Posted by: YaelleG
I Feel Like LDW Has Kept Me From Becoming Bitter - 03/05/12 09:19 PM
Hello......I am a long, long time fan/user of most of the LDW games. I used to be in these forums everyday. Took a little time off....I tell you what me to thinking about Fish Tycoon and all of the Virtual Villagers games.
Disclaimer: I didnt sleep last night. Not a wink. So if it shows....lol
I've been playing a lot of Farmville the past 2.5 years (or so) & for someone like me, and the very close knit group of 30 or so other players that I'm involved with. I have a few hundred Farmville neighbors, most of whom were total strangers added to my Facebook just so we could play together. Over time, some of us would begin chatting with each other, talk literally several (many) times per day every single day about any & everything and we are all sickeningly obsessed with that game LOL. Makes me feel better knowing that not only am I not alone, but neither are they. There are a LOT of players. Or at least there were.....that brings me to my point.
I cannot help mentally comparing the guys at LDW to the um....people at Zynga. My time & experience with Last Day of Work as a customer was in every way the exact opposite of most things I've felt/noticed dealing with Zynga and their games. I remember coming in here & seeing alll the time and care and sweat put into the games by Arthur and all of those guys...and thats saying something because whatever the first game was that I ever played of theirs (it was either VV1 or Fish Tycoon) came out immediately after my brain surgery & I was the definition of cognitive impairement. (In the VA hospital, where I spent 6 months of 2010, my nickname was 50. As in 50 First Dates - cuz I cant remember anything......lol anyway)
So you know how you get a physical sensation sometimes when remembering something? I feel all warm & fuzzy and very pleasant when I think of everything to do with this company and I've never felt that before. My bitter experience with Farmville - a game I truly LOVE. I mean I LOVE farmville - I spend $20 each & every month on it. $20 is not a ton of money but a. its a game, and b. its a game that can be paid for free if one chooses. So my point in saying how much I love FV is that for every little nugget of pleasure I get out of playing with imaginary trees, I feel that much resentment and disgust for the company that runs the game. Its just that up until a week or two ago I was seriously becoming So embittered with gaming in general. That'll happen when you spend a few hours a day every day (I am only 35 but I'm medically retired from the Navy so I've got the time!) a few hours every day in a game where they literally try their hardest to mess over customers. (think I'm wrong? Go to the Zynga forums or elsewhere & read some of the user feedback.)
Soooo if I have made any sense here, basically I'm trying to say these guys here at LDW are SUCH breath of fresh air. And I'm glad I remembered.
I have Fish Tycoon here on my Macbook Pro but I havent been able to play for hte past 18-24 months or so because my game always resets itself. But I began playing it on my iPhone again this weekend so its all good.
Disclaimer: I didnt sleep last night. Not a wink. So if it shows....lol
I've been playing a lot of Farmville the past 2.5 years (or so) & for someone like me, and the very close knit group of 30 or so other players that I'm involved with. I have a few hundred Farmville neighbors, most of whom were total strangers added to my Facebook just so we could play together. Over time, some of us would begin chatting with each other, talk literally several (many) times per day every single day about any & everything and we are all sickeningly obsessed with that game LOL. Makes me feel better knowing that not only am I not alone, but neither are they. There are a LOT of players. Or at least there were.....that brings me to my point.
I cannot help mentally comparing the guys at LDW to the um....people at Zynga. My time & experience with Last Day of Work as a customer was in every way the exact opposite of most things I've felt/noticed dealing with Zynga and their games. I remember coming in here & seeing alll the time and care and sweat put into the games by Arthur and all of those guys...and thats saying something because whatever the first game was that I ever played of theirs (it was either VV1 or Fish Tycoon) came out immediately after my brain surgery & I was the definition of cognitive impairement. (In the VA hospital, where I spent 6 months of 2010, my nickname was 50. As in 50 First Dates - cuz I cant remember anything......lol anyway)
So you know how you get a physical sensation sometimes when remembering something? I feel all warm & fuzzy and very pleasant when I think of everything to do with this company and I've never felt that before. My bitter experience with Farmville - a game I truly LOVE. I mean I LOVE farmville - I spend $20 each & every month on it. $20 is not a ton of money but a. its a game, and b. its a game that can be paid for free if one chooses. So my point in saying how much I love FV is that for every little nugget of pleasure I get out of playing with imaginary trees, I feel that much resentment and disgust for the company that runs the game. Its just that up until a week or two ago I was seriously becoming So embittered with gaming in general. That'll happen when you spend a few hours a day every day (I am only 35 but I'm medically retired from the Navy so I've got the time!) a few hours every day in a game where they literally try their hardest to mess over customers. (think I'm wrong? Go to the Zynga forums or elsewhere & read some of the user feedback.)
Soooo if I have made any sense here, basically I'm trying to say these guys here at LDW are SUCH breath of fresh air. And I'm glad I remembered.
I have Fish Tycoon here on my Macbook Pro but I havent been able to play for hte past 18-24 months or so because my game always resets itself. But I began playing it on my iPhone again this weekend so its all good.