I quit Transformice a long time ago. The game is clearly dying, so you should use this successful basic idea about mice reaching for cheese to create other games like indie RPGs. Hell, even a Transformice Battle Royale would be alright, even though this genre is very, very recycled.
Promoting through popular YouTube or Twitch streamers would also help a little.

But I don't even know anymore. Transformice was doomed the moment you made the game clustered. Patch by patch it became less fun. You dumbed it down by adding these annoying shaman abilities and then made the community even more toxic with the badly moderated cafe. Add the unending not at all fulfilling events and you can see the big picture. At least the game isn't pay2win.

-1 hbd left before tfm dies, fix moderation, unban injustices, thanks.

hbd, we're getting closer to tfm death.

1. happy birthday
2. i've been playing this since 2010 so i've seen the game rise, peak and subsequently fall off completely

my opinions:

1. you should close bouboum and fortoresse. they are a waste of resources as they are clones of other games
2. relaunch Nekodancer in HTML5 because this was your other game that had the most potential (more than Dead Maze, I'll get to that in a bit), but it was eventually doomed because of the whole Flash Player obsolescence (that was not really your fault because Flash was still alive when you launched the game, but you could have really implemented a Level Editor to have made it more attractive).
3. Dead Maze is not a good MMORPG as it is incredibly grindey and repetitive, and the worst part is you still chose to make it in Flash despite the fact that Flash was already being phased out at the time you guys started (or was probably less than halfway through making the game). I'm pretty disappointed in it, but Meli your cutscene artwork for that game was amazing and I feel like you should use your artistic talents commercially beyond A801's games... perhaps do art works for other games/companies as a part of what A801 does?? At least that would help provide an additional revenue stream for your company.
4. TFM has certainly changed a whole lot between 2010 and 2018. Perhaps when you close Bouboum and Fortoresse (as per my suggestions above), you can redeploy the (server) resources to launch.... TFM "Classic". This should be a version of the game from before 2013, but leaving in the more constructive updates (Bootcamp, Fraises, Divinity, and modules. I don't think anything else should be included). This way you can provide the original game that the most people loved. It should also not be too difficult to implement since the core of all that would literally be something that was already published and basically known to be a working game. This game should not be updated in terms of features, but only for adding furs and *maybe* titles. Also, TFM Classic should only have 4-5 events per year as back then you only did events for the major holidays + fishing; having too many events is honestly a bit overwhelming and also leads to you guys running out of ideas for events (although for Classic TFM I'd suggest setting only 2 versions of each event and alternating between them each year to keep things simple on your end).
5. Continue working on TFM HTML5 and perhaps launch it as TFM 2 just like how Maplestory remade their game in 3D and is now launching that soon while keeping the original going. To be honest between your two games I see a very similar history - almost universally praised in the early years and then eventually a big change (for me that change was fraises, for others it was shaman skills) that everyone detested and subsequent decline.
6. implement your own leaderboard although I feel like i might get flak for this suggestion because CFM/Anvil God which aren't part of A801, and that would kill their community forever (although it barely even exists as it is now, so....). Further to that, just like how CFM had that map database, you could also put in a browser-based map viewer perhaps? Something that works with a combination of mapcodes, mapmaker name and categories. (Would probably be easier to do once the game is HTML5, the info might be easier to pull from the map database then)

You guys can make it through this as long as you start thinking rationally!!

Anomunus a dit :

TFM has certainly changed a whole lot between 2010 and 2018. Perhaps when you close Bouboum and Fortoresse (as per my suggestions above), you can redeploy the resources to launch.... TFM "Classic".

Much like how Runescape made oldschool servers (which have now surpassed the main game in playerbase), I would enjoy a classic tfm. This would honestly quell most of my frustration with the game. Have it include divine mode, but be pre-skills and I would be in.

As far as the constant events go , they're really counter-intuitive. You make all these events to attract players, when you really desperately need to be fixing the gameplay. People should actually want to go into a normal/vanilla room because they want to play transformice, not because they need 50 more door knobs. Make the game more challenging by adding a bigger emphasis on shaman and nerfing (or removing) the OP skills from hard and divine mode. When players see intricate and interesting builds in divinity and spiritual, they're compelled to learn to do those things themselves. Right now all people have to look forward to is unlocking duct tape.