No yocash or Coin can replace any of these boards.
Many of them sat in these rooms for Years!
now all i have are a couple of useless screenshots. because i never had a chance to get them all even.

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

LET'S ALL SING -

ABRA ABRACADABRA - ABRA ABRACADABRA - ABRA ABRACADABRA


JIBBIDI DABBBADADI DU DAAA -- HUBBIDI HABBADIDUDAA -- HOPPIDI JOBBIDI DUDAAA

ABRA ABRACADABRA - ABRA ABRACADABRA - ABRA ABRACADABRA

REPEAT OVER AND OVER FOR 5 MINS AND SMILE

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.

this!

After reading the latest update I'm beginning to understand there is more to it than I originally thought. I'm glad therefor that action has been taken.....
However, as I've said before, the images which are of concern may have been screenshot by the perpetrators. I hate to think of the ramifications of this. Those images are perhaps still out there....
.

Any thoughts on this?

BVG can't control what players do with screenshots. But those images are not on BVG's servers. The ones on the paint boards were on BVG's servers. They HAD to eradicate them. In fact, they may be pondering scrubbing their back ups now. My guess is that they figured out from their legal team what the real impact could be, and then decided to really upset a lot of players by doing the right thing.

I am gutted about what this does to Yo. But I am relieved that they are protecting those they are protecting.

With everything happening in this world I dont blame Yoworld for taking away the boards, even though for so many of us they were wonderful to use for nice pics etc. Once you start seeing the boards were being used for personal, political beliefs it became no fun. I use this game for relaxing, having fun. It was great having this one really awesome thing on here for years, its just sad that we are losing it because people couldnt follow the rules.

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

Very well said

Where I live they wanted a casino, the backer was a man who was a vp in another company . That company mismanaged and took from its investors .....while we wanted a casino, the businessman and all his new ventures here are refused. As a community we don't deal with those that grab n run

I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

I think w/ better tracking, so they can address things asap? -- since I dont code (I'm thinking of a class next winter, just so I have a basic understanding of code) I would assume it was more then images - but maybe some ability to maybe alter the flow of game play in some way?

I know they said there will be replacements of some sort -- but the difficult thing is the lost of the memories and the lack of time to at least save in screen shot form

so how to you replace what cant be replaced, we might benefit from grieve counseling honestly. it is not only the loss of the boards but the loss of the memories that cant be replaced - it isnt like a fire, where you can see and understand --- this is a bit like the hand of god just swooped out of the sky and took things most dear -- seems dramatic I know; but that it has no real reason and we are simply expected to trust. In a situation where we have been asked for months to trust them with few results? those ittle drops in the bucket add up and soon the bucket is spilling over and no one can understand where all that water came from

I hope with all my heart this is a wake up call on a major level for a our dear staff

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

I think w/ better tracking, so they can address things asap? -- since I dont code (I'm thinking of a class next winter, just so I have a basic understanding of code) I would assume it was more then images - but maybe some ability to maybe alter the flow of game play in some way?

I know they said there will be replacements of some sort -- but the difficult thing is the lost of the memories and the lack of time to at least save in screen shot form

so how to you replace what cant be replaced, we might benefit from grieve counseling honestly. it is not only the loss of the boards but the loss of the memories that cant be replaced - it isnt like a fire, where you can see and understand --- this is a bit like the hand of god just swooped out of the sky and took things most dear -- seems dramatic I know; but that it has no real reason and we are simply expected to trust. In a situation where we have been asked for months to trust them with few results? those ittle drops in the bucket add up and soon the bucket is spilling over and no one can understand where all that water came from

I hope with all my heart this is a wake up call on a major level for a our dear staff

I don't know what the best solution is .... but grieve counseling for me isn't needed. I don't consider this the hand of god doing anything, but that's just my opinion.

WHO HEARD THE NEW FROM EMINEM - HOUDINI

ABRA ABRACADABRA

Ahhh! I wondered if someone had been into my account, now it makes sense.

No idea what happened for BVG to make this decision but I can only assume it must have been very, very serious, & not a easy decision to make. I am hoping the people causing the trouble are removed from game.


