Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6002884-20140205031608

Anyone playing Galaxy on Fire: Alliances will understand what I am about to say.

Galaxy on Fire 2 is possibly one of the most legendary games on the App Store. The game is genre-defining--it will be hard to top that.

At this rate, it may never be topped.

You see, when I first downloaded GoFA in its Closed Beta stage I thought that I am supporting Fishlabs by helping build up a spin off for the Galaxy on Fire 2 series and by helping raise funds for the highly-anticipated Galaxy on Fire 3. I knew that the game was even more unstable than it is now, and I thought that it's because Fishlabs is just testing it out.

I should've known that a game must be at least stable even before letting in beta testers.

When I downloaded the Open Beta version of GoFA, I was excited. This game is multiplayer; I got a close friend of mine to play the game with me.

But all these good feeling quickly evaporated when the interface wasn't much more attractive than the Closed Beta version. My friend, who wasn't a beta tester, had a lot of trouble figuring out the mechanics of this game. It required my experience from Closed Beta just to let him understand the basics of the game. Even then, I'm still figuring out the rest of the game. I had to ask my alliance members how to get blueprints and how to research them.

Speaking of alliances, there are a few overly-dedicated players who completely wipe out other loyal players--including me--discouraging them even more than the confusing interface can do alone. Great job Fishlabs. Reeeeal smart.

This game is Clash of Clans in space. Unlike Clash of Clans, where the most you could lose is resources, in GoFA you can lose entire PLANETS, where you have likely waited days, or even weeks, to build up. My friend's entire star system where he put his base of operations outside his Home system was wiped out. Gone. He played for months building that up. I oughta know. I was with him the whole time, even guided him to that system away from the chaos of the part of the Shroud Nebula where expansion is severesly limited. All gone.

The only reason now that I even bother coming back to this tedious game that takes precious time away from my life is to support Fishlabs. Only after losing my planets in a pointless war did I realize that this insanity in a video game. Insanity is often defined as doing something over and over again, expecting something good to happen. In this case, I was reptitively upgrading random stuff that I barely understood--and this is coming from an optimistic gamer who always wants to look at the good side of things--expecting a Galaxy on Fire 3.

I hope you got what you wanted, Fishlabs, with all the $20 packages your loyal fans bought for you. I've decided to quit the game until further notice; I myself purchased some $20 packages. Hopefully this cash-gobbler will help you out of your financial ruin. If not, you deserved it with GoFA. I'm going back to blasting pirates from the cockpit of Keith T. Maxwell's ship.

This is a tragic end to the genre-defining legend of the Galaxy on Fire series. I'm sorry for your losses, but Galaxy on Fire: Alliances is simply a remedy worse than the disease itself.

 ~XenoDarth~ 03:16, February 5, 2014 (UTC) 