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Farewell from Paradise Bay

62 点作者 jqgatsby大约 6 年前

17 条评论

jqgatsby大约 6 年前
My wife has been playing this game on her phone for years, and is super sad that they are closing it down. She&#x27;s probably bought a fair number of &quot;gems&quot; from them too, to beautify her island and trade fruit, I guess.<p>Some of the comments are funny, in a heartbreaking way. People really invested a lot in this game, emotionally and financially. They are wondering who is going to feed the pets they bought to live on their digital island.<p>The funniest&#x2F;saddest thing about it is that, as a last hurrah, the maintainers of the game gave everyone 10 million gems to spend as they see fit in the remaining 2 months that the game is online. On the one hand, the players are kind of pissed off at the belated awareness that the gems they were hoarding were always fundamentally worthless, but on the other hand they want to buy the final superpet or whatever for their island before the volcano blows up.
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danso大约 6 年前
Apparently related to Activision&#x27;s layoffs last months:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;king-shuts-down-former-z2live-mobile-game-studio-in-seattle-cuts-78-jobs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;king-shuts-down-former-z2...</a><p>&gt; <i>Activision Blizzard said it is laying off hundreds of employees today, and part of the fallout is that King’s mobile game studio in Seattle will be shut, resulting in the loss of 78 jobs, according to an unnamed source...</i><p>&gt; <i>...One of the studio’s games, Paradise Bay, was successful. The studio generated an estimated $200 million over the last few years, but it was still shut.</i>
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caymanjim大约 6 年前
It&#x27;s always sad to see a community you like disappear, but I think it&#x27;s a good lesson when freemium games with in-game purchasing go away. It&#x27;s an evil, terrible model that uses psychological trickery to slowly milk enormous amounts of money from people. Losing that should make everyone think twice before falling for that trick again.<p>At least with a monthly pay-as-you-go model, you don&#x27;t feel like you&#x27;re investing in an asset. When a free game gets you to spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetic trinkets, you feel like you&#x27;re buying something permanent.
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keerthiko大约 6 年前
It always fascinates me when people see the end of a game they enjoyed for hundreds of hours suddenly decide it was all a &quot;waste of time&quot; because the servers are shutting down.<p>Why can&#x27;t people fondly remember and cherish the memories with something or someone they enjoyed spending time with? When a loved one passes away do you decide all the time you spent with them was a waste?<p>It&#x27;s understandable to be upset or sad or angry, but to think of your past enjoyment and engagement as a waste?<p>This probably speaks as much to the addictive chemical nature of these kind of perpetual slot machine games as much as the thoughtlessness in the expression of the community members who are upset by it shutting down.
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adamredwoods大约 6 年前
Too bad there isn&#x27;t a market for large game companies to &quot;sell off&quot; smaller games, assets, or communication protocols (for self-hosted servers) to indie developers who could find a way to make these games sustainable. It seems like this game has a passionate base. Probably some monetary value in that.
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lizzypoo大约 6 年前
I sm so upset the game is being shut down. This is a classic game that would have been enjoyed by generations to come. Just like the Monopoly board game can be enjoyed by generations to come.<p>I am so sad the game is being shut down. It is such a waste to see the enormous creativity the designers put into it just disappearing! I&#x27;ve played for years. Have elaborately and beautifully decorated my island with flowers, walkways, fences, arches, fountains, etc. It&#x27;s truly a beautiful game. And I feel proud to have designed such a magical place.<p>There were multiple challenges and fabulous pets which exhibited such nice behaviors. It truly was a magical place.<p>I think I&#x27;m most sad because there really isn&#x27;t a game to switch to. Playing Paradise Bay wasn&#x27;t just about completing challenges and winning prizes. It was about beautifully decorating a magical land you created. And enjoying the visually prettiness of the island. Butterflies abound, the characters were all sweet, and the island was uber friendly.<p>Other games totally lack the estetics. I wish the owners of this gem would reconsider shutting it doen. There is no game for us to move to. Very sad.
