State of the game + Growtopia 2 + All my thoughts

[Supermarine]

Growtopia need news and different game mechanic
Have you ever feel boring or stale playing Growtopia?
Adding new items in every event until running out of ideas How long do you think they can keep up with that.
That is why Growtopia needs its news and different game mechanic: introducing permanent PVE and PVP that reward a good amount of gem and wls. The player(ME) do not need more of the re-theme mechanic like Startopia, Crime-fighting (both re-theme surgery) and the redundant mechanic.
If you can implement PVE and PVP or new ways of earning gems and wls that is not boring it would be so great and will open door to many possibilities. (I don't think people need something like root cutting, we need brand new mechanic but I can guess that it cannot be implemented)
Checkout my PVP suggestion-->https://www.growtopiagame.com/forums...e-PVP-mechanic

Some Growtopia feature is boring complicated not worth and not appealing enough
That is why players do not engage in some Growtopia's feature
Take a look at boss ghost it is a great idea but it complicated you need many and specific items just to kill it.
And also the tournament, extremely good idea but it is kinda not worth because you have to use a lot of wls to get it the good prize that you can just buy it with wls.
That is why it is so frustrating just to engage in the new feature

Less world lock+trade involvement, more untradeable stuff
Because wls and trade involved in almost everything. It makes people not engage in some feature because it is not worth like the ultimate prize of Royal winter wonder: Winter Radiance Aura cost a lot to earn by winter seals but you can just buy for less than 3 dls!. We need to bring more untradeable system and stuff to make players really feel rewarded. (I really want to know why you make royal winter's items tradable if you want the IAP revenues.)

Growtopia needs new players to keep the game alive
You cannot count on veterans anymore because people are leaving because they grow out of it. You need to make the game more appealing to current day players and society. Start slowly changing Growtopia's player base to be more quality less toxic and stop targetting kids because I know that everybody that involve with this game hates it

Growtopia made you feel like you in a simulation that makes it appeal to bots and hackers
The effective ways of earning wls are farming doing-surgery and be lucky. some of it such as farming and fishing make you go to a process that is a loop-algorithm and it is extremely boring. That is why people are thinking ways of making it easier. People are inventing auto farm and auto fishing and with the help of Magplant and Rayman make it even more appealing. If it not boring in the first place then there wouldn't be anything like this.

Growtopia doesn't require skill or require very low amounts
It is the main reason why is it boring. If it requires skill then it wouldn't be so boring. It relies too much on patience and crazy amounts of grind. Skill is what also makes the game fun.

Do you feel fun or relieve stress when playing Growtopia
Login to Growtopia just to farm and doing surgery(with the boring game mechanic that make you feel like a robot) every day. Lock yourself in a jammed world because if you go out you will be bombarded with toxicity and hatred?
We play games because we want to have fun if it not fun then there wouldn't be any player left.

How Growtopia turned its players into ruthless teenage capitalists
Too much world locks involve with every system in Growtopia that people don't want to do anything anymore but becoming richer With the help of Royal lock and dark cave background trap player in a small box and cannot speak. Even there are billboards to help you out but I ask you that Do you feel fun anymore?

Outdated Game's graphics and GUI
You keep releasing more new-gen graphics items but you are forgetting(or not) to update old-gen item sprite some of it looks so bad and doesn't match new-gen item etc-demon chariot and the GUI is getting update in progress but I want to point out about the hot slot(need to have more)/backpack(look messy)/Side icons(make it hard to build or break in the side) I suggest put all of that in 1 icons and when you click it all the icons will slide out.


The fading of building part in Growtopia and old Growtoken system
I know that the dev is trying very hard to keep building alive and the current Growtoken system is less problematic but we need to do something about this. Devs need to host a contest to bring out ideas about building style Growtoken to settle it once and for all.

Steampunk feedback
One of the best updates we had in-game. It was exciting but it too bulky. I had to mention Terraria and Pixel world 's wire system that their system work in the background(if you know what I mean) but in Growtopia it is a block and we can't really do much creative stuff about it.

Less Moderator and moderation, Better System
If you can improve the game security we wouldn't need much moderation and manpower.

Shutdown console's server + announce Growtopia 2
I don't know who ask for the console's server. When it was announced I already know what it gonna turnout and it pretty much did. It becomes a ghost town abandon by developers(kind of). I don't know how you got that idea because it so hard to play and cannot crossplay. Does the income worth the maintenance price? I don't think so. If you really want more people to know the game and make player start from scratch like some people want why not make Growtopia 2 because it seems like everything is so hard to implement in Growtopia that you can only release limited update and the source code and everything you build the game on the old and outdated foundation that make the game easy to hack. If you cannot tear it down why not release a brand new version.

