Non-Disney Online Games Virtual Family Kingdom Thread

[Goofy05]

I have tried to stay possitive about VFK and support what they have been doing but right now they dont seem to be going in a good dirrection. They are trying way to hard to please us with what they think we want. So in case anyone out there is watching here is a list for you, from me.

I want:
I want you to stop adding more items/rooms/quests until you have had time to fix the bugs you already have. I dont care if it takes 2 weeks to fix the current bugs, I just want to enjoy your game without them. I dont like being stuck to a wall, unable to move, shrinking, buggy friend lists, lag, no clue of exits unless I stumble on them, etc.. Stop, just stop and fix the problems. I can wait for new items I dont mind.
Release item/room/quest, find the bugs, fix the bugs, release new item/room/quest (lather, rinse, and repeat). Not hard. Not complicated. We expect this. Thats what we signed up for, to have fun finding the bugs for you to fix. To me it was a fun adventure seeing what new bugs I could find when you released something. The problem is your NOT fixing any bugs and creating new ones making the game more difficult and agravating to play.
I want you to follow through with things you have said would happen. We are still waiting for the original promise of the Hat when we signed up, the day one shirts, the opening of Merlins shop. You made a promise of those items first. Instead we got a Wild west store that has items that dont even fit a theme. We have a bird game in the Wild West where we drive a Hummer (had you made us ride horses it may have made more sense). It make no sense that you have all the time in the world to release those things but none of your previous promises. You need to mean what you say and say what you mean. Dont wave a pretty shinny object in front of our faces and think we forgot what was promised.
I want you to communicate better with the staff in game. As agrivating as it is for us to hear they have no clue what is going on, I cant imagine the flustration they feel having to answer that way. Immidiately post something on your homepage if there are delays so that staff can dirrect us there. Nothing fancy needed, simple page with the update on problems. And for gods sake stop erasing stuff. It looks like you want to hide it from us, like your being dishonest.

I like:
I like how you are trying your hardest to please us. I have loved all the ideas you have and where you want to take this game. Two thumbs up for your ideas. Take a moment and rethink a few things before you lose people who still believe you have what it takes.

My posse and me are going to mosey on over to the store and check out the new fang-dangled light or maybe one of those there fancy flower chairs to buy for Ma or Pa

Exactly.

 

[SharkMeal]

I have tried to stay possitive about VFK and support what they have been doing but right now they dont seem to be going in a good dirrection. They are trying way to hard to please us with what they think we want. So in case anyone out there is watching here is a list for you, from me.

I want:
I want you to stop adding more items/rooms/quests until you have had time to fix the bugs you already have. I dont care if it takes 2 weeks to fix the current bugs, I just want to enjoy your game without them. I dont like being stuck to a wall, unable to move, shrinking, buggy friend lists, lag, no clue of exits unless I stumble on them, etc.. Stop, just stop and fix the problems. I can wait for new items I dont mind.
Release item/room/quest, find the bugs, fix the bugs, release new item/room/quest (lather, rinse, and repeat). Not hard. Not complicated. We expect this. Thats what we signed up for, to have fun finding the bugs for you to fix. To me it was a fun adventure seeing what new bugs I could find when you released something. The problem is your NOT fixing any bugs and creating new ones making the game more difficult and agravating to play.
I want you to follow through with things you have said would happen. We are still waiting for the original promise of the Hat when we signed up, the day one shirts, the opening of Merlins shop. You made a promise of those items first. Instead we got a Wild west store that has items that dont even fit a theme. We have a bird game in the Wild West where we drive a Hummer (had you made us ride horses it may have made more sense). It make no sense that you have all the time in the world to release those things but none of your previous promises. You need to mean what you say and say what you mean. Dont wave a pretty shinny object in front of our faces and think we forgot what was promised.
I want you to communicate better with the staff in game. As agrivating as it is for us to hear they have no clue what is going on, I cant imagine the flustration they feel having to answer that way. Immidiately post something on your homepage if there are delays so that staff can dirrect us there. Nothing fancy needed, simple page with the update on problems. And for gods sake stop erasing stuff. It looks like you want to hide it from us, like your being dishonest.

