I see a lot of people on LADs twt talking about the Infinity Nikki "girlcott" of 1.5 & I just wanted to add context from an actual player who was there at the time.
List of problems that we had with the state of the game:
1. Bugs, crashes, unable to log in, lag, ongoing performance issues.
2. Implementation of excessive flashing lights but no warning for those with epilepsy.
3. Poor rewards for free-to-play players.
4. Our boycott was being blacklisted by Infold (allegedly), thus, that's where the term "girlcott" came from.
5. "Ballgown-gate" - complaints of similarity between paid banner outfits.
6. Arguably the worst one, and still a bone of contention to this day, the retcon of 1.0s story, due to the implementation of the co-op feature in 1.5.
7. Communication with the community.
8. Quality and/or quantity of in-game events.
9. They're likely some micro ones, that I personally cannot remember, but these were the most important ones at the time.
The "girlcott" - players stop logging in, mainly because, let's be honest, they couldn't.
Players stop spending, complaints were sent (politely) into Infold both by email and social media. The girlcott was a CN & global one.
The girlcott also lasted about 3-4 weeks.
I think whilst everyone is bringing up the IN 1.5 issues that we had with the game, it's very important to remember what Infold have since done to rectify those problems, as I do not see a lot of people talking about this within the conversation.
1. All of these problems were fixed, the current patch was extended by a short amount of time to deal with the immediate issues, and ongoing fixes to the performance of the game have been completed in the year since 1.5. Players were compensated & given regular updates.
2. An epilepsy warning, whilst brief, has been added to the beginning of the game upon load up.
3. In my personal opinion, the rewards for free-to-play payers have improved to a reasonable level. This opinion is obviously going to vary player to player. We also received plenty of free outfits, but depending on the size of the patch, between 2-8+.
4. We were eventually listened to, apologised to, and given promises for the game to be fixed. It has been. And promised that this wouldn't happen again. It hasn't.
5. Now that the game is a year and a half old, there is a much higher variety of 5* paid banners.
6. Whilst we have not currently seen a resolution to this, and many players are still unhappy that the beginning of 1.0s story no longer exists within the game, the story team has done an excellent job over the past year of developing the story into something that we all enjoy & love, even if the original story is not there.
The main crux of the problem seems to be with the release of the "threads of reunion outfit" shown at the start of the game - we have been promised that this will come at some point in the games development.
7. We now receive regular communication about updates, the state of the game, progress, what's coming next, and live streams for big patches a few days in advance. We're not happy that we're still getting previews for new banners 2-4 days before launch, but we highly doubt this will ever change as they do this across all their games.
8. Events have improved, it's still spotty within some patches, but for the most part we're happy with the events that we are getting.
I understand the very valid criticism of Infold right now, I think it's important to remember that with the IN boycott in 1.5, most of our issues, problems and concerns have been resolved. As a player myself, I really hope the same for LADs.
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Baxter solo Animo a los personajes, ¿verdad? lo de atrás es solo las lineas vectoriales del modelo 3D del edificio... ¿cierto? si no es asi entonces el tipo me engaño durante toda mi vida, el resultado final tiene que estar retocado con CGI, si no, es alucinante.