DeletedUser2757
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As it seems many of us have reached the point of spending as much or more time talking about this game as actually playing it, I invite imaginative speculation as to the real explanation for WHY the developers have implemented the apparently illogical changes to the game recently.
It's been repeatedly pointed out on many other threads that the changes reduce income for Inno, drive new and existing players away, make the game less fun and more tedious, and generally baffle those who enjoy solving a good puzzle. And the stock response by developer representatives and apologists that these changes were needed for "balance" makes as much sense as the answer to the old "How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?" joke. (It's "fish".)
One theory is that Inno gave the developers the heads up that the plug would be pulled on our favorite little browser game at the end of the year, so the Elvenar devs went nuts monkeying with specs for larks and giggles. But if the Snow Flurry Event starts next week and lasts 35 days, that means the game will be continuing into the coming year -- scratch that one.
Other ideas I've heard run the gamut from the Elvenar developers lost a bet with devs from other Inno games and had to introduce the wacky alterations, to alien abduction/influence. My personal favorite currently is that the entirety of Elvenar is actually some grad student's sociological research project, and I can't wait to read the final thesis with all the statistical analysis of player reactions to various stimuli . . .
Anyone else got a pet hypothesis?
It's been repeatedly pointed out on many other threads that the changes reduce income for Inno, drive new and existing players away, make the game less fun and more tedious, and generally baffle those who enjoy solving a good puzzle. And the stock response by developer representatives and apologists that these changes were needed for "balance" makes as much sense as the answer to the old "How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?" joke. (It's "fish".)
One theory is that Inno gave the developers the heads up that the plug would be pulled on our favorite little browser game at the end of the year, so the Elvenar devs went nuts monkeying with specs for larks and giggles. But if the Snow Flurry Event starts next week and lasts 35 days, that means the game will be continuing into the coming year -- scratch that one.
Other ideas I've heard run the gamut from the Elvenar developers lost a bet with devs from other Inno games and had to introduce the wacky alterations, to alien abduction/influence. My personal favorite currently is that the entirety of Elvenar is actually some grad student's sociological research project, and I can't wait to read the final thesis with all the statistical analysis of player reactions to various stimuli . . .
Anyone else got a pet hypothesis?