we got to a certain drop rate. Then VIP for completing the side story.

I remember the reason was to adjusting to the economy. Since then you've added more VIP subscription options, story/battle passes, always available avi shards, Dog star party, and many more microtransactions for us to fund your game. Throw us a bone plz ata.

THIS

 

[Freund]

you know... this would actually be fun to participate in if your game wasn't in shambles. kinda hard to care about any of your attempts to engage your playerbase when you've proven time and time again that you guys only care about money

maybe i have one question. how many strawberry matcha lattes would it take for you guys to finally care about what your players actually want?

 

[SIothy]

dont wanna share too much of an opinion cause have had ata irritated w me before 1. if and when u guys gonna make avis trade-able ? 2. we were told there would be another chance to unlock the 2nd dorm but there hasn't been another chance, also if and when? 3. Why isn't the overly sexual pub posts being addressed have seen people asking for minors or offering to pay for off app content?

Omg! The amount of spam posts in campus and pub for web cam, asking for minors, asking to be paid or offering to pay for explicit photos and content is to the extreme now. In 1 min I’ve seen the same person post 18x changing a letter or emoji with the same information.

 

[HannahLecter]

When will yall remove the fortnite goofy cringe ahh "battlepass" alerts

 

[T_T]

Omg! The amount of spam posts in campus and pub for web cam, asking for minors, asking to be paid or offering to pay for explicit photos and content is to the extreme now. In 1 min I’ve seen the same person post 18x changing a letter or emoji with the same information.

Yeah it's the bots in those chats for me. Mods will be quite but when I make a dirty joke on the 18+ chat and I'm not using any curse words, i get silenced

 

[T_T]

Why are stats so low on Avi’s? Does the stats play a part in battles? I’m a newer player better yet an across over so stats are extremely important to win? And three why are you items so expensive? Where is clearance day?

Well for pvp avi stats do play an role. Other items like miscellaneous stat items, relationship, tutor bonus all play for pvp. Which is a dying feature so the ones who really care it for now are the no lifers that bully people

 

[Iverson]

ATA Day is around the corner and we wanted to kick things off with an AMA with our development team!

Ever wonder what midnight snacks fuel our devs, or how many iced strawberry matcha lattes it really takes to launch an update? Now’s your chance to find out!

In anticipation of ATA Day 2025, we’re hosting an Ask Me Anything session with the dev team. To participate, simply drop your questions in the AMA Typeform linked below! We will be accepting questions until 12 PM on Friday, August 29th.

Just remember: keep it fun, respectful, and community-friendly. Just good vibes and curiosity all around. We’ll pick the best questions to answer so get creative, be curious, and let’s celebrate ATA Day together!

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• What’s the weirdest bug you’ve ever had to fix?
• How much coffee/tea does it take to get through a launch day?
• What’s everyone’s all-time favorite game (besides ATA’s, of course)?
• What's the best piece of player feedback you've ever received?
• What's the worst piece of player feedback you've ever received?
• What’s one “behind-the-scenes” thing most players don’t know about game development?

Tap HERE to submit your question!

We're excited to hear from you!

Do you still get a good night sleep after what you did?

 

[Freund]

Also can you please increase the waves of light box drop rate? if i had known it would be this hard to get furniture i would've just kept the 60b i spent on the (mid) avis and just bought the boxes from people

 

[Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo]

1) Is the real reason why you have multiple servers because certain countries require you you legally disclose drop rates on GATCHA games, and thus, you can completely disregard posting these numbers in the servers that it’s not a legal requirement?

1.1) It has been very noticeable that the drop rates have decreased, making it much harder to complete dorms than it had been before. Why did you decide to hurt your player base like this?​

2) Why do you have so many invite party hunts now? It used to be a rarity, but now they’re happening almost every other hunt, and not all of us can afford to sustain the invites required to drop <22 invites that frequently.

2.1) Why did you change the unique invites that happened seasonally to have the same invites across the board? Was it so that you didn’t have to refund your precious ec to those that had leftovers?​

3) Shard Avis used to be a special occasion thing that most people got really excited about. Now, like the invite parties, they’re too frequent, and not worth spending the money on. Why did you increase shard Avis, but not bother with increasing their quality?

4) Have you not learned anything from Roblox? Though this game is 17+, and minor accounts are supposed to not be permitted, that doesn’t stop people asking for minors in certain chats. Do not do what Roblox chose to do, and protect the wrong group of people.

5) Why did you decide to switch it from Story Pass to Battle Pass? This isn’t Fortnite. Was it so you had a reason to charge real money for it rather than people being able to spend ec on it?

I’m going to stop the questions here. I was just asked why I look so angry.

 

[Tero]

My question: Do you actually think this "AMA" is going to solve your serious reputational issues? Has it not occurred to anyone that you need to put in actual effort to recognize and solve problems? I'm available as a consultant.

You get booed on every event and initiative, with the same feedback coming up over and over again. It takes a community revolt to make you reverse course. In the last year, you've had multiple major screw ups on hunts/events/SP that you had to walk back. When does your leadership wake up and recognize this?

I've been stuck with a help ticket open for months, with weeks between responses. This is in line with the severe lack of moderation and QA/QV being done.

Marceline, you had to be publicly shamed into apologizing for mocking the frustrated users. I'm trying to picture a time when anyone in customer service has ever mocked a customer to their face and still had a job. You should be the ultimate champion of the community.

