Good Day, Fellow Informative Warriors
Some of you might have heard a few unofficial statements directly from our CEO on discord about the recent update. Today we decided to gather all of those statements in one place, add a few others and make them all official! These words are more or less directly from the Developers on the reason of the previous update: Developers has tried their best to save cross-platform multiplayer between PC and mobile for more than 2 years without succussion. But the mobile version is developing faster and it has become harder to have cross-platform play while trying to keep it fair enough for both versions. After an extremely long and hard debate that lasted weeks between everyone in charge, the only logical conclusion that Zillion Whales reached was to move ahead with the update we got. There only two other possibilities were to either disconnect PC from the mobile server or implement the same free-2-play mechanics on Steam to keep it fair against mobile. Unfortunately the second solution requires a lot of development resources and time, and they were not ready to disconnect the PC from the mobile. So the developers found a middle ground option and turned off Passive Skills for PC and keep it cross-platform. Developers realized that trying to have it be equally fair for both mobile and PC was a mistake. They decided to rather put full concentration on developing more quality content for mobile! The recent update has had a positive reception on mobile and has helped Zillion Whales to continue their work on our favourite game with a brand new passion and spirit! From now on, full concentration on new in game content is the goal for this year continuing into the beginning of next! Yeah, of course everyone would have liked to keep it cross platform as it has been since forever, but sadly reality prevents cross-platform era to exist. We are sorry to say a change that will be adapted soon to our servers is that Steam players will only be able to play against other Steam players. To compensate for this, those Generals that wants to move their accounts to the mobile version and keep playing there, will not start off from the beginning as if they were a new General. Rather they will be compensated with bonuses once the change is made. These bonuses has not been fully decided just yet, but promised to be significant. To end it all, a few insights of what the next few changes are going to be. Yes, Chia's Stones will finally be nerfed in the next update. As well as in future updates will include an increase in the amount of ways to earn both Gold and Runes. As you might have seen, we have already started making significant changes in prizing for Cups Events. This will continue into our standards Community Contest as well! We also want to thank all of our lovely and loyal Generals that has stayed with us through thick and thin! We obviously could not have done this without you and we honestly hope to please you in every single way possible. This has been an extremely rough time for us, so our appreciation for you has been equally extreme. Hopefully we'll get through this together, Good Luck On The Battlefields Generals! Love and War, from everyone in the Zillion Whales Team