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Cynbel

May. 1, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Clearly a lot of developers don't understand how to properly implement micro transactions. If you want to go that route, anything that can be bought through micro transactions should be available in game normally, either through earning or paying in game currency, or to speed things up for those who don't want to wait can pay for, but don't do this for game time, or at least drop the time it takes to get more game time. Seriously I shouldn't have to pay to unlock recipes, it could be that getting to a certain level or using some amount of in game currency with the option to pay to unlock early.

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gamekid1100

May. 4, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) making us PAY to unlock recipes that we cant get any other way is criminal but even after that how with most of them we cant use unless we PAY MORE for the stupid 'premium' resources is just plain old evil

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Thatguy176

Jul. 13, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Great game. One of the best merchant type games on the internet. The trouble is it falls victim to the same flawed formula most web browser games attempt. If you were to make the game less token dependent and simply use ads or something instead, you'd make more money and the players would enjoy your game more. We can tolerate an ad in the corner and a 30 second video while the game loads. We can't tolerate paying to play this when we could simply download WoW and open a shop in there if we wanted to pay to be a merchant. The reason Youtube is so successful and still free to use is because it uses advertisements instead of making people pay to watch videos like megavideo or something. + So the de

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lolkiller1

Jul. 13, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) The sad thing, if they hadn't done the whole "tokens" thing, this game would be rated high enough to earn money for the weekly or maybe even monthly best game.

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lError_404l

May. 8, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I want to talk about business. You know how to make money out of a GREAT game like this one? NOT by harrassing the players every five actions with the need to purchase more coins or kreds. That is the WORST thing you can do, it just drives people mad and make them want to stop playing right away (don't believe me? Read the other comments.). Want to know what works? PUTTING ADVERTISEMENTS ON IT. I am pretty sure you'd get a much better deal and your game would be rated 4.5+ with that change.

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wondrer1234

May. 7, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) *when i started playing the game* : BEST GAME EVER! 5/5 *when the time limit happened* : sigh... 1/5.

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Amalo

Sep. 9, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) had to join in the crowd here. awesome, addicting game. completely ruined by the insane desire for cash from the developer.

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BrapAllgood

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Why is that I can spend a week (in real days) of playing and then someone can walk off with all I earned and more in one theft? While I have some other issues with the Sept. 6 update, this one is making me wish to quit playing; any game that caters to bullies loses my interest. I hope someone at Edgebee is reading this: I was going to donate a little cash to you guys for all the hours of fun...but then you took the fun back, so I will use that cash on XBLA. My loss is your loss.

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nitsudge

Jun. 16, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I'd gladly pay to play this game...once. The idea that you can buy the top level package (Mythril starter pack) and STILL have to spend thousands of tokens unlocking content is criminal. You make a good product, I'm happy to support you, but not when you act like this. This game will go the same way as Critter Forge: people will be excited at first, but interest will wane as people see how much you try to gouge us. Sure you'll make a few bucks up front, but you are ruining your reputation with your customers.

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3snoW

Jul. 23, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) "Is this how you treat all your costumers?" YES! When i don't have what they are looking for, i try to give them something else that might replace it! What's so strange about doing that?!

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aschecad

Oct. 22, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) You really shoud not have a game that you have to pay to play and have fun for 1 hour. this really sould just have ads to pay for the game.

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awsm253

Mar. 28, 2012

Under rating threshold (show) the price for special materials is just rediculos when it is very easy to get them from questing adventerours (sorry for any spelling mistakes)

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warlord27

Jan. 7, 2012

Under rating threshold (show) you should be able release your thug from jail with a bail

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mondomurda76

Sep. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Saved 25 K to buy a new add on... only to find you need a guild AND 4000 affinity!?!?! UGh. what a blow to sense making.

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neoretro

Sep. 9, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I don't comment much on this website. I only do when I feel a game is exceptionally fun to play and worth praise. This game is exceptionally fun to play, but unfortunately I'm not praising it at all. Waiting to play every few rounds (with the option of paying to play, which is despicable on a website like this) severely interrupts the flow of the game and makes me not want to touch it anymore. It's frustrating. I understand as a developer that produces quality games, you deserve what monetary compensation you manage to receive for your creation, however your egregious implementation of token demanding mechanics destroys the integrity of your product. Sorry, but it's just such a shame for such a unique and captivating game.

