I've been playing for 2 minutes and I hate it already

[Kimber]

Been on for the first time tonight & my first thoughts are:

The walking is really funny & i dont like it.
Not a clue what im doing - how do i see other peoples tree houses?
Nobody is online ?

Overall my first thought - i dont like it & i expected a lot better.

I know all what i have put above is bad, but i just thought i would let you know what im thinking.

Sorry! :rolleyes:

To access the navigation tool simply press the top of the tree. Scroll down, and you see the treehouses. There are plenty of people online.

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it's really annoying, everything i click doesn't work.
And you have to pay to change your style?
I excpected more.
The only good thing is speech.

All the buttons work. Could you be more specific?

[Sly]

From the 5 minutes I spent on it on a guest account I think I made the right decision in skipping the registration process as I'll never be tempted to play this awful game ever again.
It's worse than bitty bay, in fact, it's worse than Peppa Pig DS.

[Phil]

I think if people are going to complain they should at least pot a some constructive criticism instead of just "I HATE IT". I was only playing it for five minutes and I was very confused, especially with finding rooms which has been explained in this thread. Thanks Kimber. Also I'm not a fan of the clothing at the moment but you say that there'll be more available free clothes which I think will be great. Thanks.

[hamheyelliot]

It's worse than bitty bay

lol I just signed up for BittyBay to tide me over.

I think it needs some time to improve generally, but the 3 main things that really put me off are the font (using the chunky one on the site and for the logo is fine, but in game you need something that's actually clear to read), the walk (slow and clunky), and our appearance (why should I have to pay to have a human looking haircut?).

That's semi-constructive?

Other than that, it definitely has a chance to show its worth. Cmon and show it already

[Kimber]

Clothing and hair will be resolved shortly. Roughly 80% should be free.

[Phil]

Clothing and hair will be resolved shortly. Roughly 80% should be free.

Sounds good, hope they're nice.

[Tintinnabulate]

What you need is a tutorial video. I couldn't work out how to search for peoples tree houses. How can I see my tree houses separately. I created a tree house and couldn't even get in it :S
Its very very confusing to use. The client window needs to be larger.

You need to show free clothes first, you put me off the second my clothes all said PAID. And why does the text bubble go over the windows? Its irritating as if I am changing clothes, the text goes over it, meaning I cannot see the clothes properly.

[Kimber]

What you need is a tutorial video. I couldn't work out how to search for peoples tree houses. How can I see my tree houses separately. I created a tree house and couldn't even get in it :S
Its very very confusing to use. The client window needs to be larger.

You need to show free clothes first, you put me off the second my clothes all said PAID. And why does the text bubble go over the windows? Its irritating as if I am changing clothes, the text goes over it, meaning I cannot see the clothes properly.

The feedback is welcome, this is only the first build. Alot will change over the coming four weeks, as has already been stated.

To answer your questions:
- Searching for treehouses is not part of the initial build.
- Your own treehouses have a cross next to them, furthermore there was an issue today preventing the room list from updating. This was fixed at around 19:30.
- Clothing will be set to be automatically added to accounts in the (very) near future, however some items will be left as premium goods and have their cost increased by 5 credits (roughly 80% free, 20% paid).
- Text bubbles going above windows is something we're playing with. We've changed back and forth alot these past 3 months.

Whilst we will happily take any and all feedback, statements such as "it's rubbish" don't help. What don't you like? What do you think needs improving? What do you like? Should we focus on that? What parts were hard to understand?

[mmocctester]

i love the game. love the style of the game,
the clothing (yes it might not be brilliant and the clothes are a bit chunky especially the dress that makes you look 8 months pregnant but they are still nice)
to all the people who posted above saying its hard to use, i found it really easy to use when i first joined i had an experiment with the buttons and found the nav straight away.
love the game so far cant wait for more features!

[Tintinnabulate]

The feedback is welcome, this is only the first build. Alot will change over the coming four weeks, as has already been stated.

To answer your questions:
- Searching for treehouses is not part of the initial build.
- Your own treehouses have a cross next to them, furthermore there was an issue today preventing the room list from updating. This was fixed at around 19:30.
- Clothing will be set to be automatically added to accounts in the (very) near future, however some items will be left as premium goods and have their cost increased by 5 credits (roughly 80% free, 20% paid).
- Text bubbles going above windows is something we're playing with. We've changed back and forth alot these past 3 months.

Whilst we will happily take any and all feedback, statements such as "it's rubbish" don't help. What don't you like? What do you think needs improving? What do you like? Should we focus on that? What parts were hard to understand?

Ofcourse I didn't just say "it's rubbish", actually I didn't say that at all. I pointed out what I found confusing and offered suggestions.

Also, problem is, what you now have with your navigator is that its a long list of all tree houses. Suppose in a month there are 200 tree houses, that means people have to scroll down 200 treehouses to find the one they want or to find their own. And when it gets to thousands, it will just be impossible.

I think it would be ideal to adopt Habbos method in your next update where only the rooms with people in show up on the navigation, or have 20 rooms show up even if they are all empty. Then have a search so people can search for the username or the treehouse.

One thing which I think would also be beneficial is to have it so when we click the speech bubble, it selects the user. For example, last night, I kept clicking your speech bubble and it didn't select you. When I asked how to add you as a friend, you asked me to click on you and click the add button. However, there were around 20-30 people in that room, most of them look the same to me, so it was very hard to find your avatar.

Maybe start by giving out more free stuff than paid stuff. Give out free furni for people to start off with and then in 1-2 months, start charging.

Hope it helps.