What can be done to improve your holidays?

[aphixia]

i think the least he can do is change the formula for rested time for a certain duration, this is yahoos fault not his he doesnt owe us anything =p however just considering lots of people lost xp during that hiccup but theres also the fact that people have already left for their christmas,newyears holiday and will be missing out a lot more then expected due to the time of year

[panoz]

give us a message box that sends emails to the management of yahoo. We get SO's for each complaint email we send.

[Tecz]

add snowflakes on the screen, even if sometimes flying Santa (clicking on it gives you a random number of cards)

[stekkos]

The best thing would be to give a very generous code or codes for the 25-26 but i bet you already have that planned. Or add a mini event with goodies, like the black hole Friday, and make it yahoo themed as more people suggested. during the event you could give event bonuses based on the things the down time hurt the most: xp and gold.

I would like to add though that since this down time is not your fault, your willingness to give whatever you decide counts towards your amazing generocity and not as an apology. Thank you again Ray

[Sharkhunt]

You know what, I think I am done.

I am one of the first players on kong since early early Beta.

I patiently waited for months, while instead of content, you added mini events. People kept talking about how you needed to code events so that next year there were already there. I am not one of those people.

You said you didnt want to add new content until the server swap, as you would have to redo all the code after the swap. This never stopped you from adding events though, but the same problem doesn't apply, really?

Your black hole event was the money grab from hell. Might as well call IOU "R2 games" by that point.

Finally, we get content this month (infinite challenge series). Barely up and running, and down go the servers. crash crash crash. Same explanation for the past months (swapping servers soon!)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Guess this 3rd time (4th?!?) makes me an even bigger idiot.

I bought the event packs for this update. Went to work, came back to hearing of many crashes, Yet again, losing hours and hours of log in time. Given the track record, you might as well make offline rewards equal 100%. Given this update, the failure to run, failure to swap, I would like my purchases refunded for this event. Its not worth it. Why play a game where you have to be on 24/7 to get any good rate of gain, and have it crash over and over with the same spiel explaining it?

I was sad when many long timers quit the game. Several before me gave the same reasons I just posted when they quit. now its my turn i guess. You made a great game, are a smart friendly developer, that is not delivering hardcore on anything you have said in the past few months.

[Beefbump]

(12-24-2015, 05:27 PM)Sharkhunt Wrote: You know what, I think I am done.

I am one of the first players on kong since early early Beta.

I patiently waited for months, while instead of content, you added mini events.   People kept talking about how you needed to code events so that next year there were already there. I am not one of those people.

You said you didnt want to add new content until the server swap, as you would have to redo all the code after the swap.  This never stopped you from adding events though, but the same problem doesn't apply, really?

Your black hole event was the money grab from hell.   Might as well call IOU "R2 games" by that point.

Finally, we get content this month (infinite challenge series).  Barely up and running, and down go the servers.  crash crash crash.   Same explanation for the past months (swapping servers soon!)

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Guess this 3rd time (4th?!?) makes me an even bigger idiot.  

I bought the event packs for this update.  Went to work, came back to hearing of many crashes, Yet again, losing hours and hours of log in time.  Given the track record, you might as well make offline rewards equal 100%.  Given this update, the failure to run, failure to swap, I would like my purchases refunded for this event.  Its not worth it.   Why play a game where you have to be on 24/7 to get any good rate of gain, and have it crash over and over with the same spiel explaining it?

I was sad when many long timers quit the game.   Several before me gave the same reasons I just posted when they quit.   now its my turn i guess.  You made a great game, are a smart friendly developer, that is not delivering hardcore on anything you have said in the past few months.

Then leave, but i guarantee you wont get your money back it was your fault you spent money, wasnt a smistake. He is doing all he can and is trying to recomp us for yahoos sake. he said multiple times that if server migration took too long then he was going to make an update im sure you didnt complain then getting that bonus damage.

[Sharkhunt]

(12-24-2015, 06:07 PM)Beefbump Wrote:

(12-24-2015, 05:27 PM)Sharkhunt Wrote: You know what, I think I am done.

I am one of the first players on kong since early early Beta.

I patiently waited for months, while instead of content, you added mini events.   People kept talking about how you needed to code events so that next year there were already there. I am not one of those people.

You said you didnt want to add new content until the server swap, as you would have to redo all the code after the swap.  This never stopped you from adding events though, but the same problem doesn't apply, really?

Your black hole event was the money grab from hell.   Might as well call IOU "R2 games" by that point.

Finally, we get content this month (infinite challenge series).  Barely up and running, and down go the servers.  crash crash crash.   Same explanation for the past months (swapping servers soon!)

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Guess this 3rd time (4th?!?) makes me an even bigger idiot.  

