HaXaYa (12865602) wrote:This game won't be fun anymore if everybody has everything at their disposal.

i agreed .. i missed some themes during my holidays/break .. but i still prefer to buy them off AH/trading section .. its much more fun to save up and buy them as a goal

If they re-release items, the yocash rate will be x2 higher than it is now.

Even more reason to just buy yo cash from BVG

Veronica (122961678) wrote:...................................

Another thing, more important than that, we know BVG say they are losing money each day for the upkeep of this game, on the other hand, they can't create furnitures at the moment, plus, we can see that many people are not much happy about the clothing releases too yet, BVG is trying to encourage people to buy yocash.

If they unluck the existing themes, that will be for the benefit of the company, and the game's future in the first place. I know what they said about re-releases, but at the moment there is an extra ordinary situation and decisions can change.

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This is the part of your OP that resonated with me. I've said this before in another thread -a compromise could be a limited time re-release of expired themes. It's a pretty hard balancing act for BVG to carry out. But I do think however any decisions on something like this must be what is best for the game in the long run as opposed to what upsets a player's profit margin. If the game cant be sustained financially by its players then the whole question of re- release v not becomes a moot point.

I look at this way... How can keeping them closed be good for the game. Opening them would generate yo cash profit with way less work due the themes already being coded and developed in game. This would generate money for the company to be able to make new themes while paying the artists. Some people and companies do make decisions based on the input from a small group and sometimes realize down the line they may need to rethink that decision. It's called life. We do it all time throughout our own lives. Flapper, NYC, Vegas, and Miami are all themes I would spend my money on because of the style of these themes. Not everyone got a fair chance to buy things from these themes. Whether it be from not knowing about the game or quitting for a while due to all the mishaps from Zynga. I just wish that Greg would rethink his decision. I do however believe holiday themes should be collectible things because they only come around once a year. All of the rest are pretty much permanent. If people really support BVG and want to see this game succeed and them succeed, they should be given as many options as possible to make money from items as wells as giving us decorators as many options to show our creativity.

PingPong (181639560) wrote:

HaXaYa (12865602) wrote:This game won't be fun anymore if everybody has everything at their disposal.

i agreed .. i missed some themes during my holidays/break .. but i still prefer to buy them off AH/trading section .. its much more fun to save up and buy them as a goal

Totally agree.

I'm sorry that some people missed out on themes but that's the way it goes. I've missed out on things also but I don't want it back in stores just so I can have it and ruin what others have saved and collected. Bvg is going to put plenty of their own items out. And if you want the older items spend some money on the game and get them

I like that some of the players that don't want themes back out had no problem owning FG items lol.
I think their are a few theme's like fairytale and egypt where zynga only gave ppl a wk to buy items would be ok.
Not a lot of ppl were still playing for those 2 releases because the game had gotten so bad.
The rest of the themes ev1 had a lot of time to collect and don't see a need to re release.
We will get new stuff.

Willow (13350872) wrote:I'm sorry that some people missed out on themes but that's the way it goes. I've missed out on things also but I don't want it back in stores just so I can have it and ruin what others have saved and collected. Bvg is going to put plenty of their own items out. And if you want the older items spend some money on the game and get them

Yes I missed a few theme's and have fun hunting down the items lol.

Willow your argument has been covered several times over. You can't get everything through auction houses, or saving up. Some people just don't get it. Look back at my argument about luxury stairs and maybe you will understand my reasoning behind this. AGAIN, yoville hit its peak when no themes were being removed from the store giving me the maximum options that the game had to offer. If you are all for the game and how it was being ran within the last 2 years of Zynga having it, then it shows that you either 1: are one that plays to make a bunch of money, and not play the game for what it was originally intended on being, or 2: you are not for bvg being able to to increase their profit by just opening up some themes that were unfairly taken away by Zynga thus giving a bunch of players "new stuff" while BVG continues to work on new themes. I have yet to see your argument for the benefits of them staying closed for BVG other than it is appeasing the ones who just want to price jack items. It is not fun by any means to have to spend weeks looking for something just be jacked in price by thousands if not 10's of thousands by the time you get the chance to get ahold of it. It seems that the ones who are against it are not decorators in this game, of course they say no, because they want to continue to make ridiculous amounts of money for no reason.

Unlocking the themes for a short period of time is not fixing the problem though because as soon as they close, we go right back to giving reasons why they should be open again. They should have never been closed in the first place. Zynga messed themselves up by doing it. They tried to just do fast yocash sells. Yes they may have made some fast yocash sells but guess what I'm sure over time they would have surpassed what they made by closing the themes. Zynga was purposely running the game into the ground and just became money hungry. They lost sight in how to keep their customers happy which in turn made it where a lot of paying customers left the game or just stop buy yocash. I spent around $600 on this game by the end 2010. I quit buying stuff after I was hacked and zynga did little to help me (myspace hack). I told myself that I wouldn't spend that kind of money with that company any more. Since December I have spent about $10. Only because their haven't been any themes other than luxury that I was interested in.

