tresselle wrote:

I wish these players would stop designing for this game. The game is now updated mainly by players & the lookbook is old quest & store items put together. I'll understand if players creations are used occasionally but they're presenting what normal players have been doing for years so it's nothing special. We are the cause of the way we've been treated by Feerik, because we keep sugar coating their behaviour & being careful not to criticize when something is wrong. Why can't they come out with an announcement like the Bimbo game? .On the Bimbo game (even though they don't use flash), they announced last month they would stop updating regularly & they would be making further announcements in March, why can't this game do the same thing? Anyway they have very little hope of surviving because they've lost a lot of french players.

They actually did. It was posted on the French forums and someone posted it in Dollz Discussions as well somewhere.

@ Darkelfqueen, I saw that announcement here & on the french forum but it was a vague reply & not direct like other game announcements. A lot of french players & 2 or 3 store designers have said they have lost motivation due to the state of the game & lack of response to questions asked. Feerik has already lost a lot of players, how will they get them back if they decide to revive the game?
Announcement Links https://us.ohmydollz.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=12408 https://us.ohmydollz.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=12589

I fear for the future of the game now. I do like the fact that we can revisit old quests, but every week??? No. I'd be spending around 2000+ OMD a month on quests if I did everything.

The lookbook is okay... I'm not a fan of usermade outfits as I've said before because they're often cluttered or simple enough that we can make it ourselves without spending so much...

tresselle wrote:

I wish these players would stop designing for this game.

This comment made me sad. I've been one of the players who has entered a few of my creations into these event because I simply want to help out a game that I like and is going through some tough times - just like how a friend would help out another friend who is going through a rough spot in their life. Crap happens. In the end, this is just a game that people use to get away from the real world for a few minutes in a long day. Your world shouldn't revolve around it. It's negative comments that I keep reading that make me just want to give up on this game, and I would think other players would feel the same way: They read about how much others are angry or sad that the game seems to be going nowhere fast, or even ones who say they wish the game would just die already instead of this 'slow death'. Steadily these players decide to leave, because what's the point in staying on when so many others think OMD is dead?

And that's the main question: What is the point of staying? Why do YOU play OMD?

I've been playing this game since a year after it came out, so I've been here for a long time. It was just a simple game with a few permanent flirts and a few shop updates every month. Special flirts came later, followed by quests that would happen I think every other month, which became every month - which became every other week! It was maddening! The game used to be fun because I could save up enough to buy some items in the stores as well as do a quest. Suddenly I couldn't do that anymore. I could barely save enough for a quest, especially if something caught my eye in a store. I know to many, who spent real money for $$, that wasn't an issue...but for me it was. I continued to play because, well, I really liked being able to decorate my rooms and experiment with different outfits; or make a new doll to represent a character that I like. Decorating my loft for the holidays is so much easier in-game than in real life :)  Although making an outfit takes longer in-game :D

Now with the game having less new content and only old quests, this is my chance to save enough and finally, finally, FINALLY get those items I've been wanting for years. Yes, years. Because I can still decorate my rooms and I can still experiment with new outfits. That's why I stay and continue playing OMD.

I do think that the Mods over on the French forums are a bit too strict, many players just want to vent their frustrations  and point some things out, but are quickly shut down. I also think that if players such as myself help with the LOOKBOOK, then the prices should not be as high as they are; that's the main reason why I don't do the LOOKBOOK: the prices are ridiculous. I think I see what could be one of my creations (the dark-skinned model in the third tier Summer Bal) but I can't tell and no one wants to post who the creators are, since there is so much hate about player creations at present, and having to spend 200-some dollars just to see if  the model is mine or not would be beyond silly. There are a few little creations that I think are really cute, but I really wish they would bring the prices down. The new Baroque outfit it really pretty, but 500 is a bit too much for me - I'd snatch it up if it was only 200 or 250. Or if one of my dolls had 1000 on them.

I'll be amazed if people actually read all this that I typed out.

I personally don't care for what other people made, especially at those prices and nothing can make me spend my over 2k $$$ on that. I think they burned themselves out with the frequency of quests... I wish they kept it to events and every month thing so people could save up for those and enjoy other things as well. I too use the constant replays to finally do quests that I missed but stuff like this made me loose faith in OMD. Especially the loss of the event quests. I look forward to the halloween one every single year and... When there wasn't one I was about to quit... Actually I'm just waiting for my VIP to expire and will see from there if we see any progress or they abandoned dollz like they did ponies...  Also all n all it's a dressup game, if simple HTML forums can have dressup avatars without flash there are ways to keep that aspect to dollz. I just wish they didn't leave this impression that they packed up and left the game as a whole. Seeing the room does give me some hope, it means some one out there is still creating for dollz but will it last?

If it's really that difficult to convert the entire website into another format, maybe the team should look for outside help? They obviously need to keep a steady flow of income with the quests being every week and 1 lookbook per month, if it's that hard to multitask they need help from others to help the site stay alive or help get it to another platform before it's too late.
Another website I still go on ended their services years ago, but still kept the site up for it to slowly go out while running flash, but if Adobe is really getting rid of flash, it'll be gone and I don't want OMD to go down the same path of being abandoned and slowly fading out and then being unplayable.
There has to be something that can be done. So many of us have invested in OMD for years, it shouldn't go to waste.

orangemaid wrote:

@lady0filia - Well, I read it all, too! I've not been here near so long - and I'm a horrible, lazy player who only works and buys stuff in game, never decorate my rooms, etc so I can't say my opinion is worth much (Though that chapter you think your design is in is one of 3 I'd consider getting, is your's just the doll figure, or the dress, or both?)

Just the doll. Someone on the French forum FINALLY posted the items in bigger format and I think the model may be my Sarahspells creation (they didn't say who created what.) Funny thing is, I didn't enter that into the Valentine event, but the Christmas one, so it surprised and confused me.

I do agree that it's not the best idea to always ask the players to create stuff for the game; but if the team that works on OMD is small and they can't, somehow, get help from more people, then I do believe I am helping in some way - because while they are spending all their work hours getting the game to work on something other than Flash, there is still interesting, if not new, content being put out for the game. However, there is so much hate towards these events now that the wiser thing to do is to STOP doing these player creation events; all it does is make players angrier and more likely to leave.

rosered86 wrote:

I did the whole lookbook, if anyone wants to see what the new room looks like you can see it on my account.

thanks! and that's a lovely room.