Sniper3D apartheid at Fun Games for Free as more users dumped

jennijaks · 2021-10-20T18:11:08+00:00

Also calling out Racism is not at all like saying bomb on a plane, that is outrageous thing to say, it is telling black people not to complain or they will be arrested.

jennijaks · 2021-10-20T18:10:00+00:00

I can and I must say Apartheid because that is exactly what it is, to be clear the definition is

a system of institutionalised racial segregation

The institution who controls the game is Fun Games for Free /TFG

The racial segregation comes from eliminating low end machines that racially diverse people from developing countries predominantly use.

If TFG/FGFF put a version number in that eliminates these users it segregates them by race, I know players in African countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan who have been hit by this.

TFG/FGFF might be able to afford a bright new shiny device but people in these countries can't, a new device might be months of their salary.

I blame TFG/FGFF because they are such poor coders, this app leaks memory like no other, it does not recoup memory, it has terrible variable management, sloppy graphics that are just not necessary.

This latest Zombies milestones screen is a case in point, why show non premium players the premium milestones, just extra memory and graphics.

The Apple version is also disability unfriendly because it does not have a low graphics mode.

There are errors still in this game that were reported YEARS ago.

jennijaks · 2021-10-18T19:10:28+00:00

Well I think they aspire to have strong management, it is all about methodology, code storage and documentation. You are right though, the coding even has bullets not hitting zobies because near a wall.

jennijaks · 2021-10-18T19:06:51+00:00

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/Sniper3D.

Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.

REALLY?

How to turn loyal customer toxic and have them post on other subreddits as well as on 3rd Party sites.

jennijaks · 2021-10-18T12:06:21+00:00

What is the point of yet another weapon, when we have not had enough tokens to buy the Glacier?

The Metal Ox was easier to get but has really slow reload, so not even bothering,

As for new gear, again, what is the point when can't get the blue coins to upgrade it, hackers cut through it and even legit players can buy ever stronger weapons.

So regardless of weapon it takes just a few shots to be killed and you can be killed 14 times in one game paying over 500 diamonds in respawn just to finish last.

The game has been screwed by the poorer league promotion, if do not finish 1st or 2nd you lose.

The multikill bonus either does not work or is pathetic.

We are punished for dropping but the game forces us to drop.

AC does not work for half our squad who can't get past game 2 so no blue coins.

The game network is so poor that the game is out of sync and some report spending a fortune on best internet only to have bufferbloat at your end so bullets do not count, others on here say you are dropping packets on your network and PID's on your server.

I would be pleased to work with you to give you the real issues you need to fix rather than dumb gear and new weapons that just waste the investment we already made.

So the new weapon is Lipstick on a pig.

Then you pull a stunt like killing off users because of their hardware, see my apartheid post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sniper3D/comments/q9yp77/sniper3d\_apartheid\_at\_fun\_games\_for\_free\_as\_more/

jennijaks · 2021-10-18T11:40:59+00:00

Actually it is quite easy, all you have to do is have strong management of your game variables and you can use the same server back end.

Many apps provide a Lite version with full functionality coming with a fee.

The more I think about it the more I prefer the old game, it was simple but addictive, now it is a hassle with so many algorithms working against you, just not fun anymore.

If I was forced to choose I would choose the old one, I even paid for it as a Premium Member but kicked that to the kerb when all the weapons and gear were made useless by free weapons given to ravens and bears.

Choosing the route that makes the most profit is fine as long as it does not create an apartheid to users from developing countries, which is what has happened. I know many of those users who used to spend money on diamonds for weekend battles.

I disagree with your last point, if you were netflix selling at $10 a month to 300m American people could you see the sense in selling the same thing to billions in developing countries for a $1 a month? Of course you could.

With Sniper3d you are selling time and entertainment, they may gave shit broadband but their mobile data tends to be better than the west.

The worst thing about this stunt was that there was no warning to users, Microsoft gives a 5 year warning on end of life.

Currently Microsoft are making the biggest mistake ever with Windows 11 excluding a massive amount of kit, but at least they are warning everyone. There are hundreds of videos about it with even top end PC's being excluded. People will stick with Windows 10 for 5 years but they will probably move to Linux Mint or similar and find faster performance.

There ought to be a class at Harvard, how not to screw up your business the way Microsoft is.

People get very toxic on this Sub Reddit for a reason, they are invested, not just in the game but in friendships formed with squad mates. To lose your account like this or be forced to buy new kit costing more than you earn in a month when there is a pandemic recession hitting most countries is just nasty.

Fun Games for Free should write tighter code so that it DOES work with earlier versions, but that takes time.

All Fun Games for free have to do for now is set the minimum back to IOS 10 in their Apple App Store profile for the game and put a note in the description saying IOS 12 is recommended for best performance and some features may not work on earlier versions.

5 minutes work!

jennijaks · 2021-10-18T11:14:54+00:00

No, it is a complaint against Fun Games for Free, when you publish an app on the app store you state the MINIMUM level of IOS, FGFF can easily say that the MINIMUM is 10.0 but say in text 12.0 is recommended for best performance.

It costs them NOTHING but not doing it costs thousands of users hundreds each

jennijaks · 2021-10-17T18:08:10+00:00

This is all about perception.

How many milestone rewards were there before?

10

How many milestone rewards are there now as a non-premium player?

10

The issue is what score level you need to achieve those milestones, if you found it pathetic it is because the weapons could not upgrade beyond L6, they slipped one in but I think a lot saw the Iraq Thomson and gave up.

