I am going to halve everything on virtualpub.
If you're going to complain, please do it in this thread, don't spam the support system.
For the ones who understand why this has to be done, thanks in advance.Regarding referral commission, which will be 2.5% from 10%, because previous owner charged lifetime buying of referrals 10k credits, which is 2k sat on current price while you get 2k sats per 1 withdraw of your referral.
WOW, you obliterated BlockFaucet.io(loaded it up last night to see 12 users on, lol) with huge nerfs a couple months ago and now you are hacking down VirtualPub too?!??!!??!
When you bought the game you nerfed payouts right away (the post is still in the game even), and then about a month ago you added all kinds of advertising, leading me to think the game would get better with more revenue, not worse.
These huge slashes are killing your games, I'm guessing PokeBits is next right(even though it has a sliding reward system too)??
The combination of:
1. buy the game from previous owner
2. adjust rewards down 25-30% with new dynamic ratio due to rapid btc price raise
3. add a bunch more advertising to increase revenue
4. nerf rewards 50%
You clearly didn't write a very good algo to determine credit value, and now instead of fixing the algo to make it right, you're just cutting rewards in half.
So since you bought the game a credit has gone from .5 sat to .1 sat on the reasoning that bitcoin was $1400 when the hard ratio was put in place by the original owner.
Let's examine that then. I'll use the original BTC = 1400, Credit = .5 sat as a baseline as that's what you did with your initial adjustment after you bought the game.
Bitcoin value: $1400 - credit value: .5 sat - 100k credits = 50k sat = ~70 cents
Value earlier todayBitcoin value: $4200 - credit value: .2 sat - 100k credits = 10k sat = ~84 cents
Value nowBitcoin value: $4200 - credit value: .1 sat - 100k credits = 10k sat = ~42 cents
I can understand that 84 cents is 10% higher than than the original value, but 42 cents is 40% lower than the original value, your not correcting, your nerfing. I wouldn't have gone into such detail if it was anywhere near 70 cents, but it's not.
Clearly I don't "understand" why you have to do this large of a nerf to your own game when the numbers say you are indeed taking a much bigger chunk, NOT JUST ADJUSTING for bitcoin price. And the biggest nerf is after you added a bunch of advertising.
Do you actually do the math and think about the impact on your game and players before you do stuff like this or do you just look at it as making more money?
Fix your credit value function rather than taking the lazy road and just cutting it's value in half.
I love how you have helped build the faucet community, but you are clawing back large and I fear your shortsightedness is going to make you end up either alienating most of your users or you eventually decide to pack it in as you compound one bad decision after another.
but i am curious about what have been done.