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Hello, before i begin, this is only an opinion or possible suggestion, many thanks.
I used to play Feral Heart very often for many hours a couple years ago, being able to find the exact roleplays to suit your characters and being able to make good friendships and overly enjoy the game.
However recently, i believe FH is starting to die down. I do apologize if i offend anyone with this opinion, i do not want to start any arguments, i just wanted to put my views across. Nowadays, hardly anyone is online anymore - this makes it very difficult to find a good active roleplay. I spent hours just trying to find a simple lion roleplay, yet hardly anyone has groups or joins groups. It is rather upsetting to see. I've had many conversations with individuals online and they believe the same thing.
Many people want the registrations open again - or at least at a set time on a set day. I have many friends dying to make an account, but can never catch the registrations whilst they're open.
Opening registrations will obviously increase the amount of users online, i know it was intended to stop lags and crashes - but it's done it's job, it's reduced the amount of users. Wouldn't that mean it'll be good to re-open them?
The number of people online is the lowest i've ever seen. This new update brings amazing, stunning new maps - however, nobody is on them. It's such a shame to see amazing maps that could be great for certain roleplays go to waste. Seaside grove, empty. Bonfire islands, barren. The grounds, minimal. Surely something needs to be done?
(http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah37/Erin_Lowry/seaside%20grove_zpsnuvpdqbe.png) (http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/Erin_Lowry/media/seaside%20grove_zpsnuvpdqbe.png.html)
(http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah37/Erin_Lowry/FH_zps8aswuls2.jpg) (http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/Erin_Lowry/media/FH_zps8aswuls2.jpg.html)
Having more players will benefit the game so much in my opinion.
I just don't want everyone to give up and leave FH for good.
Again, apologies for any offence.
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I am 100% with you on this. I've noticed the same thing myself and as I've previously said, the registration being down is just bringing everything down. With it being closed, no new players are coming in, making the game empty and boring, driving more people away. And the people that just come by to check if it's open, well...they're going to start thinking it's never going to open, and there wil be no new players even with it open.
I know many things are going on irl with the staff and that it's hard to get things done but I mean come on. It's been down since June.
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I am 100% with you on this. I've noticed the same thing myself and as I've previously said, the registration being down is just bringing everything down. With it being closed, no new players are coming in, making the game empty and boring, driving more people away. And the people that just come by to check if it's open, well...they're going to start thinking it's never going to open, and there wil be no new players even with it open.
I know many things are going on irl with the staff and that it's hard to get things done but I mean come on. It's been down since June.
100% agree with you.
I'm worried that by the time registrations are opened/fixed. There will be no one left. I really hate to see this game die down. People online constantly talk about how there's no roleplays/their bored/chat is dead etc. It's just such a shame.
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I agree with you and Arctic. Another thing is it is really hard to find random roleplay these days. Most times when you finally find a roleplay group it either goes dead or inactive in one day. I hope the game doesn't die out. It would be really upsetting to see people leave the game because of how inactive it is becoming. Hopefully the registration will be open before 2016 is over. It would be great to see new faces around in the game too.
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Absolutely agree. The registration needs to be reopened - the amount of people online recently is just sad to be honest. The community used to be so full of life. I don't know what happened.
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The reason that registration is closed is because Raz is rebuilding it himself--and again, we all understand that Feral Heart staff need time and space for their irl lifestyles. But at the same time, as was mentioned, it's been down since June. Truth be told, I think the forum didn't need this update--it was all so unnecessary. The game update has been phenomenal, yes, and I will never doubt that. The time and effort put into it is appalling and beautiful! But again. Did the FORUM need the update? Is this why registration has been down for so long? And I know, I'm repeating myself here, but the whole life thing outside of Feral Heart, I understand. But does it really take 6 months to rebuild registration, that probably wasn't even needed to be rebuilt?
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I also understand that the forum update is out of the hearts of the staff and they want to make the community a better place, with quality above all else. I truly did not mean to sound disrespectful of it, I promise you.
