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A message about popups

Hello,
I understand there are some mixed feelings going around about popups. I've seen a lot of feedback ranging from both constructive and destructive around this topic. For the most part I have forwarded your words onto the rest of the team who said as of yesterday they would investigate what is going on.
I remind everyone that GoodGame Studios is free to play and them marketing their in-game purchases is how they stay open. While it can be annoying and even disrupt some gameplay, this is not their intention. This is why your BM team has advocated this on your behalf to those who can make decisions.
Going forward we need to keep the forums a little cleaner around this subject. People are opening a multitude of threads, derailing other threads by pulling them to the subject of popups, and even provoking each other. I've seen people defending popups and I've seen people going against popups. The clashes and needless arguments are truly needless.
To help keep all the information centralized and clean I'm opening this thread where all of your comments about popups can go. I will also merge any new threads about popups into this one, so please don't open any new ones, use the search function before posting. Finally, let's keep it clean. It's frustrating, but let's use this thread as a way to share information instead of flame each other. We will remove posts that do so that way we can keep this thread open for input, we don't want to censor anyone who has credible things to say.
I will also use this to inform you all of any developments. As you know, I cannot say anything on behalf of GGS, but once they have a message to relay I will be sure to post it. Thank you for your understanding.
I understand there are some mixed feelings going around about popups. I've seen a lot of feedback ranging from both constructive and destructive around this topic. For the most part I have forwarded your words onto the rest of the team who said as of yesterday they would investigate what is going on.
I remind everyone that GoodGame Studios is free to play and them marketing their in-game purchases is how they stay open. While it can be annoying and even disrupt some gameplay, this is not their intention. This is why your BM team has advocated this on your behalf to those who can make decisions.
Going forward we need to keep the forums a little cleaner around this subject. People are opening a multitude of threads, derailing other threads by pulling them to the subject of popups, and even provoking each other. I've seen people defending popups and I've seen people going against popups. The clashes and needless arguments are truly needless.
To help keep all the information centralized and clean I'm opening this thread where all of your comments about popups can go. I will also merge any new threads about popups into this one, so please don't open any new ones, use the search function before posting. Finally, let's keep it clean. It's frustrating, but let's use this thread as a way to share information instead of flame each other. We will remove posts that do so that way we can keep this thread open for input, we don't want to censor anyone who has credible things to say.
I will also use this to inform you all of any developments. As you know, I cannot say anything on behalf of GGS, but once they have a message to relay I will be sure to post it. Thank you for your understanding.
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It would be nice if you could have some sort of budget slider. Understand increase is done with revenue in mind and the offer of more items to purchase. But, if this was implemented I'd be more than likely to buy packages more frequently because the rewards cost would be in my budget and I could get the most for my money.
I really, don't mind the 3 prize level pre ruby purchase unlocked based on the amount. Because of the prizes increase with the number of rubies purchased. But, a slider on that would be nice too. Although the prizes haven't changed for the 50k level all that much. I used to get 6 hours for what is now the price of 4 hours. That is my only complaint with it and that it doesn't have as many skips in the first tear as it used to when the purchase 50k instead of 85k. If you could somehow make this feature a little better it would be awesome.
I thought I'd just mention that...
As well as more access to Ruby Doublers... hahahahahahaha I could really use one right now. I am not going to lie I can never have enough of them.
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Well at least. She posted on my wall.
I am also a self-appointed GGE historian. Back in the day, I was in the Original "Honey Badgers". Until it became part of the fellowship. And, my character fell into ashes over a long hospital stay. And, the use of "xXx" at the beginning and end of the of your name was removed along with my Character. I've been here from the Start, boi.
Or at least the pop-up can be delayed if the player is doing something (i.e. having other window open). What annoying is that you are setting up your attack and 2 or 3 ad popping up a few sec. to each other. What's wrong with delaying them until you close whatever windows task the player is on. It's only delaying a few sec. of min. at most until the player is back to the background view (i.e. finish whatever he's doing).
There are a bunch of way to handle the in-game advertisement WITHOUT hindering the actual playing experience. May be if GGS Developer just for once a year actually use their brain???
I like seeing the offers come up on the screen to see what they are offering. But, I rarely ever buy the moment one pops up in my face. You can also have it on the side where it indicates a new offer and it just shows for a brief few seconds and then goes away. Just kinda rolls out across the page shows itself and goes in the the offer section.
Although pop-up is one weapon in fighting the use of bots. I was told once by a botter the pop-up now stops there macros from working and the can't cheat anymore.
But, I am definitely with the idea of it letting you end you function without popping up and running your click time. The only problem is that this would still interfere with time-skipping nomad and samurai camps while running your trains on them. Which is the only time I find these pop up to be a real hassle. I don't want to "no battle" an attack I already sent. I can admit though that rarely happens that I don't have time to close the add and continue training.
