My final thought to BHG on the subject

[LuSt]

The majority of the community here has been very vocal against the museum changes. You have all seen the feedback, held meetings about it, yet the community’s concerns have been completely disregarded.

We have heard the excuse that only 30 to 40 members on the forums have voiced their opinions and that this is a small fraction of the overall player base. That is why I asked for an official announcement on DomiWorld and in-game so everyone would be aware of what is happening.

Since that announcement, more and more alliances have been protesting Update 12.20 by changing their alliance names. This includes alliances currently ranked in the top 10, as shown in the attached screenshot. While the Mythical Artifacts and Museum Showcase features have received mixed reviews, the primary issue driving the backlash is the change to artifact crafting.

This protest extends well beyond the top 10. Many additional alliances within the top 100 have followed suit. Let me be clear: these alliances earned their positions through a combination of strategic skill and significant financial investment. Each of the top 100 alliances consists of approximately 50 members, representing around 5,000 highly engaged players. These are communities that have played together for years, built strong camaraderie, and whose leadership speaks on behalf of their members with a unified voice.

I am speaking out because I love this game and want to prevent BHG from crossing a point of no return, specifically by releasing artifacts that allow more than two of the same troop buff names. Once that happens, there is no going back, and it will ruin the museum experience for every player.

Silencing and banning frustrated members is a slippery slope and not one taken lightly. Sharing screenshots of reviews that are posted by other members or a meme is not valid reasoning that you can label rage posting or spam. These are facts shared as proof and has been escalated to top executives in BHG through LinkedIn.

Please take this protest seriously and listen to your player base. It is not too late to show the community that you value our opinions.

When your quarterly revenue reports come in I want you to remember these 7 words,

“This is what we warned you about…”

 

[DpK]

The sentiment expressed by LuSt is fully shared by the French community, for which I represent.
It's not too late to reconsider your decision regarding the ability to craft artifacts with three, four, or even five identical titles: the game will inevitably become much easier for attackers due to the penalty cap set at -85%, and consequently, it will be difficult for defenders, who will feel useless.

 

[lerele]

Please reconsider the update 12.20 as you have presented it. It's fine to have changes, but what you're planning to do will lead to the destruction of the game. It's still possible to delay the release and make changes that more or less satisfy everyone.


If not, many people, even those who have spent tons of money, will quit. This will result in less revenue, fewer people developing the game, more players leaving, and ultimately the end of the game.

 

[jejepulp_conf_FR]

I've been a loyal player since the beginning and I'm VIP10. I spent a lot of money on crowns for dice to get the best artifacts. I feel cheated by this unjustified update.

 

[OB1]

Bonjour , joueur dominations depuis le début (2015), ayant vécu de nombreuses mises à jour , modification du jeu, réduction de statistiques de troupes , exemple les avions de chasse dernièrement, cette future mise à jour a venir concernant le musée nous prouve encore une fois que le ressenti des joueurs ne vous intéresse pas, seulement la notion pécuniaire (encore) concernant les couronnes qui seront achetées pour jouer au dé au musée.
La stratégie et le fait de JOUER tout simplement n'est pas une notion importante pour vous.
Comment un profil défenseur va pouvoir contrer un bombardier avec ces statistiques qui vont plus que doubler avec ce nouveau système ? Avec cette possibilité de multi ligne au musée.

Déjà qu'actuellement il n'y a quasiment plus que des bombardiers, vu l'abandon des avions de chasse, et je ne parle même pas de la démolition tactique qui vient encore plus réduire en poussière la notion de stratégie avec ses nouvelles statistiques.

Alors merci de prendre en compte nos ressentis et de ne pas mettre en place cette mise a jour concernant le musée.

