Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-28424239-20160909042255/@comment-28829111-20160909203705

AndalayBay wrote: I do not intend to be condescending. Sorry if I came off that way. You're ranting about the stuff you lost and I'm just trying to understand what it is. Now you can find flasks at every location. I have more flasks now than I did before. Same with yellow flowers. We still need them for crafting, but in many cases you don't need the stuff you needed before.

I'll leave it at that and won't comment further. Andalay, I am going to step in here as I feel compelled to comment. Just because many people have TONS of collections, fixers, flasks, runes, etc....and that there  is a new way to get things does in no way negate the errors and "pain" of this rollout experienced by many. More than anything, I was most disappointed about my time investment to earn these things. They did hold "value" to me in terms of my time commitment. The game roll out was very penalizing to existing players. High Level players with stash and coins galore simply did not feel the extent of the pain (except maybe Maitri because she has all those chests from Clot of Darkness to deal with). Mid-level players and those who came on board in recent months certainly DID...we were all still in the gathering mode. We were enjoying sharing. Mytona took that away by penalizing us for not cashing in our collections..

I seem to remember you stating you used to combine often (like I did) to keep things clean in your collections window. You simply cannot appreciate the magnitude of loss some players felt when 100 thousands of coins were gone because we had not combined our sets. Collection sets rewarding tools resulted in substantial loss of these "valuable" game pieces for those who did have a lot of the sets non-combined. Saying we can get coins in new ways is not the point and is dismissive of the underlying feeling of betrayal. Understanding and empathizing with those who were more severely impacted is more productive. Many players have already quit. This is a GAME.

Andalay, you pointed out to us a while back how we took away your joy when we over TTed. Well, that same frustration and sense of great loss of time and collections and coins is what many of us are feeling. My laptop game was enjoyable - now I can no longer do the Quests as all the collection items have been transfered over so the Quests go on "auto pilot". At least I had the iPad game the first time around. If Mytona does ever decide to give us a shoppe to spend our coins I believe current players will feel better knowing they were fairly compensated for my lost income earned.

What I am now struggling with is wanting to get back in to the mode of giving to others as that gifting is what makes me like the game most. I have so few collection pieces to share now as I felt compelled to turn them in for their full coin and award values. In the next upgrade they could disappear all together or become devalued even more. I hope you can understand all of this a bit more now from another's shoes. Again, this is a game. Should be fun, light and easy....not stressful. Frustration is certainly okay and "new" and "change" will bring that on as well.

Today is a new day for me so I am bringing back my own new approach to the game as Talou suggests. I look forward to seeing what it may hold in store for all of us. Like Andalay, I thus far don't like the banishing due to the low percentage chance of actually winning an anti-anomoly and the fact we no longer can earn a collection item. Wish they would have thrown in a random piece in the scroll window. In time players who stay will embrace the change and agree to disagree about what they like or what they do not as in past updates. I do think this community was affected by the update but we can heal and move on, too. We can shake our fists collectively at Mytona and hope they do better next time. Every contribution from the people here has been most appreciated...from tips, to warnings, to instructions, etc...Empathy for players who felt the loss of game fun and loss of time spent earning things is also important and I feel everyone here has done a remarkable job of being gracious and sending virtual hugs. We may need those again in the future....who knows. Let us hope that Mytona Customer Support can help others as they did me. Let us hope we can find some joy in playing the new upgrade and exploring as suggested by Talou. Let us hope we can get back to having fun in the game and  with each other. :>)