Currently Kingdoms At War has a variety of communication portals for players. Having said that, the 3 major outlets for raising concerns do not connect players directly with who can make changes, the developers. Although it's nice to discuss game issues and let off some steam, support, moderators and forums can only do so much because: a)Support is designed for technical account, device, transfer and other minor operational issues, not programming. b)Moderators are designed for in game TOU reporting and enforcement, not programming. c)Forums are designed for in game player shared discussions, allowing for longer threads than a chat line allows but with no direct discussions with programmers. Developers are not support, moderators, or forum monitors. They focus almost wholly on programming and IT solutions to hardware/software capability and new platforms/games. Value vs Rewards - Fair Competition In Structured Events With that in mind, core issues for players are the value they get for the real money they spend, and a "disconnect" for legimate gaming concerns with developers. People will pay for a fair chance at competing for comparable rewards. People will pay, even in losing, if the game is programmed for fairness in competition. Losing or winning wars is not the major issue for players. I repeat "winning or losing wars" isn't the major issue for players. Players that are asked to purchase crystals expect a reasonable possibility of "fair" play for using those crystals and gaining rewards. Developers are missing the "fair play" in their programming. That is where the frustration lies. The crystal for war value isn't there in the paying players eyes. Equipment that has little "improvement" over previous versions of equipment discourages players from paying to actively pursue new events. The eyecandy of events is nice, but the equipment gained value isn't there. Debating technical software programming improvements with support, moderators or in forums does not connect players with who can make the changes, the developers. How the fairness in competition is repaired is in the hands of the developers, not support, moderators or forums. Lets hope the developers do somehow read what customers are saying directly for them before the attrition rate finally exceeds the new generation of kaw players. TLR - Game Support, Moderators and Forums don't program the game. Developers must connect to their player base somehow. Saying that, players want value in the rewards and fairness in setting up competition for all to participate evenly in. Hug your local developer!
Sorry devs just program. They take direction from ata who tell them what to do. The project manager who looks after the devs communicates with business as what they want developed in what time frame etc. Devs really have no say as they are code monkeys. They just make things happen but are directed from others as what to do.
They have groups that look through the ideas, they then fetch the ideas that they like, have a discussion whether they like it or not, then give it to the programmers to program. Unluckily, those groups don't look at KaW anymore.
You do realize that the mods have direct access to pass info onto the devs. Same with support. The devs also read the forums so they do overall get information through one method or another.
Also,developers don't always decide the stats and values of stuff. That would be more under a gaming economist or statistician. Developers typically just write the code to implement others ideas. Furthermore, I have a feeling that they are working so they can't talk much.
Problem isn't that the devs cannot fix anything, it that they WILL NOT implement ideas that people have put so much work into. Simply because it would lead to a loss in their profit. Players tend to want free stuff way to often, devs tend to find new ways to con their way into your wallets & purses. Now, people have issued great ideas & have even shown the potential for profit in implementing them. More often than not all we get in return is a turn around response with no actual validation. We went through one if their "Mods" and got told "Go scrw yourself" in a very long winded reply. Remember this however, a Mod is given their powers & work for the DEVS. We never seen a actual email, just a copy & pasted or rewritten reply. They derailed others threads to have them post in the mods thread. What good came from that? They say their promos give away free stuff. Well simple math says 5 seals is 30$ that's the top 10 prize payload. Granted the equip is nice, however how many seals do you haft to drop to get there? 5 or more ? You haft to drop more just to keep in the top 10 spaces! Point is, while dev's do not make thr Technical Changes. They still hold the power to make the over all decision to implement change.
What he said. Event is free. I have been f2p for a few years now, and I made it to 1600 elixir with no xtals. I still get free rewards. Don't cry about getting second tier equipment for paying less or nothing. Enjoy what you get.
Fun fact there is only 2 Devs working on kaw and that is just to maintain the game and keep it running, all your Devs are working on smash. Why do you think updates are slow, and it's almost always a repeat event, most important point of all Devs work in a time line, it's why when the pvp events was first suggested back when the feather event was finishing it took them almost a year to implement.
Yes 4 devs. It explains why there are so many b2b events. All jokes aside I hope people realize that coding can be extremely complicated. A simple feature could take 100s of lines of code.