[JimIzPro]

Growtopia need news and different game mechanic
Have you ever feel boring or stale playing Growtopia?
Adding new items in every event until running out of ideas How long do you think they can keep up with that.
That is why Growtopia needs its news and different game mechanic: introducing permanent PVE and PVP that reward a good amount of gem and wls. The player(ME) do not need more of the re-theme mechanic like Startopia, Crime-fighting (both re-theme surgery) and the redundant mechanic.
If you can implement PVE and PVP or new ways of earning gems and wls that is not boring it would be so great and will open door to many possibilities. (I don't think people need something like root cutting, we need brand new mechanic but I can guess that it cannot be implemented)

YES YES YES, PVE AND PVP!!

Growtopia needs new players to keep the game alive
You cannot count on veterans anymore because people are leaving because they grow out of it. You need to make the game more appealing to current day players and society. Start slowly changing Growtopia's player base to be more quality less toxic and stop targetting kids because I know that everybody that involve with this game hates it

+1

Growtopia made you feel like you in a simulation that makes it appeal to bots and hackers
The effective ways of earning wls are farming doing-surgery and be lucky. some of it such as farming and fishing make you go to a process that is a loop-algorithm and it is extremely boring. That is why people are thinking ways of making it easier. People are inventing auto farm and auto fishing and with the help of Magplant and Rayman make it even more appealing. If it not boring in the first place then there wouldn't be anything like this.

True.

Growtopia doesn't require skill or require very low amounts
It is the main reason why is it boring. If it requires skill then it wouldn't be so boring. It relies too much on patience and crazy amounts of grind. Skill is what also makes the game fun.

It's like a farming game, like those clicker games where you spam click and get rich.

Do you feel fun or relieve stress when playing Growtopia
Login to Growtopia just to farm and doing surgery(with the boring game mechanic that make you feel like a robot) every day. Lock yourself in a jammed world because if you go out you will be bombarded with toxicity and hatred?
We play games because we want to have fun if it not fun then there wouldn't be any player left.

+1

How Growtopia turned its players into ruthless teenage capitalists
Too much world locks involve with every system in Growtopia that people don't want to do anything anymore but becoming richer With the help of Royal lock and dark cave background trap player in a small box and cannot speak. Even there are billboards to help you out but I ask you that Do you feel fun anymore?

+1

Outdated Game's graphics and GUI
You keep releasing more new-gen graphics items but you are forgetting(or not) to update old-gen item sprite some of it looks so bad and doesn't match new-gen item etc-demon chariot and the GUI is getting update in progress but I want to point out about the hot slot(need to have more)/backpack(look messy)/Side icons(make it hard to build or break in the side) I suggest put all of that in 1 icons and when you click it all the icons will slide out.

I think they already have plans for a GUI overhaul when the new chat GUI was first released.

The fading of building part in Growtopia and old Growtoken system
I know that the dev is trying very hard to keep building alive and the current Growtoken system is less problematic but we need to do something about this. Devs need to host a contest to bring out ideas about building style Growtoken to settle it once and for all.

More like content creating is fading

Less Moderator and moderation, Better System
If you can improve the game security we wouldn't need much moderation and manpower.

We need moderators, but the better ones.

Shutdown console's server + announce Growtopia 2
I don't know who ask for the console's server. When it was announced I already know what it gonna turnout and it pretty much did. It becomes a ghost town abandon by developers(kind of). I don't know how you got that idea because it so hard to play and cannot crossplay. Does the income worth the maintenance price? I don't think so. If you really want more people to know the game and make player start from scratch like some people want why not make Growtopia 2 because it seems like everything is so hard to implement in Growtopia that you can only release limited update and the source code and everything you build the game on the old and outdated foundation that make the game easy to hack. If you cannot tear it down why not release a brand new version.

Okay so here's where I disagree. Don't you remember the survey released last August 2018? There were multiple questions asking stuff and consoles were included and based on the results, majority of those who took the survey wanted consoles. That answers this:

I don't know who ask for the console's server.

Growtopia 2 shouldn't be A THING AT ALL. You can update Growtopia and everything without Growtopia 2. You know that everyone won't be happy for Growtopia 2.

[Shawn Wilson]

1. PvP already existed a long time with game machines.

2. Growtopia offers activities that are geared twords players at different levels of progression in the game. You can't throw the same challenge at different people in different phases of the game. That means some things might be complicated and out of reach.

It's almost impossible to do everything in Growtopia.

3. I don't think making more untradable items isn't that important. I think they have a healthy mix of untradable things already.

4. Growtopia will always benefit from new players. Hopefully the advertisements and content creators will bring some fresh faces to the game. The game is what it will be. You can expand upon the game but you can't completely change what it is.

