Much of the player base changed to ROMANS - Final post, I quit the game

[hearthpad]

Edit: we received messages on facebook to respond as people didn't seem to understand the concern.

Firstly our alliance is gone, it has been completely disbanded. We will not install the game again, and more importantly we will not update the wiki or provide anymore information about wonders, unique units etc

Yes, the fault is on the playerbase for asking for nation change. But why did some people ask for nation change? because they realised their nation was far inferior to others and rerolling is costly or time consuming. If you fail at comprehension, that means there is a problem in game balance / design.

They failed to address concerns that many top alliance players sent to them regarding balance (maybe they never received any feedback, because they don't even reply to customer support apparently)

Pre-enlightenment age you may not see the problem. But end-game, all you see is roman bases, about 5 out of a 100 is not roman. Might as well play CoC, because if all you see is the same base over and over, might as well have balanced gameplay to accompany it

We spent money on the game, we had numerous devices running at once. The people complaining about not balancing the game, are low level and don't know what they are talking about or spent a lot of money to MIN / MAX to get an advantage over others and don't care about good gameplay / enjoyment rather than just steamrolling people to feel "bigger" than someone else. Which is what a lot of the "whale" community prefers, and they will spend hundreds of dollars to achieve that, while hating balanced games.

 

[Link5549]

You too can join the Roman master race

 

[Zavint]

I hope you put your storages outside your base.

 

[Kingsley]

Have a look at the top players for the game since the update.

Almost 100% of them changed to ROMANS (after one day), give it a couple more days and it might actually be 100%.

There are people on the forums literally asking "if I change to romans will I beat people up"?

Might as well change the title of the game to DomiRomans
But nah, let's just NERF the Romans, which makes another nation more powerful, so everyone will jump ship
The money making scheme! yay

In that other forum post criticising the game, some people hated the simple game-balancing logic. Unique's that are only cosmetic, and nation bonuses that don't affect combat.

I liked this game because it had different looking civilisations (and im a history nerd), everything didnt look the same.
Having different stats didnt really do anything, beside give MIN / MAX players a hard-on for griefing others
I liked how my cavalry could tank like crazy, but I do agree that it would be better if the stat lines were equal

As of this morning. I quit, it has been deleted from my iPad, as soon as I saw a video which showed much of the player base moved to ONE NATION and I checked for myself, game over. The flavor this game had just got removed in one day. Plenty of other games on the appstore, gonna try ONE PIECE TREASURE CRUISE

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And the game is pretty much spam knights to win now (due to tower buff), or retrain an entire army after each raid! Boring
I was a French player, yay for my knights! But spamming one unit, what's the point in having other units?
Romans get two more knights. French / Greek still have better unit, but not when everyone looks the same
Whats the point of having unique units that people dont use?
About the same point as having wonders people dont use?
The developers are brain dead and so is this game

1 question:

Romans has only 1 pros that is 10% more troops...
If you want to nerf Romans... neft WHAT ?

 

[Redgar]

I am very close to quitting too. DN dropped from 25th top grossing ios mobile game in US to 50th place during this crisis, so they might lost ALOT, but people started paying for changing nations/wonders, so it wasn't enough for them to make the right conclusions. I think that new update is unfair and doest not adressed the most important things, so quitting might be the only option what can make things change, unfortunatelly.

 

[firedancer]

Why bother what Nation other people chose? Just enjoy the game and build your own beautiful nation. Regardless of what nation we take, we are still going to get steam-rolled by higher levels anyway.

If you feel that Romans are powerful - feel free to switch to them as well.

The thing about "A lot of people choosing x nation" is there will always be one nation that is at the top. If you do something to Romans, then the No. 2 most will become the top. Then the cycle repeats and one day Romans will be the top again. It never ends.

Instead of asking developers to do something about Romans, why not ask the developers to do something on the less popular nations instead?

 

[Bones64]

I actually find this sad. The person to blame for people all choosing Romans and for people leaving is the community. BHG never changed the Roman nation at all during the update, all they did was listen to the community and implemented a way to change nations/wonders, something that everyone wanted, I even saw a post where a person stated that if he couldn't change nations he would quit. Now, that changing nations is a thing, everyone is complaining that now everyone is going to be Roman and that its all a money making scheme from the "greedy devs".

