Written by ๖̶̶ۣ۪ۜ۫๖ۣۜζ͜͡Moo๖͜͡Moo
This is a reblog- originally written by fantageville! So some ppl think I'm copying. Ok so i just copied and pasted, but im giving credit to fantageville, an amazing blog i really recomend to those fantage lovers out there. This was too long to revise and put into my own words, so i had to paste. Once again, I DO NOT OWN THIS ALL CREDIT TO FANTAGEVILLE!!!!! I just posted this cuz i thought you guys should all know this. One of my fave sites was pixie hollow, and it shut down. I was devestated. I dont think fantage will do that as soon, but if their new mobile app fails all might be lost!!! So be prepared. And again, I DO NOT OWN THIS.
Several years ago, Nons could barely do anything in comparison to
Mems. The only way they could get Mem clothes was with the meager 500
they received as newbies. Back then, you could immediately tell who was a
Non and who was a Mem simply by how they dressed. Because of this huge
difference, Nons vs Mems fights frequently broke out.
Fantage heard this and replied. They created the
Earn Free Ecoins button. Now, Nons had a lot more things on Fantage available to them. The gap between Nons and Mems closed a bit.
This was the first change that triggered several more.
Less than half a year later, Trade n Sell opened. Both nons and mems
alike were delighted with this new change. Items began to have “value”
and “rarity.” It was no longer impossible for Nons to obtain the items
they wanted. The gap between Nons and Mems closed even more, and people
forgot all the Nons vs. Mems nonsense.
But, it took very little time for people (should we even consider
them “people,” or would “immature douche-bags” be a more appropriate
term?) to take advantage of Trade n Sell. Yep, the
scammers.
People became unhappy again because they were losing their best items.
They directed their anger toward these scammers (rightfully), and
eventually toward Fantage, who remained silent while people were being
scammed left and right.
Fantage heard this and replied. They
closed Trade n Sell and
replaced it with Vintage Gold, hoping that it would solve the scamming
problem and, at the same time, help boost their low profits. But we all
know what an utter failure that was. Betas and users with rare items
quit because all their items had become worthless. People who had bought
item with real money quit too, because they had wasted their money for
nothing. Fantage lost the gamble.
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So do you see the pattern? We’re unhappy, then Fantage makes a change
to make us happy. We’re happy again for a little while, but it’s ruined
very quickly. So, Fantage has to make the decision whether to take the
risk to find a way and solve the problem, or simply ignore it.
Each time, they’ve taken the risk to solve the problem, but they paid the price for trying. They’ve cornered themselves.
Yes, I’ve posted things like “Fantage is so greedy” and “all they
focus on is getting money.” I gotta say now that it
was somewhat mindless. Yes, Fantage has been making updates that appear
to be very greedy, but they aren’t evil people trying to steal your
money.
They are struggling to maintain business, to earn money and feed their families. These people don’t even look like rich upper class based on their clothing, much less evil, greedy, money-hoarders.
Many of you are complaining about the Bonus Level Medal. Believe me, I hate it too, and I think it was their worst idea so far.
BUT. If you think about it, they had no choice. Think about it: what
are the things on Fantage that had value and kept the game going?
Ecoins. Not that much anymore. Nons can get them for free from the Earn Free Ecoins button. And then there’s those people with hundreds of thousands of ecoins, who got their fortune from Trade n Sell.
Stars. Not very much anymore either. There are people with hundreds of billions of stars, thanks to Trade n Sell decreasing the value of stars.
“Rare” Items. Not anymore at all. Vintage Gold made every item worthless now, like BB Hair, Frisky, CC.
Beta Items. Nope. Vintage Gold has sold most of them, and they were shuffled around, scammed, and hacked when Trade n Sell was here.
FGC Items. Not really. People bought them when Trade n Sell was around to show them off and exchange them for super rare items. Well, Trade n Sell is gone now, and nobody is going to spend $200 to get them.
Levels. This is my point. This is the only thing left that had any value. But I’ll have to cross this off too, because of the Bonus Level Medal.
Now, nothing has value anymore. Fantage no longer has purpose. Notice how the things I bolded and highlighted in
red above are things that Fantage created to make us happy, but instead worked in reverse and slowly destroyed their profits.
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I know that Fantage was a childhood game for many of us. But now, so
many of us are abandoning it, like a toy that was fun while it lasted,
but has finally exhausted itself. It seems a little callous to abandon a
game that made us happy for so many years, and even more so to talk
crap about it.
Now, I’m not defending them for some of the things they’ve done, like
the scam with Himani, or those more-than-suspicious charities. These
actions, in fact, lessen my sympathy for them. All I’m saying is that
they did it because they are trying to get by and make a living–NOT
because they are evil people.