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neyna

Aug. 11, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) That is unbelieveable! Minus Experience for failed suggestion? They still want all the items I never will be able to produce because they cost tokens ? No new Items ? No new recipes? No Guild chat? Have you even read the comments all the players made ??? I think you lost now a player.

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Radenska

Sep. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Would be be a perfect game, gave 5, but as other said: - tokens - mandatory waiting - can't progress without a guild (although there is no sense such things in these kind of games...) I would recall the 5 and hope the devs would rethink the concept. Soon.

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Thrawn1

Sep. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I share the feelings of many other people that the game is a bit broken in the amount of money necessary to actually pay to play and how frustrating it is to try and play with out paying. But what really stuck out to me that I don't see too many people talk about is the guild system. Its essential to the advancement of a store to have a guild, and yet there is no place to post a guild message, no option to mail a letter to all guild members in the mail page, no guild chat, no "apply for guild" page,.... no support for guilds at all. Its like they were a last minute addition that someone stuck in without the time to actually make them a fluid part of the game.

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Densu

Sep. 24, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) It'd be nice if you could tell customers you'd have their item ready by tomorrow, especially when they ask me for it when I'm half way through making one.

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Mystryx

Jul. 18, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) And yet nothing will change on this game, because it's a money hungry game maker, i mean seriously check the rest of his games, this game has the potential to be GREAT, just take away the day limit and gives us a token for every few sales we do.

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SalsaJoe13

Jul. 15, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) This game makes me want to drive to the hardware store, ask where the milk is, and then yell at the manager because they're always out of stock.

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Shakugan

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I wonder if creating a game is really this easy... otherwise I couldn't explain why someone would waste time and efforts into a game and then going all the way ruining it just cause of greed. And it's not like it's the first time, I've played Sorcery Quest for quite awhile and I've been a token user there until they started to ask for my inner organs (don't know about Critter Forge, but I guess it's the same). I mean, you make a game with a nice colorful graphic, with original and addicting gameplay and then you decide to ask for tokens for every single breath players take while playing; with less asking for tokens all of your games would have a lot more players, a 4.5+ rating here on Kongregate and you would have a better reputation and probably even a better income than now. I know you can play without tokens if you want, but the game loses all its enjoyableness that way. Just saying.

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Keslen

Dec. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I really wish Kongregate had chosen a game which offered more than just wait-a-bunch-of-time-to-get-a-few-more-clicks game play for this Child's Play thing. It's something that I would have loved to participate in it if I had been given a genuine opportunity.

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RunesGod

Dec. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) What kind of idiot forgets to collect the loot?

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Vidd

Sep. 25, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Well, I can understand that advertisments don't give you enough money to make a living out of it but did you ever think about a mix? Tokens, okay, but less please. Add some commercial stuff, decrease the amount of tokens we, as gamers, need to purchase ingame stuff. I mean, there's no point in spending 50$ on ingame tokens if I can buy stuff like StarCraft 2 or, to stay with the merchand game stuff, the guild one and two, for less money. You have to earn money but just stop do be as unfair as you are. Apart from that, the game is amazing. You did a great job here so don't ruin it ;)

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erbedo

Sep. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Achievement earned: ruin a perfect game with the tokens system.

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LODERUNNER

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Oh you delirious designers.. I cant buy a workshop with hard earned gold? I have to join a guild and beg for points? That is a step backwards from the norm... 1 star...

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BlackHabit

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Sorry Edgebee Studios, but my time is precious. So if you want you can wait until tomorrow for me to play again. However if you donate 10 tokens(or just 10 bucks) right now, I will reconsider this and continue playing today. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT HUH?

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emantehdragon

Sep. 11, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) "I woke up this morning and realized I was too weak to take on the monster?" THEN GIVE ME BACK MY ITEM !

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sucidalmaniac

Oct. 2, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) i wish i could tell my thug to go to other shops dressed as an adventerer.then he would be like i need (item) to kill (thing) then give me the item,go back the next day and say "i woke up and i reallizied im to weak to take on that monster

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Wyrd42

Jun. 28, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I have to agree with so many others: the balance between basic and premium content makes the game less than fun. I don't object to premium content, but it is such an enormous part of this game, and you have to spend so very much to unlock even a fraction of the content that I might as well go to the store and buy and real game with better production values. Idea 5. Execution: 4. premium content brings the rating down to 2, though.

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near13

Apr. 14, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) yeah i agree with Thatguy176 on the ad thing... also would it be possible to add a guild chat?