forheartclover大约 6 年前
I have played paradise bay since just after its launch. I have never been captivated by a tablet game as I was this one, there were so many levels you could play, but hard to explain in full detail if you weren&#x27;t a long time player and understood the resource management it needed.<p>You could stack your mills for one. Each mill would hold 999 items in the order you put them in. I had several mills stacked to max capacity, this helped with the all too frequent tradefests or retofests. I had 3 island 2 of which &#x27;fed&#x27; my main island. I had a huge notebook to keep a record of every item in order in each mill. (Sad I know)<p>They had frequent builder events and then there were pet stickers, doubloons and map pieces etc... I could go on and on.<p>You also collected pets, follwed by their stickers to lvl the pets up.<p>The ability to decorate your island was only limited by your imagination. You could actually turn it into &#x27;your paradise&#x27;<p>I&#x27;m not angry, I&#x27;m very sad. I didn&#x27;t invest much money into the game as I played strategically learnt from long term play. I was always conscious it could also be gone any day! I don&#x27;t think ppl playing these games think about that much. Hence the shock and anger at losing their game and money.<p>This game took over my love for playing mmorpgs. I have played SWG, EQ2, Wow from vanilla. I would of happily payed a monthly sub to keep Playing PB. No timed raids or ppl evaluating your performance on your dps. You could pick up PB for 5 mins or 5 hours. It truly will be a sad day on may 17th! I don&#x27;t think AB actually realised what a gem of a game they had.<p>There was also an awesome wikia that was maintained by awesome players because they wanted to :)<p>bay.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paradise_Bay_Wikia<p>There certainly isn&#x27;t a game out there to fill the void in my spare time. So I just hope someone has the foresight to fill that very big hole in a lot of ppls spare time.
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mythz大约 6 年前
Never heard of Paradise Bay but it&#x27;s sad to see years of creative effort disappearing from the face of the earth like that. A game of this quality could&#x27;ve definitely have been sold off and kept running on a skeleton crew which would&#x27;ve saved some jobs, so I&#x27;m assuming the decision to shutdown is to keep it out of competitors hands or some other corporate or political reason.<p>From the forum comments you can see the conflict between the Users the game has cultivated who are really emotionally invested in the game and its corporate owners who are detached from it.
b_tterc_p大约 6 年前
Seems like activision acquired and is now axing it. I can’t imagine it isn’t profitable, so it’s really going to be activision deciding that it’s not profitable enough to meet some metrics. Frustrating.
overgard大约 6 年前
Surprised they didn&#x27;t have a longer sunsetting period. Unless the server costs are massive it seems like a year or so would be more appropriate. Maybe their 28 day retention is just low enough that they didn&#x27;t think there were enough long term players for it to matter.
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lizzypoo大约 6 年前
Can anyone suggest a replacement for Paradise Bay? I haven&#x27;t found anything that is as besutiful or rnjoyable.
rwallace大约 6 年前
Okay, I&#x27;m curious; does anyone have any idea why? Is there a way I&#x27;m not seeing, that it can fail to be profitable to keep this game running? Or a reason I&#x27;m not seeing, why a corporation – in the second Gilded Age, when money is supposed to be the measure of all things – is throwing away profit?
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rambojazz大约 6 年前
They should release at least the server code as open source, and let users download their data as well, so that people can keep playing.
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VectorLock大约 6 年前
I wonder how many people are going to be upset that their &quot;in-game purchases&quot; are going poof.
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mesozoic大约 6 年前
Apparently gone from the app store. Any way I can still download and play until they shut down?
ceejayoz大约 6 年前
You&#x27;ve really messed up your Farmville clone if it&#x27;s losing money.
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Thaxll大约 6 年前
It&#x27;s probably possible to re-implement a game server since most likely that game is using a REST backend.