I just played yesterday,, don't think I"ve played in weeks.  So bored of doing Italy and Indonesia.  I've almost got one buildiing done, otherwise there's just a bunch of steel in my compound.   I've got 7 fuel.

I'm still playing until the end of the year.   I've never played Thanksgiving or Christmas.  After that, I'm moving on.  At least we know not to waste our time stockpiling gold for an update that's never coming.

WendyDarling wrote:

I can understand ending this game, because they've let us acquire an insane amount of gold and it's so easy to make money and you can buy the mac and cheese to increase/fill your energy at will so there's not really any incentive to make purchases, but it seemed like they held the reins a lot tighter on AK, I'm a bit surprised that one is ending.   I guess I'm getting my life back.

I wonder if they shot themselves in the foot with the Elixir of Haste.  That and the change in food price make it easy to advance at a good ate without spending any money.

I'd love to know just when this decision was made.  The quality really wan't there in the last Dana Knightstone game, an dthe last two updates for ART really looked like QA was skipped altogether.  Makes me wonder if BZ had the foot halfway out the door as early as a year ago, around the time we heard abot their plans to self-pubish.
 

Well, I broke down and bought 120 pieces of wallpaper.  That was enough for the six buildings that were waiting for it with 8 pieces left over.

I figured that I never would have spent so much time completing plushy sets if this announcement had preceded the spring event.  So the time spent getting gold would have been spent gathering fuel.  Silly to waste more time gathering fuel.

I used a bunch of my stockpiled fuel to get screws and nails and yet more paintbrushes for Fatima.  If I run out before it's needed for Pirate's Day and/or Halloween, I can either earn some or buy some.

Now that some time has past, I think I'm relieved that this game is ending.  I don't think I could face another update involving flying allover teh world to build yet another community, even if the quests didn't come from Fatima.

Now I can quit playing at the end of the year, but not feel like I'm bailing out.