Dear BVG,

Hi its me again - Mr Burr Under The Saddle. I've been watching what you release and how you release it when it comes to decor. You're doing it wrong. I know you don't want to read that. But when things are true, they are true. But just saying that it's wrong isn't very constructive. So please allow me to elucidate.

When a new theme comes out, you are creating these wonderful houses. Kudos to the design team. But the items needed to fill them come in disjointed and thin waves. There are usually one or two very good items, and they are almost always in some deal for real money. Then there are about 10-15 other items per room for us to work with in the store. And those come in fits and spurts. The effect of this is that people have to hope and wish they will get what they need when they start in on your first release. Almost always they have to use other items from the store or their inventories to fill out the spaces - if they want to succeed. These are your die hard fans, who will fight through anything to enjoy this game.

But there is a better way. Consider this analogy. If I ask you to draw a circus tent and I only give you a brown and a black crayon, how good of a tent will you draw? What if 4 days later I give you a white one? And then what if I put the red one in a cash deal? And then you have to gamble for the green one? And then I move on to the next drawing without ever giving you a purple, orange, or blue crayon?

This is what you are doing. It eviscerates the creative process every time you do it. So here is what I recommend. Don't deliver anything decor wise for a month. Build up the "crayon" box for a theme to contain enough items to INSPIRE people to decorate an entire home all at once. Show them all the crayons on the same day. Market it as "Release Day". Hype the theme. Make it SPECIAL. Build the buzz. And then BACK OFF and let people do what they do. If you did one of these every two weeks, you would change the way players get involved with decorating. Your casual player base would re engage. Your hardcore decorators would go nuts.

But hey, what do I know? I'm just a dude with bad ideas. You should probably just do what you want. Good luck with that. Thanks for listening.

Well Said 'Mr Burr'

however, sadly, I feel that our fearless leader needs to watch a few Bulwinkle Cartoons and chill - this is what it is ...... some will pay just to keep playing, it is that big a part of their life. As we can all see, others will drop away. To keep your revenue from ads dont you need players? - this is why BVG should be more focused on player happiness and less focused on what I see as move to safe guard rather then to keep the lights on ---- in a world of such uncertainly, of course we want YOworld to remain a viable gaming community. The question that rings in my head is does BVG shareholders feel the same way, or are they simply playing with our emotions? Gathering the goodies as we spin the drain???

bvg doesn't have any shareholders. they do have investors, royal bank of canada, bdc, export development canada and oneeleven, which are not the same as a shareholder. investors provide capital in exchange for ownership or equity. shareholders are individuals or equitys that already own equity in a company.

There are 2 things in the game, decor and female clothing items/hairs/etc. Not releasing decor for a month is a whole lot of gowns and female hairs. What would the male player do in that month?

BVG does not make enough clothing content for the male player right now. I don't suspect that will change. What will the male players do for the month you recommend BVG hold back on decor items?

Is this every month? only release deco 1 time a month or is this a 1 time thing you are recommending?

Wonderful idea, Rod! If only they would listen to you.

dianabanana (111036364) wrote:bvg doesn't have any shareholders. they do have investors, royal bank of canada, bdc, export development canada and oneeleven, which are not the same as a shareholder. investors provide capital in exchange for ownership or equity. shareholders are individuals or equitys that already own equity in a company.

Thank You, I figured they were a privately held company with share holders/ rather then investors -- either way, there is a group that calls the shots - that are invested and would like to grow their investment

As such - inventor or share holder .... you would think some of them might be a bit concerned and I wonder how many that have actual money invested log in at least once in a blue moon? just to see for themselves what their quarterlies show them

it appears to my research and way of thinking the first investor listed is the royal bank of canada. i think banks are basically a tool of satan . it gives me a giggle to think of an uptight banker logging into yo and what they think of the game personally. as you can tell i'm not a big fan of banks or bankers in general.

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:There are 2 things in the game, decor and female clothing items/hairs/etc. Not releasing decor for a month is a whole lot of gowns and female hairs. What would the male player do in that month?

BVG does not make enough clothing content for the male player right now. I don't suspect that will change. What will the male players do for the month you recommend BVG hold back on decor items?

Is this every month? only release deco 1 time a month or is this a 1 time thing you are recommending?

Good questions. The trick is to release enough decor at once to keep people busy for whatever period of time the lag before the next release is done. But I know we have players who will do all 5 rooms the very first day and then be bored. LOL And maybe they do it once per week, but just load up the content to make sure there is more than enough to engage the casual decorators.

I'm not worried about it. BVG won't do it. They are too addicted to the daily cash trickle. And too many players are already bored, even though they get pelted with new garbage daily. The world's constant crave for MORE NEW NOW is relentless. People won't slow down, because they don't know how anymore. But I do.......

yes my crayon box is empty i love your analogy rod



did you happen to notice how they are marketing the new rubyyy outfit too ?

instead of the dress being a full outfit as in one piece.....
they busted it up into 4 piecse yup you have to buy the left slevve , the right sleeve , the top , and the bottom pieces in order to make a full dress outfit
so if i wanted to buy that look in AH for just the dress look mind you , i'd have to pay for 4 pieces just to complete the dress

i think who ever came up with that train wreck idea of how they marketed the cosmo collection.. but be the brains behind this new marketing train wreck too

I'm enjoying the decor, even recently. There are several really beautiful items in this SG2025 theme. And I don't mind mixing themes and pulling old items, trying to be creative. Of course I have enuf inventory to probably decorate several homes.

