Fellow Grepoholics,
I have just been speaking to an Innogame representative on facebook and from their response it's clear that they will not change their decision (I will post the responses below). Now it's time for the players to decide how they want to proceed. There are only 4 outcomes that come to my mind:
1. No one builds a WW and the things remain the same. At the same time we show this company that we do not take dictations.
2. Two groups form on the server one trying to build wonders and the other doing what it can to break them.
3. We forget that this is a war game and settle our scores by simming. This will see players quit in rapid successions those who are left will leave immediately after one of the alliances make the four wonders and the server dies. (As has happened so many times before, the outcome Inno is expecting)
4. Most player just leave and the server is dead anyways, thus Innogames achieving it's ultimate goal but without making any further profits.
I will personally delete my account unless we decide on option 1 and might stick around if it's culmenates that we are heading for option 2. Either way, Innogames has once again played an effective part is running this game for me and many others, I made the mistake of coming back once but not going to happen again.
My fellow grepoholics I hope that we can set aside the rivalries to come to a decision and get back to playing the game we really enjoy.
Regards,
NKH
Responce from Innogames
NKH:
It would be appreciated if one of the decision makers at Inno come along to the Grepolis forum and defend their decision to introduce World Wonders to the Hero Worlds that too against the wishes of its customers. The same customers who bring money to this company. Have the decency to actually address the concerns of your paying customers rather than hiding behind unpaid moderators. Have some regard for the people who actually made your company to what it is now... YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!
InnoGames:
Hello, we want our games to be fun for everyone, both paying and not paying players. Also, we are always open for feedback and ideas from our players out there. The decision making is not done by one single person, every topic is discussed both internally in the game team as well as in the community. We are glad that we were able to implement a lot of cool and well liked features in the past and will be able to go on with that in the future, but like in many other things in life people´s ideas and wishes vary.
NKH:
Well sadly this time the community, i.e. your customers, were not a part of a decision. I understand that you are running a business and maintaining profits is a top priority.
At this point I do not care about what happens to the game but what this company seems to lack is public relations. Dictating the customers is not a good way of running the business. One expects that the company they are paying to would atleast give some regard to the opinion of its customers.
As for varying ideas and wishes it's clear that the only wishes that matter are those of the company and the same goes for ideas.
InnoGames:
We are sorry that you are disappointed, but in the same time we always have to consider different opinions from different players. In giving you the chance to post and discuss your views in the game forums, we actually give regard to your opinion. Still, being a company with 120 million registered players, it is not always possible to fully satisfy every single one of them when we make decisions as a professional company. We hope that you will find the upcoming features more appealing. Have a nice day.
NKH:
I would agree to this statement if the players that were being affected by this decision were actually consulted. That never happened. As for the upcoming features, I like many others will not become a part of those.