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True as heaven
I had left the game for a while due to relationship and work and because nobody roleplays something that catches my interest and if they do they don't stay active the next two days. I love playing the game with my girlfriend though and she is the only reason I'll come online. But other than that there is nothing else we can do really, people are just leaving, new members don't come and I know many people who are waiting for it to get on, from my side I have many friends who want to play but never find the registraction open :\ With no new members, it could be fine but to a minimum because if old players leave for a while well slowly people will find it boring, due to friends not coming on because of different timezones etc.
I don't know how else to put it :c But if the registraction won't open soon/ something exciting happens the game will die. I can understand and respect why the admins took these measurements for the game, A.K.A. to do something good and protect the game, but now it doesn't work anymore. It is sad because the game is loved deeply by my girlfriend and me but it slowly dies and it comes to a point where it doesn't get exciting to play if your friends leave and nobody roleplays something you would like. And nobody whos's not a masochist would want to be forced to play as something they don't like just to stop being bored.
I am not trying to be rude and I apologise if I was. But this is what I see, from my point of view atleast :/
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I understand where this is coming from, and Artic had already made a topic that was quite similar to this, if you'd like to check it out. Mods also responded if you're looking for their opinion. But, there are quite a few role plays. Most of them pretty active, or at least active enough to be on at least once every week if not everyday. Lion rps have died down, but you can change that by making your own. There are lion rps, they just hide in the different maps.
About the lack of community members, yeah, it's not as much as what we are used to. It does get a bit 'boring' as you say, but the mods will do what they can about the registration. I agree, registration should be a bit more open, but our community is still here. All the members that have been here are still here. It's just the matter of time of when they get on.
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I agree with you so much on this. I had to get a hand me down account since I have been waiting for registration to open ever since it got locked, And I have many friends dying to play the game.
I'm not much of a roleplayer, But I do agree with you that most of the maps except for Grounds are completely barren. I sort of find this depressing, As FeralHeart used to be such a big game, But the new update and registration lock came along and ruined everything.
I know the mods are having a re -make of the site, But it's taking forever, At least around 5 months, Personally I love the site as it is, To be perfectly honest the home page is the only thing needing a makeover.
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Old registration didn't have that many problems, i was hoping they could reopen it while it was rebuilt behind the scenes but apparently not...
This game does has tons of unseen potential that most people haven't discovered yet, it just needs the right minds to join us & see it. But they can't right now for obvious reasons.
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I fully agree with you in that the Registration should be open. I think we can all agree that the opening of it would bring about beneficial factors. This is nothing new, and isn't to any surprise.
However, something we must consider is what goes into the re-opening of it. In order to open up the Registration, it has to physically be rebuilt; it's not as simple as pressing an "on" and "off" button. Raz has now begun work on the actual Registration building, but this is a matter of time and patience. It's easy for us--you, staff, the community-- to look at the problem and say "you should fix this," because that is where the work ends for us. It does not end here, for Raz. While we make suggestions for Raz to do certain things with the game, we ourselves do not implement these changes nor have to deal with the actual process of putting together something like a Registration. Raz has to sit down and actually work on what it is that needs to be fixed, and I know that many of us are not as capable as putting together such a system as he is doing-- I know that I'm personally not. It's easy for us to look at something and ask it to be changed, but it's quite a different thing when you are the one actually doing the work. I say this because while I know that it feels like such a long time for changes to be implemented, it's so easy for us to just look at the problem and want it fixed. Actually solving it is another thing. The aspect that begs the most patience is time-- the one thing that is always being challenged.
For those of you who may not know, Raz is already building the Registration. The Registration being requested to be opened has been repeated numerous times-- we cannot open it because it needs to be rebuilt. Raz is working on making changes to the new Reg so that it is less complicated and so you won't have all of the glitches and troubles you had with the old one. He is making it more efficient, and I would be saddened to think that he sacrifices quality for the sake of trying to re-open it faster.
Opening registrations will obviously increase the amount of users online, i know it was intended to stop lags and crashes - but it's done it's job, it's reduced the amount of users.
