I've been a long time fan of AG for at least 5 years. I enjoyed this website over any other sites across the world. It doesn't matter if I just got the biggest titles on my console, busy with MMO, piled with work, I would always reserve a portion of my time to AG. I don't usually go to the forum, I just play the games. Recently, I've noticed several intriguing changes. I am not pleased personally, but that is ok. I just want to know am I the only one taking this seriously?
1. Increased amount of MMO.
To be honest, this is a good change. It is always good to have more options. However, one should realize that MMO should not taking away spaces for regular games. I can't stand the fact a random MMO pop out of no where taking the space reserved for flash games in front page. Heck, MMO is taking over the "new game" section, displayed as default in categories. MMO is not a game that you play as much as you want, most people only have time for one. It is the flash games that deserve to be displayed as priority.
2. Increased amount of advertising.
Ads are not evil. They are there to award devs with money, who made such amount of quality games. However, they now display in every games. How about only display them while loading? How about add a skip button? How about limiting them under 10 seconds? I know Youtube have done a good job with ads, so can AG.
3. Decreased game quality.
One year ago, I can find a great game every week. Gemcraft, Kingdom rush, Sonny, those are classic games I never forgets. I am seeing less and less of them, in fact, I can barely see a game rated above 90 these days. I know rating isn't everything, but it does speak something when every games are like that.
4. Decreased game quantity
This is not as significant as the others, but it is noticeable. I wonder what happened. Shouldn't AG update more often with increased publicity and funds from ads? I do not understand this.
Will I stay here? Yes. Will I be content with the changes? Maybe. Would I want this trend to continue? Definitely not!
2011: "AG sucks now. Last year it was so much better." 2012: "AG isn't half as good as it was last year." 2013: "AG was so much better in previous years."
One year ago, I can find a great game every week. Gemcraft, Kingdom rush, Sonny, those are classic games I never forgets. I am seeing less and less of them, in fact, I can barely see a game rated above 90 these days. I know rating isn't everything, but it does speak something when every games are like that.
Games work in cycles. There are a surge of good games every now and then, and then new developers come in and turn out not quite as good games. But, they get better with time and experience, and a wave of good games comes out. That's life.
Biggest understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths.
Honestly, the role of MMOs on this site is ridiculous. You've got a censor that replaces any word stronger than "darn" with asterisks and yet you allow Wartune and other such trash to post ads for what looks like some sort of Halloween-themed reverse-dressup game. At the very least, allow ratings. Let people know how bad these things are. I say we should bring back the ads for dirt-cheap Kingdom Rush premium content. That was nice. Bring the site's focus back to top-quality games - Kong will always beat you on the quantity front. MMOs have invaded every corner and as your robot overlord, I hereby demand that you keep them in their own tab. Or else I shall eat them. >:c
@Sire Ernie15, although I have not been around as long as you, but for a company that has a net worth of 76 million dollars generating $13K per day in gross revenue, you would think that they would wake up to the fact that their global rank has dropped from 400 in 2009 to 2400 currently. [url=http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/armorgames.com#traffic_graphs]
You would think that with that kind of revenue generation, they might want to consider hiring some IT specialists to provide some proper maintenance instead of finding ways to irritate the users.
Really $13 million? I'm free to hire lol For what this is a site of flash games that a if you know how normally simple to make. I do remember when i first game to this site in around 2008 before i made account, played on and off. Was amazed at what flash games could actually do. Before they weren't good on other sites and i mostly played standard consoles like the ps3. With a few mmorpg.s but they are alot of effort of. keep up and eventually they get boring. So games are getting better here. Also the features, they are slowly getting applied to make it better. If we all do our bit to suggest features, Retrain feedback, have discussions in forums without leading to trolling and of course keep playing. This is almost all of us here. all of us here shouldn't make it go down hill. There was a transition period of course when going from ag2 to ag3. Which sort of made it not get any better for awhile. Now we are at the other side of that and have things rolling again, the site can only get better.
The small-time independent roofing company I work for makes about $1M a year, but just about all of it goes into salaries, material costs, insurances, and the ocassional lawsuit. That's coming from a company with a total employee count of 15.
Yes ... i mean obviously ... the site is in FREE FALLL
1. MMO games: it's a good thing that AG supports MMO's for low end computers IT IS A BAD THING AG SUPPORTS LOW QUALITY MMOS! Seriously people .. i mean .... no decent MMO around here since The las stand Dead zone ..... if Battlestar Galactica online made it in here the it is a clear marker that the quality is going to CREPE!
2. increased amount of ads. I'm fine with ad supported sites ... like 9gag ... and ad supported games like android stores .... BUT WHEN YOU HAND OUT MANDATORY 3 MINTE ADS YOU KNOW THAT YOU MESSED UP! honestly! why not 3 descrete ad windows on the side of the page? like 9 gag does
Personally , if i find an ad intrusive .. I DO NOT CLICK IT! no clicks no money AG! Keep that in mind!
3. Decreased game amount/quality?
Yeah ... when the site is going downhill .. and not just downhill but its going downhill because of a stupid , impulsive , agresive , greedy marketing ... game devs are honestly excused and encouraged to leave the sinking ship ... no reason to stay ....
I hope that armorgames was somehow , financially , hit and need extra cash to stay afloat ..... case in which they should either cut their loses and shut down or get their s**** together and attract clientele buy quality while they make money for other passive methods as lower profile ads and in game purchases that actually are worth it and don't mess the game experience for anyone.
Yes ... i mean obviously ... the site is in FREE FALLL
I'm going to be frank. I can't tell if this is a sarcastic post, a troll post or a post from someone that hasn't been on the internet until a week ago.