I like:
I like how you are trying your hardest to please us. I have loved all the ideas you have and where you want to take this game. Two thumbs up for your ideas. Take a moment and rethink a few things before you lose people who still believe you have what it takes.

My posse and me are going to mosey on over to the store and check out the new fang-dangled light or maybe one of those there fancy flower chairs to buy for Ma or Pa

You just summed up just about everything in a calm state, in an amazing
post. Please VFK staff read this, beta testing is about finding and fixing
the bugs, not finding the bugs and leaving them to find new ones. They
just add up and up and crash the game. But do appreciate the work
they are putting into this.

 

[Mnementh]

Okay, so for the second task, I have to physically say "gas light" right? If so, I can't finish the quest because for some reason, at work I'm always in single-player mode, meaning I can't talk, either.

 

[Adambinder]

Here is a picture of my room. It spells VFK. (The the rest of the K got cut out of the picture.)

 

[SharkMeal]

Okay, so for the second task, I have to physically say "gas light" right? If so, I can't finish the quest because for some reason, at work I'm always in single-player mode, meaning I can't talk, either.

Say it like this: Gas light. with the capital G. And you have to say it in the
Victorian room with the house with the porch.

Adambinder: Great room!

 

[beejer]

are u logging in on home page or using back door? I would suggest using home page.

 

[tofubeast]

Yay, this quest was easier since VFK made some of those nice little changes today. Much easier to get around. Still needs improvement with entering rooms etc, but this is a step in the right direction.

Nice quest, but perhaps since I work with foster kids, a bit of me thought "what about those without dads?" I know their intent was good so I am not trying to be picky!

Now I have lava lamps in BOTH games I play!

 

[Goofy05]

Okay, your favorite vfk basher has some comments to add regarding tonight's quest.
First of all, I found the quest to be far too long and involved, not easy at all. Rooms to look for have no names, making it hard to know which is the correct Victorian shops room, for instance.
Secondly, most of the exits were blocked and without a map to jump to those rooms, getting there was almost as hard as figuring out where you were supposed to be.
Third, and most troublesome to me was having to see people say they love their father. There are some kids who have no father, some who live with abusive fathers. I found it very disturbing to see that as part of a game.

 

[Gsterg]

hey guys its gsterg! All i have to say is that I REALLY appreciate the hardwork that is going into VFK. Ok ya so the staff dont know when the quest will come out. But its no different from vmk! Im not trying to say vfk is perfect but i AM saying we all neend to appreciate the good things while all the bugs are being fixed. I think they are releasing all this stuff bc they want to keep us occupied while they fix the bugs in so me of the old and new features. This game also has some good potential so just give it some time... And hey! Vmk had problems too!

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Third, and most troublesome to me was having to see people say they love their father. There are some kids who have no father, some who live with abusive fathers. I found it very disturbing to see that as part of a game.

I missed this quest. But, I have to agree. I grew up with a single Mom. She stayed single by choice and there was absolutely no drama around it but I always felt tlike the odd kid out when we made Father's Day cards at school.

 

[chrisb26]

I have tried to stay possitive about VFK and support what they have been doing but right now they dont seem to be going in a good dirrection. They are trying way to hard to please us with what they think we want. So in case anyone out there is watching here is a list for you, from me.

