Dear community,
as most of you have noticed we changed the way premium lobbies work as part of the last patch.
Today we adjust these changes and go back to the old status. This means players who own the free-2-play version are once again able to play “Guess It! Grand Reveal” and “Rate It!” after a friend who owns the premium version invited them. We also went a bit further and now allow any player to find every game mode via quick search. Search options for specific game modes, as well as a lobby browser will follow soon.
Originally, after releasing Scribble It! in October 2020, the two game modes mentioned were only to be included in the premium edition. After our official launch we had some technical difficulties and were confronted with quite a few bugs. So, we decided it was fair to give our new F2P players the ability to test these premium game modes as a way to compensate for the poor gaming experience.
We communicated this state of the game and that it will change in the future via Discord. In hindsight this was not the correct way to handle this as many people simply did not see our statement regarding premium game modes. Lesson learnt. Rightfully, changing the state of premium lobbies back to the originally intended state as part of the patch on December, 6 caused a lot of irritation within our community.
During the last days we read each and every one of your messages and listened to your concerns about how this change will impact the future. It became quite obvious that a lot of you love playing all of our game modes with their friends. We now understand that the changes we made were not at all aligned with our initial goal. With Scribble It! we wanted to create something that would take friends and those who might become friends out of their everyday lives for a short time and connect them through our game.
This is our very first game-release but that should not be an excuse for a poor decision on our end, for that we apologize.
Currently, we are two people that are developing this game part-time next to our main jobs. We love creating games for you and want to spend as much time as possible doing exactly that which is why the premium edition exists. In the future we'd like to expand on new platforms and create more entertaining moments for our players. Without all of you this would not be possible therefore we want to thank you for the huge support since release. We have received enormous amounts of feedback from which we have learned A LOT.
We hope you will continue to accompany us on this journey.
- Zaratusa and soeanski, the developers
Patch Notes:
- All game modes are now search- and joinable for all players
- Added winter contest banner to main menu
- Updated translations
Bugfixes:
- Fixed crash when joining game and player is not yet initialized