The Registration was not closed due to lag. It was disabled due to security precautions after the game was hacked. The Reg needed to be closed during the updates then, just as it is necessary for it to be opened now.
I know many things are going on irl with the staff and that it's hard to get things done but I mean come on. It's been down since June.
You must understand that we have not been working on the Registration re-open since June, fluff. When we released the patch, that was the staff's primary priority-- the Registration was something to be considered later and was not in need of the most attention. We have not been working on the Reg for months. We have only been actually working on it within the past week. We have said that we will re-open the Reg and will look into it within those past months, and it indeed has been looked into, but it is only now that we have actually began work. From the way it is sounding, it appears as though staff is bad for having taken too long to open the Registration, when in reality, we have only been working on it in the past week. We have considered and looked into the matter within the past months, but we haven't been actually fixing it back then. It's up to Raz to analyze what needs to be fixed, and he has finally begun working on it. I hope this sets the timeline a bit straighter so that it helps.
I agree with you and Arctic. Another thing is it is really hard to find random roleplay these days. Most times when you finally find a roleplay group it either goes dead or inactive in one day. I hope the game doesn't die out. It would be really upsetting to see people leave the game because of how inactive it is becoming. Hopefully the registration will be open before 2016 is over. It would be great to see new faces around in the game too.
It would be wonderful if we could see it re-opened by Christmas. It's all up to how much Raz is able to accomplish, though.
Truth be told, I think the forum didn't need this update--it was all so unnecessary. The game update has been phenomenal, yes, and I will never doubt that. The time and effort put into it is appalling and beautiful! But again. Did the FORUM need the update? Is this why registration has been down for so long? And I know, I'm repeating myself here, but the whole life thing outside of Feral Heart, I understand. But does it really take 6 months to rebuild registration, that probably wasn't even needed to be rebuilt?
Back to what was said before, we weren't working on the Registration six months ago-- we were looking into it, considering the issue, evaluating, discussing. We have only been working on it physically during the past week. I don't know where people are getting this notion that we have been working on it since the patch, because this simply isn't true. We recognized the issue after the patch, but it is only recently things have been able to go into work.
As for the forum update, it did need to be updated. Our old version wouldn't let us fix web bugs and glitches because it was outdated. The reason the new forum looks like it does now (different color; chocolate-y) is because there no longer exists a version like the old forum we had. In order to fix systems on the website, add customizations, or fix anything related to some of the glitches that people were having (not being able to post, too many log-out forum sessions, ads), we had to update. The forum update was no doubt a decision that had to be made-- it was all a matter of when and how, and with the new update of the game, we figured it would be the best time to work on fixing it. We have accomplished quite a few of the things we wanted to achieve with the forum update, already, and now it has paved a way for us to focus on creating the new Registration.
In short, yes, the Registration needs to be opened. We have already begun actual work on it. I know that patience is a lot to ask, but I hope any of this at all helps to make things a bit more clear. We haven't been working on this for months. We've been considering, looking into it, deciding what needs to be done, within those months. The idea, though, that the game is "dying" is something I feel is very out of proportion, and if you view statistics, it's not even all that accurate. There are indeed less people now due to the Registration being offline, but the idea that everyone is going to leave at once and the game will be left bare because of the Registration not being online is something I don't see happening. If there is one thing I've noticed from this community-- in the game and on the forum-- it is that we have very persistent members. The Registration is a tiny aspect of the whole. It does not dictate whether or not a game lives; it increases the population, which was something we didn't need when we closed it, but now it is something that is a jewel. We are mining for that jewel, but we cannot cut through rock, stone, and precious metal to obtain it within a day. Patience is one of the hardest things to deal with, from my experiences on the game and in other areas of life. It's not easy to wait for something-- especially something you don't have control over. The idea and reinforcement of a "dying" game is not aiding to our goal, though. We see the concerns, we know what is going wrong. It's all a matter of getting it done, which we will do. I hope this helps, but I cannot repeat so much as much has already been addressed in other threads.
