The entire time the game has been out, Playdom has been so out of touch with the players that it took an Act of Congress to get them to change anything. The players said, “Fix Looping” — Playdom released more items you had to spend money to buy. The players said, “Fix Hacking” — Playdom released more stuff that had to be purchased for gold. The items don’t even make sense…. Take “The Witch Hunter”… What good is a gun that you shoot at “The Witch” when The Witch dodges it 99% of the time? When you do hit someone with the gun, it doesn’t take away any buffs that actually matter. It’s just stupid move after stupid move, almost like they don’t actually think about what they are doing before they do it.

Their communication to the players has been almost zero. Their forums are the most flame filled forums I’ve personally ever seen, not to mention that now they are littered with “stickies” and so screwed up you can’t find anything.

If you need more evidence that Playdom is totally out of touch, just go to their Official Facebook Page and look at all the posts about hacking and free gold and other junk — Playdom doesn’t even bother to remove the stuff. Today their entire Facebook Account was hacked and started posting links to sites that stick Maleware on your computer.

The only drop of hope is that they have gotten a few new people on the “team” — I know some people have moved from Gazillion to help them, so hopefully they will be able to figure out how to actually run an online game. On the other hand, it makes me wonder — if they can’t handle the Facebook side of the game, what’s the “New Version” going to be? Same game, old bugs along with new bugs? The joy. Marvel should be ashamed they ever contracted Playdom to do anything.

John