Now to figure out creative ways to fill in the empty spots in my rooms *sigh*

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

I think w/ better tracking, so they can address things asap? -- since I dont code (I'm thinking of a class next winter, just so I have a basic understanding of code) I would assume it was more then images - but maybe some ability to maybe alter the flow of game play in some way?

I know they said there will be replacements of some sort -- but the difficult thing is the lost of the memories and the lack of time to at least save in screen shot form

so how to you replace what cant be replaced, we might benefit from grieve counseling honestly. it is not only the loss of the boards but the loss of the memories that cant be replaced - it isnt like a fire, where you can see and understand --- this is a bit like the hand of god just swooped out of the sky and took things most dear -- seems dramatic I know; but that it has no real reason and we are simply expected to trust. In a situation where we have been asked for months to trust them with few results? those ittle drops in the bucket add up and soon the bucket is spilling over and no one can understand where all that water came from

I hope with all my heart this is a wake up call on a major level for a our dear staff

I don't know what the best solution is .... but grieve counseling for me isn't needed. I don't consider this the hand of god doing anything, but that's just my opinion.

this is a loss, that is felt more deeply by some then others ---- many memories lost with no way to replace them. ------- while I think some of us are good emotionally .... I dont think everyone is good emotional over this, it is for many an emotional lost. of course fate plays a factor, hence the analogy (or is that a metaphor its been a long time since LOL google is my friend) of the hand of god

I can tell you what I know from playing around with stuff-- the egg's work like the white boards... and they are working again ? - I had eggs that i couldnt erase or edit that are now working----but of course you cant place an image on the egg ------ but i have seen some pretty cute hand done eggs and none of the eggs to my knowledge have been wiped --------- i'm guessing the same would hold true for the old paintboards? those are still up ???

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

I think w/ better tracking, so they can address things asap? -- since I dont code (I'm thinking of a class next winter, just so I have a basic understanding of code) I would assume it was more then images - but maybe some ability to maybe alter the flow of game play in some way?

I know they said there will be replacements of some sort -- but the difficult thing is the lost of the memories and the lack of time to at least save in screen shot form

so how to you replace what cant be replaced, we might benefit from grieve counseling honestly. it is not only the loss of the boards but the loss of the memories that cant be replaced - it isnt like a fire, where you can see and understand --- this is a bit like the hand of god just swooped out of the sky and took things most dear -- seems dramatic I know; but that it has no real reason and we are simply expected to trust. In a situation where we have been asked for months to trust them with few results? those ittle drops in the bucket add up and soon the bucket is spilling over and no one can understand where all that water came from

I hope with all my heart this is a wake up call on a major level for a our dear staff

I don't know what the best solution is .... but grieve counseling for me isn't needed. I don't consider this the hand of god doing anything, but that's just my opinion.

this is a loss, that is felt more deeply by some then others ---- many memories lost with no way to replace them. ------- while I think some of us are good emotionally .... I dont think everyone is good emotional over this, it is for many an emotional lost. of course fate plays a factor, hence the analogy (or is that a metaphor its been a long time since LOL google is my friend) of the hand of god

I can tell you what I know from playing around with stuff-- the egg's work like the white boards... and they are working again ? - I had eggs that i couldn't erase or edit that are now working----but of course you cant place an image on the egg ------ but i have seen some pretty cute hand done eggs and none of the eggs to my knowledge have been wiped --------- I'm guessing the same would hold true for the old paint boards? those are still up ???

I posted earlier in the thread... eggs are fine. I noticed that some were blank and I had to click them to show the image, but they work fine. I put the date on the eggs.. 7..6..2024.. to show that they do work as intended, for drawing on. Uploading images onto them or white boards was done thru yoart.com site.. players paid $10 to be able to upload images. There were free images you can use but to put something specific you had to pay the money.

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

They can build new ones that read all images and post them to BVG. Then it is simply a matter of scanning the daily image log. Someone needs to make certain that accounts that commit felonies are identified and turned over to whatever version that account's country's FBI is and that the images are removed immediately - after evidence is copied and held on separate servers for the authorities.

I have zero tolerance for this stuff and have reported it every time I found someone doing it in Yo. I hope BVG gets really aggressive with it and uses the power of Yo to get these people the justice they richly deserve.

