University Search and VIP features

December 1, 2009 in website changes | 8 comments

Popodeus has never set out to compete with any existing VIP features. Now that university search has been turned into a VIP service in Popmundo, I feel that keeping our service  would be bad practice and detrimental to the game. Hence I am thinking of removing the university search from my site. We want people to get VIP, don’t we?

I know my search is easier to use than the one built in, and I would also claim mine is better, except the one in the game is directly plugged in into the database and has more accurate information. My search is only a stale snapshot and the data I present quickly becomes old. Would there be a way for me to keep the search but still not compete with the game VIP features? Any ideas?

I would like to have comments about this before I delete or disable the search page.

Edit: The University Search page has now been disabled. All you can access is some interesting numbers.

  1. Ernesto Vinhas’s avatar

    Ernesto Vinhas on December 4, 2009 at 23:51

    I think Popodeus’ search is better that Popmundo’s, but the game takes a little advantage since the update in real time.

    Popodeus search was way more accurate, and it should be back so non-vips chars may have a way to improve theirs skills with more information.

    It’s sad it became offline.

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  2. Alanas Anikonis’s avatar

    Alanas Anikonis on December 7, 2009 at 12:34

    I admit I don’t like pulling away features either, but I don’t see it being very ethical to copy data from their servers and give it to non-VIP users anymore :(

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  3. Rafe’s avatar

    Rafe on December 14, 2009 at 07:01

    Hey, if they stole your idea, you do not have to back out. That’s your idea, you were first. They should pay you for using it.
    I am VIP, but I prefer your search to theirs. Do not remove it, please.

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  4. Nick’s avatar

    Nick on December 15, 2009 at 04:17

    HEY! Fuck popmundo staff…
    They steal our money, you were first with this service and there are things to show that its true.
    I think THEY should make that service for everyone.

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  5. N. Moskwa’s avatar

    N. Moskwa on December 19, 2009 at 12:06

    Hey, without your uni search I can’t link non-vips to needed courses anymore…

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    1. Alanas Anikonis’s avatar

      Alanas Anikonis on December 20, 2009 at 04:52

      I’m sorry to hear that. I wish we could check if a user is VIP or not, that way I could kick non-VIPs in the butt and show content to VIP players only :P
      Any suggestions how we could do that?

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  6. Stormy Tempest’s avatar

    Stormy Tempest on December 25, 2009 at 07:11

    popmundo uni search doenst work so well, u should get back ur search ^^

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    1. Alanas Anikonis’s avatar

      Alanas Anikonis on December 30, 2009 at 23:29

      Thanks for the compliments… I guess :D

      Once again, I can only say that I’m aware that the Popmundo University search inside the game isn’t really that good… Have you tried giving suggestions in the forum on how the developers can improve on it…?

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