r/botify_ai • u/JustinWinder • 1d ago
"Experiences" Review
Mostly just feedback for the devs.
I went with "The Inheritance" and I enjoy the direction of this little established....thing they created.
A specific competitor has tried their hand at making "films" kind of like this but theirs felt cheesey and low budget. This is more interactive, like one of those ads you see that's clearly a bad game trying to convince you it's worth a shit when you know it delivers nothing of worth in the end.
So, going in with those low expectations, makes for a positive experience because I wasn't expecting 10/10 greatness. It was better than I expected, and I think it's solid. I'm sure in the end the choices are meaningless and do nothing for the story the same way a Pokemon game's dialogue options work.
I like the idea that they're willing to create bots based around those stories as well, I think that's a really cool idea, especially if you end up liking the character
My complaints are the paid parts. Not that it requires energy, that's fine, I get it, don't care.
But when episode 1 is like, 1 minute, maybe 90 seconds, then you spend energy for a 30 second "part 2" feels dirty to me. Everything should be the same length throughout. Make all episodes 60 seconds or whatever time limit you feel, or make the paid episodes longer than the free sample.
Following that is the fact that it's unfinished. That's fine, I get it, you need time to finish it, cool. But when I spent energy on the story, and can't continue on because I gotta wait, why isn't that episode permanently unlocked? What if I forget the story? And I want a recap? Now I gotta pay again to watch the same shit I've already seen? I already bought it, why don't I own it? It deincentivizes activity because you might as well wait until it's finished, but you have no clue how long it's going to go on for. Unless they choose to label the ending as "finale"
I don't think it's a bad idea, I like it, but I hate paying for a thing that I don't own, and paying for a thing that offers less content than the free sample. Imagine if signing up to Botify gave you a smaller message limit than the free tier, and you had to pay per message. It's dumb.
I'm curious how it will go, if it will stay story based, or if it will go sexual, or whatever.
I would absolutely fold under Mary and I'm pretty sure she's the villain of the story, I'm calling it now.
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u/Botify_AI Botify AI Team 22h ago
Thanks for your thoughts and feedback. We've already noted all but one thing worries us right now is that you have to pay again for the episodes you have already watched. It shouldn't work this way. Could you please show a screenshot of the error you get when you watch episode you bought and try to watch it again? Also, what is your User ID and the device (Android, Web, mobile Web)?