Lvl 400 "Expert Trainer"

28 Posts

I agree with Heather. The gem Guy needs to be somehow added to the store button below. I also miss the red potion bottle that filled friends' energy packs. Now I have to beg my friends for energy.

Lvl 184 "Carnival Ace"

1 Post

Geee thanks for making me play this till i figured out you need more friends to play before you can get anywhere i only have one friend that plays it, i will be removing the app from my facebook page but i will still play the orginal BW

37 Posts

i dislike adding friends to help with playing these games, so the fact that i have to add multiple ppl to continue playing this game is sad, it might just turn me away, i used the few bush bucks i got in the start to pass thru the need for friends but i don't have any more now and i need like 6 friends to get to the field 5 in the first world.....its time for me to decide whether to continue on or not with BW2. I like BW1 however.

41 Posts

[cut and pasted from another thread]

I would just like to point out that you do not speak for everyone and there will be players because the vocal minority [but game majority] are liking this game/having no problems, and therefore see no reason to use the forums.

Also - the dev's HAVE responded, in other threads. :)

Lvl 425 "Always Questing"

9 Posts

OK, read below. I received my answer. They want $100 to about $150 a year from each game player that can't come up with 7 to 10 friends who play and won't stop playing. That seems a bit excessive but I appreciate a real answer and I understand people can't work for free.

Lvl 20 "Hero to the Downtrodden!"
397 Posts

Link to post - Posted Monday at 10:08 AM
David Whittaker (DJArts Games)
Hi Bernie,

As I posted in the other thread:

The bottom line is we are small team that works exceptionally hard to make the best games we can. In the past we have given away that work in a more "free" fashion. That has not worked out in our favor. The majority of Facebook games require the invite of friends on a much greater level than we do.

It is our position that having a handful of friends playing (7 to 10), or paying a few real dollars ($2 or $3) for around a weeks worth of game content (or a combination of the two) is both generous (compared to a lot of other games) and fair.

-David

Lvl 425 "Always Questing"

9 Posts

Dear D'JArts. I really meant it when I said I appreciated the honest answer. It makes my decision about putting time or money into a game much easier if based on facts unlike many other games out there. You also are offering options to cut the money potion down considerably as long as I willingly put in the time to find friends who will play. It's not your fault that many loner's have flocked to your first game just because we didn't have to have friends who played. I paid $15 a month or $180 a year to play WOW, alone as much as was possible. Now you are not in the level of WOW but you have a much smaller fan base to work with so the option to basically play for almost free if we are willing to find others who will play as well seems amazingly fair. I think the real problem here is the place we have to find those friends is facebook.

Lvl 242 "Crazy Cat Lover"

32 Posts

Ok. I don't mind having to have friends who play, that is how a game grows surely, and no one expects a free ride. You need friends on the original format too, to give you energy and help you with the ogre and the treasure chest so I see no difference there. And games have to make MONEY, that is the whole point. However, to make money should not be the main aim of a game (and IMHO this is where ALL game developers are going wrong) The main aim of a game should be enjoyment, not a cash input from the word go. Slowly slowly catchee monkey! You have to entice and enthral people with a game long before you start the financial thumb screws.

All that aside. The game itself. I HATE not being able to see a proper map. My memory is not the best so I find it highly frustrating trying to remember which way I have to go all the time. I don't like the format, its slow, the graphics are lazy and more than anything, its actually incredibly BORING. I know games take a while to get into themselves but I am bored rigid already. Its taken me two days to get 23/30 flowers! There is very slow progression. I never get anything using the orange power up and the mana is set at 4 no matter where I am. The call friends is only really any good if you have lots of friends who play.

A lesson to be learned here is that I played Eggbreaker for something insane like 700 days in a row, never missing a day from start to finish. I played Eggbreaker2 for 3 days and stopped because it was crap. I have played Bushwhacker since day 1 and was hooked, and spent real money and still look forward to playing (especially as there is a new quest this week for me to get my teeth into!) I will continue to play it for as long as there are special events and updates, and I will continue to buy bushbucks to help me get there faster. If you want to develop a new game DEVELOP A NEW GAME. Don't just revamp something that wasn't broken in the blind hope that idiots will just start playing that without even questioning its validity in the overcrowded gamers market. You could have launched something completely new (like you did with bushwhacker) and people would have been far more willing to play it because it was new. If you are out of ideas, employ people who are not out of ideas, but don't pin a very successful games name to something and expect comparisons not to be made.

I am unlikely to keep playing BW2 because it lacks any charm or longevity. Stick to BW1, use that platform to make more money instead of diluting it in the hope of a quick buck.

Lvl 440 "Workhorse"

10 Posts

DJ Arts tokens don't work...

Lvl 152 "Dispenser of Justice!"

2 Posts

remove the add a friend to pass obstacles. We know your greedy but your going to lose players to the first one. the 2nd is supposed to be better not worse.