Post by mestercheeseman on Feb 29, 2016 17:48:29 GMT 1
This is probally gonna get alot of attention and hate, but I felt like saying it. It's gonna be a long one, but stay reading; I think it was late 2012 I started playing KoGaMa. Back then, I was kinda dumb, I will say that. I played alot of bad freemium games, although I was kinda getting out of it. I was defending KoGaMa in my head, because you could get alot of the things without paying. That being said, I brought alot of gold. I also made tons of games that never got any attention. Even though I thought to myself that they were way better than the games that were actually popular, no one played them. This made me angry. It was at the same time the devs were getting slightly more greedy... Prices on new items were insane, and since you pretty much HAD to have everything to have a succesfull game, (Those ''All games'' were all over ''Popular this week'') You bet you had to pour out some money. Those surveys were also now gone, which in hindsight I think was pretty good, I think I got a ton of viruses from those. In other words, I was losing interest in the game.
Now I've gone back, mostly for curiositys sake, and I gotta say I was surprised. I mean, this game is pretty much just a complete mess of a game, trying everything it can to earn money. I mean TECHNICALLY you can earn gold without paying, so it's super balanced f2p, right? Yeah, no. The problem is that you rely on other actual people to earn gold. They MAYBE buy your stuff if you're lucky, and you don't even decide what it costs. (And since you don't even get all of the gold they pay for, meaning you can't buy something from the market easily, I can only assume the devs did this so less people earn gold from the market and more from giving them money). Furthermore, you can't really make a succesfull model with the blocks you start off with. I mean, you don't even get BLACK to begin with. Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to make a thing if I don't get the resources I need? Oh wait...
So, yes, there is ONE other way to earn your precious gold: Sharing games to facebook. Wait, what? And sharing 1 game only gives you 5 gold. So you're saying I have to spam peoples feed with games they don't care about? Really? And I am aware that you can change the post so only you can see it, but it's still mindless, and not even effective, since you can only do it 5 times a day I think, meaning 25 gold a day, which is NOT alot. In fact, lets do some math! If you just want all of the cubes of the first page, it's gonna take you 10 DAYS of mindlessly clicking to get enough gold for that. That might not sound like much, but remember, you used to be able to get all of these instantly, and they're not even that usefull alone. What if you want ALL the blocks? 236 days. Yes, almost a whole year. What if you also want everything from the shop inventory *Sighs*.... 752 days.. And that's not even all purchachable items... Why is anyone using this? Oh wait, they can't be, because then they probally would've complained that it doesn't even give you the gold, which I just noticed. So I guess you will have to pay for all that 18.814 gold, which is ALOT of money, let me tell you that.
So, this is what I think about the game. I don't like criticising this game this much. I'm sure the company is working hard, but come on! You know something is wrong when Santeripe, your most avid fan who pretty much keeps this game alive, has many many MANY times made fun and bashed KoGaMa. I mean, ignoring that you make tons of money off gold, you have ads everywhere in the game, and with all this money, you're still not releasing things that could be used to make creative games instead of the same stuff over and over again. I'm sorry if I sounded angry, I just had to get this off my chest.
Now I've gone back, mostly for curiositys sake, and I gotta say I was surprised. I mean, this game is pretty much just a complete mess of a game, trying everything it can to earn money. I mean TECHNICALLY you can earn gold without paying, so it's super balanced f2p, right? Yeah, no. The problem is that you rely on other actual people to earn gold. They MAYBE buy your stuff if you're lucky, and you don't even decide what it costs. (And since you don't even get all of the gold they pay for, meaning you can't buy something from the market easily, I can only assume the devs did this so less people earn gold from the market and more from giving them money). Furthermore, you can't really make a succesfull model with the blocks you start off with. I mean, you don't even get BLACK to begin with. Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to make a thing if I don't get the resources I need? Oh wait...
So, yes, there is ONE other way to earn your precious gold: Sharing games to facebook. Wait, what? And sharing 1 game only gives you 5 gold. So you're saying I have to spam peoples feed with games they don't care about? Really? And I am aware that you can change the post so only you can see it, but it's still mindless, and not even effective, since you can only do it 5 times a day I think, meaning 25 gold a day, which is NOT alot. In fact, lets do some math! If you just want all of the cubes of the first page, it's gonna take you 10 DAYS of mindlessly clicking to get enough gold for that. That might not sound like much, but remember, you used to be able to get all of these instantly, and they're not even that usefull alone. What if you want ALL the blocks? 236 days. Yes, almost a whole year. What if you also want everything from the shop inventory *Sighs*.... 752 days.. And that's not even all purchachable items... Why is anyone using this? Oh wait, they can't be, because then they probally would've complained that it doesn't even give you the gold, which I just noticed. So I guess you will have to pay for all that 18.814 gold, which is ALOT of money, let me tell you that.
So, this is what I think about the game. I don't like criticising this game this much. I'm sure the company is working hard, but come on! You know something is wrong when Santeripe, your most avid fan who pretty much keeps this game alive, has many many MANY times made fun and bashed KoGaMa. I mean, ignoring that you make tons of money off gold, you have ads everywhere in the game, and with all this money, you're still not releasing things that could be used to make creative games instead of the same stuff over and over again. I'm sorry if I sounded angry, I just had to get this off my chest.