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Willow your argument has been covered several times over. You can't get everything through auction houses, or saving up. Some people just don't get it. Look back at my argument about luxury stairs and maybe you will understand my reasoning behind this. AGAIN, yoville hit its peak when no themes were being removed from the store giving me the maximum options that the game had to offer. If you are all for the game and how it was being ran within the last 2 years of Zynga having it, then it shows that you either 1: are one that plays to make a bunch of money, and not play the game for what it was originally intended on being, or 2: you are not for bvg being able to to increase their profit by just opening up some themes that were unfairly taken away by Zynga thus giving a bunch of players "new stuff" while BVG continues to work on new themes. I have yet to see your argument for the benefits of them staying closed for BVG other than it is appeasing the ones who just want to price jack items. It is not fun by any means to have to spend weeks looking for something just be jacked in price by thousands if not 10's of thousands by the time you get the chance to get ahold of it. It seems that the ones who are against it are not decorators in this game, of course they say no, because they want to continue to make ridiculous amounts of money for no reason.

Amber you play the game a totally different way then I do. I play to collect and guess what I've spent tons of money in the game to buy those wanted items I have now. For the ones of us that don't want re-releases. We collect and that's a big part of the game. Bvg knows that.And I understand people love to decorate but there's plenty of items that can be used and bvg will be putting new stuff out. Not everyone can have everything. A game is made to level up. All games I know of you start at the bottom and level up.

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Willow your argument has been covered several times over. You can't get everything through auction houses, or saving up. Some people just don't get it. Look back at my argument about luxury stairs and maybe you will understand my reasoning behind this. AGAIN, yoville hit its peak when no themes were being removed from the store giving me the maximum options that the game had to offer. If you are all for the game and how it was being ran within the last 2 years of Zynga having it, then it shows that you either 1: are one that plays to make a bunch of money, and not play the game for what it was originally intended on being, or 2: you are not for bvg being able to to increase their profit by just opening up some themes that were unfairly taken away by Zynga thus giving a bunch of players "new stuff" while BVG continues to work on new themes. I have yet to see your argument for the benefits of them staying closed for BVG other than it is appeasing the ones who just want to price jack items. It is not fun by any means to have to spend weeks looking for something just be jacked in price by thousands if not 10's of thousands by the time you get the chance to get ahold of it. It seems that the ones who are against it are not decorators in this game, of course they say no, because they want to continue to make ridiculous amounts of money for no reason.

I am a decorator... it's all I do.. not in this game to make money.. just to have fun...

and I would love to have all the 08 stuff released.. because I could use the items in my deco's .. and the 08 costumes too.. then I coud dress according to my decos .. right?

I guess.. we all have things we want.. that we missed out on.. some missed out while others didn't..

but I am serious.. I do deco.. and I am serious.. I want the 08s released.. all. not just some for the select few.. this game has had enough of the select few getting what they want .....

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Unlocking the themes for a short period of time is not fixing the problem though because as soon as they close, we go right back to giving reasons why they should be open again. They should have never been closed in the first place. Zynga messed themselves up by doing it. They tried to just do fast yocash sells. Yes they may have made some fast yocash sells but guess what I'm sure over time they would have surpassed what they made by closing the themes. Zynga was purposely running the game into the ground and just became money hungry. They lost sight in how to keep their customers happy which in turn made it where a lot of paying customers left the game or just stop buy yocash. I spent around $600 on this game by the end 2010. I quit buying stuff after I was hacked and zynga did little to help me (myspace hack). I told myself that I wouldn't spend that kind of money with that company any more. Since December I have spent about $10. Only because their haven't been any themes other than luxury that I was interested in.

And by the way bvg is just getting started. They'll make plenty of profit once things get rolling. And even more so because people need to get that sought after item.

See I been on yoville since 09 and I understand how this game works with the value of items. Seriously thou, it has become harder and harder to decorate with just the themes that are there now. People are over pricing and not only that, it is becoming impossible to find certain items. I am annoyed when I decorate cuz the themes there are just a tease. Remove them or bring um back.

Bvg made it clear that there will be no re-releases. So I guess you can ask till your blue in the face but they put it in writing and I have faith in that. And I'm not sure where a select few came from but it looks to me like the select few do want re-releases Now enough said. I'm going to go play yoworld now.

