Non-Disney Online Games Virtual Family Kingdom Thread

[luvyawdw]

Waffles. with ice cream. Waffles with ice cream. From Knoebels...Mmmmm

That is funny, We go to knobels every year. We live in Dallas PA (near wilkes barre). They do have good ice cream, I like their funnel cakes too. I never had their waffles.
It really is a nice day trip and inexpensive. But...we love disney and can not wait to go back. Now without VMK we feel really disconnected to disney. Im still hoping it will come back as a pay to play! I really don't know the odds of that
I think my daughter would pass out if it did come back. I would gladly pay.
Lisa

 

[SharkMeal]

I wish they'd say "It will be up in a week" and then have it come up before the
a week that would make us happier with them, and it would be better than
saying "It will be up this evening", then when they can't do that they say
"Our router will come in the morning and then we will get it up", and then
have the router come at night and then say "We will do tests and get it up
tomorrow" and then say the next day "It should be up sometime today" and
then it's STILL not up.

 

[Mnementh]

They probably figure if they say that it will be up in a week, people will take their word for it and won't bother to check the site for a full week, even if it comes back online sooner than that, so no one will play.

 

[Dashzap]

They probably figure if they say that it will be up in a week, people will take their word for it and won't bother to check the site for a full week, even if it comes back online sooner than that, so no one will play.

If they say a week, the compulsive site checkers amongst us (we know who we are) will check regularly anyway. And if only a few figure it out and play, all the better for alpha testing.

 

[Blackfaer]

As anyone in technology or management can tell you, this is a common, common situation. You figure out the problem, figure out the solution, budget your time, check with your staff, and come up with a time frame. Then you double it, and announce the doubled timeline so that your client (in this case us) will be pleasantly surprised when you are ready early!

Then you proceed to work on the problem, only to uncover another layer of problems which you discover when you thought you were just about done, which puts you right back at square one. And so you've said it will be ready by the next morning, only now you're working all night to meet that deadline, and about midnight you discover that you need one little part to fix the problem. But all the stores are closed until morning.

So then you go to the store only to find the store is out, so you rush home and order it online with overnight delivery, but they're on the East Coast and you're out West so you've missed the overnight delivery deadline, so it won't come for two more days....

So two days later you finally get that part, you install it, and everything is groovy until as you're just about to announce to your client that you're finally done and everything is working, something else breaks down all of a sudden.

So...you figure out the problem, figure out the solution, budget your time, check with your staff, and come up with a time frame. Then you double it, and announce the doubled timeline so that your client (in this case us) will be pleasantly surprised when you are ready early!

How does that song go? The bear went over the mountain...

 

[Belle1997]

I just feel so bad for them. They are probably so tired which makes it even harder to fix the problems. I am sure they have been in constant stress since Monday. SO if anyone is reading this that know the developers please send them extra pixie dust there way. We can wait. I know they are trying their best.

I the bright side I have been working on my VMK video well it is more like an epic of 2 hours and 15 minuts with about 15 more minutes to add

 

[SweetJaydGrl]

edited

 

[aengus]

I wonder if they ever noticed one of the few things we hated about vmk were the broken promises @_@

It is possible to keep us updated without making promises

 

[RiceOwl]

Blackfaer you described it perfectly. Been there done that!

 

[aengus]

I dont know, my business doesnt let this happen ever, neither did vmk

 

[SweetJaydGrl]

I wonder if they ever noticed one of the few things we hated about vmk were the broken promises @_@

It is possible to keep us updated without making promises

I totally agree... everyday since they've been down I've read their updates and them saying we'll have it up tonight just to be let down. I know they are doing their best but yea updated without the promises would be nice.

 

[wenyeva]

I just reloaded and got the "day 8a" version, and now I can change my clothes -- but it's in single-player mode, so I don't know if the change will stick.

There aren't enough options, but at least there are some. I would prefer to have auburn hair and glasses!

I was gonna post screenshots, but I don't have enough posts to do that yet, sorry. (Since I can't post images and web links, try going to slumberland.org/images/vfk8a1.jpg and slumberland.org/images/vfk8a2.jpg to see what it looked like.)

Edited to add: I just reloaded and the menu bar has changed again, and it doesn't let me change the clothes... but I still have the new style I chose. It is back to the day 5a version. Huh.

When I wandered around a few minutes ago, there were definitely some bugs. I could load two hair styles at once, and then when I started walking, I had two bodies!

 

[ichiroz1]

I just reloaded and got the "day 8a" version, and now I can change my clothes -- but it's in single-player mode, so I don't know if the change will stick.

There aren't enough options, but at least there are some. I would prefer to have auburn hair and glasses!

I was gonna post screenshots, but I don't have enough posts to do that yet, sorry.

Edited to add: I just reloaded and the menu bar has changed again, and it doesn't let me change the clothes... but I still have the new style I chose. It is back to the day 5a version. Huh.

When I wandered around a few minutes ago, there were definitely some bugs. I could load two hair styles at once, and then when I started walking, I had two bodies!

!
cool

 

[teal-drop]

 

[MiakodaWDW]

Ok everyone please forgive me for asking this when I'm sure it's already been discussed, but there are 100+ pages on this thread and I didn't see anything in the last couple of pages, except that maybe vfk is temporarily closed. Also I didn't read all the posts, and yes you can yell at me for being lazy but I'm TIRED. LOL. I just logged on for the first time tonight (been trying to find a job...I am no longer with Disney, sadly) and all I can do is walk around one room and move three pieces of furniture that are all called "pink couch" for some reason. Is the game closed? (I did this at 12:30 am, EST) or is this part of the beta testing and it's all we can do at this time? thanks in advance for answering, I'm a little late coming into this VFK thing and I need to catch up

Oh, I'm still Miakoda in VFK. Can't wait to see you all there!

 

[teal-drop]

Warning this shirt may cause shrinkage!!!!

 

[MPhins13]

Warning this shirt may cause shrinkage!!!!

Did you just take these pictures? Is VFK finally open?

 

[teal-drop]

yes I just took pics

 

[wenyeva]

Looks like they are doing more live testing. You have to go directly to the login link to get in.

There is an interesting bug, with some characters being tinier than others. Very odd.

And here's a picture of it (yay, I have enough posts to add pics now!) :

 

[jasonpwns]

Ill be under wolf as I forgot my info -_--