Account Transfer Ban and Player Dissatisfaction / Community Protest

    Account Transfer Ban and Player Dissatisfaction / Community Protest


    Dear Ikariam and Gameforge Management Team,

    We are loyal players of Ikariam's Turkish servers who have invested time, effort, and financial resources into this game for years. The recent updates and decisions that completely ignore the player experience have caused great disappointment and anger in our community.

    > These anti-consumer measures have crossed the line:

    > * The removal of donation codes, weakening guild solidarity,

    > * Increasing the black market troop selling time to 48 and now 72 hours, making the game flow nearly impossible,

    > * Constantly closing old servers and opening new ones, continuously wiping out years of hard work,

    > * And last but not least, the ban on transferring accounts from Turkish servers abroad.

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    > Especially the account transfer ban is a direct attack on players' property rights and their years of hard work. It completely contradicts the principles of customer satisfaction and fair play to deny players the right to determine the fate of their own accounts.

    > We demand a return to a player-oriented policy and specifically request:

    > 1. **The immediate lifting of the ban on account transfers from Turkish servers abroad,**

    > 2. That the community's voice be heard and the restrictive updates of recent times be revised.

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    > Otherwise, we reserve the right to withdraw our support for the game and continue our protest on all available platforms.

    > Sincerely,

    > * The removal of donation codes, weakening guild solidarity,

    > * Increasing the black market troop selling time to 48 and now 72 hours, making the game flow nearly impossible,



    These two literally block the ways how many people in TR community used to gain advantage over others and abuse the system.



    > * And last but not least, the ban on transferring accounts from Turkish servers abroad.


    I am not sure this is true though. So you are saying that you cannot transfer an account from a Turkish server to another country`s server?

    Quote from UMBRA

    I am not sure this is true though. So you are saying that you cannot transfer an account from a Turkish server to another country`s server?

    Yes, that is the new announcement we’ve received. An update is coming, and we will no longer be able to transfer from Türkiye servers to any other server. Likewise, players from other countries won't be able to transfer to our servers. No exact date has been given yet.

    Quote from EdynohE
    Quote from UMBRA

    I am not sure this is true though. So you are saying that you cannot transfer an account from a Turkish server to another country`s server?

    Yes, that is the new announcement we’ve received. An update is coming, and we will no longer be able to transfer from Türkiye servers to any other server. Likewise, players from other countries won't be able to transfer to our servers. No exact date has been given yet.

    Why though? lol


    And where did the announcement come from?

    Quote from UMBRA
    Quote from EdynohE
    Quote from UMBRA

    I am not sure this is true though. So you are saying that you cannot transfer an account from a Turkish server to another country`s server?

    Yes, that is the new announcement we’ve received. An update is coming, and we will no longer be able to transfer from Türkiye servers to any other server. Likewise, players from other countries won't be able to transfer to our servers. No exact date has been given yet.

    Why though? lol


    And where did the announcement come from?

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    Here is the link to the announcement; age verification is cited as the reason, but it seems illogical to me as a basis for separating the servers.

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    Not really, they probably don't want to implement it across all servers.

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    The protesters have been favored so much so, that they comprised the majority of the player base. This favoritism has driven away so much of the organic player base, that this game lost all meaning in case of healthy competition, and was left with this toxic concentrate of spoiled players.

    In addition to that, it is not entirely true that you are losing investment, since all that investment was directed towards reselling trough back channels (kept as grey area for your sake, and your sake only). General banks, account selling, ambro reselling, resource selling and gold banks brought the darkest era of this game, and now that everyone else has finally been given a breathing room - now you want to protest because the game has been balanced out a bit (still not fair, but much more manageable).

    You have the best deals, so keeping you out of wider audience is more than fair. If you want to be better than others, then get better, don't cry for special treatment. How much of the profits GF is bleeding because of Discord resellers? The game was not meant to be profited on, but played for fun. You single handedly were ruining the experience of wider audience for far too long. Stop being self-centered and start thinking more in favor of community health. And saddest part is - a considerable portion of players in Turkish servers are not even Turkish, but VPN users that want to reap the benefits.

    The reason for opening new servers is (probably) to offset abuse of, yeah you guessed it, you guys. New server comes up, it's fun for a month or so, and then at some point the floodgates open and wipe all the enthusiasm and healthy competition out of the server. You do everything by force, and expect everyone else to be your target dummies for your bullying rampage. If you like that kind of gameplay, sure - you have your Turkish servers, and that's that. Stop pushing out new players, and those who like skill expression just because you are lazy/money hungry/unskilled...


    The only reason I came back is because the banks have been nerfed. But the damage has already been done. People that I know IRL that played Ikariam don't even want to consider coming back because of how toxic it was. And I constantly try bringing them back as if I'm paid by GF, and not my sole wish to play the game properly, and God forbid - actually have some fun in a healthy competition.

    You singlehandedly removed all skill requirements, and reduced it to pure quantity game. You force everyone to abuse the rules and use Discord services. And you still want to grind it down to the ground even more...


    So if you really do care about community, start by changing your abuse centered mentality. Most of your points are quite opposite from what you are trying to portray. New players can't join the old servers, because the gap is too big (especially with the new upgrades update). Merges sound reasonable in preserving the power difference. I'm not advocating for losing old accounts, but I am advocating for giving room for new players. New servers can offer new players a much more healthy and balanced place for gameplay. If you enjoy playing for ridiculous numbers, and fights that last for days where you throw everything and check in on it once per day and to refresh miracles - sure, there should be server(s) for such huge scored accounts. That's the only point at which I agree with you.

    But if you were really that concerned about the community, and not just threatening around to keep your unfair superiority - why make a new account just to post this? As if we all don't know which community you are actually representing...

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