The new layout..well...I've been trying to be open minded to change if its an improvement, but i do have some issues with this.
Nothing that has not been mentioned before but mainly..and this is a biggie
the decline of the social aspect.
I am sure that a lot of us value the friendships and contacts we make here as one of the main attractions to the game, the comments and notes we exchange are part of the daily ritual and why we set aside some time each day to vote for each other in the first place, to keep in touch.
i want my friends tab back please, and not have to search for my friends.
it takes me several clicks per person to vote for people in this layout and i always enjoyed reading comments others left for my friends as i do my dailies,because they are my friends too.
its a great way to keep up with what everyone is up to at first glance, not hidden away somewhere.( who has time for that with school,work..life in general)
the less social interaction we have the less incentive there is to spend so much money on quests and time designing because showing it off and getting feedback is more then half the fun that keeps us interested in updating I would imagine.
At any rate it would be a LOT cheaper to buy a single player in the store if i didn't care about the people's reaction and interaction.
and yes i have to agree with willow, flashing distractions on the page take away from the primary focus..our loft designs and having a relaxing time here.

Well.. first of all, i'm not an english person, my english is so poor, so sorry.
But i really wanted to comment this.
I really hate the new desing!
It's like "another game" that all of us know
This is like stardollz!
here in this Oh my dollz the Forum is "better" than spanish one, here there are no truble or fights, and now i'm here because i want Feerik's CHANGE ... OMD is not like before, this is plagiarism! and i know that is a trouble to said that because it's dangerous for the company that someone accused them of plagiarism!
I'm not here looking for a war , i'm here because i wanted the old oh my dollz game!
I'm here because omd has changed in a plastic moder game like others, I DON'T WANTED THIS! I WANTED TO BE PART OF A DIFFERENT GAME LIKE BEFORE!
Please the only thing i ask is that you think about it!

  I can't say I like it.  It's way too busy.  I have very slow dial-up and with everything trying to load at once I can barely play.  That's why I loved the last look.  I could load each page  and actually get to see.  The background is so white and bright it give me a headache.

Feerik fixed PoneeVallee so well that I had to quit play since I can't even load loggin.  Now, this seems to be going the same way.  Why did you feel the need to change yet again?

Last edited by silverbast (2013-01-10 00:36:37)

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but what about our "medias" where we download videos?  Will that be returned?

missratchet wrote:
Where can I reset my loft?? Does anyone know?

Try this... hopefully, it works!

anyamalfoy wrote:
One thing I'm sad to see go is the rest my loft button. I need to rearrange a whole room because of the left align doll and instead of clicking that button it's going to be rather a long process.

n0regrets wrote:
A lot of the things that seem obvious to us, may be a simple matter of more "hands on" experience "in game", like the Loft Reset... that's a big one!!!  I hope it is just a temporary oversight... but in the meantime you can use:

My Things --> Sort by room --> Accept --> Select all items --> Move to: whatever-room-you-are-in --> Accept.

Last edited by n0regrets (2013-01-10 15:29:54)

it's very... busy. a lot going on in the profile area. i personally liked having 'my who am i' tucked away? the bigger loft window is nice.

i don't mind change, it's clutter i'm not fond of. i like sites i use to be more open and clean, relaxing to my eyes, not confuse them of where to look. no need to fill every blank space with something.

while the large window for the room viewing is nice, that's about the only thing that I like so far (that, and the new more items per page for the Store page, hope they add that feature to the My Things soon)

the title, ID corner card and tab buttons are not that bad, but something other than silver and white would have been easier on the eyes.



as for the cluttered humdrum under the loft page (HIM, Comments, Friends and so on) they could have kept the last design's template working. maybe have it where the HIM page is the default setting that you view under the loft, and then you can choose to see the comments, friends, and so on with the tabs.

in any case, the idea is kinda ok to get used to, but the overall execution is sloppy.

what Feerik really should start doing is beta testing through players. give an option for players to test any new layers within a 6 month time frame and then give constructive feedback that not only helps the players stay happy, but also help keep Feerik on the right track in keeping those players from deciding they no longer wanna play.



site designing is a rough job. it takes great care and consideration to not only make it look good, but also keep it user friendly and vision friendly for people to stay on.



if Feerik doesn't be careful, then it's going to lose a lot of players.

