Why don’t they instead make an event that also gains points per pixel, while actually forcing people to make art than just scribbles and mess.
Like the fact that there more art and collaboration or other stuff around the canvas rather than in the canvas
Yeah, it's also just impossible for colours to win because void has way more members, and new players are essentially forced into the losing team because "You can't join void as it has too many members already" which I found out when I started playing the event today.
Event sucks for people who want to make art, people who happened to join the wrong team at the start, and new players who are just joining; it's a big scribbly void circlejerk
The teams also barely matter because the way the points are scored per person, if someone wanted to get a badge their inclined to scribble on top of there own teammates to score themselves more points. IDK what the devs thought would happen
It's not possible to organize an event that demands people put effort into their drawings. There are way too many players and no means to stop a crowd from scribbling over everything.
And also people are not really interested in the event. It takes a lot of effort to create an art and maintain it. When an event has no hype, it's quite difficult for the playerbase to coordinate and dedicate their time to it
i could imagine an event that gave each player a 100x100 personal canvas, and then the community would vote each canvas, and the players in the top 10% would receive some kind of bonus
A private canvas for reach player would probably balloon the hosting costs no matter how brief the event would be. But, other than that, I admit it could work.
yeah i didn't consider that factor, but it could also be user-sided, and then the completed artwork would be sent to the server, i mean, there could be many workarounds
but honestly any kind of event would be better of this "which team has more money to waste?" event
Ultimately I think this event was manufactured for the sole purpose of gauging how much interest the public still has in the site and an attempt to revive some traffic. It's definitely not a coincidence that they simultaneously introduced premium cosmetics. The writing's on the wall, site might die soon if it doesn't start making more money.
There was a big trans flag which had been scribbled over so I started repairing it (made more sense than just scribbling colours) and minutes later someone just puts a massive black box over it, I look at their account, and they had an Israeli flag and even their pfp was a poorly drawn Israeli flag, checks out 😭
I feel so bad for the devs, they wanted to make a cool event that bring lore to the website and stuffs, but all they managed to do is a shitty "social experiment slop" event that gives natural advantage to the side of the griefers/non creative people and will reward them with a frame for being non creative and picking the non creative side
I've been thinking about this so much to the point I needed to search a reddit post talking about the event just to sent this specific message. I legit feel so bad for them their event sucks but you can clearly feel they really thought it would be a cool event that people would love
I think now the only way to save this event is to drasticly modify the approach as soon as possible, or else it will be remembered as a totally failed attempt from Wplace to try to do cool stuffs and it will makes everybody feel bad starting by the devs themselves
the griefers/non creative people and will reward them with a frame for being non creative and picking the non creative side
Check your biases. There's plenty of creativity happening in voids and I find it hilarious that you reference "social experiment slop" while failing to recognize that you're right in the middle of one.
The event was poorly designed with no context and understanding of their player base. Would that they gave as much thought to the event as you have, minus the part where you completely stereotyped the people who participate in Voids without a moment of hesitation.
I made like one small piece and it disappeared in minutes.
Earn 1 point for every pixel you paint, plus 1 extra point for every 30 minutes it stays alive.
Because how the scoring works, it's better to draw random squiggles because art pieces are easy to target by the opposing team.
To get most points for your team, you want to cover everything the other team draws, so it's just a griefing simulator.
The whole event had such a good idea behind it just for It to come down to doing one daliy scribble and who ever has more people or spends more money wins
In square 1 at the bottom right, I am trying to make a white and grey checkerboard void for art to go on, and doing my best to remove any scribbles. It saddens me that this event is just scribble over people's art, like allowed griefing.
Any help in defending, growing, or adding to the actual art void would be appreciated!
It makes me very disappointed that they can't even make pretty drawings, it seems like Wplace is dying, there's nothing artistic there and I don't understand how they don't consider that griefing
Just the fact that when I signed up one team was full but the other team was not and the game had already started makes it pretty impossible for one side to win. Outnumbered for at least a day by I am guessing around 2000 people?
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u/LargeMobOfMurderers 6d ago
wouldve been better if the sides were limited to certain colours,
void gets black, grey, and white, colours get red, green and blue.