For those of you who want to keep tabs on what is being worked on concerning the website or would like to see a list of known things that aren't working/still need to be addressed, click HERE. (http://www.feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=57103.0)
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Thank you for the response, man. I understand this is all just repetitive and it may seem like we're trying to rush things--but in all honesty it's just confusing and weird, y'know? I can't even begin to imagine rebuilding registration by myself, considering codes confuse me so often rip.
Apologies for seeming rude or rushing though!! I truly do love the game and it's so refreshing to see updates and things in the works, so it's truly a breath of fresh air. Assumptions shouldn't be made, but when you look for answers, you can only think of so much. Now I understand it's only been recently worked on, so fingers crossed it'll be back by January/February! <3
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Thank you for the response, man. I understand this is all just repetitive and it may seem like we're trying to rush things--but in all honesty it's just confusing and weird, y'know? I can't even begin to imagine rebuilding registration by myself, considering codes confuse me so often rip.
Apologies for seeming rude or rushing though!! I truly do love the game and it's so refreshing to see updates and things in the works, so it's truly a breath of fresh air. Assumptions shouldn't be made, but when you look for answers, you can only think of so much. Now I understand it's only been recently worked on, so fingers crossed it'll be back by January/February! <3
Arr, there is indeed a lot going on that could make things confusing or weird. There is a lot that can be said for the time in which the updates have taken, but in glad this helps a bit, in terms of the Registration being re-opened and what needs to take place in order for it to happen. Hopefully we can get the Reg opened soon so that new people can join in on the fun, too. c:
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Thank you so much for the response WarriorStrike - you've definitely cleared a lot of things up, it's confusing when there's speculation circling about registration, it's difficult to know what's true and what isn't. I apologise greatly if I gave any offence. It was not my intention.
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Thank you so much for the response WarriorStrike - you've definitely cleared a lot of things up, it's confusing when there's speculation circling about registration, it's difficult to know what's true and what isn't. I apologise greatly if I gave any offence. It was not my intention.
No worries! I'm happy to hear that it helped clear some things up. I apologize on the staff's behalf, as well, if we haven't been very clear on what it is that we're doing. You didn't cause any offense-- I appreciate you approaching this subject in a calm and mature manner.
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Gosh I wonder why hardly anybody plays anymore? That's just blomon sad.
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many people no longer have time to play feralheart, whether it be school, work, overseas travel or more personal reasons. the quiet hours of fh has increased which doesn't help bringing players in.
but i'm glad to know Raz is trying his best to make the new reg, so with that said i think we should all agree and wait patiently as Raz is just one person up against countless of coding and errors.
once Raz has completed the new reg, i'd like to suggest we all pitch in and bring FH back to life so that his hard work doesn't go to waste
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many people no longer have time to play feralheart, whether it be school, work, overseas travel or more personal reasons. the quiet hours of fh has increased which doesn't help bringing players in.
but i'm glad to know Raz is trying his best to make the new reg, so with that said i think we should all agree and wait patiently as Raz is just one person up against countless of coding and errors.
once Raz has completed the new reg, i'd like to suggest we all pitch in and bring FH back to life so that his hard work doesn't go to waste
To add on to this, some people also left the game after the new update.
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FeralHeart registration should be brought back up to keep the game flourishing with life. I'll admit that I'm not very active ingame but I still go online. But with more members coming in, those online numbers will go way back up to the 700's and 1000's.
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The way registration is now is actually a responsible act provided by Raz and previous Staff. I want to share a quote from Nynx said as a reply on Tumblr a little while back as I feel she presented a clear answer. I will highlight in red which I feel are the most important reasons.
Quote taken from here. (http://feralheart-official.tumblr.com/post/155076873485/is-there-any-plans-to-open-registration-full-time)
Question: Is there any plans to open registration full time again in the future?
Answer: It has been discussed, although ultimately, I don’t see this happening in the future. The reason we cannot (or rather should not) open Registration full-time is because of the effect it has on users who are either trying to make tons of accounts for multiple purposes (and just creating more and more with no end) and for users trying to avoid consequences for their bad behavior. In general, the game is much more secure with a Registration at random-frequency, and by no means are we short of new accounts being created; roughly 100 new accounts are created each time the Registration has opened, so there is already an increase in users in the game. This is not to mention the potential strain on the Registration function if accounts were able to created all-day– if 100 new accounts are created in one hour of the Registration’s opening, you could imagine how many might be created in 24 hours.