Still having issues with everything loading at once, but, wanted to say thank you anyway.  The new expanded loft view is excellent.  The lack of flashy and annoying advertisements is fantastic.  The new store layout makes shopping so much easier.

My thoughts:
Really like:
- the wider screen for our loft
- not having to switch between pages to get to my page/comments/friends
- the little arrow on the right that takes you back to the top of page
- top links stay when you scroll down
- pop up letting you know when you get a new message
- widescreen shopping
- wia doesn't seem to be as glitchy (as far as i've noticed anyway)

Bit Confusing:
- sign out button
- random comments on different pages like "As a godmother, I get gifts."  Doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since it takes you to the page to invite your friends.  Why not just make the link say "Invite Friends"

Could use some tweaking..
- the ad on our pages.  Would prefer it to be removed but that's prob wishful thinking.  At least move it down.
- the My Votes section should be moved further up, people visit each other to vote & leave comments, not that its hard to scroll.. but would be much nicer to see/more convenient than that ad.
- to be able to view the full comment instead of having to click on the my com'z section.  There does appear to be room to make the section larger to fit it in.

I'll be honest, the new design is nice...kind of...and certainly took a lot of work to programme...but I hate it, I really do.

I didn't have time to log into this game for months and when I finally had and saw THIS- I just thought that I'll never come back.

It's understandable that you want us to spend more and more money on ohmydollz. But being the stubborn person I am, the big flashy BUY BUY BUY everywhere...it's not good.
While some changes may be good (the bigger view of the loft for example), the others are so horrible that they make me forgot about good things. Everything is too flashy, too pink, too much! ~everything screams WE WANT YOUR MONEY! SPEND IT! I was pleased with the older, more subtle ways- thank you very much.

I know that on this site are a lot of mature players (I'm one of them) and until now everything was more classy. Now it seems to be designed for...I honestly don't know who exactly. Ultra-hyper-pink-flashy-glitter is a bit too much for me.
Maybe I will check all my theme-dollz whom I've spent a bit real life money too buy feez...But I don't really think so. Call me too old for this page or whatever but I won't do something that I don't like.

Good luck to you all with getting used with the new design and goodbye too!:)

Well, I don't know much about screen resolution & what works best.
I have a 17 inch laptop screen & my resolution is 1600x900.  I can see everything fine on my screen..

I'm set at 1280 x 768 and I don't have many issues with normal things on OMD.
However I can't zoom in anymore for the small stuff. It won't scroll to the left anymore and that's where the doll is!

PROS:
1) L-O-V-E the "Special Offers" section on the "NEWS" page... something I long thought should have been incorporated into a "task" bar!  I'd like it to be a little bigger... I'm sure some players breeze right past the "NEWS" page without really looking.

Thank you ^.^ I was thrilled to see that not only did you make the "Special Offers" bar bigger... we can now see it from multiple pages, not just "News".  This will make it so much easier to keep track of the countdown timer... as well as quickly access the promotions!

CONS:
4) Loft window/Doll attributes (username/flirt title/level/career/stars) header... I find seeing "peeks" of the background through, and between, these areas VERY distracting!  I would love to see them "joined" together/"framed" out with some sort of solid border/blocking... like the preview picture of Sarah's loft.

Another thank you. It's a subtle change, but sometimes small things can make a big difference... especially when one of the main player complaints about the new layout is how "busy" it is! This does help ^.^

GRAMMAR:
4) When viewing another dollz comments:  "Comments from (should be "for") dollz-name-here.

This may be nit-picky, but this continues to drive me cRaZy.  Comments "from" n0regrets would be comments that I left, not comments I received.  I continue to think that this should be "comments to" or "comments for".  Consider a memo or e-mail header:

To:  Recipient (in this case, doll getting the message)
From:  Sender (in this case, doll leaving the comment)

I even checked the wording for the "Comments" section on the French site, where it is:

Commentaires de n0regrets (which the best translation for is: Comments of n0regrets... but translators are not known for their perfect accuracy :P)

Anyhow, thank you for the continued additions and design tweaks... they are not going unnoticed!  Now if only we could get that "Vote Both" button (hint ~.* hint)