Queen Gothra (184043202) wrote:In 2018 BVG created the 50 Shades of Yo theme, which included both sexual kinky furniture and wearables. Although this caused controversy in the game, those things were never removed. BVG went onto making new stripper poles, NPCs in bikinis, shirts and torsos with cleavage, a female topless statue, and other items. To this day, inappropriate items in the game from YoVille and YoWorld have NEVER been removed.

Nita (114766277) wrote:QUOTE: I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS, YOU ARE THINKING OF GETTING RID OF THIS GAME???? I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HERE AND THIS IS MY PROPERTY! HOW CAN U JUST TAKE IT AWAY AND WHY WOULD YOU? FISHWORLD?????????????????????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????? NO WAY IN HAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nita (114766277) wrote:QUOTE: I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS, YOU ARE THINKING OF GETTING RID OF THIS GAME???? I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HERE AND THIS IS MY PROPERTY! HOW CAN U JUST TAKE IT AWAY AND WHY WOULD YOU? FISHWORLD?????????????????????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????? NO WAY IN HAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DANDELIONWINE (122607870) wrote:This act you just put down on the community has rocked our Yo-Universe. Reverberations and aftershocks will be felt for some time.
I feel strongly that we were not given the real reason behind what happened......there has to be more, and many important details left out.
The alienation all of this brings to the game is ground shaking.

I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.
My loyalty is to Yoworld and this community.....and I implore you to reconsider all this alienation and havoc you throw at us, especially this last year.
You have been busy trying hard to change how we play this game, but so many of us love it as the decorating game it is, and that is what keeps us here. We do not want to replace the creativity outlet we get here decorating, with mindless gambling activities.

Your game, your control.
I am merely a spectator and participant and ardent supporter..
Your move you made this week to wipe out our meaningful art, photos of our family and pets, and tributes to loved ones who have passed on was not thought out very well IMO. Did you even anticipate this reaction? Do our experiences and memories here mean so little to you today.

Devastated is the word of the day, the week, and it's taint will fill the air for some time to come....the air is thick with Devastation. People pushed over the edge. Hopes and dreams dashed.
Congratulations if this was your intent and goal, you reached it.

I hope this dark cloud can be dispersed, and that there is a happy ending to this story-although for the life of me, I cannot figure out how you will be able to accomplish that.

And no, if Yo crashes and burns, I already also do play Fishworld some now, I started playing to support your company while you were considering purchasing Yoville......but you need to know, If I cannot play Yo, Fishworld will get cut out of my life too.
That game never took off for me, for it is just a skeleton, a shadow of this great game Yoworld. So much is missing from Fishworld, that lives strongly in the heart and soul of this tightly knit community. Yoworld is the game I love.
And I bet this is the way the majority of the community feels too.......if your plan is to replace Yoworld with Fishworld, I am sorry to disappoint you....this will happen when pigs fly

LisaTM (10095126) wrote:

Nita (114766277) wrote:QUOTE: I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS, YOU ARE THINKING OF GETTING RID OF THIS GAME???? I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HERE AND THIS IS MY PROPERTY! HOW CAN U JUST TAKE IT AWAY AND WHY WOULD YOU? FISHWORLD?????????????????????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????? NO WAY IN HAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm hoping this is a rumor or misinterpretation of the poll. I haven't seen it and I don't know where it is. If they are planning to end the game and think FishWorld is a replacement, they have lost their minds. They are two completely different games.

HOWEVER, the reality is it's not YOUR property. It's BVG's property and before that it was Zynga's property. We chose to spend for entertainment knowing it could all poof at any time. Our stuff isn't tangible goods we buy in RL stores. They are the property of the gaming company. That has been the case since day 1.

I certainly hope this isn't seriously being considered. If it is, they should sell us NOW. There's a ton of speculation and rumors being put out there and unless there's evidence that that was what the poll was really asking and that it was from a legit Viking, I'm not going to put any stock in it.