I want:
I want you to stop adding more items/rooms/quests until you have had time to fix the bugs you already have. I dont care if it takes 2 weeks to fix the current bugs, I just want to enjoy your game without them. I dont like being stuck to a wall, unable to move, shrinking, buggy friend lists, lag, no clue of exits unless I stumble on them, etc.. Stop, just stop and fix the problems. I can wait for new items I dont mind.
Release item/room/quest, find the bugs, fix the bugs, release new item/room/quest (lather, rinse, and repeat). Not hard. Not complicated. We expect this. Thats what we signed up for, to have fun finding the bugs for you to fix. To me it was a fun adventure seeing what new bugs I could find when you released something. The problem is your NOT fixing any bugs and creating new ones making the game more difficult and agravating to play.
I want you to follow through with things you have said would happen. We are still waiting for the original promise of the Hat when we signed up, the day one shirts, the opening of Merlins shop. You made a promise of those items first. Instead we got a Wild west store that has items that dont even fit a theme. We have a bird game in the Wild West where we drive a Hummer (had you made us ride horses it may have made more sense). It make no sense that you have all the time in the world to release those things but none of your previous promises. You need to mean what you say and say what you mean. Dont wave a pretty shinny object in front of our faces and think we forgot what was promised.
I want you to communicate better with the staff in game. As agrivating as it is for us to hear they have no clue what is going on, I cant imagine the flustration they feel having to answer that way. Immidiately post something on your homepage if there are delays so that staff can dirrect us there. Nothing fancy needed, simple page with the update on problems. And for gods sake stop erasing stuff. It looks like you want to hide it from us, like your being dishonest.

I like:
I like how you are trying your hardest to please us. I have loved all the ideas you have and where you want to take this game. Two thumbs up for your ideas. Take a moment and rethink a few things before you lose people who still believe you have what it takes.

My posse and me are going to mosey on over to the store and check out the new fang-dangled light or maybe one of those there fancy flower chairs to buy for Ma or Pa

I think you said this very well. I do have to agree with you. Part of the reason I don't play this game very often is because of the fact that they seem to add more and never fix the problems with the game.

I mean all this stuff that have released is neat but if you keep releasing and not fixing your eventually going to have way more problems then you have time to fix. Since the game is "supposed" to open the 26th which is 9 days I dont see how they will have all those problems fixed. They can't just open the game with all these bugs. It's one thing for them to be there during beta but if you open the game live you can't continue to have all these problems.

Okay, your favorite vfk basher has some comments to add regarding tonight's quest.
First of all, I found the quest to be far too long and involved, not easy at all. Rooms to look for have no names, making it hard to know which is the correct Victorian shops room, for instance.
Secondly, most of the exits were blocked and without a map to jump to those rooms, getting there was almost as hard as figuring out where you were supposed to be.
Third, and most troublesome to me was having to see people say they love their father. There are some kids who have no father, some who live with abusive fathers. I found it very disturbing to see that as part of a game.

I also will agree with you that quest was way too difficult the first question set the tone for the rest of the quest. I mean this game is supposed to be geared toward children I don't know how many kids would be able to answer some of these questions, considering my friends and I didn't know the answer. It just seemed to difficult to me.

The going from room to room is also very annoying. The main reason is the people standing on exits that is probably what bothers me the most about these quests. I was in one room on Sunday for that quest and it had taken a while to get there with lag and people standing on the exits. But I finally was almost where I needed to be and the exit was all the way blocked. A staff showed up and basically said the only way to fix this is to go back to your room and start over. This made me pretty upset since it had taken me so long to get there the last thing I wanted was to have to start all over again.

But aside from all that I must say they made me very happy yesterday because they fixed the bug that was making me the most mad since the game opened. Which was that bug that made you have that giant invisible box around you. That always was very annoying and I was very happy to see it was gone.

 

[SharkMeal]

If two people entered the room at the same time, then both of them would
be stuck on the exit of the room they entered. By the time those two people
hit the home or refresh button (the only way to get unstuck), more people
will pile up. And some stubborn people will just sit there and say "I don't
want to leave, I came all this way" and people will remain forever stuck blocking
exits. That's the main thing that needs to be fixed. And I think an easy way
to fix this and MORE, is a map!

Come on VFK, release the map!

EDIT: Apparently, someone just reported that the person on the phone said there will be another
quest out today or tomorrow, my guess without the map button or bugs fixed. I'm guessing they
didn't read here did they

EDIT2: Now they are saying the quest will be Friday evening through all of Saturday.

