Me While Drawing: Damn I Wish I Could Draw

me while drawing: damn i wish i could draw

Wow, learn to read, maybe? Nowhere did I say you said any of this- bringing up points to explain something is not putting words in your mouth. You said leaving one star reviews was "petty" because they were only made due to the ranked event. I countered that the one star reviews started AFTER people complained on the facebook page- politely, mind you; this was before the shitstorm started- and sent the developers emails that were all met with silence.

That refusal to communicate with the players was what lead to one star reviews, many of which the people who left them explained that they would revert back when the developers showed they were listening to the complaints. The developers, rather than make a statement, ANY statement, began having peoples' accounts flagged, locking them out of facebook and hence, out of their save file in the game. And many of those people who were locked out were paying customers. As I said in the second sentence of my response, "It's Because Of How The Company Is Treating It's Customers". THAT is reason people began leaving poor reviews. For a long time, all that had been discussed was pleas on the fb page, signing the petition, and sending emails. When those avenues proved ineffective, people decided to show their displeasure via the ratings.

The reviews may be *concerning* the event (and in actuality, many of them still outright say it's because of the developer's lack of respect for their customers), but they were *brought on* by poor customer service. Case in point, the day the event that is the source of all this anger starts, the facebook page is uploaded with a cute, whimsical explanation of how fireworks get their colors. COMPLETELY ignoring everything that is going on, and only serving to make people angrier.

I don't know how you see the stating of facts as "strawmaning", but if you think that fault lies only with players and the company is handling things as they should by attempting to silence their critics (because most of the reviews I noticed that were deleted were politely worded statements expressing disappointment in the way the devs are handling the event), then there's no reasoning with you. Fortunately, I'm not trying to reason with you, I'm merely providing a rebuttal to your reaponse. By the way, I *did* read your other response. If the developers don't want bad reveiws turning away new players, then they should consider treating their current players with more respect. In the past, I used to rave to my friends about this game, and constantly show off the gorgeous art. Now? The only thing they'll hear from me is that they ignore their players wants and frustration in favor of making as much money as possible. They could listen to the Chinese players. They could listen to the South Korean players. But not to us (and not just concerning the ranked events; players wanted more time between events, less diamond heavy events, less Cloud outfits, and the exact inverse occurred). Just as people haven't forgotten how low Konami is, they won't forget this either.

W O W

So apparently the Love Nikki devs are now marking anyone who gives their game a 1 star review on facebook as spam, resulting in the users’ accounts being locked. THEN they’re deleting all the 1 star reviews on facebook and in the google play store. 

Fuck you too, LN devs. People are giving 1 star reviews in protest to the upcoming rank event after we made it clear that we never wanted a rank event again and they said “Yeah, we hear you.” And their response to us taking action and being mad that they ignored and lied to us is to punish us?? Does EA secretly run this game???

Oh, my poor sweet summer child... Acting like people are boycotting because they don't like spending money. People have no issue with paying for a quality product, but they DO have an issue when a business begins relying on overt greed and shady practices that alienates it's consumer base. This is LITERALLY gambling, throwing money at something you're not gaurenteed to get. This is pitting players against each other in a game that has no other competitive function, save for an automated battle and a popularity contest. The devs AREN'T sitting there and taking it- they're deleting reviews, and locking people (many of them paying players) out of their FB accounts, which means they're locking them out of the game they paid for. People HAVE asked them for improvements, and they responded with the boilerplate "we hear you and we're taking your feedback into consideration" copy/paste that always means "we're ignoring you and we're not changing a damn thing".

These are not starving artists or indie devs struggling to keep their lights on. Elex is a MASSIVE company. Love Nikki is on four servers, and this isn't even the first version of the game- it's the THIRD as far as I know! People spend plenty of money on regular events, on rechage suits, on daily diamond cards- and there are MILLIONS of players on this server alone. This company is making money hand over fist, so forgive me for not being too concerned that little Timmy can't get a new villa for his birthday. If I, or anyone else with a modicum of common sense, were in their shoes, I wouldn't be ignoring all the complaints leveled at me. I would acknowledge that my consumers are pissed at me, uninstalling my product, and warning others away from my product and DO something about it, rather than sit around with my thumbs up my ass waiting for the white whales to buy my another Porche.

Even now, people asked for other ways of treating these events, including just making the ranked suits buyable. The devs just don't pay them any mind. There are no ranked events on the chinese sever and, surprise surprise, it hasn't gone bankrupt. If they had listened to the backlash last time, people wouldn't be up in arms now. They claimed they'd take our words into consideration, and have done almost nothing to prove they have (save for new skintones that, of course, came with an event for them to monetize). This is, almost to the letter, how Activision and EA treat their customers, and look where it got them. A massive drop in both players AND revenue, and in EA's case, government officials looking into their glorified gambling boxes. This isn't about the people behind LN needing money, because the problem is that SOME money clearly isn't enough for them. No, they've made it clear that they want ALL the money ever, and THAT'S what has the community splitting apart. The divide is between people who are upset that something they love is getting worse and worse...

And the people who oh so helpfully remind us that we don't HAVE to play. We don't HAVE to do something we enjoy doing because, if you don't keep your mouth shut and accept every scummy thing a developer or publisher does, then you don't deserve to enjoy it.

LN fans. We don’t need to boycott.

GUYS. PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IN ITS ENTIRETY.

This is a FREE game. Have you ever seen any ads? No. Have you been put at gun point to hand over your money by the devs? No. Do you HAVE to pay to play? No!

Please guys. Boycotting and petitioning is incredibly ridiculous.

These people work hard to make this game a good game to play. Boycotting the event would only make people who are more inclined to win, easier for them to win.

The two basic suits, the starry kimono themed outfit and waitress outfit, are adorable and posable!

Please stop the discourse with devs. They work hard to make a quality game, and seeing you all thrash and throw a temper tantrum, of course they aren’t going to sit there and take it.

Yes, nobody likes ranking events. I don’t either. But…Jesus people, we are better then this!

This is just ONE event across the hundreds, maybe thousands of events we have/had/will have!

Rather then go to ban the event, or “boycott”, and give the game 1 star reviews (which is literally spam btw) why not ask for an improved version? Bigger ranking pools? less costly ways of gaining that ranking in game/or through purchases?

These are all things we can reasonably ask for.

Remember, the developers are PEOPLE. They wake up, go to work, and live with their families, and make a living trying to do what they enjoy, just like you and me.

They rely on paying players to help improve the quality of the game. To keep food on the table. Have the lights running. Send their kids to school.

Just lower your anger, and put yourself in their shoes.

Demonizing these hard working, talented people isn’t the way to go about this.

We don’t need war over one event. There will be better events. This isn’t worth a meltdown.

We need to be mature, understanding and patient.

At the end of the day, this is still just a game. And if you honestly don’t like anything in this game anymore, you aren’t obligated to play it.

This game has a wonderful community, and I don’t want it splitting apart over 1 single event.

So please, be kind to each other, be reasonable, and be understanding.

Thank you for reading.

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Putting a hardstyle track over this Bollywood movie worked amazing [x]

"--and would any/ all of you be willing to demonstrate the exact reason to me in very precise detail, possibly taking all night and most of tomorrow? Please and thank you."

Screw you, IntSys. You'd probably have given him boring art anyway.

*cries in wanting to hear DC Douglas channel Wesker for this*

no gunter in the fallen heroes banner?? shameful.