A few thoughts on the perk items
Posted: Feb 1st, '18, 10:20
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I've been kinda hesitant to make this thread. As I can kind of feel how some might react to this......but here goes.
Don't get me wrong..I LOVE the perk system. I think it's amazing and a great idea.
The only thing I am finding discouraging about the whole process is the items. I am not sure if anyone else thinks this way, but I have occasionally saved enough money to donate enough to receive the queen's gift because it was a "fancier" item. I know donating is for the good of the site, but the truth is those items did offer an extra incentive to donate more. At least for me.
I'm a college student, kind of eating ramen everyday so when a GOTQ item came out that I really wanted. I pulled the extra strings to make it happen. It wasn't something easy for me to do. I know this might not be the exact situation everyone is in, but I'm sure money is tight all around.
That being said, the current perk items that have been offered have been very disappointing to me. They reminded me a lot of "lost items" more then "queen" items. Not that lost items aren't great that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I'm used to seeing the Queen's gift being more "queenly". You know?. I wish these perk items looked like items a Queen might wear.
The problems with the items as I see it:
They are disjointed, they do not look like items that could be in a set. I think they could benefit from some cohesion. Its what makes them look so "lost item-ish" in the first place because the current ones have no real cohesion.
They need more details.Each item should be a Jewel in it's own right. Something that would make me feel like "man i GOTTA HAVE THOSE". The old GOTQ LOOKED like they were worth 1mil food. But these ones don't do that for me. Let me put it this way......it's like if you had to choose which store would the current GOTQ go to? bananarama or Lunatic Fridge? I think most people would say bananarama. Or Rikashitsu for the small wing item and cat ears.
I shouldn't be thinking that....I should be thinking TT but GRANDER. Like it came from the GODS..... . Like if you tried to look up queen items now the only reason you know they are queen items is bcs they have queen in the name. If not they would BLEND in, that's not the case with the old GOTQ, there was something UNIQUE to them.
Old GOTQ used to take old items from previous sets but made them GRANDER....added extra here, more hair there. I am sure Firn is kind of no stranger to making items "Fancier".
I guess the point is that....ever since the perk started the items haven't been worth getting for me. And I fear that might be how other users might feel as well. I know donation has been a big issue for a very long time and it's a complicated and complex problem. But this perk system was created as a means to help lessen some of that issue and I'm not sure it is.
I might be all wrong on this and Firn can prove me statistically wrong in this regard in terms of the amount of donations received since the perk system started.
But as I've seen it.....it hasn't. Since Firn is even opened commission work and special knuffels and all that. Somethings made things worse and this might be one of the things.
The perk system is great.....the ITEMS are the ones failing it. I know it's quite a bit more work to make items more detailed. But I think it's worth it.
I play this game on my phone called "LINE PLAY' and it's also kind of an avatar site per say just on an app. And I've been tempted to sell my stuff just to afford to get some of the items they offer. This app sucks in cash like i've seen few of this type of apps do but it is in part for the "fancy" items you have to pay to get. I'll include some pictures so show what I mean:
[x][x][x][x]
THIS ONE WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GOSH WHEN IT CAME OUT I DID SPEND TO GET IT:
[x][x]
They don't call them VIP for nothing and to this day I don't regret buying those items and it's what I wish the GOTQ items looked like/ did that for me again.
I know you work hard Firn and I don't mean to disrespect in any way. I just know that if i don't say anything I kind of might regret it. I've kinda been sitting on it for months now lol.
To the rest of the this lovely community feel free to leave your thoughts too.
{Edit}
I just saw this month's items and they suffer from the same problem as well.......
Don't get me wrong..I LOVE the perk system. I think it's amazing and a great idea.
The only thing I am finding discouraging about the whole process is the items. I am not sure if anyone else thinks this way, but I have occasionally saved enough money to donate enough to receive the queen's gift because it was a "fancier" item. I know donating is for the good of the site, but the truth is those items did offer an extra incentive to donate more. At least for me.
I'm a college student, kind of eating ramen everyday so when a GOTQ item came out that I really wanted. I pulled the extra strings to make it happen. It wasn't something easy for me to do. I know this might not be the exact situation everyone is in, but I'm sure money is tight all around.
That being said, the current perk items that have been offered have been very disappointing to me. They reminded me a lot of "lost items" more then "queen" items. Not that lost items aren't great that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I'm used to seeing the Queen's gift being more "queenly". You know?. I wish these perk items looked like items a Queen might wear.
The problems with the items as I see it:
They are disjointed, they do not look like items that could be in a set. I think they could benefit from some cohesion. Its what makes them look so "lost item-ish" in the first place because the current ones have no real cohesion.
They need more details.Each item should be a Jewel in it's own right. Something that would make me feel like "man i GOTTA HAVE THOSE". The old GOTQ LOOKED like they were worth 1mil food. But these ones don't do that for me. Let me put it this way......it's like if you had to choose which store would the current GOTQ go to? bananarama or Lunatic Fridge? I think most people would say bananarama. Or Rikashitsu for the small wing item and cat ears.
I shouldn't be thinking that....I should be thinking TT but GRANDER. Like it came from the GODS..... . Like if you tried to look up queen items now the only reason you know they are queen items is bcs they have queen in the name. If not they would BLEND in, that's not the case with the old GOTQ, there was something UNIQUE to them.
Old GOTQ used to take old items from previous sets but made them GRANDER....added extra here, more hair there. I am sure Firn is kind of no stranger to making items "Fancier".
I guess the point is that....ever since the perk started the items haven't been worth getting for me. And I fear that might be how other users might feel as well. I know donation has been a big issue for a very long time and it's a complicated and complex problem. But this perk system was created as a means to help lessen some of that issue and I'm not sure it is.
I might be all wrong on this and Firn can prove me statistically wrong in this regard in terms of the amount of donations received since the perk system started.
But as I've seen it.....it hasn't. Since Firn is even opened commission work and special knuffels and all that. Somethings made things worse and this might be one of the things.
The perk system is great.....the ITEMS are the ones failing it. I know it's quite a bit more work to make items more detailed. But I think it's worth it.
I play this game on my phone called "LINE PLAY' and it's also kind of an avatar site per say just on an app. And I've been tempted to sell my stuff just to afford to get some of the items they offer. This app sucks in cash like i've seen few of this type of apps do but it is in part for the "fancy" items you have to pay to get. I'll include some pictures so show what I mean:
[x][x][x][x]
THIS ONE WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GOSH WHEN IT CAME OUT I DID SPEND TO GET IT:
[x][x]
They don't call them VIP for nothing and to this day I don't regret buying those items and it's what I wish the GOTQ items looked like/ did that for me again.
I know you work hard Firn and I don't mean to disrespect in any way. I just know that if i don't say anything I kind of might regret it. I've kinda been sitting on it for months now lol.
To the rest of the this lovely community feel free to leave your thoughts too.
{Edit}
I just saw this month's items and they suffer from the same problem as well.......
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