I bought the event packs for this update.  Went to work, came back to hearing of many crashes, Yet again, losing hours and hours of log in time.  Given the track record, you might as well make offline rewards equal 100%.  Given this update, the failure to run, failure to swap, I would like my purchases refunded for this event.  Its not worth it.   Why play a game where you have to be on 24/7 to get any good rate of gain, and have it crash over and over with the same spiel explaining it?

I was sad when many long timers quit the game.   Several before me gave the same reasons I just posted when they quit.   now its my turn i guess.  You made a great game, are a smart friendly developer, that is not delivering hardcore on anything you have said in the past few months.

Then leave, but i guarantee you wont get your money back it was your fault you spent money, wasnt a smistake. He is doing all he can and is trying to recomp us for yahoos sake. he said multiple times that if server migration took too long then he was going to make an update im sure you didnt complain then getting that bonus damage.

who are you? why do i care what you think?  He isn't doing all he can.  hes pumping sunshine like he has for months.  same answers.   Keep licking those boots.

[Beefbump]

(12-24-2015, 06:09 PM)Sharkhunt Wrote:

(12-24-2015, 06:07 PM)Beefbump Wrote:

(12-24-2015, 05:27 PM)Sharkhunt Wrote: You know what, I think I am done.

I am one of the first players on kong since early early Beta.

I patiently waited for months, while instead of content, you added mini events.   People kept talking about how you needed to code events so that next year there were already there. I am not one of those people.

You said you didnt want to add new content until the server swap, as you would have to redo all the code after the swap.  This never stopped you from adding events though, but the same problem doesn't apply, really?

Your black hole event was the money grab from hell.   Might as well call IOU "R2 games" by that point.

Finally, we get content this month (infinite challenge series).  Barely up and running, and down go the servers.  crash crash crash.   Same explanation for the past months (swapping servers soon!)

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Guess this 3rd time (4th?!?) makes me an even bigger idiot.  

I bought the event packs for this update.  Went to work, came back to hearing of many crashes, Yet again, losing hours and hours of log in time.  Given the track record, you might as well make offline rewards equal 100%.  Given this update, the failure to run, failure to swap, I would like my purchases refunded for this event.  Its not worth it.   Why play a game where you have to be on 24/7 to get any good rate of gain, and have it crash over and over with the same spiel explaining it?

I was sad when many long timers quit the game.   Several before me gave the same reasons I just posted when they quit.   now its my turn i guess.  You made a great game, are a smart friendly developer, that is not delivering hardcore on anything you have said in the past few months.

Then leave, but i guarantee you wont get your money back it was your fault you spent money, wasnt a smistake. He is doing all he can and is trying to recomp us for yahoos sake. he said multiple times that if server migration took too long then he was going to make an update im sure you didnt complain then getting that bonus damage.

who are you? why do i care what you think?  He isn't doing all he can.  hes pumping sunshine like he has for months.  same answers.   Keep licking those boots.

No actually he hasnt, he has given an update on the server and actually has things testing and working in the update. how about you read for once you moronic piece of shit

[timcebo]

???So a new building would Be Nice, even sweater would Be that the building gives players AP❗❕❗???

[Poems]

What sharkhunt said isn't wrong, but it is disagreed with mostly because people on the forums have a very weak spine and get personally upset when someone calls Ray out. Could Ray have done more? Absolutely. An overwhelming number of people both on the forums and in the Kong chatrooms see Ray as some type of flawless God of developers. That's just not true. If people could hop off Rays shaft for 5 minutes, the flaws in the game are painfully obvious. Sharkhunt was 100% right when he said "Might as well call IOU R2 Games". Anyone who knows about R2 will agree after the blackhole event. As much as he claims that he tries to make IOU not pay 2 win, that event was a complete joke. It's not an accident when you put in bonus levels for spending on that atrocious of a level. Sure Yahoo hosting is terrible and most of the game crashes are out of Rays hands, but players have been more than patient with the endless months of "swapping servers soon".

That's not to say IOU is a complete trash game. It has its good features. The infinite challenge update boosted free players quite a bit, not just the paying players. Most of the events are good and are quite generous with giving out free premium currency. IOU is one of the only MMOs out there(If not the only) that throws premium currency at players for free. Things still need to be done to balance the game more. I'm pretty damn tired of seeing people 10-20 levels below me with 200-400% more dps than me when I've been playing 2,3,4x longer than them.

The response to my response is obvious. After reading, all the little fanboys will come crying "Don't be so mean to Ray he is trying his hardest!", "You're wrong moron, don't you read the patch notes!?", "Then quit if you think the game is bad, no one cares that you're around". Simple and plain, the game will not get better if people do not point out the negatives. When people do point out the negatives however, it's mostly only met with negative feedback.  If Ray is going to make IOU another p2w craphole, then of course we are going to complain, with recent events that's exactly where this game is heading. When people have a DPS after playing for ~150 days that a free player couldn't reach if they played IOU for 5 years straight then it becomes a problem.

Who cares though right? Flame me fanboys. Roast me like a sexy marshmallow.