We, as players and contributors to this game, wanted a system to change nations and try out different wonders. We pester BHG and Nexon to implement this system, even going as far as threatening to leave and stop supporting this game if they don't. Yet, when they do, we don't even thank them. We complain that now everyone is playing one nation, that this system is a money making scheme, and that BHG are idiotic devs that don't care about its customers and only wants money.

 

[FirelordJoelle]

I actually find this sad. The person to blame for people all choosing Romans and for people leaving is the community. BHG never changed the Roman nation at all during the update, all they did was listen to the community and implemented a way to change nations/wonders, something that everyone wanted, I even saw a post where a person stated that if he couldn't change nations he would quit. Now, that changing nations is a thing, everyone is complaining that now everyone is going to be Roman and that its all a money making scheme from the "greedy devs". We, as players and contributors to this game, wanted a system to change nations and try out different wonders. We pester BHG and Nexon to implement this system, even going as far as threatening to leave and stop supporting this game if they don't. Yet, when they do, we don't even thank them. We complain that now everyone is playing one nation, that this system is a money making scheme, and that BHG are idiotic devs that don't care about its customers and only wants money.

^ The voice of reason.

 

[Angrychim]

Before you quit can you please remove walls and tower to the corner of the map and leave your storage, road, farms wide open? Thanks! )

 

[Bones64]

It really is sad. I do admit, BHG has does some questionable design choices when it comes to DomiNations, especially with the various underwhelming wonders. However, the fact that now people are quitting DomiNations not because of the various bugs or glitches that do from time to time ruin the game experience, but rather because "everyone is becoming Roman" or that "This system is stupid, all BHG wants is money" really goes to show what kind of community we are. I really hope DomiNations doesn't waste away, I've hoped that this game succeed and brings BHG back to buisness ever since it was announced a few year ago. I've hoped that this game will be able to surpass CoC and revolutionize RTS mobile games for the better. But now I'm not so sure. All i do know is that, if DomiNations does fail and becomes a lost memory because of this update, we and only we are responsible for it.

 

[Chuggies]

Hahah that's funny Angrychim. Hahaha hahaha

 

[FuKingHero]

I don't get why you get upset cuz people switched to Romans. I've been Romans since I played the game and its not that really good depends on your build. I much prefer range units since they kill units fast. I'll switch to British or Chinese soon if I have the chance cuz they have the special range units. I love spamming range units, they just destroy anything even over the walls.

 

[thejoe]

Think the ability to change Nations : Wonders is an excellent option. Often players new to the game may pick what they think is best but then change their play style as the learn the game. However as suggested above, if you do leave please just leave the good stuff on the outside where it's easy to get

 

[miasmic007]

wahahahah! Literally I laughed hard at this )

 

[dbukalski]

u guys dont understand. all the whiney b"itches that wanted the ability to change nations only wanted that option for themselves. everyone else needed to stay greeks. they wanted to min/max their choices but if everyones picking the best nation then all these special needs players arent special like their mommy says they are. now with every update there will be a new/different best nation and a large chunk of the player base will pay crowns to change. players benefit. bhg benefits. if it keeps the game afloat then im happy. the trick is not to pick the best nation. but the 2nd best so the nerf bat keeps missing u

 

[TmpUsr]

If he's quitting, storage isn't important in the long run, just roads and farms.

 

[TmpUsr]

Don't worry, everyone is only changing to romans for just long enough to realize how much better Germans are.

 

[mackoy1018]

haahha..very funny to comment leaving off the walls and putting his resources outside...well seriously? quitting just becuz a lot of players switched to Romans? that puts a lot of challenge by beating the crap out of every Roman bases I see. This is a attack be attack genre of game and if you're not up to it..might as well quit..I'm playing Greek nation and can't say I'm well ok with my unique beating every vulnerable base I see. Just enjoy and keep on looting

 

[VN-ELITE]

every nation have it own unique, so, if you dont want your current nation, just copy the others players. choose like them. if you want your own, do by yourself and stop crying! thats all

 

[Cero]

I think it's your preferences how you want to play this game? I got Chinese as nation went for economic / defence and those unique bowman are okay. Now I am gonna change to Japanese for defence build... So it's how you want it?