It’s never sat right with me that usually ~9 out of the 12 “days of the spiral” are just new stuff in the crown shop. It’s not even gifts to appreciate the players. It’s just more stuff to buy.
KI is the physical embodiment of greed. They're literally Krampus, they take, take, take from their players every year without giving anything in return. It's a shame because I absolutely got hooked on this game when I was a kid. I'm a college student now and I truly love this game. All I want is to see this game flourish, but KI is digging it's grave and honestly makes me very sad.
Everyone seems to forget that MGI(Gamigo) bought this game not too long ago. Immediately after, all the paloozas and extra crowns sales stopped happening, and the game became a lot more money-oriented(i.e. Guild features being EXTREMELY hard to access, raid gear being buyable with crowns, etc).
You're making solid points. Felt this as a veteran playing from almost the beginning. The devs and the management is very incompetent. I don't know what the future of this game is especially with the dumpster fire the last few months have been for this game.
Theyre aware that the game is dying and know its past the point of ever being able to bring in a large/constant-flow of fresh playerbase to keep the game going. They dont invest in ads anymore as the older 2009-2016 KI employees did. Now theyre just saving face and milking its old remaining playerbase before it permanently crashes and burn.
I wanted to make a video on this topic but specifically the lack of crown sales. Looking back at earlier 12 days of the spiral genuinely saddens me, we had it so much better. And the mystery discount code bs needs to go
@@BlankOrbit Not only that, you can't combine it with the mystery discount anymore because they do the crown sale too early in the calendar. Also, they used to do the SUPER crown sale that had discounts up to 1200 crowns per $1.
i was thinking of getting back into this game after not playing for a few years but seems like now isnt a great time to play.. such a shame, really hope things improve soon
ngl KI should either fix the pack rates or bring back discounts because at this point almost nobody's gonna want to buy packs, much less bundles. I got 30% off with the mystery discount and got absolutely nothing from my school or anything I remotely wanted with 5,000 crowns even while not going for mounts. I've only bought 1 month of membership 4 times over 7 years so I'm pretty casual but it's still disheartening. The discount and small gift of crowns was nice but with how horrible the rates are it's so lackluster.
If you bought a membership during the 50% off first month of membership sale between 11/19/2024 and 11/25/2024, you would have had the double pet xp member benefit between 11/27/2024 and 12/1/2024
KI definitely could be running more member benefits at the same time. Realistically, I don't see any reason as to why they aren't running all of them for a long time. I feel like that would be a good reason to convince more people to purchase a membership during this time of the year. Unfortunately, the palooza sales had to go despite how great they were for the community. Joel and Greg said in the discord that despite inflation constantly raising prices, Joel had to sacrifice certain deals such as the pack-a-palooza and the bundle-a-palooza in order to prevent the prices of memberships from rising, which I think is pretty fair. I would imagine that if people in the community saw membership prices raise along with inflation, the game would would begin spiraling to it's death.
Damn, you sound emotional. None of us want the game to die but it seems to be going down a slippery slope. I remember having a lot of fun with this game, now its all about profit. (talk about the crown rewards event)
Sorta holiday related but I don’t hear this talked about ever: I look forward to the Veteran’s Day item every year. W101 is the only game I know of that actively participates on a regular basis that ISNT JUST A DISCOUNT and that fact alone should receive praise. For their faults that’s one reason I’ve stood by and fought for this game to get its act together. They have their hearts in the right place but they need to evict their current brain worm soon
Saw Ratbeard call a player a "garbage sweat" for being on the 1st page of the PvP leaderboards in Wizard101 discord PvP channel today 😂. Seems like the professionalism between ACTUAL KI game employees and its playerbase is nonexistent. Ive NEVER seen any gaming company EVER communicate with its playerbase (let alone at all for that matter so directly) be extremely disrespectful. Regardless of his tone. The game is dying and these new employees seem to just not care and have accepted their new system of milking as much out of its remaining playerbase before they call it quits in a couple years.
I think the Wiz awards were great! If yall would have me id love to be involved in them and help out with them next year. Maybe have it in front of an in game audience, more categories like “Wiz video of the year” “Upcoming creator of the year” stuff like that.
@@lifedeather I wish I could tell you exactly where it’s from but I’m not too sure, I think the robe is from the jade oni and the hat is from yokai but I might be wrong. Google elegant insignia gear w101 and it should come up. The boots should be in the bazaar and the wand is from malistaire
they don't want to actually improve the game, they're just trying to make as much money as possible. They've killed school identity, something that was integral to the game. Ruined the bazaar, to crush a community built thing like the EMP black market instead of actually trying to improve player trading. I wish a better company could buy wizard101 to save it, the future for this game doesn't look bright and it's so sad because I love this game.
Nah, enough talk, ACT ACT ACT ACT ACT ACT, once more ACT What will our action be? That's the question. Talking gets us nowhere, you can't out talk a game master it's their game. We need to act, to get anything done.
It’s never sat right with me that usually ~9 out of the 12 “days of the spiral” are just new stuff in the crown shop. It’s not even gifts to appreciate the players. It’s just more stuff to buy.
KI is the physical embodiment of greed. They're literally Krampus, they take, take, take from their players every year without giving anything in return. It's a shame because I absolutely got hooked on this game when I was a kid. I'm a college student now and I truly love this game. All I want is to see this game flourish, but KI is digging it's grave and honestly makes me very sad.
I'd feel more hopeful because their downfall will be just the start for Wiz101 players, as fan servers will show up and do us good all for free.
The game is still physically here, but spiritually it died a long time ago.
