TL;DR: I understand that staff are human and did not do this maliciously, but I feel like they really need to learn how to
actually consider the userbase's opinions instead of just saying they will and then proceeding to still do the very same thing they promised they wouldn't do anymore the last time a big fiasco happened, because that sends the message to the players that they don't actually care about what
we, the ones supporting them and their site for 11 years want: we don't care about "consistency," we care about security that staff will honor their word rather than find loopholes around their 45-day guarantee in order to drastically change our dragons whenever they feel like it anyway. They've violated their own self-imposed rule and promise to their players in doing this.
LittleParade wrote on 2024-10-12 06:49:34:
All in all, any changes to the dragon should not happen after the 45 day window. That was the whole idea of having that window.
Teletraan wrote on 2024-10-12 06:53:41:
I get the change, but I don't understand why it still looks so different from the M Fathom pose. It's like, the wing was colored wrong, yes, but now it's colored wrong in the opposite direction, but because it's "closer" to the M Fathom pose that makes it "better"?
I feel like the original was wearing a shirt backwards. The fix to turn the shirt around to face the right way also flipped the shirt inside out, but because the shirt is now facing the correct way it's considered fixed, despite being inside out.
Cheezit45 wrote on 2024-10-12 07:38:02:
It feels like they just ignored what people were actually upset about, told us to suck it up, and then said that it will happen again and that we just have to watch the threads like a hawk so that we know when our dragons will get drastically changed. I know that staff has been getting better at communication, but this is not the way to show and now it feels like they’re starting to brush off concerns for the sake of putting their time into “consistency fixes” that nobody else wants.
I usually don't get involved in this kind of thing anymore, but I will say that staff is making themselves very, very difficult to trust, and then seemingly putting the responsibility on the community for it. The window supposedly set for major fixes like this was
45 days, then any major corrections were to be null and void. They then put in this change
120 days later and then excuse themselves with how the community should have still be checking the thread, which wasn't even updated regularly, AFTER that 45-day window, and we should have known that their very vague wording at the very bottom of a thread locked for weeks was going to result in a sudden, unannounced change this drastic. It seems that they've broken the promise they made following the Auraboa incident, and still want to do what they want to do without regard for the community's feelings about it. I want to trust staff and give them the benefit of the doubt, but I feel like they've been making that increasingly more and more difficult over the years.
Furthermore, as others have mentioned, their change for the adamant insistence on "consistency" has now made fathom females even
less consistent with the other poses, even beyond how downright awful it looks (with some genes female fathoms now no longer even look like they have discernible winglimbs, making their wings look like a solid nondescript block of color), and how this change should NOT have gone in, against staff's word, so late after the breed released, thus meaning they've effectively misled their player base about not having to sleep with one eye open in fear of sudden drastic changes to their dragons anymore.
The reason they're using is the exact same they used for auraboa paisley: "We vaguely mentioned it at the very bottom of an error thread 5 months before we changed it, you should have noticed." Basically, "Sure we said we
just won't make anymore major changes past the window of 45 days, but actually we can still change it whenever we want as long as we vaguely
mention it in a thread before 45 days is up!" They're doing the exact same thing as with auraboa paisley, which was also "listed in the gene error release thread". The point here is that we don't care about "consistency" and we don't want sudden, drastic changes to our dragons months late, and I don't know, maybe we'd also like for staff to not try to find loopholes around their own word?
Flight Rising is starting to become much more frustrating than fun, to where I and I'm sure other players can no longer enjoy or be excited for a new breed release, because we have to worry about all the "consistency errors" they'll put in "fixes" for months later, and now we have absolutely no assurance that they won't still drastically change our dragons months and years into the game against their own word. No matter how many times this happens, they still never seem to actually be able to understand that, again,
we don't care about "consistency". We want to be able to relax and design our dragons, assured that they won't suddenly change out of nowhere on a poorly-communicated staff whim that's not even consistent with other instances of a gene or breed.
We don't want our dragons to be changed without our notice months after they've been released a certain way.
Somehow, they still haven't gotten the hint about communication and taking into account what the users who are
financially supporting this site and basically the ones keeping it afloat the last 11 years think, even after the obelisk flair/auraboa paisley and sandsurge release backlash, and it absolutely baffles me to no end. Unless they just don't care about user input, which is honestly the message they're sending as of late, so if that's not the case they need to start communicating it by their
actions, not words and apology letters and fluff.