 

[Yannick]

Vous nous parlez d'erreur, très souvent même...
Mais vous êtes professionnels, inversez 2 minutes les rôles, imaginez vous acheté une voiture qui roule au diesel, et un beau jour l'on vous annonce qu'ils se sont trompés et que vous devez mettre du "sp98" maintenant ! Parcontre tout ce que vous avez mis comme essence avant à énormément endommagé votre moteur, du coup il faut tout changer !
Ne me dites pas que des programmateurs se sont aperçus de leur erreur au bout de 8 ans, si c'est le cas il faut vous en séparer URGEMMENT !
Par contre vous nous remboursez les sommes perdues dans le développement de nos artefacts ? Autant aller jusqu'au bout de votre droit disant erreur non ?
Sur ce...
Yannick

 

[Melikito]

I totally agree with all complains !
The update 12.20 is ridiculous and a disgrace for many players who have patiently built their museum over the years.
Please listen to the community of players

 

[Seek]

I have been playing this game since start. The 12.20 will ruin game for most of the folks I have met while playing this game . We spent hours and hour days and weeks of clicking to be competitive in this game just have it thrown away by changing museum line rules ten years in. You want player to enjoy your game BHG well this change is not enjoyable or even benefit it is pointless work and money lost.

I know myself I spent allot money and acquiring the Legendary Artifacts and now with this crafting change I feel they are worthless except for the 1 line they can contribute to Mythical’s. Now with new change the regular artifacts are stronger than any Legendary BHG has released.

By change in crafting line rules effectively BHG have in my eyes betrayed everyone that has been supporter of this game. You want us craft all new museum artifact ( years of time) you made all the Legendary Artifacts the lowest level Artifacts, and money spent on Legendary Artifacts in past is wasted,

BHG all the player base feels betrayed and allot folks will be quitting soon I am sure. This is not just Seek saying it 5 out 10 top alliances are openly against by change their name to No Update 12.20.

Now I hope 12.20 removes the crafting change and BHG realizes it will ruin game for allot of folks.

 

[Vincent Franco-Swedish]

I'm an off bomber player, it's already quite easy to destroy (a least 4 stars) most of enemies def bases. With the Showcase, the Mythical Spitfire and 192% (or less but still) HP juste with 3 amours, it won't be fun anymore, because unfair.
There is no joice or proudness without equality, even if I win.
So yes, don't change the museum, or do it right, fair.

 

[oddin]

i want BHG to go on with the update as planned. Please do. Do not wonder after where your loyal players have gone (myself included)

 

[goldeneagle]

FOR OFFENSIVE PLAYERS THEY CAN HAVE 5 LINES OF BOMBER ARTIFACTS BUT FOR DEFENSIVE PLAYERS IF WE HAVE 5 LINES OF INVADING BOMBER ARTIFACTS MAXIMUM CAP OF -85% WILL APPLY. IF YOU REMOVE THE MAXIMUM CAP ALSO IF DEFENSIVE PLAYERS HAVE 5 LINES OF BOMBER ARTIFACTS PARA + MORTAR OFFENSIVE PLAYERS WILL CLEAR DEFENSIVE BASES. THIS SEEMS TO BE UNFAIR. SO, RECONSIDER MUSEUM CODING WITH 5 LINES OF SAME WITH DIFFERENT PERCENTAGE OF BENEFITS

 

[Nikolay]

We want the game to be the best because we like it.
And we want to play something that brings pleasure, not causes negative emotions.
In addition, we are always open and ready not only to discuss upcoming innovations, but also to offer their implementation in a better form, if such is required.

We are not trolls who are always dissatisfied with everything.

Isn't the opinion of the players important to BHG?
Thousands of people understand that 12.20 will destroy everything the game was based on before, but for some reason BHG thinks otherwise

 

[Moscow)]

Dear BHG! I play this game for 8 years and there had been a lot of updates and changes, which caused different kinds of reactions of the players. However this time everyone has only one point of view about the new change, that is NO UPDATE 12.20! and more alliances keep joining this protest every hour. Everyone feels betrayed and offended by it. It’s not only our money and time that we had invested into it but also our souls that are about to be teared out, trampled and thrown away. And it is not fair for the entire community of the world of dominations. Please hear us and do NOT release this update! Thank you!

