Talk:Versions/@comment-13258042-20130819184425

Wow, so I think Game Insight has just...given up.

Last week I submitted a report complaining about the frequent game crashes when I would visit friends' islands. It had gotten so bad that I'd stopped visiting islands to collect money, because it would crash almost every single time I tried to hit a new island; it was taking me literally an hour to collect all the money. In the meantime, like lots of folks here, I've been having problems with my game often not saving. And it's now crashing even more often -- pretty much any time I visit the Merchant's House, often when I switch between the old and new islands, sometimes when I try to open the World Wonder. I reported this to GI too.

Today I finally got a response from them:

"Your problem is well-known for us. Now the game is too resource-intensive to run normally on your device.  You can try to improve the situation by rebooting your device before starting the game and avoiding to run another apps in the background mode. Thanks for playing our games."

So basically, they're saying, yep, our game won't work properly on your phone anymore. You can try rebooting (!!!) every time you open the game and stopping all other apps, and maybe that'll help. Rebooting regularly is not a solution! And I'd already stopped all of the background-running apps that I could, so that's not an option.

I've been playing this game for about a year and a half and I'm at level 53, and while sure, I do have some complaints about their shift in game play in recent months (with so much emphasis on events that require you to spend real money, and very few events that are fun or interesting to me), I sitll enjoy the game. But at this point it's becoming literally unplayable, and I get the impression they just don't care. Which seems bizarre to me.

I'm not going to stop playing just yet, but I fear I may reach a point soon where I simply *can't* play. It's sad.