bump! Im really enjoying reading all of this

I'm really enjoying myself, and I would love for the game to do well and really take off.

The only thing that I'm finding difficult right now is that it often feels like I have nothing to do if I don't have Moonstones available. It's not even like it's just the good stuff that's locked behind MS, it really feels that everything is MS gated.

Having come here from FR, I was really excited about everything for the first fortnight or so, but now I'm beginning to see the cracks in this game (all of which have been mentioned in this thread: the unbalanced economy and the repetitive feel of the mechanics). I joined FR because of the customisation options available, and I don't think we have quite the same amount of customisation here. I'm tentative about how well this site will go - it's new and things are always unpredictable at this point - but for now I will lurk on the sidelines, checking in every couple of weeks or so to see if anything's really changed.

Who knows how this will go in the long run? For the sake of those who already enjoy this site, I hope it will go well.

I'm hopeful, but how much of that is because I backed the KS and how much is genuine goods signs is up in the air.

Most of my issues with the game have been nicely stated by other commenters, more eloquently than I can do it, so I'm not going to elaborate much. I wish the devs would communicate with us better. Even a post with 'hey, this functions the way we want and we aren't changing it' would be preferable to just not addressing a lot of the big issues lookin at you economy. I'm not going to wait three years for something to get fixed when there's been no news on if that's even in the plans or not.

The forums. Something I haven't really seen people talking about. This one is a bit more of a minor thing, but it still frustrates me that the forums are so dead compared to the discord server. I'm in the discord server, but its basically unnavigable and unusable. I've posted in there maybe twice since Beta. It's too big and too active to really be usable for anyone who is unfamiliar with how discord works or doesn't have the time to be constantly monitoring it. There should be more incentive for players to interact with the on-site forums, and therefore the site in general. It's a problem if most of the community is being the community on a third-party location and is actively inaccessible to many people because of it. I'd love to talk to people more, but there is so little activity on the forums that it just isn't worth my time. Even running a sales thread without being on discord means you're getting significantly fewer sales. This isn't a critique of staff or the playerbase - I'm not even really sure how to fix this or if anyone else even sees it as a problem - just a personal frustration I guess.

That - and the other issues - said, I agree with some of the other comments I've seen saying that a lot of people are so upset because we want this to be a good game that has a long lifespan. Engagement is a sign of care, after all! I'm just worried that a lot of players, especially F2P players, are going to give up within the next few months and the site will slowly trickle out into a base of dedicated sunk-cost players. So, hope! But simultaneously realizing that something's gotta be done or it is going to go downhill from here.

I think that with the continuous effort and updates lorwolf will grow quite a bit, but at the very least I think the site will remain with a stable player count for quite a long time.

I feel the dead forums and ms-driven customization and site activities are going to catch up with it's health in the long term, as we see the consequences of those problems already happening... just a month into it's life.

I'm sure there is a way to come back from this, and the developers have the capability and various well written suggestions and insights from the community to do so. I just wonder if they realize that and are taking it seriously... the recent dev updates don't really reflect that, though new pebble sinks with apparel, familiars, and so on do make me hopeful.

I think I will personally make an effort to contribute in the forums more to make it feel more lively. Hopefully others will try to do the same despite the lack of activity now.

A way to incentives the forums is a good idea. Now aways discord is king and a lot of forum sites are dead or dying.

Perhaps an achievement that rewards ms will get it going

Maybe every few posts gives pebbles

Community rewards. Be an active, friendly, and helpful player and earn a badge and maybe a unique cosmetic or companion?

I have now decided to help promote the forums with discussion topics :3

I think LW will continue to grow because it is in a better state currently than FR was at launch

...but people are so critical of the site, and expect something close to FR's CURRENT standards