Infinite Galaxy 17+

Tolles Spiel !

First of all I want to mention I am well aware that every studio needs to take care of economics and make some money. While many devs only want to make fair money to cover the costs and make a humble fortune, shareholders or other profiteurs often wants to squeeze a product to get a quick payout and then drop it like a dried out orange. My criticism goes out to that second part.

Over the past months, it has become a toxic trend in updates, to eliminate ways to play the game without spending either a lot of money or a lifetime in the game with dozens of farms. Prices of articles have increased without a change in contents. Rewards of events have been low, regardless of the invested effort and progress of a whole alliance.

One of the drastic changes was the implementation of two flagships per fleet. A player was forced to level two flagships, doubling the cost to get to the top.

The next drastic change was the ability to use multi-fleet attacks. This meant, having just one good fleet was not good enough anymore and players needed to invest into mostly four fleets now, meaning 8 flagships.

The last event added (Cosmic Ocean: Origins) was solely introduced for players to smash each others heads to lose their warships, requiring a lot of time or money to get back on the top again. While we thought the beta was already with too little rewards for the risk, they added a lot of boosters behind a paywall to the release making it possible to invest even more.

With the most recent update, they introduced higher levels without reliefing grind or making resources more available.

But the worst addition is, they added a minimum of warships you need to add into a fleet to be able to attack. If you are not familiar with the game: Flagships, the core of a fleet, are simple to repair, have a default capacity in a fleet of 100 per ship (total capacity of a fleet is on average 15k-30k with units taking 3, 10 and 30 space per unit) and can be gathered in large alliance rallies to deliver a hit that is only painful to the enemy. It seems unfair, but it takes a well coordinated alliance, up to 45 players, some smart coordinators and still good flagships to deliver a strike against a single player. More over, it is the only method to take care of mega whales that spend tons of money to gather a big belly of warships.

Since those cash whales have now complained that whole alliances of 100 players (45 per attack) have taken down their bases, every player is now required to add warships. This means, every attack will also give you actual warship (troops/units) losses instead of just the expensive flagship repair.

Just to make it REALLY clear. It took WHOLE alliances sometimes to take down certain SINGLE individual players, but as it was a preferred method by the playerbase that does not spend 3 digits a month or even a week, it was a method the devs wanted to get rid of.

I am mainly ranting about this, as such development has shrunk the playerbase more and more. While smart economists prefer to have a large customer base buying cheap stuff, camel games have decided to have high priced "micro" transactions and an even more decreasing playerbase. While most f2p games had a gread success history with very low priced products player bought in larger amounts since they all dealt a great effect, Camel, the developer of the game, has rather expensive in-game articles that when bought as a single time purchouse didn't even do a significant difference. Every update is killing the f2p community more and more.

One might think, why is it bad? They are only freeloaders. But 1. social effects are what keeps players in the game. Alliances coordinating, talking and playing with each other bonds players. Without freeloaders, only a small playerbase were left without enemies, without a point to continue.

2. Due to the high priced articles that are basically meaningless if not bought in larger quantities, they are practically shifting moderate players that would buy something every once in a while to f2p players. I had regularly bought something in the game, but it got more and more unbalanced for the lower paying section they either force the player to pay more or drop out of it.

As a summary, a star product was pushed to a cash cow that is now milked and squeezed and their whole income is on the shoulders of a small playerbase that pays high prices than a diverse playerbase that bought in all price ranges.

They kill of diversity, they kill of the playerbase and in the end, they kill the game. Shame on those who had been taken over by greed to destroy a promising game that could have granted a longer lasting income, destroyed for a short rush of money and likely a soon abandonment on the game.

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