If there was a "Like" button, I'd click it. Much agreed. Shame that people are spending more time and energy criticizing ideas than appreciating them. I like these new talents. Useful, fun, and creative.

I enjoy having a fun long-term idle game to play on the side. The way CE works to keep it fresh, keeps me happy to purchase chest packages from time to time.

Like Amanda said, it is really impressive how CNE handles both the game and the community with a small development team. Games are not easy to upkeep, and while a game like this certainly isn't anywhere near as complex as some AAA game, obviously, any game with regular updates takes a lot of effort. 14 staff members is a VERY small development team to not all even be working on a game, let alone the same game. Much respect for the effort put into both the game and the community acknowledgement.

I'd compare their player acknowledgment and friendliness to Artix Entertainment. They set the bar for friendly, wonderful developers. Their "work days" tend to consist of dressing up in armor from characters in their games and having play fights. That is part of their job! The CEO is a total lovable dork with an endless obsession for bad puns, and he says that when creating games like AdventureQuest, it is important to keep creativity and fun as priorities, and having fun on the job helps keep the staff creative, happy, and motivated. They refuse to use automated responses because they value every single piece of feedback they get from their many players, as well as almost every one of their games having a whole shop specifically meant for selling items that are player suggestions, always including credit for the player's username in the item description itself. The CEO was on American Ninja Warrior, a show for only the most athletic people, which Adam (the CEO) is not, but he was wearing PALADIN ARMOR (what his in-game character wears) for the challenge and failed immediately, falling into the water and then bursting out triumphantly. He knew he wouldn't get even close to winning, but it was something silly and fun. Because of this, he put a new armor in the game: "Scuba Paladin". That's the kind of silliness you can expect from the CEO of the company, but I think the crowning achievement that proves, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he is the best CEO and Artix Entertainment is the friendliest ever...

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On the site's update page, he invited ALL the players from all games to his WEDDING! Obviously the players would not be able to physically make it, so he posted a video of the wedding (which is amazingly nerdy is the most awesome ways imaginable) for everyone to see. He said "The Artix Entertainment fans have been just as big a part of my life as anyone attending my wedding, so you all deserve to be here as much as anyone else! Thank you all for letting me be a part of your life, and thank you all for your wonderful support over all these years!"

Adam Bohn (the CEO) is one of my favorite people on this planet, and I have never even personally met the guy. He's just that personal in his games that you still feel like you know him. I was an alpha tester for one of the new AE games, so I did actually get a chance to talk to Adam in the test servers, and he's just as silly and lovable in pseudo-person.

Devs are friendly. The t4 stuff is nice, thank you.. thank you very much.