 

[BaseyMcBaseface]

As a mediocre player who plays this game to relax and enjoy even i have invested a lot of time into my museum. I like to come on, shit post silly memes, chat, contribute where I can and offer help when someone needs it.

This update will kill my enjoyment of the game and I will be gone. I'm fine with Mythical pieces, I'm mixed on Showcase but if the museum changes go into effect against the overwhelming majority of players I've talked to's opposition I'm probably done as well.

The opposition is not just a handful of rage bait posters on the forums. I travel to different alliances, high and low ranks alike, and the consensus is the changes will be bad. For every poster on the forum there are dozens behind their voice who don't come on the forums at all.

The lack of discussion/communication is the main driver of ALL the rancor. Come and face the community and exchange ideas. Deleting posts, threads and bans have fanned flames and this whole game might start to burn down.

Even me, a mild mannered Canadian, is upset enough to type this out knowing it probably wont be read and ultimately deleted. At that point, its over and there's no going back. Stop dismissing the concerns of those who have supported and loved this game.

 

[Oleboy]

We’ve spent years and real money, carefully building our museums based on the mechanics BHG put in place. Now those mechanics are being completely rewritten, and all of that investment is being devalued overnight.

To say only “30–40 people on the forums” have complained is disingenuous at best. The majority of the active war community has been vocal in-game, on Discord, and Reddit. Just because we’re not all on your outdated forum doesn’t mean we don’t exist.

This update is not just a game change-it’s a breach of trust. You’re burning the very foundation your most loyal players built this game on.

Don’t do the 12.20 Update. We deserve better.

 

[kent irwin]

And crickets so far from BHG.

 

[RokerRoar]

I can’t type anymore, but I echo all the above. All those years of tens of thousands of crowns, time, effort. Stop the 3-5 line cards. I’ve never seen morale so low across our alliance

 

[G.I. Reaper]

@Harlems369th , I’ve been vocal about the future of the game for weeks now.

I support all the previous comments above mine.

Mythicals - money grab (but it’s alright as I expect the company to look at other added avenues for reoccurring income to keep the game alive)

Showcases - money grab (but it’s alright as I expect the company to look at other added avenues for reoccurring income to keep the game alive)

Changing the way the museum crafting works - absolutely not what the majority of the community wants, I’ve never seen the community this connected and supportive over the same fact - we do not want update 12.20, changing how a established building has worked for 8+ years and cost many people months if not years of their time and countless amounts of money is not an update , that’s erasing one game and creating an entire new one with new sets of rules.

Highly encourage the developers to dig deep and try and see the future of the game if this update 12.20 is released. You’ll lose 90% of your loyal paying members.

 

[SolarRad75]

I won't quit right away if 12.20 releases, but if you continue to undermine the community, you will have another PAYING player go missing.

 

[KrispyCrame]

BHG Developers and Staff,
I agree with everything said above by not only by Lust by my other Dominations colleagues. While I can stomach mythicals and showcases, though again I will say they should have been slowwalked and had some sort of capacity/more of a limit, I cannot stomach the changes to museum. Coupling the dishonesty of the museum changes in the update notes when Harlems spoke to the community nearly 2 weeks ago, is just flat out disgusting. You obviously know the majority of the community does not read forum posts. If the change to museum is not stopped I intend to either quit outright OR retire from competitively play, stopping all purchases and will no longer watch any ads (RIP revenue!)
I am disheartened with how BHG has handled the situation and the players themselves who are speaking out. Many folks are either being outright silenced via bans or having posts deleted. It is painfully obvious how this is going to go, so please prove me wrong. Your app rating will suffer as I intend to post my thoughts, plus encourage all of my alliancemates and colleagues to post their negative feelings as well. As a loyal and avid fan of this game, please do not go down this road with unwanted changes.