Amaya (139390344) wrote:

Viking Andrew wrote:I’d like to take a moment to clarify a few things on behalf of the team:

Whenever we look at taking action in game, our first focus is to make a change that impacts as small of a player group as possible. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bug, or an art issue, or a problem with a larger feature like the Buddy List - we know any change that’s made to YoWorld on a large scale has a chance to truly, genuinely harm your experience. I hope, at the very least, this can convey that the seriousness of this issue meant we could not stand by idly after we discovered the risk to our community at large.

We cannot fully discuss the details behind the trouble with our Paint Boards, but we can say that the main issue involved the use of uploaded images, violating ToS, and as such, we are required to remove this feature. In disabling them there have been a lot of valid points brought up within the community that should be addressed. Mostly around the way we’ve gone about our current, temporary solution.

Why disable all Paint Boards? The issue we needed to address in Paint Boards required us to disable the feature as the only means of protecting the community. This is due to the way the Paint Boards item works. As an older item, with older code, the solutions we have access to are much more limited.

Can’t we just fix it? Any change we would make to this feature would require a total overhaul of the Paint Board item.

Why didn’t you let me save my work? This is, currently, not how Paint Boards work. While the images are saved locally, any change or update to the Paint Board feature means that any work on the item as it currently exists is lost.

Will I get my images back? We understand how important this feature is to our players and we are actively exploring ways to address this concern.

Our team understands that these items don’t just represent creative fun - they’re an investment you’ve made. We aren’t ready to discuss compensation with the community yet, but we’re absolutely going to find a way to make this right.

The very nature of the item means that the second something was to go wrong, or any fix needed to be made, your work was at risk. Naturally, this wasn’t a problem when the item was working as intended. When things are fine, there’s nothing to worry about.

With this particular discovery of a ToS violating complication in Paint Boards action needed to be swiftly taken, which meant that the underlying issue within Paint Boards arrived much sooner than we expected.

Our team is extremely aware of the way Paint Boards are used. We know these items are integral to many social events, and have become a key component in your decorating. The art that you’re showing off here is a true testament to that. We also know that these items are key parts of events, trading, conversations between players, and are a staple to allowing you to decorate in creative ways our team can only begin to catch up on. So where does that leave us?

Our team is working on a solution for this particular issue. This situation involving Paint Boards is complicated, but we have a lot of faith in our team’s ability to resolve this issue.

We know you probably have questions, and we’ll be opening up a thread here for you to focus them all in one place.

Literally nothing you say can make this better. It's all just bad excuses. Why is a total over haul of the system too much for y'all to do? Yes you could have let people screen shot and save their images before destroying them. There is no way you guys could have thought this would go over well when you say your team knows "extremely well" how they are used, at least not if you live in reality. Now y'all are trying to backpedal and say it's a temporary solution.
You may claim to have faith in your teams ability to resolve the issue, but how can you expect any of us to have the same faith when it has been so very eroded over the last few years?

LisaTM (10095126) wrote:

Nita (114766277) wrote:QUOTE: I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS, YOU ARE THINKING OF GETTING RID OF THIS GAME???? I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HERE AND THIS IS MY PROPERTY! HOW CAN U JUST TAKE IT AWAY AND WHY WOULD YOU? FISHWORLD?????????????????????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????? NO WAY IN HAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm hoping this is a rumor or misinterpretation of the poll. I haven't seen it and I don't know where it is. If they are planning to end the game and think FishWorld is a replacement, they have lost their minds. They are two completely different games.

HOWEVER, the reality is it's not YOUR property. It's BVG's property and before that it was Zynga's property. We chose to spend for entertainment knowing it could all poof at any time. Our stuff isn't tangible goods we buy in RL stores. They are the property of the gaming company. That has been the case since day 1.

I certainly hope this isn't seriously being considered. If it is, they should sell us NOW. There's a ton of speculation and rumors being put out there and unless there's evidence that that was what the poll was really asking and that it was from a legit Viking, I'm not going to put any stock in it.

Nita (114766277) wrote:Been thinking about this all day. Most of us are adults and would like to stop being treated like children who really deserve to know something of what is going on. We are the people who write the paychecks and they say the customer is always right. All this guessing is just making things worse and perhaps blown up above what really happened. I hope the person who says Yo is going nowhere is right because it is the best game in the world!!!!!