 

[poohluv2u]

Here is a picture of my room. It spells VFK. (The the rest of the K got cut out of the picture.)

Sorry, I'm not trying to be negative here but ... the items all look so weird in the enviroment of this game. Almost like someone just super-imposed images onto a back ground in photoshop. It's like they have the dimension and perspective all wrong

 

[SharkMeal]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be negative here but ... the items all look so weird in the enviroment of this game. Almost like someone just super-imposed images onto a back ground in photoshop. It's like they have the dimension and perspective all wrong

The beach balls bounce. That's why it looks like that. They are up in the air
when adambinder took the screenshot. As for the other items they look normal
to me.

 

[piratesLifeYoho]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be negative here but ... the items all look so weird in the enviroment of this game. Almost like someone just super-imposed images onto a back ground in photoshop. It's like they have the dimension and perspective all wrong

im sure it is something VFK will improve on over time. i remember oversized chairs etc. in VMK early on. i think VFK will get it all together soon, we just need to be patient with them

BTW great VFK picture

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Quick question...They are selling chairs etc... but are we even able to sit down yet?

 

[SharkMeal]

Quick question...They are selling chairs etc... but are we even able to sit down yet?

No. LOL. I'm tired of standing up for almost a month. My legs are wobbling
and shaking.

Another new quest, this is from the home page:

VFK I Scream for Ice Cream Quest
June 20th (Friday), 5:00 PM Pacific Time, to June 21st (Saturday), 10:00 PM Pacific Time

With all this hot summer weather we need something to beat the summer heat and what is better then Ice Cream!!

This Friday and Saturday play our "I Scream for Ice Cream" quest and learn all the chilling history about Ice Cream, and maybe a little about popsicles too!

Get ready for some cool summer fun and prizes this weekend! Be there or be square.

 

[Disney Dreams]

Why I am disappointed in VFK:

1. They gave me hope for a world where I made and hung with so many wonderful friends, and have not delivered.

2. They have released LOTS of cool items, with the only way to earn them being a memory test. If you have a bad memory, or don't stay signed on forever, there is no way to make decent credits to buy anything.

3. A game would be fun, a memory test is not.

4. Friends can't find each other. What's the point?

5. Exits are IMPOSSIBLE to navigate due to issues they need to fix.

6. People are invisible due to issues they need to fix.

7. People STILL don't have titles.

8. Instead of providing us with a map that would make SOOO many things easier, they are busy creating quests that are maddening to complete because of 4-6.

9. We have chairs we can't sit in. Crates we can't stack. Lights we can't turn on. Am I the only 1 that just doesn't get the order of priorities?

I am so saddened by all of this. I had so much hope for VFK and am watching our circle of friends divide between other (or no) games. Also, those with a memory are acquiring mass wealth, while those with no memory are not. And yet, there is NO WAY for friends to share with each other.

And I soooo hope it's not true, but I have heard many reports of favorites, already, on behalf of the programmers. Again, I have heard this only through others so I am just hoping it's not true. It took me 2.5 hours to complete the quest the other night. Just because I have not picked up a phone to complain does not mean I am having a good game-playing experience, not in VFK at least. And I had soooo hoped it would be home.

Sigh,
Dreams

 

[SharkMeal]

I heard that if your name has a space in it, then the title won't be accepted
and you will still be a guest. Just call VFK or use contact us to fix the problem,
other people have done this and they got their title immediately.

Just for anyone who is still a guest and registered with a space in their name.

 

[Disney Dreams]

I heard that if your name has a space in it, then the title won't be accepted
and you will still be a guest. Just call VFK or use contact us to fix the problem,
other people have done this and they got their title immediately.

Just for anyone who is still a guest and registered with a space in their name.

No space and when I tried to get it fixed, all my friends that I managed to find through aimless wandering were deleted and I received a new guest number. Oh yeah, loving it.

Thanks for the suggestion though, SharkMeal. I DO appreciate it.