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Honestly

I think you guys are spending time in things that are just useless and material if I can call them that in a virtual world, really don't add any feeling to the game, the only thing new that is cool, is the old buildings and the little place inside the trees. This game has probably the best community I ever saw and you keep adding stuff that doesn't matter, let people play and have fun with simple things, that housing endless stuff makes me sick, I just want to play! I already have stuff in my home to take care! Don't really need more!
Stop it! just stop it! use the brakes!!!

People have fun with simple stuff, endless material stuff already exists in real world, no need to put it here, people don't really have fun with that, unless you guys are targeting some old ppl pockets, dunno, I prefer to think that you are just lost, things that are really cool is stuff like the comic book that lx, tis and others made, and look at the tools they used! no glitchr thing, no housing thing, no nothing, just simple old fashioned imgur and real imagination, thats how it was in the start thats how people had fun back then and thats how it should be... 

Let people play! they want to.

I'm saying this because I care,
arizoo

Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • But...what about my bacon? :(
    Posted 6 months ago by NO DELETIN BACON>:O Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wait...what is your definition of 'fun stuff?' I think glitch is great!
    Posted 6 months ago by NO DELETIN BACON>:O Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Me too, actually. It's getting boring. I don't need any more furniture, I want to go in Ur and play around and actually have a goal. That's why I'm waiting for TS to make something that'll actually have some "playing" rather than "dress up". I know some of you don't agree with me, but this is rather turning into a designing game. Don't want to start a war though about your opinion, so I'd rather just keep it like that.
    Posted 6 months ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yah, no complaints here. Sorry dude.
    Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We _are_ playing. We are being creative and having fun. Why do you object to us having so much to play with? We all play differently so there needs to be a variety of toys so that each of us can play the way we want.  

    I'm not lost and I don't understand why you say that you want to think of me that way.

    I am sorry you are not happy with the direction that the game is taking. Some people have made alts to play a restricted subset of the game for additional challenge or just the fun of a different experience. Perhaps you might want to deliberately restrict yourself to one small part of the game to keep it simple. I hope you find a way to enjoy the Glitch experience again.
    Posted 6 months ago by Miss Bobbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • btw, when I say you guys I'm referring to TS. Have nothing against people having fun with material stuff.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Miss Bobbit.  Exactly what I wanted to say.
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why not think of it as them giving us some options (fun for some, not for others) to play around with while they work on some of the other things they've had lined up for after housing release? They had a pretty long list of a variety of things to do for the game if I recall correctly. It just requires patience. There will be periods of time when things added will appeal to some people and won't for others. It will be a continuous cycle.

    If they're not releasing the things you care about right now, then take a break from the game and check back periodically to see if they've started getting to the stuff you do enjoy. It takes time to build all the things they want to put in the game.

    ETA: Or as Miss Bobbit said, focus on the parts that do make you happy until they start releasing things you want to see. Either way, hopefully you will find what you're looking for from the game.
    Posted 6 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the new Snaps feature, and I also like being able to affect my environment in the way that the new housing system allows. For me, that IS playing!
    Posted 6 months ago by Spaghetti Thompson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not alone here, at least I'm saying something instead of just leaving the game... like lots of other people did. Others come here from time to time just to see how things are and they will get bored too, and just start to look at the game, like a place where they used to have fun. I think TS is lost, adding too much "material" stuff  it's what people do when they are lost.

    Sorry about this words, again.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hate to say it, but I agree with arizoo for the most part. I feel like I'm just marking time in the game, waiting for some goals to appear. My house is done, that was fun. Now I wander around, wondering what there is to do. I've done a lot of walking around Ur, so have way too many meat, beans, cherries, etc. I don't have any use for most of them, but I don't know what else there is to do but wander around doing the same thing over and over.

    Please don't take me the wrong way, I really really love glitch and TS. What they've built here is wonderful. But I feel like I've done it all. Now you'll usually find me in my house, trying to think of something fun to do.
    Posted 6 months ago by glassy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Everyone has their preferred style of playing in any game. Your style not matching mine does not make mine invalid, or yours; they are just different. TS & co. have limited time and resources and they are choosing to spend some of both *now* on parts of the game that appeal to some styles of play; this does not necessarily mean they are abandoning other styles, just that they are focusing resources in places that you happen to not care about.