Nita (114766277) wrote:

Lainie (124009750) wrote:

Chill (126579776) wrote:I'm going to try this again, but do it more delicately. I have experience with the threat BVG is mitigating. It is not something they can just "hold off on doing". The international authorities do not care about our precious Yo. They do not care about BVG's business. They are singular in focus and they are ruthless. They will get court orders to seize the physical servers if they have to - effectively shutting down Yo forever in a faster blink than we saw yesterday.

Let me be clear - I HATE WHAT HAPPENED TO US ALL. But understand when I say that the entire existence of Yo was threatened, I'm not blowing smoke up your collective azzes. I've seen it happen in 2 other instances. One of those shut down an entire cell phone system for weeks.

So vent all you want. It won't matter. They can't do anything about it because they literally can't do anything about it. I am proud of them for making the right call and protecting Yo's players. It doesn't feel good, but it was necessary.

Are you talking some deep state stuff? Our rights to express our support for President Trump or other is our right! It had better not have been that. We deserve to know, we really do.

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CEOxLoveBugxGF (119184228) wrote:

LisaTM (10095126) wrote:

Nita (114766277) wrote:QUOTE: I saw something last night that I found deeply disturbing.....a Viking taking a poll about us all giving your game FishWorld a try as a viable replacement for Yo.
Are you kidding me!?
I can assure you, if you intentionally shut down this game, which looks more and more like the plan and strategy in play here, there is NO WAY I will ever play another game you make.
The trust will be broken.

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS, YOU ARE THINKING OF GETTING RID OF THIS GAME???? I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS HERE AND THIS IS MY PROPERTY! HOW CAN U JUST TAKE IT AWAY AND WHY WOULD YOU? FISHWORLD?????????????????????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????? NO WAY IN HAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm hoping this is a rumor or misinterpretation of the poll. I haven't seen it and I don't know where it is. If they are planning to end the game and think FishWorld is a replacement, they have lost their minds. They are two completely different games.

HOWEVER, the reality is it's not YOUR property. It's BVG's property and before that it was Zynga's property. We chose to spend for entertainment knowing it could all poof at any time. Our stuff isn't tangible goods we buy in RL stores. They are the property of the gaming company. That has been the case since day 1.

I certainly hope this isn't seriously being considered. If it is, they should sell us NOW. There's a ton of speculation and rumors being put out there and unless there's evidence that that was what the poll was really asking and that it was from a legit Viking, I'm not going to put any stock in it.

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I would NEVER play Fish World. I have spent/ invested thousands on this game and would never consider a lame game to replace it such as Fish World or the like. My YoWorld friends and interactions with said friends mean the world to me. I am disabled but, at least I can walk around in YoWorld. I've played since 2009 and love the game.

Lizzy Beth (120960806) wrote:This is the most upsetting thing I have ever experienced in this game since starting here in 2009. I had a collection of my personal HANDDRAWN art work .I had my artwork on display in my "museum". You have just removed hundreds of hours worth of hand drawn, with a mouse creative artwork...I also purchased hand drawn from others to display in my museum. You have just erased on a whim, something that I took great pride in. If people found a way to upload pictures that you found offensive then they should have been dealt with on an individual basis. With all of the ways things can be abused in here, destroying hand drawn artwork is underhanded and pathetic . YOU RUINED A GOOD THING BVG.

Skeet (13722418) wrote:

Lizzy Beth (120960806) wrote:This is the most upsetting thing I have ever experienced in this game since starting here in 2009. I had a collection of my personal HANDDRAWN art work .I had my artwork on display in my "museum". You have just removed hundreds of hours worth of hand drawn, with a mouse creative artwork...I also purchased hand drawn from others to display in my museum. You have just erased on a whim, something that I took great pride in. If people found a way to upload pictures that you found offensive then they should have been dealt with on an individual basis. With all of the ways things can be abused in here, destroying hand drawn artwork is underhanded and pathetic . YOU RUINED A GOOD THING BVG.

They should have at least left the hand drawn art work.