PS - This type of stuff is exactly what AI can be designed to catch inside systems. Google and FB already use it.

Chill (126579776) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

They can build new ones that read all images and post them to BVG. Then it is simply a matter of scanning the daily image log. Someone needs to make certain that accounts that commit felonies are identified and turned over to whatever version that account's country's FBI is and that the images are removed immediately - after evidence is copied and held on separate servers for the authorities.

I have zero tolerance for this stuff and have reported it every time I found someone doing it in Yo. I hope BVG gets really aggressive with it and uses the power of Yo to get these people the justice they richly deserve.

PS - This type of stuff is exactly what AI can be designed to catch inside systems. Google and FB already use it.

Lots of crazies on the interwebs.. shame there isn't something that simply fries a computer when it detects things like this... a person tries to upload/share/display an image that is unwelcomed.. pooooof, the computer sizzles and smokes.. a little text shows on the monitor saying..

Not this time sucka! .... or whatever name you see fit.

if it is what I think it is.. I try not thinking about it, the rage that builds and the lack of ability to do anything about it drives me nuts. .. but I wish I could send a hand out of the monitor and punch the person in the face, that'd be something to see, huh? guy tries to upload a naughty naughty and ..BAM.. his nose is bleedin'... .. tries again and he gets a chop across the neck (like they do in wrestling, except real!)

see, the rage is already building, funny to start, but then ... well...

anyway.. glad it was taken care of.

Chill (126579776) wrote:

Flatch Ulater (13247207) wrote:I guess this means anything similar to the paint board or picture frames will never be made available in the future? ... If images are the problem anything you create to hold an image and display it will be vulnerable to the same situation, players can abuse them/use them for whatever.

What is the solution? what can compensate for this? currency serves no real purpose unfortunately. Male player have little to buy, giving male players any amount of currency is pointless.

They can build new ones that read all images and post them to BVG. Then it is simply a matter of scanning the daily image log. Someone needs to make certain that accounts that commit felonies are identified and turned over to whatever version that account's country's FBI is and that the images are removed immediately - after evidence is copied and held on separate servers for the authorities.

I have zero tolerance for this stuff and have reported it every time I found someone doing it in Yo. I hope BVG gets really aggressive with it and uses the power of Yo to get these people the justice they richly deserve.

PS - This type of stuff is exactly what AI can be designed to catch inside systems. Google and FB already use it.

I do hope that BVG finds a way to use AI. As you said Google and FB are already doing this. There is no other game like YoWorld. Believe me I have searched. I am in a FB group that will find a new home if we must to continue our fellowship. I expect that other groups are looking again too. We all live in a world that wants to exploit everyone. Be wise and stay safe.

It's just the paint boards right? My white boards seem to be ok.

The year is 2024, and BVG has failed to utilize new coding that creates CONTENT FILTERING of words and IMAGES that would block undesirable pictures to be posted to Paint Boards. You say your decision to delete all Paint Board art in the game was given a lot of thought, this is a lie. You overreacted to a situation rather than doing the research necessary to find a logical solution; a solution that has already existed on social platforms for many years, as they too face the same issue. You have VIOLATED dedicated players by reaching into their accounts and deleting their art. You have deleted memories, memorials, and stomped on their creativity. Players are people of emotion and game loyalty, but it doesn't look like you care.

If you are incapable of upgrading your coding to block undesirable images, then simply erasing reported boards was working well enough, as it always has since Zynga's YoVille. It's bad enough BVG has ruined the Yo economy with overpriced items, now you're further giving players reason to quit this game entirely. You took action on a whim without considering how it would impact how we function in this game. This game relies heavily on an economy system for our trades and currency, that being said, Paint Boards are used for signs that we rely on to help in our sales and prize games. The Yo economy has not been doing well since BVG took over, and now you're making it worse. Bottom line, you've created a hindrance for us. Someone may read this post and say, "it's just a game', but to you BVG, this is a profitable business, and there's less profit to be made if your players are deleting VIP and quitting YoWorld. I'm pretty sure that part of making a profit is keeping your customers happy.

[quote="Lainie (124009750)"][quote="Chill (126579776)"]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.

:

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.