Ummm, wow, lol. First, I would actually like to sincerely thank mark for his answering the question. As a habitual critic of Grant and his customer relation practices, a lot of my frustration is from being utterly ignored. Although I strongly disagree with your stand on pvp related aspects of pimd and still feel frustrated by your skewed assessment of the direction this game is essentially being forced into instead of it being organic, it is refreshing to get a response. I'd rather get an answer I disagree with than just outright ignored. That being said, let me tell you a small bit about myself. I work in local market analysis for a major retail chain in the USA. Although it isn't web based and serves a much different aesthetic, it is inherently the same, customer service based. Before that, I spent many years bartending. My entire adult life has been spent in the customer service industry. A lot of my criticism of the years is rooted in a fundamental understanding of customer service. You just told someone who contributes to your salary which pays your rent, to spend their money elsewhere simply for disagreeing with you. This is ata's only apparent alternative to just being flat out ignored. I can't even wrap my head around the concept that a company exists where this is acceptable. You need customers, mark. They DO NOT need you! It takes extraordinary arrogance not to mention a genuine ignorance to assume players who uninstall pimd are simply going to kaw. There are many pvp apps that aren't run by ata, mark. Common sense should tell you that a disgruntled former customer is more likely to steer clear of any ata product when searching out a new game to spend their money on. I'm really happy for you that pimd is so profitable. In the end, that's what pays the bills. But you best check your outright condescending, arrogant attitude, you need customers, we do not need you!
You're on dope if you think this is what players want Mark. Be honest with yourself. How many people have asked you for a war system in the last 12 months compared to how many have asked for a "room" feature? You've chosen to ignore many players requests once again and care little about the fact you have. The room is flawed and has not been tested and once again designed only to raise revenue for ATA. It has been rushed out and is clearly not working properly. Stop ignoring our wishes please. No amount of sugar coating can take away the fact you're ignoring players numerous requests for a war system. If you are going to develop the game don't do it in a negative way by implementing poorly conceived ideas before they are tried and tested. Don't give us things we didn't ask for just because you wish to raise further revenue and give us the things we actually did ask for instead. If you aren't prepared or don't want to do the job we are paying you quite handsomely to do then perhaps you should find work more suited to your "I don't care what you want" attitude.
Why do furniture boxes expire? Will there be new ones every story? Will they contain different furniture? Also I want to repost my suggestion for us to be able to swipe in the dorm while in the little view mode.
How do the stats work in the my room feature? Does it get applied to base stats or miscellaneous stats?
I appreciate that you took the time to politely address me. I'll reply to both of your points. First let's start with wars. We aren't putting wars back in PIMD. We've done surveys, talked to players of all sizes and ran metrics on who participates in wars and in PVP. Through the years of working on the product and having a lot of data as well as years of experience talking to players, we've decided we don't want to have wars in PIMD. It doesn't fit with our vision for the game. I know there are some players that still want wars, and the reason I say to play KAW, is because KAW and PIMD are very similar games-- Except that KAW continues to have a large PVP community *and has wars everyday*. PIMD, no matter what we tried, could not support the war system. It's a more casual audience. I know there are people who think we just didn't try hard enough etc. but we did. We'll have to agree to disagree on that point. Regardless, we have chosen not to bring back wars. We have a different vision of the game based on our data collection, experience as designers, and time spent talking to all kinds of players. We made that call and we are sticking to it. Secondly, on the customer service front, I'll take the bait. I've been trying to help people on this thread and on forums ALL DAY. Check my wall. Check this thread. I've been at for 14 hrs because I care about the people that actually want to play the game. Instead of giving me feedback on the feature, BnD_DJ is insulting me, my colleagues and my work, and refuses to stay on topic. Maybe I should have just ignored him or banned him. But I chose to speak my mind. I pushed back and told him what I really think. And what I really think is that if you don't like the game and the direction it's headed, then maybe it's not the game for you, and that's ok. If you want a similar game that has a strong PVP community and wars, please try KAW. I'll even help you out and introduce you to some clans that would love new members. If none of these are for you, there are a million apps out there, and I'd like to focus on helping the people that actually like PIMD.
Misc stats for now, though we are considering giving it it's own section. We're also adding upgrading so that you can get a lot more stats from these items.
I opened a furniture box which gave me an IKEO Purple Art Prints, but can't seem to find it anywhere when I go to use in it my dorm. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned the same issue and had it answered for, if so I apologize for the repetition. PS. ATA you're doing a great job, unfortunately there'll always be people who complain about everything and anything. Keep up the great work though.
Thanks Kami, looks like you need to update. You are on Client Version: 149.0 and the most recent is 152. Can you try updating in the Google Play store please and let me know if that works.
Kaw wars are just as dead lol they have them every day but the last season was pretty dead, I think it sucked personally cuz there wasn't any indi wars for it. I will agree the pvp hunts they include as alternates are way better though but tbh that isn't even becoming the war game u make it out to sound like. As for warring on here no one is asking u to come up with new ideas for wars on here, ppl have been asking for a feature u have already made and chose to get rid of being individual wars. Your team has already put the effort and time to make them why not just rerelease them for the minority that actually want them? It would get rid of half the backlash you get and appease the players who started this game out. If they would of had not started playing when this was a war only game then pimd wouldn't of made this far to be in this direction you are taking it. Yes changes happen, but that doesn't mean u have to turn the product into something completely different then how it was made.