Starshine
Opera Phantomess
Masquerade! Paper faces on parade. Masquerade!
Neither do I. Swarf and many other artists and developers are amazing and I do feel sorry for them when they are thrown into doing something way too soon after finishing a project that may never see any maintenance or decent updates at all. They work so hard on something, and then they are forced to see it rot whether they want to or not. I know at least [ JK ] was willing to not only put in extra hours into maintaining zOMG!, but to learn code to prevent the game from becoming useless. Now, he is not even on the game anymore, something I know that him and others that have worked on it worried so much would occur.
Hide your face so the world will never find you.
I can tell from their posts that the devs aren't happy about this either. Swarf has said that he will attend the player run "save zOMG" user meet, and JK has said he will continue to come to dev meets in his own spare time, Mav who isn't on Gaia's payroll anymore still turns up to all the meets.
So we have dedicated staff, dedicated customers, and a company that just doesn't care.
I'm not a fan of MoGa by anymeans, it's just a substandard ripoff of pokemon, but a ton of people paid for that game, for Gaia to abandon it too so early after release is crazy. Zynga and other FB companies that are obvious about their greed at least keep updating their games. I at least know that by me paying through the roof I'll be getting updates, with Gaia there's not even such guarantee.
Masquerade! Paper faces on parade. Masquerade!
It is a shame when a company could care less about its employees and customers and more about the bottom line. When that happens, especially when you are a small private business like Gaia, you are essentially ******** unless you turn things around for the better.
Zynga at least has the decency to update and perform maintenance on a very regular basis. Gaia cannot look at Zynga's business strategy and follow it; Zynga dominates the Facebook game world, so unless you are already situated largely elsewhere with games, you are not going to be successful whatsoever. Neglecting games for new ones just to neglect those for new ones is not only stupid, once users on Facebook know your company name and associate you with a ******** up business strategy, you will actually not get back old customers or casual game players, or new ones, because you have been black listed by groups of people and then they go off to tell others not to bother with your new games and features.
Gaia has already laid down into its grave and covered itself in mud, dirt, rock, stones, branches, and whatever else was in that mud/dirt. It is still attempting to breathe despite there being no oxygen or area to breathe in with several tons of things on top of it.
Hide your face so the world will never find you.