Willow (13350872) wrote:

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Willow your argument has been covered several times over. You can't get everything through auction houses, or saving up. Some people just don't get it. Look back at my argument about luxury stairs and maybe you will understand my reasoning behind this. AGAIN, yoville hit its peak when no themes were being removed from the store giving me the maximum options that the game had to offer. If you are all for the game and how it was being ran within the last 2 years of Zynga having it, then it shows that you either 1: are one that plays to make a bunch of money, and not play the game for what it was originally intended on being, or 2: you are not for bvg being able to to increase their profit by just opening up some themes that were unfairly taken away by Zynga thus giving a bunch of players "new stuff" while BVG continues to work on new themes. I have yet to see your argument for the benefits of them staying closed for BVG other than it is appeasing the ones who just want to price jack items. It is not fun by any means to have to spend weeks looking for something just be jacked in price by thousands if not 10's of thousands by the time you get the chance to get ahold of it. It seems that the ones who are against it are not decorators in this game, of course they say no, because they want to continue to make ridiculous amounts of money for no reason.

Amber you play the game a totally different way then I do. I play to collect and guess what I've spent tons of money in the game to buy those wanted items I have now. For the ones of us that don't want re-releases. We collect and that's a big part of the game. Bvg knows that.And I understand people love to decorate but there's plenty of items that can be used and bvg will be putting new stuff out. Not everyone can have everything. A game is made to level up. All games I know of you start at the bottom and level up.

You are very right! I like to collect to, but that was the original intent for collectibles. Yes there are plenty of items to use, but they are not always what people want to use. There is not much left that decorators can use. I am so excited for BVG to fully get going on introducing new themes. Like you said people level up as they play. You said that all games that you know of start and the bottom and you work your way up. This is very true, except by taking away themes, you are taking away the chance for people to get what they want as they level up. You can not find everything from every theme in the auction house or in sales. You may be able to find a lot but not all and the things you do want now are price jacked so high that you would have to have millions just to finish one fully furnished room let alone a home. That's not fun.

I wish I could give you a hug. This is exactly how I feel to the t. Thanx for speaking up. I too have been hacked and spent maybe more and Since last summer I have not spent a dime on the game since I never got the help that was do. Zynga screwed me big time.

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Unlocking the themes for a short period of time is not fixing the problem though because as soon as they close, we go right back to giving reasons why they should be open again. They should have never been closed in the first place. Zynga messed themselves up by doing it. They tried to just do fast yocash sells. Yes they may have made some fast yocash sells but guess what I'm sure over time they would have surpassed what they made by closing the themes. Zynga was purposely running the game into the ground and just became money hungry. They lost sight in how to keep their customers happy which in turn made it where a lot of paying customers left the game or just stop buy yocash. I spent around $600 on this game by the end 2010. I quit buying stuff after I was hacked and zynga did little to help me (myspace hack). I told myself that I wouldn't spend that kind of money with that company any more. Since December I have spent about $10. Only because their haven't been any themes other than luxury that I was interested in.

AmBeR (3071891) wrote:Unlocking the themes for a short period of time is not fixing the problem though because as soon as they close, we go right back to giving reasons why they should be open again. They should have never been closed in the first place. Zynga messed themselves up by doing it. They tried to just do fast yocash sells. Yes they may have made some fast yocash sells but guess what I'm sure over time they would have surpassed what they made by closing the themes. Zynga was purposely running the game into the ground and just became money hungry. They lost sight in how to keep their customers happy which in turn made it where a lot of paying customers left the game or just stop buy yocash. I spent around $600 on this game by the end 2010. I quit buying stuff after I was hacked and zynga did little to help me (myspace hack). I told myself that I wouldn't spend that kind of money with that company any more. Since December I have spent about $10. Only because their haven't been any themes other than luxury that I was interested in.

are you kidding??? people were belly aching because they wanted new stuff.. and boy oh boy were they happy to see all that pulled from the store!!! .. the ones in it for 'business'.. BOUGHT TONS.. the rest didn't...

but don't think was big bad zynga the mean kid on the block that was soooo bad lol... us players were happy to see those themes go... back then we could not even lay down on a bed...

People who are against it are either intentional or unintentionally keeping the game the way Zynga had it during the later years... FAILING. The game need to make a drastic change. BVG has done an awesome job making huge changes that is in turn keeping the faith of the costumers. They are making it a safer game. However, in order get the game moving even further in the right direction, Greg may need to look back at what made the game so successful during its peak time. I am sure he has and is working on it, because he has already made this game 100's of times better that what it was. I am seriously thinking about putting together all of these threads, and asking him to keep and open mind while reading them. Then make a final decision now that there is actually a defense for why the themes should be reopened. If he decides to stay with his previous statement, then at lease remove the pictures from the store, so people don't have to look at them anymore.