Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10485198-20130626131408/@comment-65.246.63.68-20130627114223

Decadent wrote: Firstly, let me preface this by saying that I'm someone who's *not* spend a tonne of money on this game. I've dropped £1.99 that I've spread out over three episodes. So your statement isn't directed at me and I'm not writing this because I'm worked up about anything you've directed at me personally.

But people, and particularly customers, are perfectly entitled to voice their opinion in the way a product is evolving. They're also entitled to express their opinion that something is too expensive, or without sufficient value.

In fact it doesn't matter if people have been naive or gullible and been ripped off - the guilty party remains the party that played the con or overcharged.

As you yourself point out it's a bit of a "scam". So telling people to just take the hit and move on effetively lays the blame at the victims and allows the scammers to keep perpetrating it, and is particularly heartless. With apologies to anyone who has been a victim, if I can use a strong example; it's like telling a rape victim that she dressed suggestively and to just learn her lesson and move on.

Even if you're not paying money to play this game, you could argue that simply being part of the community makes you morally contributory, because creating an active community in game during events and on a Wiki page helps foster the impression on new players that there is life in the game, and therefore it is worth playing and further falling to the perpetuating scam that you talk about.

People need to grow a voice; which is what the people on this thread are trying to do. Decadent, i dont really disagree with anything you say here (other than any rape analogies in regards to cellphone games... :)  )

I agree, customers can be mad as hell about this, but at the same time... no one forced them to spend this money. Boycott and protest... by all means, the reason im saying this is a "lesson learned" is this is nothing new.

THIS IS THIS BUSINESS.

get new players in, have them spend money before they understand/realize what is going on, get new players to replace those who are scorned and quit.

At the end of the day, people need to take responsibility for their actions. They are clicking away hundreds of RL dollars for a "chance" to get a virtual card. Be pissed all you want at the devs/providers but really they need to step back and think about their actions.

I am a big time collector, and believe me... I know the sickness of making collecting a priority over family/friends/finances/occupation/education... :) Im not trying to attack anyone here... Honestly im trying to do you all a favor....

Step back, take a minute, think about how much money/time you have spent on this.

Is it worth it?

Are the devs/providers at all to blame?

Good Luck, i hope your voices are heard, I just know they are falling on deaf ears.