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OnionGroove

Member Since 27 Oct 2012
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#927503 future gothador

Posted by Sadiablo on 08 April 2015 - 04:27

Spent a lot of time and money to play by yourself. That's rough.

 

That's the situation all existing players are in. We poured hundreds of dollars or more into this game to build it up, and to keep it alive. Not just by paying our subs either. By buying USP and paying for websites like The Guild of Wisdom's Book of Wisdom (just as an example) as a player resource since there was never anything implemented server side for that.  Basically, HCS put the game in front of us, said "here are the quests, have fun" and never gave us realm lists, quest databases or anything.

We have done everything ourselves since day one. The only thing we didn't do is create the game, but we keep it alive, research everything, develop places people can go to look for things that are never provided for in the game and contribute all the suggestions that would revamp the game and maybe breathe life back into it, that ultimately all get ignored.

 

Many of us either have, or know someone who has spent potentially thousands of real life dollars to help get this game up and running or keep it alive. That's on top of the 11+ years we have been playing and spending 20-40+hrs a week leveling up and doing events as a cult to help other players.  We've spent more time and attention on this game than the developers ever have, but sadly.. HCS seems to have the attention span of a humming bird with ADD. 

 

As soon as they got up to about 90,000 ACTIVE players, they went "Hmm ok, lets go do something else" and out came Fallen Sword,  they got a few players there then "Ah well, off to the next thing" and Sigmastorm came out. Rinse and repeat and you have today. 

Instead of maintaining anything that's been successful, as soon as it gets any margin of success they abandon it and move on to another project and leave everything else behind to rot. 

They've been so focused on IoS games and Android platform games and Eldevin  that they entirely forgot about gothador. 

 

Yes, I do understand the concept of "Lets see if we can duplicate that success on another project" but, there's a point where you have to stop putting out new stuff every few months that people could really care less about and go back and pay attention to the projects that even made you successful in the first place or kept you in business long enough to do all those other new projects.  And that's not happening. 

 

People have been asking, begging, venting for fixes to problems that have plagued gothador since the day it went live and they have all been ignored so that something new could be pushed out. That never leads to a successful situation either. Any good business people know that. Put out 1 solid product before moving on to something else, then if it comes up, fix what you have before you put out something new. Don't keep pushing out new stuff that's only half assed while you have a good thing wasting away.  That leaves a sore spot for a lot of ppl who feel neglected and like they've been wasting years and thousands of dollars on a product put out by people who could care less about it.  And if they don't care about it, it's hard for us to continue to care. 




#927136 future gothador

Posted by seasack on 05 April 2015 - 23:55

actually , game play has changed very little for me since the games 'death' . except for not being hunted in pvp constantly and the lack of much SB and forum action , its pretty much the same game . i still have a ton of quests to do , and plenty of space and time to do it in , and it doesnt cost much to play in what now feels like my own personal game .

 

 

i might be inclined to say , 'im glad the game is dead' lol


and thanks to the cows for not pulling the plug




#927121 future gothador

Posted by Sadiablo on 05 April 2015 - 20:23

Unfortunately, Gothador has turned into a post apocalyptic world with only about 15-20 survivors. Living in mud hunts, and with nothing to eat or drink but cactus juice and tree branches. 

 

There's no civilizations or populace.  It's the world after a nuclear holocaust.  It's like the story of the time machine, you would find only ruins of the cities there were with nothing but holograms and ghosts. 

The game was abandoned by the gods, and their followers died off as well.  Unless they make a re appearance and re shape the world, it's going to stay dead. 




#926981 future gothador

Posted by Mysticalme on 04 April 2015 - 18:50

Actually no, I didn't play by myself. I played 'back in the day' when there were a lot of players before it died. Back when there were no doublers, or uber potions, just the basics.




#926082 something new

Posted by duktayp on 31 March 2015 - 01:30

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#925950 something new

Posted by Mysticalme on 30 March 2015 - 04:54

I haven't seriously leveled since 2008 and I'm still in the top 100. OOOoohhhh how the mighty have fallen. I do miss the real game and interaction though :(




#920576 way to talk it up guys !

Posted by Mekare on 19 February 2015 - 13:31

Shhh.. people are sleeping. :P




#916733 way to talk it up guys !

Posted by Dzain on 23 January 2015 - 20:55

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#916623 way to talk it up guys !

Posted by duktayp on 23 January 2015 - 03:53

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#916102 way to talk it up guys !

Posted by duktayp on 19 January 2015 - 23:12

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#913394 Vote for Gothador

Posted by Mekare on 03 January 2015 - 18:59

I rated Gothador at 5 stars not because of the amount of attention it gets but because of the community.  If I could rate HCS and the game itself separately I would but I think the players alone deserve 5 stars.




#905497 Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Mysticalme on 28 November 2014 - 06:36

To all my friends. Hope it was filled with lots of turkey and even more love and happiness.  Cheers~ :D




#905678 Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Mekare on 28 November 2014 - 19:11

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving filled with lots of love and chocolate, MM. :D




#898027 Let this be a lesson to you...

Posted by Mysticalme on 05 November 2014 - 08:07

Happy anniversary on the day of your undeath my dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :wub:




#897914 Let this be a lesson to you...

Posted by Hoofmaster on 04 November 2014 - 17:42

Hi OnionGroove,

 

That should be this issue sorted for you now :)






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