Farmville and Tribalhugs have been memes on TW.net since the beginning of these forums.
Even back then we joked that people wanted to make this game less difficult and more beginner friendly. But the majority has been against that since back then as well.
So seeing updates such as these being presented, to me, is hilarious. The last few years we've seen more like these slowly creep in. Sometimes they were big enough to make some fuss over, often they were just small things that got ignored, though those piled up as well.
Now they came with this huge influential thing that they, judging from JawJaw's responses, didn't think would change things that much.
Which is, AGAIN, hilarious! Because it just shows how far off Innogames is from what their customerbase wants. This has never been an easy game, not in 2006 and not now. Stop trying to make it easier... There is nothing wrong with a game targeting a more niche group of players. Not every game needs to be for the whole family or mobile friendly. Sure a lot of people were happy to be able to play TW on their phone, and it has become unavoidable now. But there are plenty of developers out there who target a small portion of players, such as Paradox with games like Hearts of Iron, you don't need to turn Tribalwars into Clash of Clans or whatever is popular these days. Innogames was popular before these came along, once you guys were frontrunners making a game more challenging than your competition like Travian...
Rather than turning this game into a friendly game, instead you should spend time developing the community with guides or videos teaching people, or hopefully attracting new ones. Rather than making a small little video about an update that would change this game immesnly... That Inno still doesn't get this is just ridiculous.
Do the whales really make up that large of a cut that you can ignore the smaller spenders? I guess so.
Regardless, thanks for the laughs in this thread everyone. It made me check out the forum again at least. And man, this game has been dying for a long time but it certainly isn't the player's fault. Hah. I could rant on because honestly over the years there has been some frustration growing within me... But really I no longer care not play anymore. So whatever.
- Jasper