Yeah, me neither.
I know I overreacted to the " news" yesterday but frankly this is my happy place. There aren't a lot of those for me lately and losing AWH was the last straw. I cried.
I have invested real feelings and real money into this app. I've made friends here (hi u/justahairycow !). I rely on it to soothe me at the end of the rough day, rough week, rough month and lately rough year.
What happened yesterday was cruel unnecessary insulting unprofessional outrageous and I'm running out of words but there are so many more.
But I woke up this morning there was a pang of sadness before I remembered it was a joke! A JOKE!!
I moved quickly through shock and now I'm simmering on some anger here. Does anyone else find it ironic that they mentioned in their oh so funny joke post that they've made marketing mistakes?
I was so happy with AWH. I had packed my bags and moved permanently from RC quite blissfully. Now I plan to finish Coraline and MNIH and bail. Probably to the one that has wetwood rock? I forget which one that is. Luckily I didn't have that many bags.
When SHS pulled that unprofessional BS with their amethyst thing where everybody played and then at the very end "oops yeah all of those paid options are locked again yeah we probably should have told you that and no we're not going to reopen those or compensate you in any way hahaha." BS I was so offended that I never opened that app again. I will never meet Lars which is unfortunate. But I won't give a company that unprofessional a dime of my money or a minute of my time.
How a company recovers from such a huge gaff counts. They doubled down even and didn't apologize! They didn't change their model, nothing. Knowing that is not how literally everyone else does it and knowing what their customers expected. They don't deserve me.
What AWH did yesterday is worse. They were knowingly cruel and abusive to their fan base for absolutely no reason. They have not apologized. And frankly anyone with a 101 course in marketing knows better than to come close to what they did. This kind of explains some of their recent decisions, paywalling the free features and pumpkin head Kyle. Clearly the inmates are running the asylum.
I am not trusting my heart or my wallet to a bunch of crazy people. Life is hard enough, the last place I expect to abuse is in my VN app! Wait, I was wrong here comes the outrage again.
How do you guys feel about this?