#post 2

This kind of "mistake" is embarrassingly routine. It happens religiously. All the time. Every breed release. It's not just a minor change but a major one that heavily impacts dragons. It's the rule for FR to do this every single time ... so much so that the position to avoid new breeds for over 40 days keeps spreading.

It's clear that FR is employing the players as unpaid labor to do their quality control for them. Which isn't great, but there's a (narrow) window for acceptability ... only if players aren't literally paying for losing out. Which they are: Newly gened dragons. Booned and sold hatchlings, and now those buyers have lost out too.

It's gotten to the point that you're almost a laughingstock for being excited enough about a new release to gene a dragon immediately, because the problems are that predictable:

Blaming users for normal and expected gameplay is not okay. You're supposed to be excited enough to buy and use genes and race to sell new hatchlings! The devs are selling this product to you! That is absolutely their intent!

Then they retcon the product after you buy it. With no apology. There's an "explanation" presented in a way that sounds understanding and reasonable, with (yet another!) promise that they've heard you, and they understand, and they will make a note! <3 <3 <3

Is this enough?

Have you ever noticed the blatant lack of apology? Every time something like this happens? There is a chronic refusal by the devs to accept actual responsibility or admit fault. It's just empty promises. And it's particularly jarring when you realize a couple of things:

These massive errors keep happening. There is no effort to change things despite lip service, and it's the players who get screwed by it and are expected to constantly pay for it.

This is a product the site is selling you. It's a defective product. When defective products are sold, you're owed a refund and/or replacement. And yet, they refuse to offer refunds. They very obviously avoid mentioning compensating you for your losses.

They always claim to "fix" the gene, but that isn't what's broken. What's broken is the dragon you thought you had, but now you don't, and the funds you lost. The real fix is to restore that dragon or deliver you a refund. If you are not paid to be FR's guinea pig (free labor), then you are a customer. You're paying them, and they need to deliver.

FR wants you to pay money into their site, and they get you to do that by releasing new breeds. But they refuse to accept responsibility and return your funds when they inevitably screw up the release. They refuse to have a trial period for you to preview and test out the genes for their self-imposed 40-day "things might or might not change" limbo. The 40-day human trials they currently conduct are literally at your expense ... and they refuse to communicate about it. They delete real concerns without telling you. They won't respond to repeated requests for information. And then they release changes at the exact end of the 40-day human trials so that the clock is run out and you have no more opportunity to comment on the new changes.

Exactly. It's about time players are catching on. It goes without saying that the window for this should be a generous 60 days. FR must accommodate the entirety of the 40+ days they allow for error reporting, plus the inevitable extra time they tack onto it, plus time for people to be away from the game and learn about changes later.

Until then, it's buyer beware.