Mothippie

Where do I even start...

Let's start with the staff I guess since that was my biggest issue.

There was one question in particular that if you asked, a mod would just either completely stop talking to you or altogether keep ignoring you.

"Can mods see our dms?"

We were kids, we were sharing private stuff on the game since it was a bannable offense to take things off the platform. I remember someone confiding in me about some very personal stuff, and it was fine until I started to wonder if I wasnt the only one able to see it.

But if you ASKED any of the mods if your dms were visible, they would completely ignore you. When I was younger it felt like maybe it was a coincidence but the older myself and other players got, the more clear it became that it was a 90% chance that SOMEONE could see our dms.

It was most likely the best way to catch people breaking the rules in dms. There was a hard stop no nsfw rule (for good reason) but it was known that people took it to dms.

But here was also a 10% chance that they couldnt see the dms and didnt want to disclose it and make players realize they could do whatever they wanted in dms. Either was it was one of the most frustrating things to have to try and figure out because there was simply no straight answers. It made a lot of the players I knew incredibly anxious to say anything at all, even things that wouldn't break the rules, because it felt like there was no privacy at all.

Another thing was the rule that made it to where you were only allowed to speak english in the chat, even if others understood you. If the MODS didnt speak the language, then it was a hard no. I witnessed it a lot with spanish speakers and some russian. On one hand I can understand this, they have to be able to moderate the chat, but it very much felt like there could be another way other than outright alienating people who may not speak English.

Another one was that the mods opinions 100% swayed everyone else, and it was a huge issue in the suggestion forums. I remember suggesting multiple things, some well recieved, some well received UNTIL a mod showed up- then suddenly no one thought it was a good idea.

I was a kid so 100% some of my ideas were just shit but I was not the only one that noticed this switch. The more aware I became when it came to favoritism, the more I started slipping away from the game.

I remember I had suggested a pregnancy terminating Item due to space in dens being a huge issue. If you ran out of space and your wolf gave birth, the puppies would run away or something. I saw a lot of people around me realize they had a chance to breed with a really high rarity male but they would lose the chance because they had also just bred another wolf and they would have no time to chase away the puppies.

I was told that my suggestion was too political.

My suggestion for a fictional puppy pregnancy ender was too political and was in the end the fault of the player for not planning ahead- and it received horrible downvotes only after the mod said that.

I hope it doesnt come off like I mald over this daily, this was a game I loved for 7 years that I am still sad over not playing anymore due to the shitty management.

Another thing, and the last of the big things for me, was how you could only get commissions through game currency and no matter how many people suggested it- the admin herself would tell the players that it just wasnt going to happen.

The reason? They didnt want to "be liable" for scams.

Not only is that not how it worked, but scams were rampant on the games WITH the currency because there was no way to invoice players. I was scammed multiple times, drawing entire full things for people only to be never paid and ghosted as they spoke to people publically. Nothing was ever done when I reported it.

But the people who did pay paid GOOD, and I was not the only person who wanted to be allowed to use PayPal- commissioners ALSO wanted to use paypal.

Now onto the smaller stuff ig? For a game that had a lot of queer people, queer suggestions were just not reciprocated well at all. Take Wolvden for example: you can have same sex couples and all that and it's literally fine.

But suggesting that to the players would get a bunch of "that isnt realistic" "it would break the immersion"

Hate to break it to the pack lovers but alpha, beta, and omega roles arent real either. Let the wolves be gay.

There was a roleplaying section on the site itself outside of dms but barely anyone used it.

There was one place for roleplay that had nothing to do with wolves at all, a fantasy one, and a realistic one if I remember correctly? I may be wrong but I think there was also a section basically for out of character comments but I could definitely be wrong. I DO know however that if you did anything like

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(Here is an out of character example at the bottom of a reply)

You had your ass chewed out. A mod would come in, interrupt the flow of the multiple roleplay happening in one chat, and tell you off for it. It was insane.

So most players moved to dms because then they could ask questions and coordinate with their roleplay partner 10x better.

The final thing I can think of right now is how absolutely shitty the wolf design options got as they ran out of ideas. Base coats that literally worked with little to no markings at all because they were ALREADY completely covered in markings. New base coats were added that basically no one wanted or used because they were so hideous.

And the game art has not been updated for the wolves, and NONE of it matches as it seems it was all done by different artists. I knew almost no one who used the beta female pose because it would make your wolf look like a solid brick. The most popular poses was the alpha male/female, and the beta male. Because they looked the most like wolves and mostly matched.

But all the new clothing items do not match AT ALL.