    You are certainly welcome to have and express your opinion of how Glitch is evolving as a game, but please consider that what *you* feel does not necessarily equal what we *all* feel.
    Posted 6 months ago by Sevardin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think there's a wee bit for everyone here, you just have to decide how you want to play when you sign in, are you in a social mood, get together with friends and do something,or just have a blether; if you're in a pensive mood, do some of the more mundane things, that allow you to 'do' something while your mind is focused on something else, like mining/cooking/planting/harvesting/working the machines etc. This game is whatever you make of it, but sometimes you just need to step away from even the bestest game and take a break, go do something else for a while, then return and meet up with friends, and play again with renewed vigor.
    I love the new photo options, and then the opportunity to show my snaps is fab! The sky (and beyond) is the limit for your creativity when taking snaps.
    The new housing system is a dream come true for the 'child-within' me, it's like a virtual doll house!
    I am limited only by my own imagination*.
    *eta:  and this game is still evolving and growing, and it adapts to players needs and wants, and even incorporates many new ideas come up with by both players and TS.
    Posted 6 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it is best to have some perspective.
    A lot of the additions have dealt with making the housing as robust as possible and releasing things when they are ready. Going back to beta was about two main things: Housing and Imagination. Those are now in place... but are still being tested and tweaked. Other additions have been on hold because those two things were the ones that needed to be in place before they relaunch (oh, and a revamped tutorial to take those things into account).
    Potentially it would be better to judge once they open invites again and settle into a more "normal" release schedule.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You're not alone here, but you're also nowhere near a majority.  The silence in the middle is deafening.  And generally quite content.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can you expand a bit on why their adding new content prevents you from "just playing?" If you don't like some of the new content, don't spend time on it.
    Posted 6 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am far from bored, but I would love to see new quests, not just ones for learning a specific goal. The quests are one of the things I love the most, and I know that I will eventually run out.

    For now, though, I'm doing just fine setting myself goals.
    Posted 6 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What Lord Bacon-0 said. Plus, there are ways to "just play" that  have nothing to do with TS. Over the past couple of weeks in the forums (and also before but now I'm just talking about since new housing came in) players have been creating new mini adventures. The new stuff has nothing to do with badges or achievements or even TS really, its just about being creative and fun. My suggestion, for what its worth: try to figure out what is fun for you and try to create an activity that you and other Glitchen will enjoy. 
    Posted 6 months ago by Leelah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i do find myself wishing for more quests, and more hidden surprises out in the real ur...

    i am onion and i don't want to play house.. i want to be chased by crows! i want the giants to randomly decide to have a thunderstorm! i want unexpected things at annoying times!

    i like the basements, and i like the ruins..that is definitely my favourite thing.

    (Edited to add that much as i want new quests, i am not criticising anything!)
    Posted 6 months ago by onion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Jani because it steals the focus from the simple stuff... what really matters, and it's easy to go that way, really easy, cool in the beginning, boring after some time, then they have to feed you with more stuff. Thats what they are doing. Thats endless and has no goals. @lord wait for the cool new suff that will come, thats just .... Im hearing that for.... When the time comes, I would probably be numb and accept anything...
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @onion ;)
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "endless and has no goals" and that's a bad thing?    

    This is not the game you are looking for.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm with Glassy. Give me quests and goals, please. I still have fun roaming and collecting things but I also find myself in my house trying to think of what to do. Lets have some stuff for higher level players to keep us interested.
    Posted 6 months ago by Grackle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I used to let my kid play in a sandbox, but that's endless and has no goals.  Now I only let him play with Legos, and I only let him build exactly what the instructions tell him to build.
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Like Saucelah, if he messes up the set I take the whole thing apart and make him restart the build from the beginning.
    Posted 6 months ago by Coriander Fitzbilly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Games are made by life =/= Life is a game. Yeah, I know. Let me play Glitch.
    Posted 6 months ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Having more quests and activities and challenges provided by the game doesn't necessarily take away from those who want a sandbox experience. Its not an either/or proposition. 

    Obviously some things will have to be a priority but can we please not become defensive when other people want different things?
    Posted 6 months ago by ThursdayNext Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's not what I was reacting to Thursday.  

    But if that's what the OP wants, he needs to work on understanding his own words.  He wants more to do, but he wants finite goals that end.  

