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Coopchas waaaay too frequent!!!
Thank you,
Debbie AKA grammy26
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Once in awhile, enough people will go for it, and more will join in just for the fun of it.
Occasionally we'll get a new member from a high-pressure coop who gets frustrated at our laid back approach, but they soon settle, or move on. Very new players to the game have wanted to push us to "do everything," but that hasn't been a problem since we raised the entry level requirements.
We often get a visitor or two who join just for a brief respite before returning to their high-power coops.
In any coop, you can't "keep everyone happy," but our retention level is very, very high, so the ones who stay seem to be happy enough with our "voluntary participation" approach.
Games should be fun, otherwise, what's the point?
Its simple. The event is all about revenue, that's why it is run so often. If the game was about player happiness they could run it once a month or once a quarter.... They don't.
What started out as a farming game has turned in to a pseudo war game, I say pseudo as unlike a war game, where planning and strategy are key to success, you only need to bring your cheque book to be a winner in this event. It is obvious that this pay to win style of play appeals to some.
Mark
Artful I love your coop philosophy. If I weren't already in a dandy coop on the US server I'd join in a heartbeat. The one I'm in is much the same. Play what you want how you want. They have so many members now that it hardly matters how many play CC or not. They seem to win gold regardless.
Now Artful, by chance to you run a coop on the International server? The one I'm in there is ok, but kinda fragmented. I wouldn't mind making a move out of that one. That is if your as insane as me with THREE farms. (shees what WAS I thinking with that?)
There is no challenge to this event any longer. Its boring! I am not a old player, only a few months, and I am already bored with it.
I do hope they will listen and not make it so often. Maybe every other month. Give us something new.
Seriously though, I certainly hope they do mix it up a bit as well as give the players a bit of R&R time in between these co-op events. This is all just way too much.
The game is very charming, until you start realizing that, almost nothing is working, and that the people behind this couldn't care less. We are NOT valuable players (yes all of us together - but not one for one).
I have seen so many players raising to level 50'ish and then quit (when the upgrades begins to really costs dollars) - thinking back, when I first started - those first levels, was the time I spend the most gold - and , I might add, didn't mind - cause the game was fun and gave me pleasure.
Now it doesn't give me so much pleasure, so I hardly spend any gold - don't mind that an upgrade take days, and that I have to sell a whole lot of goods to make the dollars needed. The gold I use, today, is limited to neccessarities..
I started my own coop in december 17 'It has to be fun',-
couldn't participate any longer in this show, and felt I let down my coop, for objecting that we just played on, even if anyone (who wanted to), could easily see that BF was no longer a priority to maintain and the bugs around christmas, was really really bad.
The fuss about the silly silly X-mas events, that if any event has split players, this did. - Those who remembers that event, know what I'm talking about.
I wanted to go solo - not being part of dramas (that often show, when the 'crib is empty' and some play more than others, some have more money to spend than others, some don't care how they use them, and seem to buy themselves out of any bug the game has etc. etc.)
Today, we're 2 - not planning to get bigger, but have room for 5 ( our old Coop-members are welcome here, when they need a break from fighting in Golden League.- that works really well for us.)
I don't have to argue for, why we shouldn't participate in eg. CC og CHWE, we play the wheel and the Shinkei School if we want, and when we have the tokens and if we need some special seeds.
I myself play FHWE, - I like planning, and this one you can plan to success if you start early enough collecting oysters, my 'roomie' not so much - it's up to either of us to decide. - However, this event is on my 'pay attention list' and I don't know if I will keep on playing it. Last time, was the first time in a long long time, where we didnt have crates resetting - lets see if they can roll this one out, without bugs for a longer period.
Sometimes we get cc points, sometimes we don't- None of us cares anymore - we have created our own little game, within and around the bugs here.
(I still have 60.000 certificates from my time in the bigger coop - so no need for me to play missions at all, for a long time (think I have spend maybe 5000 since december)
We have our adventureboat at level 1 - easily filled, even if only one of us is online and even with the edgecrops problems...we fill it - not so easily, but still within reach.
We have the fishingpond on level 1 - admitting I don't know why - since all it seems to give is happiness - of which we have plenty already.- we have 65 little goldfish swimming around, and they have food for the next 131 days without us doing anything...
From time to time, we play a challenge - either if we need some action or if someone dares to challenge us - happens rarely at 'our end' though
Sure we don't get as much for selling apples, eggs and bakery stuff, but it took extremely fast for us to get used to - and our game economy is really good anyways.
So, what GGS has done, by not adressing all these issues (extremely many!)
is to split up coops, which can't be healthy for a game based on exactly that.
We haven't had someone 'important enough' writing about what they are doing, if any of the bugs are close to be solved, or if we're still waiting for them to hire someone to fix the issues.
One thing for sure - It's been a month since I made my last small sms purchase' - my roomie even less than me, so here is at least 2 players, who used to spend ' a lot' and could afford to spend, but don't anymore, except to get through the day
Sorry for a long post...got carried away
Cheers
disclaimer: i had already deleted my dec and jan calendars so the above dates r taken directly from the forum, therefore they may or may not be entirely accurate, but to the best of my ability i tried to get it right.
ps; and don't tell me, "well u know u don't HAVE to participate in ALL the events, contests, challenges, etc" baloney!! any player/leader dedicated to their coop and teammates is gonna wanna do their best in as many events as they can to help their coop grow and succeed!! so don't even try that one, ok?!
you dont have to participate in everything
I like to have things to do, goals to work for, rewards to aim for
When there is no events, I get bored quickly
I do nearly all events, Most of them, Semi-hard
There is absolutely no obligation to participate
There is publicity everywhere in our lives, Do we have to buy everything we see? Of course no, Same applies here
Do what you can, And what you enjoy, if its not enough for the cooperative you are in, You should look for a new one
We're overall #2/#3 coop on international server, I dont set ANY requirement at all for any events, I do trust people to do what they can, when they want, it works very well
Find a team, that fits your playstyle