DeletedUser15426
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Okay, I understand that Innogames is running a business and is trying to make money, but the game that is advertised as free to play and once required skill and could be played even without spending much money now requires a lot of money to keep up with the top players. Advisors were one thing, but innogames has been pushing the threshold of their 'freemium' model, giving more and more powerful boosts for players that spend gold, including:
-gold trading (some argue this helps pal get free gold, but it still gives advantage to those with gold)
-instabuilding
-starter packages
-insane events with flyer tokens
The latter, especially, has made the game a completely different beast and essentially unplayable. Cities are being staked like we cities, with > 100k dlu and are being shredded, with the flyers being rebuilt 4h with absurd 48 Manticore tokens (actium).
Innogames, I think you know what you are doing, targeting the customers with big wallets who are spending $100's each month, but I think you understand you risk pushing out many other customers as well. Perhaps your gamble is and will continue to pay off, but I know many skilled veterans are fed up with these trends and you will lose many players. I'm not sure if you care or if you plan to slow down your runaway train of gold abuse, but I feel like this issue can't stay unspoken about and wonder if inno even cares about these concerns.
Additionally, I feel like I've seen some pretty sketchy things happen with moderators and attack able bans/pumishments. I find it interesting that the grepolis justice system has a prosecution and a judge, but punishments are doled out before hearing out the defendant. I've seen people permanently banned for dropping an f bomb in a pm after being egged on by enemies, and after he blocked then at the suggestion of the mods, and I've seen people attackable banned for accused bot usage only to be instantly overturned after an appeal where they talked to him. There is so very limited transparency as to why the bans are happening. Operate more like a court of law. Let the defendants speak. Stop being so dang secretive. You shouldn't be operating harsher than our justice system.
Okay, two separate issues here, but I'm fed up with inno right now and many others are too. Please reply to this thread to air your grievances and let's see if inno actually cares about its players as much as it cares about their wallets.
-Demacia
I've been protesting every step of the way for years. But it just hasn't stopped the game from getting ruined.
I play EN servers, but over there most of them seem to be too dense to have seen it as it was happening.