VIP Rewards & New Video Rewards.

Bloodmastery

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This prices are in the VIP shop for about 2 years now if not even more, what's the incentive for spending money, supporting the game only to be scammed out in the shop where you should be appreciated for supporting the game?

Speeding 6 hours costs 85 Crowns, buy a lvl 7 VIP boost for 6 hours costs 100 Crows, really ?

Yes, I`m aware there are some permanent bonuses for VIP members but lets be honest this are some token small bonuses that have little to no impact on the people power and gameplay ( and that`s a good thing ) i don't want to have some insane advantage over people who cant afford to spend a lot of money, but getting literally scam prices in the shop that`s design to reward people who are supportive of the game seems like scummy move.

You have recently reduced the video rewards from total of 12 - 18 Hours boosts ( 6 H Research 6 H Building and 6 H Normal ) to 2 Hours ( 1 H Research & 1 H Building ) and some 40 Crows that`s the equivalent of ~ 3 Hours, why ? Do you really want to make people experience so bad they quit ?

I understand that for new players lower level where you have minutes to a few hours building and research 12 - 18 Hours is a lot but for old players who have played and supported your games for years and years having buildings and research that takes days and weeks to complete is really a big slap in the face.

I just refuse to bother watching adds for some week 1 hour rewards that's the equivalent of a 0.01% ( More of an estimated visualization of how pointless that 1 hour speed up is ) of my upgrade time.

I love this game been playing it since 2018 please fix this bs, thank you for spending the time to read this.





I`m just some random guy who likes your game.
 

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Doooglas

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This prices are in the VIP shop for about 2 years now if not even more, what's the incentive for spending money, supporting the game only to be scammed out in the shop where you should be appreciated for supporting the game?

Speeding 6 hours costs 85 Crowns, buy a lvl 7 VIP boost for 6 hours costs 100 Crows, really ?

Yes, I`m aware there are some permanent bonuses for VIP members but lets be honest this are some token small bonuses that have little to no impact on the people power and gameplay ( and that`s a good thing ) i don't want to have some insane advantage over people who cant afford to spend a lot of money, but getting literally scam prices in the shop that`s design to reward people who are supportive of the game seems like scummy move.

You have recently reduced the video rewards from total of 12 - 18 Hours boosts ( 6 H Research 6 H Building and 6 H Normal ) to 2 Hours ( 1 H Research & 1 H Building ) and some 40 Crows that`s the equivalent of ~ 3 Hours, why ? Do you really want to make people experience so bad they quit ?

I understand that for new players lower level where you have minutes to a few hours building and research 12 - 18 Hours is a lot but for old players who have played and supported your games for years and years having buildings and research that takes days and weeks to complete is really a big slap in the face.

I just refuse to bother watching adds for some week 1 hour rewards that's the equivalent of a 0.01% ( More of an estimated visualization of how pointless that 1 hour speed up is ) of my upgrade time.

I love this game been playing it since 2018 please fix this bs, thank you for spending the time to read this.





I`m just some random guy who likes your game.
Totally agree. The whole game becomes about speed ups anyway because there aren’t enough citizens. The daily 6 hour speed up were worth the annoyance of the ads. Now you get 2 hours instead of 12. Given the build times are ridiculously high. (Digital Age, not rushed), it has got to the stage that there is no actual point in playing… I am stacked with loot I cannot spend so you’re just waiting, waiting. I see that “long tail games” are now part of it. I suspect their “long tail” is take older games and squeeze the players for as much cash and ad watching as they can. This, however, is too far for me and I will be stopping playing. It’s a shame as if they made it less crap they’d probably get more active players who might spend cash.
 

Joe Shamback

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I agree with all your complaints and my alliance agrees too. Reducing the video rewards is a big slap in the face to players who have been loyal to this game for 8 to 10 years.
1 hour speed ups replacing the 6 hour ones and 1:30 ads replacing :30 secon ads. Do the developers hate us that much!? I know I am done spending money on a game where the developers obviously don’t give a rats a$$ about us
 

kent irwin

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Yeah the in-game marketing has gotten pretty obnoxious. Beyond that, having to wade through so many marco, daily laws and event screens just to get to the game is ridiculous.
 

King Crimson

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If we continue like this, the ads will soon outlast the rewards.
Speaking of which: @Harlems369th if the ads on a pc take 15secs, then clearly that's long enough for bhg to get it's $$ - why then do the mobile device ads need to be 30-60secs and sometimes longer when they have those additional +10ecs and then a final +5secs? :unsure:
 

Harlems369th

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Speaking of which: @Harlems369th if the ads on a pc take 15secs, then clearly that's long enough for bhg to get it's $$ - why then do the mobile device ads need to be 30-60secs and sometimes longer when they have those additional +10ecs and then a final +5secs? :unsure:
As I've said many times, we do not control the ads that appear, including length.

Although DomiNations World doesn't currently have ads, the 15s placeholder is there to give the reward in case there is a problem with the ad servicer, this works just the same on mobile. This is in place so if there is an issue in sending your device an ad and you can't see an ad video, you'd still get your reward.
 

Bloodmastery

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As I've said many times, we do not control the ads that appear, including length.

Although DomiNations World doesn't currently have ads, the 15s placeholder is there to give the reward in case there is a problem with the ad servicer, this works just the same on mobile. This is in place so if there is an issue in sending your device an ad and you can't see an ad video, you'd still get your reward.
Crazy so many people replay to this, to be honest i was not expecting this i thought my post will fade in the the forums pages.

This being said, yes people need to understand this usually gave devs have no control over what adds people get to see, from my knowledge this is control by engines like unity if any one have more experience please share some wisdom with us.
But i do think at least the EU and other government's should get involved in this because its just crazy sometimes having 1 min + adds where you need to click and wait again and then click again this is just annoying and to be honest it just makes me hate the game ( the one in the adds ), things are getting out of control and if the industry dose not self regulate others will do it.

Reading all the comments i agree with so many of them you guys ( the devs ) need to find better solutions maybe give rewards based on the player age level ( Age 1 - 7 give 1 H Speed , Age 7 - 10 3 H speed and 10 + 6 H speed ups something like that).

I understand this game is free and lets be honest there are far worst games out there where paying to win is very real but overall i think you guys did a good job of maintaining the balance and for that i thank you!

The money i spend inside this game was because i like it and i want to support the game and not because some pay to win bs, i hope every one that feels this game is for them should do this in order to help keep this game alive because servers are not free and staff cost money.

I hope you guys come up with better reward system, balanced incentives for people to support this game how every small or deep there pockets are and in the long run people will be happy for supporting something that`s looking to improve the players experience and not feel like they are being taken advantage of.

I wish you all a good day!
 

kent irwin

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There are some members of my alliance that have stopped watching reward ads altogether. I stopped watching the museum crafting ads long ago. You get a whole 2 wothless artifacts for your time? Come on! I visited Marco a few minutes ago and got nothing but overly long ads. I just closed the game and won't check Marco again until tomorrow. I won't watch overly long ads requiring multiple hoops to jump through to close the ad. As I've stated before in these forums, the number 1 rule of marketing is DON'T PISS OFF YOUR CUSTOMERS!

BTW, how many more years until replays are actual replays?
 
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