5. Growtopia has always been a grind. People cheat because of lack of integrity not because the game has a grind.

6. I have to disagree about requiring skill. I have had to make lists and organize things into multiple categories to make the most efficient use of everything I obtain. I have had to look at multiple guides. I think Growtopia is deeper than you are giving it credit.

7. Growtopia is the kind of game that requires work to get rewards. I enjoy seeing the fruits of my labor. Some people enjoy working on projects and seeing results.

8. People shouldn't worry to much about how other people play the game. You have the freedom to play how you want.

9. I'm never against quality of life suggestions.

10. Build is one of the core concepts of the game but it's also optional. The people who enjoy doing it will partake in building world's. You don't always need to offer incentives.

11. You can make laws but people will still break them. You are going to need to take away a lot of player freedom if you want to stop the players who break rules. We just have to accept the reality that there are more people breaking rules then people enforcing them.

I think people focus to much about what Growtopia isn't and not what it actually is. It's just a platform sandbox MMO. People focus to much about what other people do and not enough about what they can do. If you log in and feel lost or bored it could just be that Growtopia isn't the game for you because it doesn't always hand hold an kinda expects you to create you own fun using imagination.

It makes me wonder what attracted people to Growtopia in the first place.

[Supermarine]

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[EerieGt]

You do not seem to understand the kind of game growtopia is. It's not a pve game it's not a shooter nor an RPG. It's a social game that involves heavily around it's economic aspects. So where you might not be needing your shooting skills believe me you absolutely do need economic and social skills to thrive at the game. ITS NOT ALL GRIND. You just need those skills I mentioned to figure out how to reach the top without grinding 24/7. I'm not saying that a pve wouldn't be nice, heck I would love it. BUT you can't completely change a game for what it is and you can't deny all the other mechanics. Your problem with the tournament was that it required alot of wls for you to participate, (even if Imo it isn't that many and the tournament has other problems) you can't expect everything to be for everyone no matter their experience in the game. Imagine if you played Mario Bros and you wanted to go straight to Bowser's castle, well you can't you have to work your way up there. Same applies here.

Also keep in mind that the developers have talked about the problems of creating a pve mode and haven't turned the idea off so be patient and you might get what you want.

[m456]

Releasing a Growtopia II would probably kill both games by dividing the playerbase lol. They should focus on improving the current game, instead of developing a new one.

2. Growtopia offers activities that are geared twords players at different levels of progression in the game. You can't throw the same challenge at different people in different phases of the game. That means some things might be complicated and out of reach.

Most of Growtopia's fun activities are incredibly costly though, and to be able to afford them most players would have to either pay up or grind for an insanely long time. Even building worlds, which is supposed to be a core mechanic, is prohibitively expensive for new players. (Which is a problem that could be easily solved by increasing drop chances for building blocks...)

[Boomer]

Add a war mode. Maybe a zombies mode. Add more guns. Let's throw in some bombers and attack choppers too.

Voila

[Techy]

A lot of people seem to call and ask for change with ideas that may sound plausible at first but may not be the best or most doable option. Growtopia grew and its problems, that were not so oppressive nearer the start of Growtopia, grew alongside.

Adding constant and new content will overwhelm new players and possibly add more development strain when trying to create fresh ideas monthly with fun mechanics and such. I believe the revamping and updating to older content would be much more ideal to turn "boring mechanics" into much more fun and interactive ones.

The economy, which is heavily imposed by the community, is not very easy to fix and adjust. A lot of the game's content is based around economy factors. Making an activity accessibly via newer players may not make the endgame or end goal of that activity even attractive to those players (look at the carnival).

(The lack of) Skill is an issue as well as a good thing. Growtopia is targetted towards younger children, the game at first was meant to be inviting and simple to these younger people.

The game's GUI and graphics (by which you mean art assets) are somewhat tedious to adjust due to how Seth and Hamumu coded the game. Ubisoft is managing with what Seth and Hamumu left them with. Imitating art styles is another skill that is not so easy.

We currently have building competitions too that seem rather successful (aside from creative limitations). The Growtoken system is not so easy to change. The old one is busted and the new one isn't so rewarding.

Lastly, a lot of the game's issues come from the community side. It is incredibly difficult to solve these issues as they affect the game very much and do not have easy solutions and the difficult ones seem costly to the game's wellbeing. Management is difficult.

[Shawn Wilson]

Releasing a Growtopia II would probably kill both games by dividing the playerbase lol. They should focus on improving the current game, instead of developing a new one.



Most of Growtopia's fun activities are incredibly costly though, and to be able to afford them most players would have to either pay up or grind for an insanely long time. Even building worlds, which is supposed to be a core mechanic, is prohibitively expensive for new players. (Which is a problem that could be easily solved by increasing drop chances for building blocks...)