Registration already allows one username registration per user, per session. Now, with this said, I cannot fully agree with this:
roughly 100 new accounts are created each time the Registration has opened, so there is already an increase in users in the game.
All though the first half might be true, I mention here (http://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=59774.msg822001#msg822001) in my post that things aren't really changing user-activity wise at all, as Sura clearly proved in her post here. (http://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=59774.msg821917#msg821917)
However, I do agree that registration should be opened again full time one day. HOWEVER, I only see that happening if there was a limit to how many accounts one user could make. Sure, there's a 'one account per reg session' thing going on here, but it's not good enough to set as a 'okay things are good now, let's open registration full time again'. Nah. There are some greedy account hoarders out there.
From my understanding, the registration was closed because the server was having issues supporting the constant flood of new players, causing hiccups and other things to happen. BEFORE registration was re-opened/brought back to us not long ago of course. Let's just get things a little more clear, Raz is working hard to give good upkeep on servers and is putting his full effort into making things fair on what he can afford and what FH can 'afford'. More servers requires more money, guys!
On the other hand, if this 'account limit' feature were to happen some day, I'm positive registration will have all the more reason to be open full time once again. I hope what Nynx said in that quote cleared reasons up for you guys. I really do believe now that instant username change and instant account deletion has arrived, it should be more encouraged for people to use if they have accounts they do not use. Yes, the 'database' has been wiped out completely of inactive accounts (18+ months of FULL user inactivity), there's still a few cracks that need filling in order to sort this issue.
Before speaking out about registration and how you guys want it open full time, please be sure to have your research and knowledge updated before doing so.
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I added up the numbers.
If 100 accounts are created per hour of a registration being open..
Then the number in 24 hours would be 2400 or over.
And I completely agree with what everyone has said.
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100% with you on this.
I understand that Raz is rebuilding the registration, but even with it up it's hard to get an account.
I was waiting since June, and I finally got an account in DECEMBER.
As well, I don't know how many users used to be on, but there aren't many now.
Something needs to be done.
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TheLastShrimpCat,
Try not to necro old threads that are older than 30 days as it clutters the board!
Thank you!<333
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I don't really see this as a necro, as this is a discussion topic and the information within this discussion topic is still relevant as a game opinion. ^^
To further this discussion, anyway, since I think it'll be interesting to see how the perspectives have changed:
Have you noticed a significant change in the number of people online? How do you all feel about this?
I have noticed a substantial increase since this post was made on number of people online. Currently it is a Monday night and we have 450+ members online.
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This was just a few nights ago:
(http://i.imgur.com/7RNDwUA.jpg)
Activity has been slowly increasing again :) Users have to keep in mind that the activity is always fluctuating.
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I never saw the game dying. The game was just falling drastically because the registration was never opened. But it's nice to see users online.
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I never thought the game was dying, it was just going through a rough patch. I have actually seen a change in activity and I think it's great to see new users and returning users, that means others still know about and can still find and play the game. ^.^
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Mhm. The community seems to be slowly becoming active again. Hopefully it'll be as active as it was a while ago soon, I'd like to see a bunch of people on.
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I have noticed a lot more new players here and there. I don't think the community is necessarily dying. To be honest, if anything it seems to be growing right now.
I think one thing we can do to attract more new players it get more involved with social media or other platforms, kind of like youtube instagram, facebook. Just share the game with others and really show how much we love it c:
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I would not say that it is dying either,
I think it has more to do with old members leaving.
Some people lose interest or are simply just too busy with life.
I, personally, was more involved back in 2011-2012 until I lost interest. I left for a long period of time,
but returned once I really started missing the community. Though there are members who leave,
there are also many who join! It is still a very big community,
which I am so happy to see. It is exciting to see new members arrive and make themselves
at home among us, it is like a big family. <3