Another hero, I agree and I have to add something else into this quote or ATA will censor my support. So I can just write anything and wonder if they'll read my comment. With that said, I am a PIMD player from 2011 or so, the game was fun back then, but with all the new features, I just feel it ruined the whole point of the game, there's no longer challenges. I see idiots trying to rank up the VIP list, but what's the point? There's nothing special about it anymore, just use "FIGHT" command on a party and there you go, you're now on the VIP fight list... Right make sense... Wanna be in the tutor list VIP? Sure hop in, but I still wonder what you'll do there if you're not gonna use your WALL of tutors in wars or farming PVP. There's still a bunch of features that are being used, but that are pointless for the parties. Why bother compete for the high stats avatar if you're not warring... Having that extra % won't give you more cash in parties.
ATA is a company and I understand the need for revenue. You guys have overhead. People to pay, servers to keep up, etc. If it doesn't make dollars it doesn't make sense. However, I feel a big problem with the Dormlympics hunt and a lot of the past hunts when it comes to revenue is that the players are fed up with the current hunt style. It was too easy for those of us who have accepted that we aren't going to get top 500/100/10 unless we spend a lot of money. While many don't mind spending some each hunt, they don't want to spend hundreds each hunt just for additional items, top tier Avis, whatever. So you introduced pins to give us something different to try to collect. While this in itself was a decent idea, it's execution was terrible, and is one of the reasons revenue was down last hunt. Instead of doing cc all the time to get the same 5 pins, many clubs were doing party rotations (mine included) to try to get as many pins as possible. While we do several cats a day, when we could do one cat to reach our goal and then focus on other parties for pin drops, it didn't make sense to continue wasting cats on a hunt that we knew we weren't going to get top tiers in. Had cc dropped random pins, then it would have been a lot different, I believe, as far as revenue went. Also if you would make cc/ppa more worth doing as far as rare item drops, there would be more revenue. Take the AIMD premise where not only did you get end of hunt rewards or what you could open in boxes, but also the different drops that parties gave and you would see increased revenue at the same time giving players a reason to spend money. While on the whole "giving players a reason to spend money", why not listen to the hunt ideas players suggest. Noone asked for a midsummer night dream hunt, or starving college kid hunt. While some care about the Olympics it's something that many here couldn't care less about. We want something that goes with pop culture at the time. While I understand you can't do a Disney hunt or something to that effect, you could definitely do a fairy tale hunt. Suicide Squad would get you guys in major legal trouble but you could do a villains hunt and slightly change names/images like you did with the super hero hunt. And PIRATES. That's an idea I've seen multiple times on forums. Everyone wants a pirate hunt. While I understand once again Jack Sparrow would get you in a very hot pan, Joey Cardinal (Or whatever) would be perfectly ok. You've successfully pulled off other hunts while skirting copyright infringement. Give the players what they want and ask for instead of what you guys think we want and you'll see many people still like this game and want to spend money. Just, give us a reason.
You admit that the game hasn't been upgrading in the same rate that the players are. Like I mentioned in another post, there is no point in upgrading because we have nothing to upgrade for. There isn't anything that is challenging. These gave new players goals and old players a challenge. Before we upgraded to hit pros, now players who have played for years can breeze through them. No one is happy about this....
I personally think it's sad that you (ATA)only think bout revebue abd hiw to line your pockets!!! I've been playing nearly 4years and i oersonalky think you're making it alot worse the super pros made me want yo join in and tge hunts are rigged unless your in a cat club it pathetic you need to sort it out cos right now more are aginst you rather than with you and you can only blame yourselves and selfishness!!!
Between their new "other games" screen on smash featuring ads for all their games, the starter packs and seeing people post on campus about being brought here from ads on other apps I'm guessing they're now focused on bringing in new players. They don't care so much about keeping the older players around and maintaining a community. A high turn over rate is fine as long as they have players who are spending.
They slightly ruined the community of SMASH by updating their game making everyone lose some progress and time. Many old players as left their game being so fed up. Being as a BETA player from SMASH, I can see the same mistakes they're doing there on here. It's a just a pattern they have, they have great idea then mess it all up for some reason.
that's the thing they only care bout what they thinks best not what we actually say it's like our input is ignored as an older player and having friends who've played just as long it feels like we are not being listened too and it's not fair specially when you see it being made worse and not better its frustrating when they ask for input etc and just ignore it i personally feel no matter what is said they will be ignorant abd carry on ruining the game!!
That explains pretty much everything ata has done to ruin this game very well said and supported. Ata only cares about their revenue which I still don't understand why they prioritize the new players over the old. The old players are what kept this game going for all these years, yet instead of focusing on the spenders you decide to aim your marketing toward 13 year old kids who only use your app for rp? Whoever is in charge of decisions like that has no business sense at all. They are just going to run this game down like future combat and gangs at war. If you want to fix this issue then it's very simple... Don't play favorites to anyone. Keep the game balanced and actually keep it a game. Don't continue to turn it into a social app like that high school hero game that got destroyed due to it becoming more of a social app then an actual game. There are way more social apps then there are games like pimd if you continue to switch over and look more like one you will be destroyed by their competition. If that doesn't bother you since u can always make more apps then well if they have the success of that car racing one you released on android a few years back then good luck to you cuz that garbage didn't go anywhere.
So what about the items that we have so far from these parties? I've spent money and items buying the drops!!!!
Wondering how long it will be before we're told 'the opinions of those on forums are expressed by a minority of players and everyone else loves the removal of super pros so shut up and accept it, thread locked' like we were with the ridiculous relationship feature that everyone warned them against ?
@ata (grant/mario) may beta/orange wars come back for the loss in super pro parties. Its not like your revenue will decrease it may in fact increase 1-2 dn per war I'll start buying dn again and may others will as well. To get people to do them more just fix the event drops for wars to if you win = to cat cafe drop is you lose half of that but wait wouldn't that be a loss in revenue no cc is 7bucks most can't dn but dropper and average to 2-3 dn they use, in beta/Orange wars there are 25 people vs 25 people 2dn are allowed if 10 people dn the revenue right there but more then 10 people dn and a people use the second dn for the win yes there will be in actives do what you did in kaw with indi war in actives 3day bann from wars. Just give beta/orange wars another shot just because this enraged the community and most old players loved those wars... Best way to gain old player support and activity back for a bit.
Ata should of released the next phase with an extention of the removal date so that those who have spend time and money for the avatars get a chance to collect them. Kinda messed up that suddenly all that work was pointless... like a slap in the face... and then wonder why the pimd community is outraged to the point of locking your thread.