I think FR’s current problem is the lack of substantial content updates.
You can give us more genes, more familiars, more items to collect but nothing substantial is added to gameplay.
I hate to make the Neopets comparison, but since that site is what birthed this genre I feel it’s not completely unwarranted.
The world of Neopia, regardless of the state that the site is in currently, was really developed. The different regions all had very defined personalities with NPCs who held down their own jobs and helped flesh out the world.
The closest thing we have to that are the Trading Post dragons.
There are/were many different site events with plot and characters with great rewards for participation.
We have monthly copy-paste festivals that have not had any intrinsic changes since 2013.
On top of that, Neopets has a million and one activities you have contests, quests, the employment agency, gambling of many different shades and stocks.
On FR…we have the coli (which doesn’t limit daily drops like NP), we have Baldwin and Swipp…and that’s just about it? (I wouldn’t bring up the fairgrounds because NP has a much larger backlog of games).
I don’t want Flight Rising to just be Neopets with a fresh coat of 2010s paint. I want FR to have its own voice and direction and to build far beyond it’s ancestor.
I don’t expect a four year old game to have the amount of content an eighteen year old one does, but what I’ve seen so far is more of the same and very little effort to expand the world.
I appreciate the freedom on FR’s forums that allow users to make up for a lot of this content…but it should be supplemental, not a substantial part of the game.
When a new festival rolls around, there’s always some mild excitement over what new items will be released, but I feel that the community gets far more excited about big dom battles, or more namely, the user-run events that go with them.
I write out this long post because I know FR can do better, and I REALLY want to see it flourish. I’ve stuck around for three years and I hope to play for much longer.
I keep hoping that once the rewrite is finished, they’ll be able to start working on these sorts of things. But as more and more time passes, I’m losing hope :(
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