Rot
after beeing banned as a mut hunter i've realized how much this game has decayed, slowly dying in a way more akin to an emotional rather than a quantitative or numerical sense. and i have some reasons i can pinpoint.
- Passion when the game was still somewhat not big (4k-6k playerbase) the updates where somewhat lackluster only adding a creature or 2 everyweek with some balance changes appearing rarely. But that time was when i had fun, when everyone gathered at oasis with their creatures or when gramoss was srill good. and it was getting more players and kosing wasnt as that bad... Well it was still bad but not as prominent as it was today.
then recode came along and at first it was hella fun new map was hype, fixes, new abilities like beeing able to jump. And more people started playing (20k- 23k) but after that the game started dulling down. Of course every now and then some cool updates would appear like bossfights or that time when there was an arena in the middle of the map. But it just didnt feel the same and afterwards with the updates. Like they are high quality but they just didnt feel the same. And so did the playerbase as it got worse and worse.
2.Work and time As the updates dulled so did the game but the reason why the updates felt so lackluster was because. Joy was removed slowly and painfully from these updates as the more updates they gave. The more grindy it had become to the point where there was nothing that the players could do but be on that grind. But there was another way that some players could have "fun".
3."FUN" KOS we all know this term as players of this game. And personally i didnt have a problem with it until now. The amount of kosers and kosing clans/groups has gone up by an insane amount like honestly its not even funny. But i get it, i was once a kosser too. But when it it becomes mass Kosing where you abuse hitboxes, breath spam and such it. Just ruins the work and effort someone put into their creatures ESPECIALLY NOW with the addition of venerations which is a terrible system in itself spending at most maybe a day to get some small buffs for your creatures.
(im prolly gonna regret posting this cus its like 12 to 1 am and i have school tommorow. And am gonna get some hate for this.)