    That's what I was reacting to.  

    Yeah, Coriander, I rip that shit right out of his hands.  No child of mine is going to think for himself.  If he can't handle that, it's nothing but television from here on out.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree with that, generally.

    I think the only thing that is really riling people up here is the phrase "You are lost" or "I think TS is lost."  That's kinda personal, and a little off the mark, so we've started out by correcting it.  But, yeah, let's not get too defensive here, either.  Or sarcastic.  There's not much need for that.  Reason may prevail.  

    Glitch is a game that is obviously doing its best to cater to a wide variety of interests and playing styles.  As it is still in development, sometimes it's going to focus on one style over another.  Feedback requesting more of something else is always a good thing.  But asking people to calm down a little bit and take some perspective isn't the same as putting them down entirely for what they have to say.
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Sauce "I used to let my kid play in a sandbox, but that's endless and has no goals" put another kid with him, and see what they can do.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It is understandable that some players feel frustrated by a lack of new quests. However, this is not an all-or-nothing situation.  If you go look at posts under 'Ideas' you will see a hefty percentage of requests are for objects -- clothing, decorations, and foods (OMG BACON!!) and some of those requests have been there for awhile. Players requests are being met.

    In the last 90 days the devs have released new animals, new actions, new items, new areas, new streets, and new UI, -- all of which can be equated with moving heaven and Urth -- literally;

    In the last 14 days, devs have released what I think of as new player "experiences" -- the urban decay apartments, basements, and seam streets beyond those mysterious door; 

    In the last 7 days, devs have released some impressive UI modifications AND filled some very specific player item requests (paper cranes, bacon wallpaper & decorations) and I doubt those items were in the pipeline more than 30 days ago; 

    So here is my point -- players ask devs to do stuff constantly and the devs have to pick and chose what to do. The devs at TS are only human and cannot be expected to do everything at the same time. I have worked at a software company and I know stuff moves forward in bits and bursts, particularly UI. I think everyone needs to relax and be delighted by the improvements as they occur.
    Posted 6 months ago by MoM4.6 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Saucelah  One hearty chuckle heading in your direction.

    And @arizoo:  You say "Let people play! they want to. (sic.)"  Well, people are playing.  Like the numerous posters above me have pointed out, just because you don't like a certain aspect of the game doesn't mean no-one does.  From my perspective TS are doing their very level best to get -one particular aspect- of the game watertight and 'open the gates' ready before moving onwards.  This, to me, is completely contrary to most companies who tend more towards the 'hell with it, shove it out and the idiots will buy anyway; we'll worry about the problems when we get there' kind of attitude (I'm looking hard in your direction <insert generic company name here *coughs* Blizzard *coughs*>).

    I'm perfectly sure I know which company I'll be giving my hard-earned RL currants to!

    Just think, in <insert time frame here>s time TS may well be releasing and perfecting something you -love- whilst some of the community grumble (mostly inwardly or amongst themselves) about the new features being boring or not relevant to their game-play style.

    You also mention "thats how it was in the start thats how people had fun back then and thats how it should be...(sic.)".  I can't even begin to address this in a coherent, non-rant-fuelled manner.  Things change.  They evolve.  If it weren't for that we'd still be sitting in caves somewhere bashing things with rocks and marvelling at the mystery of the sun/moon/latest meteor shower.  If Glitch hadn't changed and evolved from where it started I would have lost interest a long, long time ago (and I'm certain I'm not alone in this).  Oh.  I suppose that was fairly coherent.

    TLDR:  Horses for courses.  Change good.
    Posted 6 months ago by Kochanski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Although it's not a problem for my playing style, he does have a point. 
    The ''I want to be told what to do'' attitude is what gaming has taught us so it's what most people expect. 
    Given that, onion is inspiring... I want the unexpected, and it must be spectacular!
    Posted 6 months ago by Zira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A game as complex as Glitch is will hold unique appeals to different people.  I love it when my fellow glitches make suggestions and express what they want.  What I prefer not to see is anyone cutting down how someone else enjoys the game. 
    Posted 6 months ago by FlatEarther Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why?  The sandbox would still be endless and have no goals.  There would just now be two kids I have to prevent from using their imaginations instead of one.  

    Carl: Sarcasm is ALWAYS called for.  

