Happy Pets
I joined another soul sucking pet game, because I'm not wasting enough of my time. XD
It's frustrating because Happy Pets has been very buggy this week. I wasted a bunch of coins on breeding requests, I don't think my friends even got the requests. And adding friends only works half the time (why don't they automatically give you ever player on your friends list like Pet Society does?) Adding them is set up in a very tedious way, you have to do them one at a time, not check them off a list. So having to do it over and over is just loads of fun.
The game isn't just buggy, it's disjointed. You'll be visiting someone's house, and a box will pop up asking if you want to go another friend's house to get a cat out of a tree or something. I don't know how much xp or coins you get when you do that. I'm starting to just ignore those pop ups, and do visits more systematically like I do in Pet Society. There other things that pop up, too many of them, like reminders to send free gifts to your friends. And it has too many items for real cash, like every pet game now. I did one of the offers to earn Facebook credits, bought some shoes (I needed shoes anyway). Of course I never got the credits. I don't think it's meant to be a ripoff, just inevitable bugs since you are interfacing 3 different systems, namely Facebook, the game, and the third party company making the offer.
There's something about the tone of the game that I'm not comfortable with. Pets are treated like, well, collectible items rather than pets. I like that GoPets had a lot fewer pets per person, but you were very invested with your pets. Here you pick your starter pets from a very small selection of looks, so it's not like your starter pet is a really unique pet that will be the foundation for your little family. One of my first days playing Happy Pets, a pop up box said the police department wanted to buy my dog Raven for six hundred or so coins, and the prompt made it sound like I should be happy about this. But I found it appalling since she still had a young puppy to care for.
I do like some things about Happy Pets. They have many cute pet species, and you can adopt out pets you don't want to other players for free. You can make in game coins fairly quickly (a friend gave me a tip to use the laser pen to play with pets rather than the hand icon, much faster). They have some cute animations. I love how my bunny eats a carrot, and cats use the scratching post and sing. The sound of the dinos is really amusing.
I don't want a huge number of pets that will feel like a burden, but I'll stick with it for a while and see how it goes.
It's frustrating because Happy Pets has been very buggy this week. I wasted a bunch of coins on breeding requests, I don't think my friends even got the requests. And adding friends only works half the time (why don't they automatically give you ever player on your friends list like Pet Society does?) Adding them is set up in a very tedious way, you have to do them one at a time, not check them off a list. So having to do it over and over is just loads of fun.
The game isn't just buggy, it's disjointed. You'll be visiting someone's house, and a box will pop up asking if you want to go another friend's house to get a cat out of a tree or something. I don't know how much xp or coins you get when you do that. I'm starting to just ignore those pop ups, and do visits more systematically like I do in Pet Society. There other things that pop up, too many of them, like reminders to send free gifts to your friends. And it has too many items for real cash, like every pet game now. I did one of the offers to earn Facebook credits, bought some shoes (I needed shoes anyway). Of course I never got the credits. I don't think it's meant to be a ripoff, just inevitable bugs since you are interfacing 3 different systems, namely Facebook, the game, and the third party company making the offer.
There's something about the tone of the game that I'm not comfortable with. Pets are treated like, well, collectible items rather than pets. I like that GoPets had a lot fewer pets per person, but you were very invested with your pets. Here you pick your starter pets from a very small selection of looks, so it's not like your starter pet is a really unique pet that will be the foundation for your little family. One of my first days playing Happy Pets, a pop up box said the police department wanted to buy my dog Raven for six hundred or so coins, and the prompt made it sound like I should be happy about this. But I found it appalling since she still had a young puppy to care for.
I do like some things about Happy Pets. They have many cute pet species, and you can adopt out pets you don't want to other players for free. You can make in game coins fairly quickly (a friend gave me a tip to use the laser pen to play with pets rather than the hand icon, much faster). They have some cute animations. I love how my bunny eats a carrot, and cats use the scratching post and sing. The sound of the dinos is really amusing.
I don't want a huge number of pets that will feel like a burden, but I'll stick with it for a while and see how it goes.