I can't convince people to appreciate the pay or grind system. I can't convince people to appreciate that you have to put in serious time and effort to achieve and experience a lot of things Growtopia has to offer.

I just know that Growtopia has been successful for years and has drawn enough revenue to keep the game alive. People don't have to like how Growtopia works but they can't say really say that it doesn't work.

I think if you make everything available immediately with no effort you take away the incentive to spend money. If the game isn't turning a profit then why would the developers continue to develop the game. The bottom line is that Growtopia is a business and if it doesn't make money it will no longer exist. You may not like to spend money on the game but if nobody does then it shuts down.

If all the content is available immediately your incentive to play the game and support it for years goes away. You can hypothetically experience all the content at a faster rate and once you have done everything there is nothing left to play for.

I would argue that if you take out the economy and just turn the game into a strictly world building game with every block available at the start the game wouldn't ever be as successful as it is today.

A part of keeping people interested and invested into the game for years is giving them reasons to play for a long time. That's why people try to make clones is because they recognize that Growtopia is successful at the way it works

[Kartosh]

You need to understand that years of work and effort have been put into this current game to bring it to where it is now. Starting off new would simply make no sense.

[Nanimator]

believe me you absolutely do need economic and social skills to thrive at the game.

sure but this game has become capitalists wet dreams, economic skills probably wont help a lot here, and what social skills? the playerbase is made up of 10 year old east asians that have broken english, pretty sure my social skills wont help me make an investment with kids

[EerieGt]

sure but this game has become capitalists wet dreams, economic skills probably wont help a lot here, and what social skills? the playerbase is made up of 10 year old east asians that have broken english, pretty sure my social skills wont help me make an investment with kids

Look person if that's the community part you interact with then that's the experience you will get. You need to change your point of view and start fixing what bothers you instead of blaming it on others.

[Lollipopper]

IMO growtopia should have just stuck to the splicing + building aspect of the game instead of enforcing economics and introducing a lot of minigame-like systems that give exclusive prizes.

The systems are, in my opinion, lack depth and are way too isolated from anything else in the game to provide engaging experience for more than the first few days. The only reason anyone is still doing stuff like crime fighting is to get their hands on new or expensive items as a prize.

The attempts to revitalize these minigame systems are lame as most of the time they just add more items into the prize pool and call it a day. The system stays as uninteresting as always, but with a new incentive to play with it.
(i would like to point out how pet battling does the absolute opposite: an in-depth system, but no proper rewards apart from pet trainers and tournament(if anyone is even doing it). And yet no one touches pet battling because you can't profit off it)

The worst part about these systems is that most of the time they require you to spend gems or world locks in order to experience the system(and receive items from a loot table), which pressures people to start working to get world locks or gems, usually via farming or other grindy methods. It's like going to work.



I enjoyed growtopia most during its first years since it was centered around splicing(which i absolutely love about this game), world building, socializing and exploring worlds built by other people.

Non-world locked freebuild worlds were my favourite worlds as you had a bunch of people building their own houses and stuff on the limited area they managed to lock up. It was fun to go through the cluster of janky minihouses of various odd shapes and sizes while trying to find your way out into the unlocked territory.

[abt79]

Growtopia is (and for nearly all of its existence, has been) a horrible mess of a game, more so than any MMO or even any game I’ve ever seen.

I could go into more detail but in short, the developers had no unified idea of what the game should be, and so added a bunch of unrelated nonsense willy-nilly. The only logical end goal then became getting as rich/famous as possible.

There’s really no saving it. Any update you propose would just end up like every other update in the past several years: forgotten within a month. There are so many updates, so many items, so many different THINGS in this game, and nothing to connect them all to one another besides the economy, so they all get promptly reduced to a WL price and forgotten.

If you’re bored, play something else. Growtopia has been allowed to fester for long enough that it’s past the point where anyone or anything could make it a good game.

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You need to understand that years of work and effort have been put into this current game to bring it to where it is now. Starting off new would simply make no sense.

I’m quite confident that the original version of Growtopia from 2013 (which I didn’t play, and therefore I am not just saying this out of nostalgia) is LEAGUES better than what the game has become.

I’d rather have a streamlined, simple game about crafting through splicing than the disorganized, bloated disaster that Growtopia has been for at least the past six years.

[JimIzPro]

There’s really no saving it. Any update you propose would just end up like every other update in the past several years: forgotten within a month. There are so many updates, so many items, so many different THINGS in this game, and nothing to connect them all to one another besides the economy, so they all get promptly reduced to a WL price and forgotten.
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THIS LITERALLY SAYS EVERYTHING. Whatever you say "we need this", "we need this", many will still hate and forget it.