This most recent move on ata's part (talking about cat cafe) has made this game go crazy. Every other thread is about it, every other ad is about it, people fighting over it, respectable players acting 12 over it. Before anybody tells me people don't need to spend money on a cat... You're right! But guess what, people do anyway. It's in the same way that you don't technically have to spend money to get that shiny new 55 ec avatar. Tell the smaller clubs they don't have to spend money on it, the clubs that don't have a "spend cat within x days or get farmed" rule. It's a low blow, cash-now, fuck the players move. I'm extremely disappointed in the amount of people that will defend them. Just another money squeeze of this game before they kill it, and this one hit it hard. I'm a programmer, and I love games, it's what I do. I'm not successful, but I have had to spend years learning about this type of thing. This is a literal PERFECT example of a good strategy to use when KILLING a game. They know it will not last long, so they are squeezing it. From a dev perspective this is the right thing to do. It is called "cashing out" They most likely have not been making as much on pimd (probably because the big player/rp noob ratio is way off) so it's slowly becoming not worth their time. They are a company, not some young gamer with a passion. I guarantee you they want to move on to bigger and better things. Not continue answering emails for people silenced for rp 7 days a week, and people begging to be a mod on their games. I wish you all could realize that any money and time you spend here will soon be GONE. This game is nearing the end of it's life, it'll happen faster than you think.
Actually the kaw version of cat cafe came out a few months earlier. Kaw is ATA's baby. They won't do anything to destroy kaw. It's just another way to make money
I know kaw has had the same thing and it works, but kaw is WAAY bigger than pimd. It affected kaw very differently. You can't pull that on these little on the side games.
I support you OP preach it! We're similarly minded on this issue. It is a proven fact that gamers hate change. Change leads to the downfall of games. We say we want new and better but at the end of the day the best games do not change. They are the same because people enjoy that game for what it is. When the party invasion took over change happened. The core group that was once here left. Because gamers HATE when you change their shit up. CC was added to capitalize on the new demographic, but is strangling the life out of this game and it will at one point cease to exist.
cc changed pimd, made it very boring for me but i still play, doing cc to catch up with Hunts and ugs. The game is still playable. Participating in cc or not. It has made current upgrading options far too easy how ever. I switched stats from t6 lvl 1 even to t6 lvl 1 strength, just for bos :lol: took me barely a week of cc lmao. I personally am not upgrading past lvl 1 until I need to. But for those who did, 1.9t is a hell lot of money, even with cc. And level 3 and 4 will be even more expensive. Cc will come in very helpful then, and even with cc will still take time. Cc also offersisc bonus drops that would require you to complete a pro party with high stats, for a chance of getting one. Now small players can get a misc boost too ? Also hypnocats drop from parties, which ata has been switching around to keep us entertained, and allowimg us to get more party completion awards. They have re introduced individual wars, which occur more frequently than before. The have plans to re vamp avatar store, and are constantly trying to give us new hunts and features. My point is, although cc has become a dominant feature, its not the only feature of pimd. I don't believe your theory op, kaws version of cc was a success there, so they implimented it here (testing us with promo parties before putting cc here). Cat purchase is not required, but for those who do buy, gives ata cash to improve all games. I don't believe they are cashing in yet.
I didn't read all this but cc is a choice and ata is a business that needs to make money so who cares if people spend their own hard earned money on a game? Bye cats and keep ata alive