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Originally Posted by tayseth
When did anybody say we wanted an update every week?
An update every week isn't necessary, sure. But when you have an entire year and you only put out ONE "large" update, people are going to complain. People complain when new releases come out because they're poorly tested, and lazily created, which means that you have to wait another week of maintenance before you actually get to play the update. Games that are aimed towards a "younger" audience aren't exempt from ever making quality games. Telling somebody to "Go ahead and leave" isn't a solution for this problem.
There really isn't an excuse for the poor quality of this game after 3 years. The more and more I explore the realm of freeware titles, the more and more I see how easy it is to make and provide upkeep for a game despite a non-existent budget. Look at Cube: 2 Sauerbraten for example. When you have a budget, especially when operating under the Disney flagship, there simply is no excuse. Looking at the quality of this game and the quality of the updates, it's rather obvious that the potco team is lazy, yet they feel more and more content to dig their own grave. They're intentionally vague about updating their game and have absolutely no interaction with the paying customers. If they came out and said "Hey, we don't have the experienced programmers to release obligatory things such as the Kraken" i'd regain my respect for them. But saying that would lose money, and money is everything in a shovelware title.
To go for the record, I realize that many of you enjoy hanging out with guild/friends. Hanging out with friends is the perfect excuse to play this game, but the community shouldn't be one of the few things good about this game.
The PotcO team MUST create several updates increasing the quality of this game (Latency, more servers, more upkeep, better interactions with community, more updates) otherwise I don't see this game open for much longer.
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Again I insert the fact that if there was more than one 'large' update a year, the game would easily run out of things to include. A couple small to medium updates every month or whatnot is how the POTCO team DOES keep people here. And yes, people also complain because sometimes new releases are buggy and don't work. But that's all part of the process. I don't expect a PERFECT game. I mean, there's really no such thing. Game aimed at a younger audience have to be more simple. Imagine a 10 year old trying to learn the aspects of a more in depth game. It just doesn't work that way often. And if someone just leaves, it usually fixes the problem of not liking where the game is at.
Well what else would you expect from a game of three years? I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of criticism for saying this, but I honestly think Disney is still learning how to keep up with gaming. Sure sure, Toontown has been around for like, 10 years now, and yes, there are still a lot of things wrong with it. I won't deny that. But it doesn't mean that they've given up or decided that they don't care. After all, they're paid to do the best they can. Making accusations that they are lazy with it is absurd. Everything has flaws.
More servers, updates, and all of that takes money. And I'm pretty positive that a good majority of the money earned from paying players is passed onto the large branch of Disney. The rest is used to pay the people on the POTCO team and updates. It's simple as that.