If "bug" is defined as an unintentional programming mistake, then I guess it's a bug because INNO says that the extra 35% was not intended. What puzzles me is why did it take six months for them to figure this out? Players on the Beta Forum were discussing the extra attack boost back in July. In addition, can you explain why no announcement was made? Besides, of course, the post from LeCron that, IMO, only happened because I asked the question. If all of this were on the "up and up" INNO would have gotten out in front of this.
I My bad it was 35% all along. darn I am dumb.I looked at my screenshot in one city and yup it was 35%.
A bug is always an unintentional programming mistake. No one intends to make a programming mistake.
Because it did? Maybe it took 6 months for there to be enough with the boost see the effect it was having and to reach the decision that, despite the blowback, they need to remove the boost from the game.
Because very few were affected by the change? Why tell players they're removing a boost everyone except the spenders wouldn't have seen for 2 years? Better to deal with it one by one as the issue is raised to support, or make an announcement as needed when players come to the forum to cry it out.
Ah, yes. More nefarious motives. What was there to get in front of? Even if they'd sent an in game message to all those with level 14 and 15 Castles, you still wouldn't have got the message as you're not affected. How many players even know the change happened? If unaffected, why do they need to know?
Fact check - TRUE
And this is where all of you are going wrong in your faulty argument. You paid for Diamonds. You got the Diamonds. They didn't take back the Diamonds, therefore you are owed no compensation. In addition to the Diamonds you paid for, you got free Castle points. An extra bonus that Inno initiated at no cost to players. As a result of the free Castle points, your Castle level was raised to the max, giving you many, many tangible resources and multiple boosts and cost reductions and time reductions of every sort. Again, at no cost to players. Then, as has happened many, many times in the game's history, Inno decided that there needed to be an adjustment for game balance. Sometimes they announce these, sometimes they don't. This time they didn't. So what. If your city is crippled by the loss of this minor boost, then you've got bigger problems. If the loss of this minor boost makes you quit to find a new game, bye Felicia. If it makes you stop buying Diamonds, good for you. I doubt that any regular spenders are going to let this blip slow their spending habits. And finally, if any of you actually did buy the Diamonds for the express purpose of getting that extra little boost, I have several investment opportunities I'd like to talk to you about.
I was seriously considering going back to buying diamonds for it at the time. And yes it would have been purely for the castle. Didn't end up buying. But hey, what's those investment opportunities of yours?
For the Castle, yes. But not merely for that extra boost. That is my point. All these people are making it sound like that boost is the only reason they spent $1600 on Diamonds. And that losing that one little boost is a major catastrophe. It's rather pathetic, really. I bet they really hate it when their internet speeds never match what companies advertise. And that actually is something that they pay directly for, unlike this boost.
Sorry, dude, it's just my natural reaction when people keep pointing at a scratch and saying it's a mortal wound.
You don’t know that. The boost doubled the attacking stat at lvl 13
Yes I do. Nobody pays $1600 for a 35% attack boost in a computer game where regular players have attack boost in the several 100% to well over 1000%.
No, you don’t. There was only one reason I was considering it at all, and that’s because it was pointed out to me that the stat doubles at lvl 13.
Also the argument of $1,600 inherently assumes those aiming for lvl 13 even bothered to do the math on what the total cost would amount to and didn’t just go “shiny new toy
Thank you for confirming my premise that all the Castle Points offer did was pull diamond purchases forward in time. "Bulk up early" as you put it. I also like how you then proceed to tell us how valuable it is even without the extra boost, "just the daily FPs alone." Sucks to lose a boost, but hardly the "sky is falling" moment folks have made it out to be.