Worm wrote:Honestly, just sell the game back to Seatribe (Jorb&Loftar) so they can pass to someone else, or sell it to someone who actually cares about Salem and wants to improve it. This game is left in a vegetative state for a such long time that I believe that JC's silence cannot be justified by any means no matter how "busy" he is, there is no goodwill intention of leaving the game to rot.
Amen, but their ego has always been very high. They never removed or roll-backed patches the community hated. They instead straight up told us to soak it up and if we started whining more, it'd be even worse
True development has been dead since 2015, basically they gave this game a full year of proper development and ever since its been super bad, poorer since than Jorb and Loftar ever did.
In compensation for that, they have added more store items and such. Things which never were a thing for example raising the murder skill to insane levels, basically forcing to buy it. Then throw-away alts. Other than that, they added all the unique items which gave a serious boost to your gardening, farming, mining, carpeting etc...
So a lot more transactions for ''pay for convenience''. The first few years, they surely must have regained the development costs due to the fact that people would not even be in the top 10 with in-game purchases over $500.
Then they unbalanced all the raiding and pvp ****, focused on base-building and hermit skills and things to do for them. Added a flawed expedition mentality, never admitted any of their mistakes or their direction of the game. Now the game is broken on almost all aspects and the only logical thing to do would be a complete wipe with a new server alongside many new changes/tweaks to fix this game from the state they put it in.
Ofcourse none of the care-bears want that and since they are pretty much the only ones that remain to this date, it aint gonna happen, nor does any of this game motivate the devs anymore. All the people they interacted with have either quit, turned against them or moved on to something else by now. Its a vicious circle and making a similar move like Jorb & Loftar providing this game with another chance, will be highly unlikely due to most likely the ego.