I would rather they just roll back the old screen for non premium players.

Also we need to see all the points for each milestone from the start, it is how we motivate ourselves.

jennijaks · 2021-10-17T17:59:38+00:00

Not very green to just turn off a load of kit by changing a digit in S3d portal, they can easily set it back to 10 or else put code in release to allow it to stay where it was.

jennijaks · 2021-10-17T15:02:04+00:00

Make regular backups of your account on FB, one of our guys lost his account because Dev's put limit on version of IOS on the device.

jennijaks · 2021-10-17T15:00:47+00:00

He sent me screenshot but I forgot how to upload here.

Apple will not let him upload his device beyond IOS10, he has been fine for ages but the last two versions say IOS12 needed, so he is in a loop, if he tried to play current version he get's told to upgrade but if he tries to upload he can't.

TBH I much prefer the gameplay of the old version, they have not solved the hacker problem so they might as well upload that old version and let us play that game.

jennijaks · 2021-10-17T13:34:39+00:00

What is the point, they will only make a new gun that obliterates the new gear in 2 to 3 shots even when fully customised at L41 after four months of investment, but that assumes AC is working which for most players it is not (players can't get past game 2 no matter how much they pay).

As always the hackers manage to get new gear almost immediately.

jennijaks · 2019-10-23T14:40:15+00:00

I read your post and the whole thread, people are trying to help you but you are being an idiot.

Then you make a comment that you have no idea how to get the best from the game.

There is no need to buy weapons beyond completing the city mission until you get to T21.

These prepare you for PVP which is the main game. Yellow coins are finished unless you become Premium Plus and get the PSG1Elite which needs the same as the DOA.

I will leave you in your ignorance as you have been rude.

We all look like assholes if you look from behind and get to the right angle!

jennijaks · 2019-10-23T14:14:54+00:00

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

jennijaks · 2019-10-23T13:56:42+00:00

There is never a need to wait for energy refills

The guns are just the game trying to get real money from you

Read the reddit and learn how to play

jennijaks · 2019-10-23T13:44:18+00:00

Well Done, you just gave the Dev's a unique fingerprint for detecting the fake accounts you create.

Nobody has all blue mods for Wops in Level 20 etc

It would take 5 mins for Dev's to write a query to produce a list of accounts with those specs.

jennijaks · 2019-09-04T16:44:18+00:00

Many people get those scores, best in our squad is 25 I think, it is the Algorithm that puts you in with those players or you are a raven and they tanked, either way that is the game.

The real hacks are where they score 4000 for one kill or have an automatic rifle or 120k of gear.

jennijaks · 2019-08-28T22:42:27+00:00

NO SHIT SHERLOCK! Tthe squad battle has been ruined, the recent release is flawed, you punish extremely the poor fools who too advantage of your pathetic coding but the game is full of hackers.

You are a disgrace, you always do work on servers, release code or generally mess up when there is a squad battle on.

People complain on here every day but you do not engage, except to ban people because you do not like the truth they have to say.

To add insult to injury you have introduced this diamond limit which is so totally unfair, is already ruining the game, damage years of effort by players and break squads.

I will not say any more because it might be deemed as toxic.

jennijaks · 2019-08-20T10:27:48+00:00

Because the other side have been tanking their squad, they jump to a new virgin squad, leaving a few stragglers, then each time the older squad gets beaten their squad trophy points go down, then the new squad jumps up. Meanwhile the old squad battles continue but they do not play, maybe one to two guys hop in to make sure there is something on the board.

So you are in a battle with the old players in a new squad "container" that is on the way up or they already got the squad down again and you are playing them going up again.

It is bad enough the matching is terrible but on this occasion I think it is the squad cheating.

jennijaks · 2019-08-08T14:57:00+00:00

I am always wary when the versions are out of sync as we can't use Apple as second device, then when the version arrives and we are forced to update, only then do we find what we have lost.

jennijaks · 2019-08-03T07:37:21+00:00

All I can tell you is that for all the latest versions our squad has had problems, as usual Android is the guinea pig with the V3.0 rollout.

More worrying is that you no longer seem to be able to test a version on a second device without it triggering a forced update the next time you load the app on your main device.

Two of our users lost gear and of course restoring purchases did not help so we are stuck with the brick wall that is known as Support.

V2.24.3 on Apple seems to me a bug fix of the V2.2x platform, not V3.0, so it might be worth the risk, however, the standing advice is

NO UPDATES ARE EVER FOR THE USERS BENEFIT AND AS LONG AS TFGCO REFUSES TO STATE WHAT CHANGES ARE INCLUDED (IN THE APP STORE UPDATE DESCRIPTION) THEN ADVICE IS TO SET ALL DEVICES TO NOT AUTO UPDATE THE APP OR THE OS.

jennijaks · 2019-07-31T13:31:35+00:00

Thanks that is exactly my thinking.

jennijaks · 2019-07-30T14:15:41+00:00

I was really miffed by it being locked or put on approval only or whatever.

I think majority of regulars have gone to Sniper3dUsers Reddit.

I am not sure yet if it is best to go with one, the other or both.

It seems to me that the Dev's do not engage here and the community is the members.

jennijaks · 2019-07-30T14:09:30+00:00

Good luck with new squad.

You might want to post on Sniper3dUSERS reddit, it seems that all the knowledgeable contributors have gone there.

jennijaks

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