Why Magistream Sucks
Magistream is an old website adoptable game where you could grab animal eggs, hatch them, grow the animals. Hoard as many as you wanted just because you could. My favorite kind of game. It was amazing, and the community back then was open, friendly and pretty chill. The animal art was also beautiful and right up my alley. But going back to it recently made me realize...it sucks now. A lot. So much to the point where I'll never go back.
Firstly, the only way to hatch eggs or make gold was for other people to click eggs and creatures. But because the website couldn't really handle it as technology became better...they removed the ability to get gold from clicking adult creatures. Which means gold mines were effectively useless. Which isn't really fair considering they didn't add any other ways to earn gold. The wiki had never been updated to reflect this, but you can find the news post here:
"You can just click the IFN Nursery and then go into other people's keep to click creatures-" But then you would get DMs from other users to not click their creatures not within the nursery. It isn't really viable if you're saving for more expensive creatures. Once you click through everything in the nursery, you'd have nothing BUT keeps to try and click. Which brings me to my second issue. The Players Suck, Too
A lot of the older players get upset if you click any hatchlings not hidden in an invisble tab. I went through someone's keep to earn gold for some specific eggs in shops, and within 10 minutes I get a message that basically said 'Hey, stay out of my den! You ruined my hatchling growth'. Because they were trying to freeze their hatchlings at a specific growth number. Then they went into an open 'How Was Your Day' thread (even AFTER I apologized in DMs and was genuinely sorry) and complained about how I ruined their day with it. They didn't even specify my name because they 'didn't want more drama' with the 'individual who ruined their keep'. Other people on the site completely agreed with them. That I was a horrible person for going through tabs in their Keeps to try and make some gold.
If I were a new player, with nothing to my name, and that happened? That would have sucked and been super annoying. So basically, if you go through keeps you annoy people and they publicly complain. But then you have no other way to make currency. You're stuck. I could just still click, but the players who make a big stink are the most active on the website. So if they decide to blacklist someone, they'll refuse to sell anything to that blacklisted person. And if they blacklist someone, in whatever backend group chat they have outside of the website, they'll get other people to blacklist that person as well.
And Blacklists are completely allowed. So why go through the worry of getting blacklisted for playing the game when I could just find other, stress-free games?
That's my opinion on it. And it bums me out.