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m00by1

Oct. 4, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) it would really be boss if you could tell your workers to make 'x' amount of product 'a' and they'd get a small time reduction boost like in real life.

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TheLAstMAgister

Jul. 14, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) "I woke up this morning and realized I needed this item, an Antidote." Procrastination to the extreme.

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mstormer99

Sep. 9, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Man, if you're going to make a game that's so dependent on tokens, at LEAST give players some sort of daily token package or something. If you want to make a few extra bucks off a game, do it with ADVERTISEMENTS. People wouldn't mind watching a twenty second ad, but they DO mind being driven mad with being pressured to spend a few bucks every 10 actions or so. Kongregate is SUPPOSED to be a site where you can play "free online games" they should stop with these stupid Kreds, They're really ruining the site...

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mohirl

Sep. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) The more I get into this game, the greedier it gets. I wish Kong would stop awarding badges to games like this.

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JSilvis

Feb. 18, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) It's amazing to me how despite the thousands of comments all saying the same damn thing..the dev's never fixed anything. I'll say what's been said..10s of thousands of times; "This would be one of the best games out there if it weren't for the tokens and time limits". It just goes to prove what money hungry bastards they are. It's pathetic edgebee...pathetic.

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jacobpayne

Sep. 8, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) when is the pay-to-play tag going to be added?

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itamrpink

Dec. 12, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Customer: "Do you have this item? I'll pay half its price". Me: "I have five of them, but I'll never give it to you for that money". Customer: "YOU'RE ALWAYS OUT OF STOCK!!!!" Me: "wtf...?!"

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xapocalypticx

Sep. 15, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) So originally I thought everyone was just complaining because they needed tokens to get things done more easily, which i dismissed because i don't mind going the extra mile and getting the items the hard way, then I came across the clock, the clock that wont let you play anymore unless you wait X amount of minutes or pay tokens, yep that ruined it. Why would you put a game like this on kong? Games like these should be reserved for facebook, Id rather play this game for a few hours and be happy with it rather than end up having to play it for days and days and just get more and more aggravated. Without the tokens it would be my favorite game, I was really looking for something close to a pawn shop game for the longest time and this one satiated my craving, oh well greed is a funny thing sometimes.

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babyface_blues

Sep. 14, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Is there anything like this game without the ridiculous online and nickel-and-dime aspects? I was really turned off by the day limit, it's just dumb IMHO. The rest could've been a great game, I dunno, don't wanna play it anymore in 15 minute stretches every 24 hours.

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seniorphilthy

Sep. 11, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Trying to force me to pay by making me wait to play is dirty, dirty, dirty crap. Be ashamed.

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Retardedmoose

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Furthermore, why does this need to be multiplayer? Remove the multiplayer, then remove the pay to play. No need to complain about paying to set up those servers then.

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Darkshadow328

Jul. 16, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Good game. Just get rid of the token system and put ads on it. I don't mind ads.

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jklajkla

Dec. 19, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Reading from other comments people have been saying it would be a good idea to be able to get more alternate ways to get tokens e.g. getting a token every day you log in ,buying 1 token with 1K of gold or getting 2 tokens every time you level up + so the developer can see this comment

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desmat

Sep. 11, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) great game, but buying time is sucks.2\5

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12mattew

Sep. 10, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) if your gonna use ingame currency atleast have a way of getting this currency in game, not all of us are wanting to throw away money on a flash game. reciepes should be able to be bought with tokens or coins, i dont mind if that jacks the coin price up but the token system blows big time

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Sh33p

Sep. 14, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I thought that people were just whinging about the whole token thing and didn't find it that bad, right up until it forces you to wait between days, but gives the option to pay not to wait. One of the worst ideas ever. I'm torn between giving a high rating for gameplay, but a low rating as I don't think that a game forcing you to pay should be rated highly on a free games website. I'll save my higher ratings for games that respect the gamer.

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Mvega

Sep. 14, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) I think this game could be majorly improved by giving players a way to earn tokens. I can understand the desire to want to make money from your game, but rather than rewarding the players who pay money, it's like you're penalizing those who don't. It's a shame, because it IS a really fun game.

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succinct

Sep. 27, 2011

Under rating threshold (show) Between making you join a guild to improve your shop, requiring tokens to get recipes, and limiting how many days you can complete, it seems like this game is designed purely to prevent people from playing it.

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