I’m surprised to have found this thread but even more so at the lack of activity on it. There seems to be more discussion about the state of FoE in other channels than in this, where in theory you could hope developers might at least see it, or pay some attention. Maybe it’s my relative naivete that leads me to wonder at the lack of response from devs too, at what is an increasing unease or maybe disillusionment about what is happening in the game and the only reaction seems to be to introduce more features that are pushing people further away. ARE YOU BEYOND CARING, DEVS? I, like many others, have had long discussions with fellow long term players, and huge numbers are considering leaving, have left or significantly reduced their game time because of
- the lack of innovation and improvement to e.g. lag issues
- the failure to address long term issues with e.g. Gvg and rule breaking
- the time commitment required to stay competitive (need I say GbG?)
- repetitive, all too frequent and over long events
- boring new eras with nothing going for them but some new avatars and background, and new great buildings that fail to excite
- the fragmentation of everything imaginable, making inventories unmanageable
- the cost and overt monetisation across the game
- and now, the last straw, a reworking of GE with less valuable or interesting rewards for disproportionate effort and cost.
I’m not sure where that leaves the game, those who have already indicated they are going, or those who have left in the past two weeks after GE5 was introduced. But it is a sad state of affairs when nothing is said or done to reassure the community, quite the contrary - just go and look at the number of pages upon pages of negative feedback regarding the changes to GE, and before that to the proposed Gbg changes, that were then ignored. Way to indicate that caring…