The idea of no decor for a month is. . .actually depressing to me

Bookworm J (129336295) wrote:I'm enjoying the decor, even recently. There are several really beautiful items in this SG2025 theme. And I don't mind mixing themes and pulling old items, trying to be creative. Of course I have enuf inventory to probably decorate several homes.

The idea of no decor for a month is. . .actually depressing to me

A month with no decor? Oh no! I also find it depressing. Though I cannot say that I am a decorator, for the few past themes I have been buying more decors as they are as you said, really beautiful. Besides, most of the desirable wearables are usually released in YoCash Deals, but not that many with decors, thus making decors more accessible to us financially. I have also thought of switching to decorating rather than focusing only on wearables. I enjoy decorating one room by one room almost every day, even if the humber is rather limited, since I can aways add old items from my decor inventory.

I also think that BVG is doing their best keeping the game interesting and afloat, and afloat well. They have survived over 12 years since the take-over, they are certainly not stupid. I am not BVG, so I can't and I won't claim that I knew anything about the company and the inside of the management and how things are being done, why certain decisions were made, etc. What I don't know, I know that I really don't know. I only know that as long as the game is thriving, I will be happy (not speaking for others, of course).

Stardust (186190305) wrote:

Bookworm J (129336295) wrote:I'm enjoying the decor, even recently. There are several really beautiful items in this SG2025 theme. And I don't mind mixing themes and pulling old items, trying to be creative. Of course I have enuf inventory to probably decorate several homes.

The idea of no decor for a month is. . .actually depressing to me

A month with no decor? Oh no! I also find it depressing. Though I cannot say that I am a decorator, for the few past themes I have been buying more decors as they are as you said, really beautiful. Besides, most of the desirable wearables are usually released in YoCash Deals, but not that many with decors, thus making decors more accessible to us financially. I have also thought of switching to decorating rather than focusing only on wearables. I enjoy decorating one room by one room almost every day, even if the humber is rather limited, since I can aways add old items from my decor inventory.

I also think that BVG is doing their best keeping the game interesting and afloat, and afloat well. They have survived over 12 years since the take-over, they are certainly not stupid. I am not BVG, so I can't and I won't claim that I knew anything about the company and the inside of the management and how things are being done, why certain decisions were made, etc. What I don't know, I know that I really don't know. I only know that as long as the game is thriving, I will be happy (not speaking for others, of course).

THRIVING?
are we playing the same game ?

voodoosue (118968402) wrote:

Stardust (186190305) wrote:

Bookworm J (129336295) wrote:I'm enjoying the decor, even recently. There are several really beautiful items in this SG2025 theme. And I don't mind mixing themes and pulling old items, trying to be creative. Of course I have enuf inventory to probably decorate several homes.

The idea of no decor for a month is. . .actually depressing to me

A month with no decor? Oh no! I also find it depressing. Though I cannot say that I am a decorator, for the few past themes I have been buying more decors as they are as you said, really beautiful. Besides, most of the desirable wearables are usually released in YoCash Deals, but not that many with decors, thus making decors more accessible to us financially. I have also thought of switching to decorating rather than focusing only on wearables. I enjoy decorating one room by one room almost every day, even if the humber is rather limited, since I can aways add old items from my decor inventory.

I also think that BVG is doing their best keeping the game interesting and afloat, and afloat well. They have survived over 11 years since the take-over, they are certainly not stupid. I am not BVG, so I can't and I won't claim that I knew anything about the company and the inside of the management and how things are being done, why certain decisions were made, etc. What I don't know, I know that I really don't know. I only know that as long as the game is thriving, I will be happy (not speaking for others, of course).

THRIVING?
are we playing the same game ?

I wrote "as long as"..."will be". In my understanding of English it means a "conditional" sentence, a "clause", not necessarily a sentence that reflects a present "perceived" situation, be it a factual truth or not.

Sorry if my English sucks I would have written my posts much better if English was my native language. It is actually my 3rd language, so please excuse me

I feel like there's plenty in the store to decorate anything you could ever want, maybe some more coin couches and NPCs but we'll never get that

Natdatank2000 (139291280) wrote:I feel like there's plenty in the store to decorate anything you could ever want, maybe some more coin couches and NPCs but we'll never get that

if we never got another release -- how many of us would still be playing

Me, I would - but those that live for the rush of rares and steals on deals, I do not see them enjoying no new rares

But then I would have always put more focus on the decorating and fashion aspect .... I would focus more on our creativity and less on players personalities and special groups of players with special access for example or discord with their special elite player tags ---- that come off short sighted and actually insulting to the player that buys their offers and plays within the friend groups or alone (we have a lot of players that play pretty much alone - notice the request for 2 player actions in the last board piece was just 1000 actions)

It isnt the releases, or lack of product - as much as there is a lack of consideration ------ players feelings are being over looked and while I'm sure the current group of special players with access are doing all they can ..... I dont think a single of one those selected was a long term player with a small circle of friends or even that no one still plays they started with - but they are still buying items and supporting the game. - I would like to hear more from that group, the long term supporters that have for the most part been grateful for the game and have no agenda other then they enjoy decorating