    To be serious, and it is so. damn. hard. to take this thread seriously, but to try: arizoo, you make a lot of assumptions about why people play.  Worst of all, you use loaded language to imply that what you enjoy about this game is "all that really matters."  You've seen a few ragequits in the forums, and probably talked to a few friends that agree with you and gotten yourself all worked up in a tizzy -- that's what we call confirmation bias.  You've decided that if every single release is not designed specifically to please you and people that agree with you that it's a failure and a waste of time.  But you are not the only player.   

    When we first went back to beta, it was my personal feeling that releasing more quests in that time was a waste better dedicated to working on housing as that was what was needed for relaunch.  But when new quests released, followed by months of waiting for the housing test to be ready, I did not declare Tiny Speck lost.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I feel like I'm in Palestine or something in the middle of the road with people around me throwing stones just because I expressed my opinion. Luckily I feel safer behind the screen.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think most of it is stone throwing, so much as expressing other perspectives on the matter.
    Posted 6 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Holy mackeral arizoo!  Get over the idea that everyone likes the same things you do.  I happen to like the new features, I enjoy working to expand my house, building 2nd & 3rd stories.  I like feeding sloths, combing foxes, the new home streets....just about everything.  Thats what keeps the game fresh for me, new things to learn.  All you have to do is ignore the things you don't enjoy, instead of asking that they be taken away from the rest of us, lol.  Just play the way you want, you don't have to play with every feature in the game.
    Posted 6 months ago by Phoebe Springback Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And thats what happens to honest posts...
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, arizoo, you did do the equivalent of shouting "RIOT!!!"
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah arizoo, a phrase about glass houses applies here.  

    You could indeed look at me as throwing stones.  But that's how I read the OP: a claim that only people that enjoy what you enjoy about the game deserve content, and everyone else deserves getting stoned.  

    Cue Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the immaterial/material design stuff recently, but I respect arizoo's wish to have more quests and adventures.
    Posted 6 months ago by Vocable Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Sauce, It's my opinion and it was a post directed to TS, sorry if I hurt your feelings, It's just my opinion and like almost everyone here you should respect it has an opinion and then respond to it if you like. That not what you did, and you are just messing up with stuff now.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • [Removed this post... hadn't thought it through well!]
    Posted 6 months ago by Pomegrandy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Honest posts get honest opinions in response. 

    Honestly, the thing that got me was "people don't really have fun with that, unless you guys are targeting some old ppl pockets, dunno, I prefer to think that you are just lost" which is basically handing out insults and assumptions all around. 

    I agree that it would be awesome to get more quests, but this is a game in beta - people are clamoring for MORE from all directions - and we'll get that eventually. For now, I'm happy enough to have this neat world to play around in, with an awesome community to help make it meaningful.
    Posted 6 months ago by Spaghetti Thompson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ha, my feelings aren't hurt; thanks for your incredibly sincere concern.  

    I don't even fall into the group of players that housing is designed to please, just so you know.    
    But your OP and subsequent posts marginalize and attack players that do want those things, in order to attack Tiny Speck for pleasing them and not you.   And yet you're upset that others throw those things back at you?   

    If you want to feel that others are respectful of your opinion, post an opinion that is respectful of others, rather than starting from a place that assumes those players either don't exist or aren't "what really matter."  You'll find a much more positive reception.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • arizoo, I'm sorry that you're not enjoying the game as much these days.

    If nothing else, these threads prove that we all share a deep investment in the success of the game, an investment that shows best whenever the discussions get this heated.

    While I don't share your opinion, I'm glad that there's a place for you to express it.  Since you've chosen to express in the forums, it's no surprise that folks will weigh in whether you want 'em to or not ;)
    Posted 6 months ago by Sloppy Ketchup Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh god, I missed the line about "old people pockets"  

    You do realize that the mean age around here isn't 22, right?  Just the ability to type "old people pockets" means you should probably go find a community without "old people pockets"  

    No wonder the complete lack of awareness about the type of responses this post would elicit.   
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Spaghetti, ya probably was a bit hard on that point, but never insulted no one.
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "You do realize that the mean age around here isn't 22, right?" I think it's a bit more than that

    update: oh isn't , nvm
    Posted 6 months ago by arizoo Subscriber! | Permalink
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