Everyone seems to forget that MGI(Gamigo) bought this game not too long ago. Immediately after, all the paloozas and extra crowns sales stopped happening, and the game became a lot more money-oriented(i.e. Guild features being EXTREMELY hard to access, raid gear being buyable with crowns, etc).
You never know how good you have it until its gone
You're making solid points. Felt this as a veteran playing from almost the beginning. The devs and the management is very incompetent. I don't know what the future of this game is especially with the dumpster fire the last few months have been for this game.
Theyre aware that the game is dying and know its past the point of ever being able to bring in a large/constant-flow of fresh playerbase to keep the game going. They dont invest in ads anymore as the older 2009-2016 KI employees did. Now theyre just saving face and milking its old remaining playerbase before it permanently crashes and burn.
I wanted to make a video on this topic but specifically the lack of crown sales. Looking back at earlier 12 days of the spiral genuinely saddens me, we had it so much better. And the mystery discount code bs needs to go
@@Ralatch yeah I didn’t even think about the $60 for 60,000 and $80 for 80,000. Just disappointing
@@BlankOrbit Not only that, you can't combine it with the mystery discount anymore because they do the crown sale too early in the calendar. Also, they used to do the SUPER crown sale that had discounts up to 1200 crowns per $1.
@@Ralatch they aren’t beating the not player friendly allegations
@@BlankOrbit Literally and I hate it because they would be getting good money from me with more sales
i was thinking of getting back into this game after not playing for a few years but seems like now isnt a great time to play.. such a shame, really hope things improve soon
ngl KI should either fix the pack rates or bring back discounts because at this point almost nobody's gonna want to buy packs, much less bundles. I got 30% off with the mystery discount and got absolutely nothing from my school or anything I remotely wanted with 5,000 crowns even while not going for mounts. I've only bought 1 month of membership 4 times over 7 years so I'm pretty casual but it's still disheartening. The discount and small gift of crowns was nice but with how horrible the rates are it's so lackluster.
If you bought a membership during the 50% off first month of membership sale between 11/19/2024 and 11/25/2024, you would have had the double pet xp member benefit between 11/27/2024 and 12/1/2024
@@knakrackiv2280 oh my bad, I must've completely missed it then :(
@@FinickyFirebird no worries (though you might want to edit your original comment), shame about your pack luck
@@knakrackiv2280 ty I appreciate it 😁No worries, it is what it is.
I really hope KI gets a wake up call before they pull their own plug.
Oh yeah i realized 50% off bundles wasnt around this year....
But i did manage to get 25% off a cart
KI definitely could be running more member benefits at the same time. Realistically, I don't see any reason as to why they aren't running all of them for a long time. I feel like that would be a good reason to convince more people to purchase a membership during this time of the year. Unfortunately, the palooza sales had to go despite how great they were for the community. Joel and Greg said in the discord that despite inflation constantly raising prices, Joel had to sacrifice certain deals such as the pack-a-palooza and the bundle-a-palooza in order to prevent the prices of memberships from rising, which I think is pretty fair. I would imagine that if people in the community saw membership prices raise along with inflation, the game would would begin spiraling to it's death.
Member benefits should definitely be more frequent considering you can't even enjoy the game without a membership.
Damn, you sound emotional. None of us want the game to die but it seems to be going down a slippery slope. I remember having a lot of fun with this game, now its all about profit. (talk about the crown rewards event)
Sorta holiday related but I don’t hear this talked about ever: I look forward to the Veteran’s Day item every year. W101 is the only game I know of that actively participates on a regular basis that ISNT JUST A DISCOUNT and that fact alone should receive praise. For their faults that’s one reason I’ve stood by and fought for this game to get its act together. They have their hearts in the right place but they need to evict their current brain worm soon
Saw Ratbeard call a player a "garbage sweat" for being on the 1st page of the PvP leaderboards in Wizard101 discord PvP channel today 😂. Seems like the professionalism between ACTUAL KI game employees and its playerbase is nonexistent. Ive NEVER seen any gaming company EVER communicate with its playerbase (let alone at all for that matter so directly) be extremely disrespectful. Regardless of his tone. The game is dying and these new employees seem to just not care and have accepted their new system of milking as much out of its remaining playerbase before they call it quits in a couple years.
I think the Wiz awards were great! If yall would have me id love to be involved in them and help out with them next year. Maybe have it in front of an in game audience, more categories like “Wiz video of the year” “Upcoming creator of the year” stuff like that.
@@Wizheadpluto we were talking about adding more categories, send all suggestions to hjj
Off Topic but what are the pieces for the life stitch 👀
@@lifedeather I wish I could tell you exactly where it’s from but I’m not too sure, I think the robe is from the jade oni and the hat is from yokai but I might be wrong. Google elegant insignia gear w101 and it should come up. The boots should be in the bazaar and the wand is from malistaire
KI is stupid, dumb, that's it! They do not care about investing on the long run, they're just milking this game!
they don't want to actually improve the game, they're just trying to make as much money as possible. They've killed school identity, something that was integral to the game. Ruined the bazaar, to crush a community built thing like the EMP black market instead of actually trying to improve player trading. I wish a better company could buy wizard101 to save it, the future for this game doesn't look bright and it's so sad because I love this game.
gamingo bought KI for 100mill, at that point just make a Wizard101 2 with a completely new engine.
Nah, enough talk, ACT ACT ACT ACT ACT ACT, once more ACT
What will our action be?
That's the question.
Talking gets us nowhere, you can't out talk a game master it's their game.
We need to act, to get anything done.
KI has dug this game into the ground recently. Its so disappointing. I dont even play the game unless im recording anymore.
nice video
make the music louder
The music is fine as is
At least they're not randomly running around through the entire video. 🤣