How Growtopia lost popularity after Current token System!

[GrowPixel]

I want to show you ****ysis about Growtopia popularity(from Google). It's about How Growtopia lost popularity after changing First token system.

• First Token System implemented into the Growtopia in March 2014, Popularity=32
  > After this amazing update, growtopia gained really a lot of players. People build a lot of worlds(PARKOUR, LOCKMAP and more..) for getting tokens.

• September 2016, First token system changed to Rate 1-5 with System Update, Popularity=88
  > The first Token system change in 2016 affected a lot of players but majority still kept going because of the rating system making it possible for worlds to earn tokens, also we broke record in 2015-2016 with 72.000 Online Players but...

• In January 2017, Rate system changed to current growtoken system, Popularity=83
  > After this change, growtopia keep losing players everyday, everyweek, everymonth! It's changed growtopia a lot, players stopped building collection, parkour and other good things. Because

currently there is no reason to build and host them.

• Current popularity=34 (Which is almost same as March 2014
  > I don't think any of these new updates can replace old token system. We just need it back!

Everyone who says this isn’t the reason clearly doesn’t know anything about the game at all.
The first Token system change in 2016 affected a lot of players but majority still kept going because of the rating system making it possible for worlds to earn tokens. After the 2nd change, that’s the end for every world Builders. I’m not talking about those WOTD builders or parkour builders, I meant EVERY builders such as Shop worlds, mini-game worlds and so on. This change discouraged a lot of players such as myself to stop building. Adding on to that, the increase of Broadcast Price made it even more unappealing for players to build worlds.

As a shop world builder myself, I love the idea of opening a shop because we get to trade our things for something else other than wls. That’s one of the main point of the game, trading. But due to this change and the increasing price of broadcasts, it’s not worth my time and effort to open Or even build one.

If you ask me, I’d rather take the old token system any day. Yes there’ll be more scam worlds but it’s a small sacrafice in compared to the decreasing amount of players every month. No system is perfect.

It’s many factors, but the change to the token system (+other things that lead to the end of social world types) are honestly a big factor.

The game has changed drastically. There is almost no reason to play the game if you don’t have in game friends, and actually making friends became harder ever since the token system made tons of world types die out.

Parkour worlds are pretty much gone. There used to be parkours that would refresh prizes Everyday to make players come back and even if the prize was not good it was relatively fun. Nowadays parkour worlds are completely dead.

“Role play” worlds, even if they may have been pretty cringey at times, were where I made majority of my old friends in game. The countless high school worlds, police/robber worlds, Gt general hospital etc. The only one that still has activity and really the only active social world that isn’t a trade one is LOVE.

Even those scam worlds with impossible puzzles and password door scams at least got people talking to each other.

All the social “fun” aspects of the game are gone, and what remains are trade worlds as the only real way to socialise. And even then, items like the royal lock and billboard contribute to less interaction too.

With all the fun social worlds gone the game feels much more dead, and if you take time and look at differences it makes sense why the game is getting less popular. All parkour worlds empty, only worlds with people are buy worlds + seeds and buyghc, and BFG worlds.

But maybe I’m just a gt boomer or something and people nowadays find fun in standing in trade worlds looking for profits.

Suggestion: Bring back old token system

Old token system should cameback because Players forgot huge part of growtopia mean *Build* Punch-Build-Grow!. If you start Growtopia from beggining you can only do farm for years, there is no choice, farm or farm(This is why people quiting). Old token system give you chance to get wls from building worlds. With this system Pvp,Spleef,Quality worlds(like PARKOUR), Storage worlds(Like SYDEFX/RUBIESITEMS/BRETZRAEI) will back to GrowTopia because those all worlds instead of farm builded for token. And they have to check their worlds like everyday/every hours(Then they will be veteran players), But after new token system , There is no point to build those worlds... This game will keep losing online players, because there is no choice instead of farm/trade for profit...

New token instead of Growtoken
Also Growtoken these days pretty rare because there is not much way to earn them. So, There will be new token for old system, Worldtoken!. And daily max token will be 10 Worldtoken for like ** Honored worlds(idk). Also there should be new 10 item for Worldtoken (With 2-3Untradeables)

Why not 2-3 GrowToken instead of Worldtoken?
Think, Role up give 1token, Daily quest 1, and others.. Players wouldn't do those things if they can earn from worlds. So almost all token things(Roleup,bonus,life,quest) would be useless.

Why old token system should came back?
- People going to start making world again for Worldtoken(Parkour/Cool worlds). And other players will play with them. These days what is the point to making worlds instead of farm/trade worlds? We only see farm worlds in the main menu.
- Personal playing time will increase. (So, more online at the same time!) How? Players need to check hourly for doing broadcasts to get tokens.
- Newbies really enjoy parkour worlds.
- Yes, there will be some minigame worlds, but its little good. Because noobs and *me* also enjoy them.
- Part of the growtopia mean *build* will came back
- There will be more cool honored worlds. These days they are only -trade-!
- New way to earn world lock. Build and sell token worlds, get wls from WorldToken.

Negative sides..
- Scam Minigames (Give 14 Days nuke world power to Game Guardians, problem solved!)

[Pokekid123]

No offence but it’ll be stupid to only look at the vague statistics of the game and only blaming it on some Token system.

