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in response to the recent decisions on the admins' parts, i just have to say that they've royally fucked up. half of my friends don't even play the game anymore and i can't see that being attributed to anything else but the fact that events are now forcibly making players endure the classical mechanics of the game.

people like events because they provide transformice with a sense of novelty that's out of the ordinary -- something different from the monotonous gathering of cheese and shamming, and by extension surviving, murdering, and completing difficult maps (i'm not even going to count defilante because that shit's been rotting under its tomb ever since they removed the ability to gain firsts from it). for some people like myself, events are the only things that keep players from quitting this game for good. and that's okay!

but then comes this system. we hate it, but we're told to 'please understand' and so most of us do. we don't see the point in continuing to play this game so we quit. and suddenly people wonder where the complaints from the non-childish players went.
unless something big happens in the next few months, i'll probably quit the game by this fall. i'll still stay on the forums and wiki but that's beyond the point.
i shouldn't have to feel like quitting just because the admins are forcing us to play the traditional version of the game, except with a difficult twist that ABSOLUTELY NOBODY LIKES. the beautiful art on the map does not suffice.

as ironic as it sounds, recently i have found myself in a situation where i just can't be arsed to criticize the admins anymore. i'll just be seen as a whiny bitch. plus, i've not had much to really complain about in the past few weeks. of course, this is because i really only care about the badges and meli's been executing the art fairly well these past few weeks. aside from not fixing nasty resizing errors that cut off entire chunks of some of the borders


which brings to me to my next point. the bad time management and patience that the admins have displayed for the past 6 years
i'm going to skip the fact that we have a streaming mode but no adequate in-game AND shaman tutorials to accommodate the players that would be acquired from these streams (attrition rate from hell, man)
1. how is it that we have 2 new gamemode currencies released in the same event?
i understand that the admins probably found it in their best interests to release them all at once to let players snag them as soon as possible, but it just seems like poor handling to me (see hype)
it'd have been best if the admins spaced out their rewards
2.because of this lack of spacing, we no longer have badges for events anymore. that's ridiculous. next to nobody cares about titles. lots of people seemed attracted to souris-chan but upon seeing how expensive it was and how impossible this event is to complete, even in 2 weeks and even with some tickets obtained from past events, they just didn't see the title as worth it. bummer. i bet badges would've remedied that.
my suggestion for the recent lack of event badges would be a seasonal occasion where all event prizes go on clearance (like the egg orb, dino titles, souris-chan, easter titles, etc) and the event-themed badges are awarded to anyone who obtained a certain amount of tickets during their respective two weeks. the amount would depend on the difficulty of the event. and by the looks of it, the amounts would be really low.
3. by the looks of the 'it's christmas before christmas' announcement, the admins were anxious to tell us about the adventure system. they couldn't wait any longer to release all this stuff they had planned for us! pets, cartouches, more lore, and a revolutionary new setting to the game that would quickly gradiate transformice into its pinnacle!

and then there's this system
completely unpredictable, full of flaws, no occurrent pacing that the weekly adventures had.
yes, we expect something new every 2 weeks, but to what extent? 3 new gamemode currencies and an event with a bigass map?
or just a content adventure with maybe a new title that the oracle is waiting for you to earn?
bad pacing. kinda like in 2014. we waited like a year for the new skill tree and galaktine was pregnant with two of them. we were angry as hell because we were not ready for two skill trees. no hype was given. nothing to expect. no 'beta' server that we could point out errors in. i remember when survivor was unplayable because the freeze skill wasn't disabled upon release.
if the admins want to show that they have a ton of stuff ready to give to us with outstretched arms, then they should at least make us hyped for it with cool announcements like 'what to expect this summer!' and advice columns for the admins, q&as, etc. remember paroles de dev? yeah.
i trust adrazaelle will bring that back if she reads this.

the time management and priorities of the admins have always been shit. and we know that. while atelier801 may be one of few companies that actually pays attention to their players, they do it in the wrong way. the process goes 'oh! tig! this looks easy to implement! let's do it!' and they don't even tell us it's been implemented. the eligibility of what does and doesn't get implemented is usually based on how trivial and easy the content is to add. it's quantity over quality. custom shaman items should've been implemented waaaay before they were. the unspeakable shaman tutorial has was abandoned in like '12 or '13 and instead we got like...... mulodrome, stars on titles, and as much as i hate to say this, badges.

now let's move on to hype since i seem to be talking a ton about it.

basically, get players excited about new stuff. simple stuff. if you make players post whole walls theorizing what might happen in the next update or fanart deriving from a simple snippet of maybe a new character or something, then you're doing it right.
whenever tig posts a teaser on this thread or the recent announcements thread, then he's just showing how terrible of a co-ceo he is. teasers should be much more official and coherent. they should be harder to analyze, and the more difficult a single image is to analyze, the more images you can put. let the players connect the dots themselves, but make sure that them connecting the dots takes them the same amount of time it'd take for the update/content to actually release.
you shouldn't just rely on hype from active forumers and let the word spread from there; that's making the players do most of the communication. the admins should be the ones communicating the hype fuel. i already mentioned an official 'what to expect' announcement, but in addition to that, there should be some sort of blog on transformice's website.
no, the wordpress column under the game doesn't count.
if you want to thrive as a company, you need to at least commission someone to make your website presentable and up-to-date. it's the first thing most people will see. make them say 'wow.'

for the first time, i actually hope that people start complaining again.
meli, i know you wanted players to understand your motives for removing weekly events, but you've abused the 'please understand' card
if complications come up such as the failure of an employee to uphold their duty or an emergency, then you're allowed to pull it
but if it's a game-changing update that in theory sounded good (like communism) then you're basically shutting people up
and if you shut people up, you won't find out what you're doing wrong
so let's all complain again, but let's just make sure it's not destructive. we want change, not bitterness.

admins, you've worked hard on adventures
you deserve your break
but that break time's almost over. the numbers are dwindling.

this is as constructive as it gets for me. sorry if i seem like an ass. i genuinely want to help y'all out.