I have 1 cat (got from a box) and 6 kinis from hunts saved. I wouldn't buy after the move you just made removing spp, but I will hit what others drop and drop what I have.
ATA you clearly have no interest in keeping this game interesting for long term players. I've been around since before parties, but I never fought for the removal of cats, and was very supportive of the spinner originally. I understand you need to make money. But as consumers we're allowed to be upset with what you're doing with those profits. Currently you aren't using any of them to give the updates to the game the long term players have actually wanted and asked for, for years.
Fix the mess of a showcase and gift screen. The showcases have caused crashing on various devices for years, with temporary patches coming out that become pointless as our showcases grow constantly ever out of control (thanks pin hunt.) The gift screen takes forever to load, forever to find anything (the new update makes the new gifts appear right after my showcase items, this means it's some random spot in the middle when scrolling, this is not helpful) and we are still getting gifts with a limit of 50+ that we can only send 1 at a time of, add in the lagging and trying to find it and it takes at least a full minute per gift. This is an hour+ trying to max one person. With new gifts often appearing DAILY in hunts now. You have to realize how frustrating it is to deal with the gifting issue, complaining about it for FOUR YEARS, and watching you make numerous huge updates to the game that do absolutely nothing to address it, while releasing more gifts more frequently to actually make the problem more maddening.
Give pvp players something, anything. Really, at this point that part of community would probably gratefully accept whatever crumb you'd actually throw them. You don't want to release iWars again? Fine, give them 1 weekend a month where they have advance notice there will be no hunt or promo so they may plan a war themselves, simply 48 hours once a month. Make it so that hits don't go down in plunder with your energy, just like parties. Make carepacks double pvp plunder as well as party plunder. Do a pvp pay promo like this cat promo. Any of these would be a step. Something to say "we acknowledge you're here, we acknowledge pvp started this game and we appreciate you continuing to play as the game has evolved"
Give us something to work for. I felt like tier 8 was a great move for fixing the economy on the game, stats that weren't quite so easy to achieve. The tutor market was getting crazy in prices. However, since you do nothing to encourage pvp and since there aren't more difficult parties to work for, what exactly is the benefit of growing an account? What do we DO with these high stats once we get them? Once people get there the only benefit is more cash which just means a crazy tutor market again, which means you release a higher tier so we can grow so we can.....what exactly? There's no point to the game now other than growth for the sake of growth. Give people a goal that makes working towards the stats worth it.
I understand you need to help new players and bring in new players, but you also need to start showing us that you actually give a damn that the game is enjoyable long term. Dealing with the same issues we've consistently complained about for years while you make all sorts of changes that outrage the community is part of the problem. If you're going to make changes that benefit the company that's understandable, but you need to make changes that benefit the long term players and the community as well. We see a serious lack of that. There's no balance.
Stop driving out long term players by blatantly ignoring requests made to make the game enjoyable on a long term basis. Stop putting all the focus on making it enjoyable for new players who are going to get just as bored and sick of the same issues as the vets within a year. This promo is a perfect example, many may be hitting cats, but while the newer players are likely to be excited by the promo, most long term players are just rolling our eyes.....