"What's your favorite bevvy, Devs?" is not what you're going to be asked and you should absolutely know this is going to be a bitch fest. Will anyone actually summarize the feedback and action it?

 

[Hawt]

you know... this would actually be fun to participate in if your game wasn't in shambles. kinda hard to care about any of your attempts to engage your playerbase when you've proven time and time again that you guys only care about money

maybe i have one question. how many strawberry matcha lattes would it take for you guys to finally care about what your players actually want?

Honestly, this. I think if the circumstances were better here, then this would have been a fun way to get to know the team better. But because of the way things are, which is not good, the only questions that are going to be asked are the ones that have been ignored for so long, and not the typical fun and engaging conversation you'd expect.

 

[Tameless]

What’s the point of surveys and questionnaires if our feedback isn’t listened to?

When will the quality of shard avis get better? Every player I know would prefer quality over quantity. The avi designs used to be so good that the price for trading shards was high because everyone wanted them. Now they’re high because hardly anyone is opening the boxes.

Where are the hunts That used to have me glued to my phone to never miss a party? I have barely participated in hunts in the past few years because the design quality and storylines suck. Don’t get me started on the furni.

Both of these things have already been brought up numerous times to y’all and it just seems to be ignored. There’s no doubt you have an influx of new players coming in daily, but you’d rather suck us dry with new shard avis before the others expire in the shop instead of providing good content. Which causes many existing players to leave the game. The reason the profit has declined has a lot to do with the quality of the content. If you would actually improve it, you wouldn’t need to dish out as much content at a time as y’all do.

As we all know, though, ATA won’t actually look at this and take it seriously. Worth a shot though.

 

[Tameless]

Why have you chosen to make the story passes only bought by money and no longer ECS? Considering the BP has the same rewards that are attainable by ecs?

I was going to say you’d be spending the same amount, but I forgot tapjoy exists because it’s never worked for me

 

[Oasis]

When can we trade Avis?🫩

1. if and when u guys gonna make avis trade-able ?

ATA has stated during a previous AMA that this will never happen, and that things like shard avatars and tradeable boxes are their solution to the requests for avatar trading. The reasoning is that it would require a total overhaul of the coding for almost 15 years of avatars.

 

[Royal_Temptress]

why can’t avis come in a box with both the male and female option, like how the highlights box we choose a reward, so we can pick what avi we want first when we pull them finally

More like when can we get it back I always hate getting male Avis when I want female ones,
It’s harder for my smaller alts to get the second box for the Avi I want if I don’t get it first time and have been left disappointed if can’t get it

 

[Tameless]

Peteee , I want to know the same thing! Plus- why are you now focused ONLY on the people who spend lots of $ to play rather than the population of players in general. FTP is basically impossible now for a huge amount of people. Trust, I spend $ and no t going to deny it, but even with what I do spend, I feel like I get nowhere. Please even the playing field for ALL of your community. This game has changed so much from when I started and I’m still only a baby player at almost 3 years in. I can’t imagine, for those who’ve been around from the beginning or even 5+ years, how drastically this game has changed. It’s not even about community anymore. Or chatting. Or partying. It’s ALL about $$$$$ and who spends the most.

I’ve been on this game for almost 10 years, 6 years on this account. The game, today, is drastically different from when I started and I definitely miss how it used to be. Some of the new mechanics are great updates and I would love to keep them. Others? Not so much.

 

[Evangelion]

What's the point of giving out surveys if you all don't take feedback into account. With the exception of the glazers that are the only ones you all respond to—what's the point of pretending you're a small team that listens to players when it's been obvious for a long time you guys do not care about your playerbase. It took Publix shaming for a DEV to issue and apology—mind you not even publicly. Just a dm to cover their behind—and a band aid fix on that jellyfish scam for you all to pretend nothing happened.

Why do you all care so little about the male avis—there use to be a time where I would buy the Molly male avis and even monthly ones simply because I liked how they looked—now? It's RARE that the male avis look nice, some even look like they can barely carry a gallon of milk meanwhile the fem avis show actual effort put into them.

Why not just make the Lucky Box content into full hunts? Those are easily your best content most of the time and of course—it's paywalled with bad gatcha mechanics. If you all are going to recycle content from not even a year ago with hunts, shards and spinners at least drop the lucky box bs and just make them full on hunts.

Why are invites every 3 hunts—like I'm not kidding. It shows how greedy you all are and atp you can't blame it on the economy—this is just greedy plain and simple. Some people can't even afford to host regular ec clubs due to everything else in game being so expensive—forcing invites on people every 3 hunts is incredibly unsustainable.

Why would the BP be in actual dollars instead of ec? Well I can probably answer that: Due to it taking a long time for a SP to drop along with the introduction of TapJoy and RevU players had ways to grind and earn the 199ec needed for the VIP version of the pass without having to spend anything. And even though they're probably gonna drop ANOTHER shard set or bring one back in the next 2 weeks alogn with a lucky box—they wanted another way to squeeze money from players. Mind you this was literally the day after you put up and BBB promo where you most likely made thousands of dollars from players.

If this is how you act now? Like I've said before I know for a fact Black Friday will be a capitalist hellscape where you're greedy will get even worse AND the hunt will probably be ugly and uninspired. Okay...okay I'm done.