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Well at least. She posted on my wall.
I am also a self-appointed GGE historian. Back in the day, I was in the Original "Honey Badgers". Until it became part of the fellowship. And, my character fell into ashes over a long hospital stay. And, the use of "xXx" at the beginning and end of the of your name was removed along with my Character. I've been here from the Start, boi.
Same idea as the personals being a bad idea, the more you buy the less you get, if it was the opposite people would likely buy more..
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You put more offers out: People will buy less often as they get the offer they want all the time
Less offers: People will focus on buying a lot of what they want as it rarely comes out.
I know when I was buying I would wait days until I got the perfect offer to come out and I would spend HARD.
But then again ruby whales will buy whenever they feel like as they are the main source of income for GGS.
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The problem recently I have found is: 1) two pop-ups at the same time which is much more annoying, and 2) often the same offer is repeated many times in a short space of time.
Each time a pop-up appears it slows down gameplay, and perhaps the dev's don't realise that if you are on a weaker internet connection the pop up can take a good 10 seconds or more to load each time. When I play at home it's quite fast, but if I play when away on a work trip using hotel wifi, each pop-up can literally take 10-15 seconds to load.
Just reduce the number/frequency of them a bit, back to a reasonable level again.
I know for a fact. I didn't spend today. Even though I wanted too. Because I couldn't get the value/ skips from the build your own selection special offer. And, I'd go through the skips in the first tier of the 3 tiered offer... Are you kidding me? I'd go through the bonus in the first 2 hours and be able to hit 4 time total within the last 2 hours of the offer. It doesn't take me too long to use to hit 70 times. When I am using 14 commanders in a long train. Literally, 5 runs and done... and won't be able to use my bonus... If I had a slider or a button to lower my offers. I would have been able to pick up the skips I need to continue with my Season points booster and which I really want to buy skips for and would waste a whole 4 hours of.
I guess I am whining a bit about my current situation and predicament. But, needless to say, something came up and I needed to spend the last $67 I had left for gaming this month. And, if the offer would have been better. I'd have been certain to buy. And, be able to continue hitting hard until my fingers fall off. I guess it's holding skips for the nomads. Hoping my offer drops by then and hitting barons and buying mercs for more skips. But, I am going to want to hit my 6-hour bonus with the 38 hits worth I have... So, yeah me.
To me, it didn't seem like a real value because I'd only be paying for a 4-hour bonus half of which I couldn't use and blowing 4 of my 6 hour season booster which it looks like I m going to end up blowing anyway. Because I need to spend 50,000 Samurai tokens to get the next step of my queen's quest.
Help me, help you GGE. Time Skips and Bonuses are computer-generated objects although you created value you on them it would not harm you to help your player out. When you give your players more value for lower revenue reserves. Seriously, the odd one time $5 or $10 or $20 offer among all the high prices the occurs may actually help you generate money through people with limited funds.
Imagine, if I could have made a 2-hour bonus for one time for $20 value, wouldn't be unfair to other consumers and would have also made me buy because I wouldn't feel like I was wasting the value I had. No one wants to be waste full. Which is why some people want to find value in the little bit of gaming that we have. You can see I spend a good amount of money on the game when I am playing it. So, when I finally running low a gaming cash to spend I'd like to find the value for my money and actually be able to play the game. As of right now. I am so bored in the game I m trolling everyone on the board.
And, really contributing to this thread. Somewhat regretting not spending or holding on the money for what little value the game had for it. I could have put the life issue event off for a while and it really wouldn't have affected anything much. But, the value of your items did affect the conditions as to whether or not I purchased today. I'd have spent all $67 and you could have had it all if I had the right value that is usually provided to the game.
I hope this pitch get forwarded to the Devs and I'll be able to find full enjoyment in the game that I love. Finding value for my money. While fixing the number of interruptions caused during gameplay improving them for everyone's benefit of them, including me, you and GGE!
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Well at least. She posted on my wall.
I am also a self-appointed GGE historian. Back in the day, I was in the Original "Honey Badgers". Until it became part of the fellowship. And, my character fell into ashes over a long hospital stay. And, the use of "xXx" at the beginning and end of the of your name was removed along with my Character. I've been here from the Start, boi.
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I think they could easily condense it to one icon in the bottom right, with a window somewhat like the one you see when you log in after your alliance got a bunch of rewards that pops up when the offers change.
They'd have to sync up all the times, which would mean you'd probably have to wait longer to get that perfect combination of offers, but it would definitely cut down on popup traffic which I'm sure affects the flash memory issues in a vastly negative way.
And it'd be way nicer for us to see 1 window every like 4 hours instead of 3 every half hour.