[UnknownDragon]

I Agree

But I Prefer Both Systems To Stay Because Old System Was Like For Rich People. Role Quests Good Daily Quests Good Life Goals Good Too. If Old System Comes Again And The System We Are Using Stays That Would Be So Good. People Can Build World If They Want Growtoken And If They Get Growtoken That Would Make More Players To Build. And The People Who Cant Build or A Little Lazy To Build Can Get Growtokens With Other System Too. That Would Make A Lot Of Players Happy.

[HugeLock]

This theory is basically saying that for example: "My supermarket has lost popularity because the manager removed the vegan hamburgers.".

One irrelevant thing doesn't lead to a massive change, I don't see any correlation between the two things here.

[QueenChloe]

Or maybe, game was new and exiting and got players while it is now old and kids say it's sooooooo last season or it is soooooooo year 2017 or even sooooo year 2015 that they get bullied at school it their friends would know that they play gt. I bet, this has nothing to do with tokens. And if we think players today, who are toxic scammers, what do you think, would happen if ubi would allow scammers to start get ez tokens by making fake game worlds, fake giveaways and what's best, csn can have honors too so csn host could earn even more. I say, in current growtopia, free tokens from ppl who visit world would be worst possible idea ever. It's so bad that i could even start thinking about quitting if they would allow something so stupid happen.

So yeah. I have kids, and i know why kids wont play. I have heard reasons and reason is that it is embarrassing. There is always trends and today's trend is not growtopia. Same with fortnite rn. If kid admit that he plays it, all laugh for him. So question is not about tokens, questions is: how to make this game be trendy again in kids mind? How make it not embarrassing? How to change their minds so big that they start think that it's cool to be gt player?

[astinotrix]

i miss hosting spleefs and mini games and waking up the next day to receive 4 tokens :c

[EchoBlitz]

I remember when the servers had to be upgraded because of thinknoodles playing growtopia

[Castellated]

I would like to agree with this thread. Growtopia would be more fun if we visit random worlds to be greeted with parkours/spleefs and other mini games instead of a nude noob punching for gems to become pro.

Growtopia has lost its social sense ever since magplants and raymans were implemented. But i dont blame it on them together with the old token system. It's just growtopians nowadays are aiming to get high amount of dls instead of maxing out their friendlists.

[OofLimits]

I played gt for at lease 2yrs. I have 323 token.
so do this thread means the old token system is more easy to get tokens?

How about the old farm vs today's farm?
players can get easy world lock. "BFG and farm"
also you can earn wls doing buy/sell.

I only wanna say that is anyone can afford to get tokens while having fun, not just "/sb" and wait. Just like a boss.


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[Castellated]

I played gt for at lease 2yrs. I have 323 token.
so do this thread means the old token system is more easy to get tokens?

How about the old farm vs today's farm?
players can get easy world lock. "BFG and farm"
also you can earn wls doing buy/sell.

I only wanna say that is anyone can afford to get tokens while having fun, not just "/sb" and wait. Just like a boss.


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It's not just about the tokens we're talkin' but also the sudden decreasing with the number of game worlds in growtopia, i can see only 2-3 bcs containing spleef and fashion contests.

[LyveWyre]

No offence but it’ll be stupid to only look at the vague statistics of the game and only blaming it on some Token system.

Absolutely. Also, I can imagine having a re-implementation of the world token system would cause the game to lose popularity. Most people would try to exploit it like they do every other thing in this game, and as such scam worlds would become extremely popular again. Growtopia staff is already dealing with enough between updates and moderation, this would be totally unnecessary and would probably have more negative effects than positive.

[GrowPixel]

it’ll be stupid to blaming it on some Token system.

Changing old token system affected everything in growtopia. Worlds, socializing, fun(spleefs, fashions) and biggest feature Punch, >build<, Grow. It wasn't the only token system.

This theory is basically saying that for example: "My supermarket has lost popularity because the manager removed the vegan hamburgers.".

If that vegan hamburgers were the reason to gain popularity for supermarket, removing it would be stupid, right? Like if Nusr-et 'Saltbae' stop doing shows while cutting meats, he would keep losing popularity. It's same.

[Pokekid123]

It's not just about the tokens we're talkin' but also the sudden decreasing with the number of game worlds in growtopia, i can see only 2-3 bcs containing spleef and fashion contests.

You can see here that the majority community is just hosting it for the tokens... and not for the true fun to it (idk if it’s true), just referring to your statement.

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Negative sides..
- Scam Minigames (Give 14 Days nuke world power to Game Guardians, problem solved!)

Guardians can’t even nuke a world for a day... what are you talking about? 14 days nuke? So the world can be “unnuked” and players can scam again?
I think the current system is fine, don’t see a necessity to change...

[×D A N T E×]

Or maybe, game was new and exiting and got players while it is now old and kids say it's sooooooo last season or it is soooooooo year 2017 or even sooooo year 2015 that they get bullied at school it their friends would know that they play gt.

Oh my god, this is exactly happening to me XD

[GrowPixel]

Guardians can’t even nuke a world for a day... what are you talking about? 14 days nuke? So the world can be “unnuked” and players can scam again?

That's why i said give 14 days nuke&ban powers to Guardians... Also after 14days ban, players will learn his mistake and he won't do it again (My some of friends built fake parkour worlds in the past, after they got banned, they stopped doing that)...