Haha, that freaks me out when people think that's bugged, because then I briefly think it's bugged. We should probably have 49/50 be the last level, yeah. IAP TALK IMPORTANT PLS READ: One of the things we're doing is adding gems. So, two currencies. There will be a daily quest that gives a gem, and Gnomey will give 5 gems now instead of a hat. Gnomey will now also only ever take 50 levels to ascend. Ultra hats (up to 8 still) are bought with 15 gems now. Buying permanent pets will take gems, and so will other stuff we add. Armor Heart will now also take a gem, and a new Coin Doubler one-game boost that doubles the coins you get in a run. Upgrade section stuff we add will still take coins. We're adding some new upgrades that take a lot of coins to get, and require you have a certain amount of hats to unlock. They're hat themed. The cheapest one is "Hat of Sacrifice", which will cause your hat to fall off first if an attack would have otherwise killed you. Rerolls still take coins. We're adding a $4 hat pack that adds a bunch of exclusive hats. If people end up hating the "Coin Boost", we can add a permanent coin doubler in the next (next next, after the gems are put in) update, but that one wouldn't effect coins you get from missions. All the IAP coin packs but one will be removed... not sure which one will stay. Probably the $20 pack, maybe the $10. 3 different IAP gem packs will be put in. Thinking $2, $5, $30... maybe $20 instead of $30. So, those are our plans. A switch to dual currency. Some other stuff too, but that's the big one.
Made an account just to say this.. Hands down best app/game ever! spent $2 to get some punchos too! But.. Before the update i was level 98, i updated and lost all my levels and got a free ultra hat, whereas if i leveled up twice before updating i would have ANOTHER ultra hat along with the freebie.. Got to 70 this time around and got an Angelic Berzerker helm of flash which was EPIC! i equipped it then exited the game, came back and it was gone. I've re-rolled my ultras 4 times now and still no power up! haha Also my gamecentre scores and combos are not registering. These are the only things 'wrong' with my game P.S please make highercut invulnerable to all damage, including shock squid Thankyou! end rant
That's bad timing with almost being 100, then the update hitting. Sorry you lost your hat! We're looking into beefing up the save system. Looking into gamecenter stuff, but it might just be that game center has been acting up lately. Discocut, you mean? Thinking about this... we didn't do it this way so you were still vulnerable to squids, but on the other hand, it might be cool to do anyway...
Could we possibly get something like "Gnomeys SuperTopSecretUltraSpecialCoinConverter" where maybe for like 50,000 coins you could exchange them for 1 Gem? Because the way it seems right now, is that without spending a lot of $ (which don't get me wrong, I will) it' would take forever to get gems. Like I said, I don't mind spending some money, but it seems for the amount of stuff that can only be bought with gems, there is a lot. Just a thought.
I want to support the developers, but I can't bring myself to purchase consumables. Please add a permanent doubler IAP of some sort.
Can't say I'm thrilled about the dual currency. I suppose daily quests will be interesting and a 50 level cap will make gems reasonably attainable but this isn't something I support at all. Very disappointed this game didn't have an upfront cost with less obnoxious IAP options. This has been a great experience. Probably my favorite game of the year. Certainly my favorite in recent memory. Please don't turn it into a cash cow.
Can we start a listing for equipments that we can obtain as ultra hats, and the possible benefits we can obtain as their effect?
Would anyone drop $30 or more on IAP??? WTF i'm confused. If they set the game price at $10 for all the content they could ever make, people would think them crazy. Yet, somehow $30 for consumables and hats is ok... Look at outwitters. Paid $3 and ALL future content is free. Look, this is a great game, but these prices are off the wall.
If it ends up being too slow, we have ideas for adding other ways you can get gems. Double gems for dailies if you play multiple days in a row, maybe rarely just finding gems in the dungeon. We talked about a converter, but decided not to do it because it makes it so gems are just coins. Mostly, it seems obvious that we need to do this. Punch Quest is currently like a dual currency game, except we forgot the second, slower currency.
Hate the idea of a temporary coin doubler. Love the idea of a permanent one. Iffy on the dual currency. Hate the new way to get ultra hats (I like a hat being the reward for maxing a gnome out.) Love pets and new stuff being added. Daily quests sound cool though. one problem I'm having is it feels like progress tward some latter items is taking forever. I like there being more stuff to buy, it just feels like it takes me way to ling to generate that many coins.
Agreed. A $4 hat pack here, a few gems there and before you know it, you're dropping a considerable amount of money relative to the App Store norms. Will there be more hat packs? More content available for IAP? More money to spend after this first round of updates/changes roll through? I'm all about you guys making money, but this isn't at all what I was hoping for. It's pretty unbecoming. I guess I'll have to wait and see how it plays out before I judge too harshly.
Outwitters didn't do so well with that model, heh. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/outwitters-sales-disaster/
All good kepa, the gnomes have taught me about the placebo effect of fancy hats. Yeah discocut i mean. It was my favourite lvl 2 power now it just feels underpowered. Sounds good, not really fussed about gamecentre stats but for people who deserve to be top 20 they might not actually be on the leaderboard. Looking forward to the new update too!
I agree. I have a bad feeling about what's happening with this game. And I could be wrong, but I don't think all the IAP's will make much money. There are new iOS games every day. They can introduce $1000 IAP's if they want -- people will just move onto the next really good $1 - $3 game. Should've just asked for $1 - $3 upfront and done a Lite version to let people see how good the game is. Money based in-game currencies destroy games IMO -- I have never used one and never will.
With all this serious talk about IAPs, let's lighten up a little! How about posting how does your character look like? Here's mine... HULK SMASH! This game is going to give me a repetitive strain injury in my thumbs, I tells ya!
Sorry guys, but the devs made this amazing game and gave it to us for FREE. They don't owe us a damn thing as far as I'm concerned. This dual currency thing may work out fine... we don't know because the update hasn't even been started yet. And it's not like they are just gonna PEACE OUT YA'LL if we hate the change. They've been active on almost every page of this thread listening and commenting, and I doubt that is going to change anytime soon. /rant
Damn. I rerolled my ultra hat and got 1 infused with power. But when I start up my game it was not saved. And when I rerolled my hat again I got a normal ultra hat
I'm not asking for anything. Quite the opposite. I wish they charged me for it in the first place. Anyway, I'm retracting a bit. I think we're in good hands here. Snap reaction, I guess. Looking forward to what's to come.