So what now? We could just abandon Fantage altogether; it doesn’t
affect us. But I’m sure that many of you, especially the younger ones,
silently wish that Fantage could somehow go back to its old self and
become fun again.
Why don’t we all come up with a list of suggestions as to what
Fantage should do to bring itself back up? I’ll start. (Me too ~Angela)
1. Remove Vintage Gold. This is why so many people
quit in the first place, because all of their good items became
worthless once they got sold there.
2. Bring back Trade n Sell. This time, lower the
maximum selling value from 9,999,999 to maybe 999,999, so the value of
stars won’t become deflated again. And of course, take a smarter
approach to prevent scamming: put a “value” on items, and only allow
items of similar “value” to be traded. Make sure that this “value” is
based on OUR opinions, not on yours. Last, punish those who take
advantage of your system. Don’t cut them slack just because they
are family of one of your workers, like angelwish12.
3. Put more effort into the events, make them fun.
Don’t just reuse an old event and pretend it’s a “Part 2.” Make
challenging scavenger hunts and more interaction between players.
4. Branch out your User-Inspired Items idea. Perhaps
make a store out of it, and put statues of the creator inside, just like
the Hall of Fame. Release User-Inspired Item contests regularly.
5. Cut it out with those glaringly-obvious, desperate
moves, like the Bonus Level Medal and Lucky Bot “special sales.” We
don’t like it, and I’m guessing it’s doing you more harm than good in
terms of business.
6. Make use of those free ecoin buttons. I know you get
profits out of those, why aren’t they available for most of us? You
could get big money from those.
7. I know that listening to us has gotten you into this
mess in the first place, but that’s not completely true. I feel that we
have very often incorrectly communicated what we wanted. For example,
we wanted you to get rid of scamming, not to replace Trade n Sell with
some “Vintage” shop. You created this game for us, so it seems pointless
if you don’t even listen to our suggestions. Well here they are, even
in pretty little sticky notes. I hope you’re going to read these.
1. Bring back Trade n
Sell, like Princess_Moomoo said. I actually loved Trade n Sell a lot
because even though you can trade rare items in there, the items still
had “value” to them. Now with Vintage Gold, everything is worth
basically nothing. I also loved being able to get any item I wanted by
buying or trading for it. With Vintage Gold, not only is everything now
completely valueless, but you only have 1 chance to get them anyway. And
I do think Princess_Moomoo is right when she said the selling limit is
way to high, much inflation.
2. MUCH more user
interaction. I don’t just mean user-inspired items, but also things like
making fanart contests a bigger deal than just a page in the Comet,
items that are inspired by real life people and events (like Frozen
costumes or Miley Cyrus), etc. It would be cool if everyone could not
only be connected within the game, but also be connected through mass
culture and trends of dominant society.
3. Stop treating users
like 8 year olds, even though some of us are actually 8 years old. As
much as we don’t want kids to grow up, younger generations know much
more about mass society than older generations did before. What I mean
by this is that 8 year olds are already engaged in things such as
fashion, Instagram, Twitter, MTV, etc, when we before only thought about
cooties and playing jump rope at age 8. What I am saying is that now
that the younger generations aren’t as interested in things such as
hopscotch and stuff, why not make events and items for THIS generation,
like related to iPhones, memes, Youtube, etc. You get my jig?
That’s pretty much all I got.
Also,
I saw dragon_iron at Vintage today, and I asked him “So are you high
levels going to stop playing Fantage?” and he replied “No.” Although
dragon_iron is just one of the several well-known Fantagians in the Hall
of Fame, I’d like to think that many of them are keeping their heads
and hopes up high. (I heard somewhere that pinkstardust was quitting,
but like I said. Fantage rumors are the most unreliable rumors ever.
Don’t believe something unless you have photographic proof. Here’s
mine.)
4. VINTAGE GOLD WAS REPLACED BY PM BOTIQUE! I could fill a whole entire page of my complaints right here and now, but that'd take too much time and I'm MUCH too lazy ;3 Basically, vintage actually was being reasonable with prices for a while. I bought blue pig takes and a fishing rod each for 800 ecoins. Actually REASONABLE!------
notice empty bottle- perhaps new game coming out?
Clear, empty empty skies... with a chance of Oasis? *hopeful?*
"Desert Jewel".... Hmmm.... and where's the desert? :O
They got rid of the whole "welcome to fantage" greeting. This is like the old fantage, leaving us off to defend and find fame by ourselfs. But this sets in the newbies head, hmm im a VIP! Getting all this stuff for no reason what so ever! 0o0
These 20 items were really the fashion show pack, so the newbie doesn't have to go get it themselfs at the top models place. LAZY! So newbies think they have it made by wearing these ugly clothes.
