Honest truth, I play the game and I don't understand why people wanted plain black and white scenes. I'm glad we got these.
One person's meh is another person's amazing. Remember the cycled gem eye coverings? Most people I know didn't care and I only saw it on fan dragons once in a while, but in other parts of the community, apparently they are the be all end all apparel item.
At least for white backgrounds, I think a lot of people want them for accents/skins with 'transparent' bits. They used to blend it better on the plain white backgrounds, but the default background has a faded image matching your flight, so it stands out more now.
I wouldn't mind plain color backgrounds, but the more I think about it, the more I feel it should actually be a feature you can select from the customization page. Either no scene, scene, or plain background (with the colors available being the same from the color wheel to give a greater variety). Maybe charge 100k or so to unlock it per dragon for a treasure sink.
Mine, no. I actually don't use any of those types of skins, and while I'd love simpler scenery backgrounds, I doubt I'd want plain color ones in many situations. But I've seen enough requests for them since scenes launched - and that's even with me almost never checking the suggestions forum recently - that that was my first thought when those scenes appeared, how many people would wish they were real.
It feels like the same deal as how there was no way to get common eyes on the initial eye types launch - not like the intent with most new types where staff clearly wanted then to be random and 'special', which, while controversial, was at least them making a choice, but they needed a ton of people complaining to realize that A) sometimes the common color matches a given dragon best and B) there was no other easy fix for someone who was triggered when they hatched a dragon with shadow primal or something.
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Re: Solid scenes: Trolling or oblivious?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 01:58 am (UTC)(link)One person's meh is another person's amazing. Remember the cycled gem eye coverings? Most people I know didn't care and I only saw it on fan dragons once in a while, but in other parts of the community, apparently they are the be all end all apparel item.
Re: Solid scenes: Trolling or oblivious?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)I wouldn't mind plain color backgrounds, but the more I think about it, the more I feel it should actually be a feature you can select from the customization page. Either no scene, scene, or plain background (with the colors available being the same from the color wheel to give a greater variety). Maybe charge 100k or so to unlock it per dragon for a treasure sink.
Re: Solid scenes: Trolling or oblivious?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 03:54 am (UTC)(link)But seriously, my point was mostly that everyone has different priorities and POVs on what's important. Staff may not have your priorities in mind.
Re: Solid scenes: Trolling or oblivious?
(Anonymous) 2023-04-06 08:22 am (UTC)(link)Mine, no. I actually don't use any of those types of skins, and while I'd love simpler scenery backgrounds, I doubt I'd want plain color ones in many situations. But I've seen enough requests for them since scenes launched - and that's even with me almost never checking the suggestions forum recently - that that was my first thought when those scenes appeared, how many people would wish they were real.
It feels like the same deal as how there was no way to get common eyes on the initial eye types launch - not like the intent with most new types where staff clearly wanted then to be random and 'special', which, while controversial, was at least them making a choice, but they needed a ton of people complaining to realize that A) sometimes the common color matches a given dragon best and B) there was no other easy fix for someone who was triggered when they hatched a dragon with shadow primal or something.