 Hello and welcome back to the craft box my name's Brent and today we are gonna have wee bit of a chat um I haven't made one of these videos where I'm not actually doing anything in quite a long time I don't actually know what the last video like this was but yeah just ignore what I'm doing what it looks like I'm doing at the moment I'm just saving up energy to train up pets obviously um but yeah anyway I wanted to talk about today why I don't actually really play this game much anymore because it's come to my attention that I definitely don't play as much as before and it's nothing to do with the videos or that I'm like stopping or quitting I just wanted to talk about my frustrations with the community of recent I think the one thing that I really dislike about like the way that the game has kind of evolved and more recent times with like the test drums and expansion of Imperial part 2 and even before that people have started to become a lot more negative towards the game and not in a bad way I know it all comes out of passion and it's nothing not not anything that like gets posted on like comments on my videos it's not like I'm taking things too seriously or something like that um because really I don't care about those if they mean that's whatever really but I just get kind of frustrated with comments saying like oh why did Kingsile add the 11 pip silence spells they're way too many pips when those are the same people that like criticized Kingsile for just adding a shadowpip and enhancing the damage by God knows how much like for example a forepip and one shadowpip spell doing 10 20 for death compared to like the other good spell forepip spell 590 at max like it's yeah people it kind of just gets frustrating like what do you want do you want people to be using shadowpips or do you not and there's so much like confusion in the community that it does get really hostile on places like Twitter and stuff where where people are just constantly like telling Kingsile they're not doing a good job because they're not listening to what you want when like five months ago you were bashing them for adding the forepip shadow spells still like it's it's it just frustrates me how people like don't like this and then all of a sudden they add this which is in my opinion a really good spell it's a great set of spells yeah they may not be the like best animated ones they may not like have the most like like the best things but like they're different and that's cool and also they don't cost shadow pips which I would think as soon as they came out oh yeah people won't be arguing about them because they don't have shadow pips and they follow the progression of the normal spells that we'd gotten up until as Tegger but no I was apparently the other thing is like with regards to the apparent lack of updates even though for the past like I don't even know how long like three or four years let's let me just quickly look up on wizard101 not that wizard101.com and go to the update notes and you can see over the last community news game updates where's that game updates over the last since 2015 they've had three updates a year 2015 they had an update in April July and November 2016 April July November 2018 April July November this year we've got one here in April but yet people are complaining that there's apparently not enough updates even though for the last like what three four years they've been updates there's only been three updates a year I find that really frustrating and people blaming like Kings Alpha like running out of ideas and not caring about the game enough only caring about like making a profit off the game some of those arguments do have like a standable like they could stand up in a discussion I would say but it's like a bit stupid if you think that they don't make any updates when for the last like four years you could have said the same thing like I can understand if they were complaining about this in 2015 but I didn't see it back then and I didn't see it in 2016 nor did I see it in 2017 like as soon as 2018 came around everything just changed the same with like member benefits and how double gardening never gets any time on because it's OP and I don't think they want to flood the game with mega snacks or that much which is perfectly fine it's their game and if you want to harvest your garden do it at any time just have the knowledge that like for me I generally generally if I'm harvesting my garden I'll do it early in the week or on the weekend when there's no double benefits and then by the time that the next weekend comes around I can at least get one harvest in of the plants on double gardening and I've already done as much as I need to do and people constantly just spamming that on every time there's a member benefit weekend constantly on Twitter or on reddit or on Facebook or whatever wherever they post it just saying that oh we need double gardening we need double gardening we need double gardening it's just not cool like why there's no point like complaining about a member benefit not showing up for like once every six months like it it's really not worth it like in my opinion it's just not worth it if that's what you're gonna get complaining about and because of all those things and a couple of other like weird little issues that I've had with some people in the community on Twitter and stuff not like that I've gotten to drama but like I just observe and don't really agree with what people are doing like I've kind of basically just stopped playing the game in my free time ever since probably about November or maybe even before November last year just because as really in my opinion not worth the headache of what everybody else is like saying about it because obviously with me making videos or trying to make videos as much as possible I need to kind of know what's happening in the community and it's just not something that I'm really a fan of anymore because it's become quite toxic around these sort of issues and yeah that that's kind of just all I wanted to say I don't know it's kind of a weird little rant but I thought I should probably let you know because I've seen this on stream quite a few times and I just thought I should probably let everybody know that like I don't actually really really play the game anymore I still make videos obviously the storm walkthrough will be continuing sometime soon I'm just waiting till either testrum comes to live realm or I can get time to record on testrum because I want to use the the updated fire a kelly and Trident Avenue stuff for that and I haven't had any time while testrums been up to record a storm walkthrough unfortunately but I will be catching up on all of those videos that I have missed because I was I did say it'll be once week and it will still be once week and I will catch up eventually with the ones that I've missed I think I've missed like three weeks now but yeah I will catch up with that and that will be returning soon if you have any suggestions for that feel free to leave them down in the comments if you have anything else to say constructively of course you can leave that also down in the comments otherwise thank you for watching and remember to craft outside the box