State of the Game
Hi GPK Gang,
We've seen the threads about the game being "dead," speculations over the team's dedication, and frustrations over the lack of new content. I'd like to share some specifics about the state of the game and how we are planning to move forward.
We've mentioned many times that we are a small team. Indeed, we have a world-class license with Garbage Pail Kids, but we are still an independent studio with a very small team of people working for the love of the project and the Garbage Pail Kids legacy; we are collectors and fans ourselves. Since launching, we have had to run a scaled-back team and have only been able to address the most crucial game-breaking issues. We want to do more.
We want to bring you more characters, more game play modes, and to launch on Android. We want to uncover the "coming soon" statue. We want to make the game more social. We want to fix everything that comes up. With a full development team, we'd be pushing game updates every couple weeks and running live events regularly. We simply have not had the resources to do that.
We have some good news, however. We are in conversations to onboard additional artists and engineers in October. We have several new characters approved for development, and a new gameplay mode that we are testing internally. Realistically this would mean new content arrives no sooner than November.
We understand that many late-stage players have nothing left to do, and that waiting until November for something new is not motivating; the best we can do at the moment is provide some giveaways and keep you updated on our progress.
We will likely have an influx of new players in late September, from promotions around the new GPK card packs releasing in stores. We are hopeful this will bring new fans to the arena and further invigorate the leaderboards.
You all are experts in this game now, you know it inside and out, know its bugs and exploits, know how to make the most of what we've built. And you certainly know how to tell us when we’ve screwed up. We’re good with that, and are so grateful for the energy you have put into the game. We know many of you are now facing a slump that may make you want to quit and not come back. We hope that when we are able to release new content later this year, you'll rediscover the spark again. As I always say, the trash heap is better because you’re in it with us.
Lian
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Some people live to complain! I’ll agree it’s hard when you are through most of the game. But I enjoy trying out new teams and seeing what some of these characters can really do. Hopefully juicy Jessica is one of the new characters :) regardless, thanks for the update and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next
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Come on GPK developers. You made an announcement a half a year ago about future plans and nothing has happened. Can you please at least update us on what it going on as there have been no new challenges or characters. Love the game for whatever reason but I am getting to the point that everything is almost maxed out.
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If they are not going to keep up with it then I wish they would sell it to someone that would continue development and support of the game rather than just let it fall by the waste side. I have worked for months trying to upgrade characters and now have almost 20 fully upgraded but would like the challenge of getting more characters in the future as well as new challenges.
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agree on everything said above, you know Lian’s words were full of hope and made so much sense, so when the time had come I thought they were just behind schedule, now instead what leaves me disappointed the most is the absence of news, just any would be fine at least so we all can figure what is going on and if there s a chance someone can take over this again and follow through.
(I reached out to the support, hope you did too)
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Hi everyone- The team IS here and we apologize for the radio silence. We are working to raise more funds so we can make the game experience that we always dreamed of… We’ll be able to update the community when we have more to tell. Many thanks for sticking with us and for your continued support.
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Wow! Unbelievable. Jago you should’ve never touched the rights to GPk... your team has shown zero creativity or even any effort into this app one bit whatsoever! I remember in the beginning you all got called out here for ripping off this same exact game as some other game. Meaning you have literally just copy and pasted this entire thing. Never even fixed any of the initial bugs or exploits in the game at all. None of you there have any real passion for the gpk legacy or nostalgia... all you were hoping for was to capitalize off our love for gpk. Hopefully Topps will catch on to all of your failures here and yank the rights to this from you. Seriously that’s how I feel.
You literally came here to tell us, you all have zero news for progress other than you need to have what? A fundraiser? To be able to maybe work on the app? Gtfo! What a shame seriously
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Thank you Lian for breaking the silence and give us your word about today's game status, this is much appreciated yet at the same time quite frustrating to come to this news just now.
Fat Lenny you had a point there and somehow I agree with you.
Nothing much else to say but fingers crossed for a 2020 development and continuity, whatever it may be.
GPK App Game must live on!
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Well this game is now certainly dead, no updates since before Xmas, forum is very quiet.
Now the game play has gotten worse, countless times I have lost coins because if you play when the day changes, which is currently 11pm in the UK, it has a glitch where you can’t claim the coins until 12 hours later or sometimes until the next day.
And now the events have just got impossible, I played one automatic game on the crazy coin collecting with a full strength team and it took 10 minutes for me to lose, one character never went down in strength at all.
Good job I’m only 7 characters away for maxing them all out as I can’t be bothered anymore.
And judging by the silence I can’t be the only one who has given up on this game.
Just a shame topps and jago were the first ones to give up on it
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@Ringo76
I can’t help but sympathize and be supportive with anyone of you vent out their frustration here,
you’re right, everyone is gone because we are all pissed off or let down. I am just one of the few writing but Im slowing dying too. This 2020 makes 35 years of GPK celebration, we should all be in excitement of game developments and instead the team is “dead” and broke... they got their own reasons but we know facts are loud.
Should TOPPS really go kickstarter?
I am so much aware of that bad glitch you just mentioned, but man you got all my respect for playing that bug in automatic mode for solid 10 mins and you still made it through!!!!! I thought it would just be going on forever on a loop so I wasnt as patient as you.👏🏻
Servers sometimes drop down, now they’re back again and even though the team isnt operative I hope they still keep them run.
I got many more characters to rank up than you and over the past months Id saved so many gems and lightnings because honestly I thought we would get more characters and packages to spend on... who would’ve thought we were gonna get the bad news instead...
I am not losing hope yet and I wanna max all of them out too although playing for keep kinda sucks.
My own lame obsession is now Battles.
☹️ <- best smile of the day
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Hi Mauro,
Thanks for the reply, I did think it might be an echo chamber in here when I posted my comment.
It just feels, with the lack of investment in the game, the developers gave up on it.
We all told them how to improve the game, yet in actual gameplay, it got worse.
I don't want to be playing 10 times just to finish outside the top 5 every time, with the same ones finishing top.
When I am playing a 10000 team versus an 14000 team in 9 out of the 10 battles, or a 7500 v 10000.
No matter what I do, it's impossible to finish in the top 3.
Not having a go at GPK4ever as he obviously worked out the system.
But to keep playing for nothing really isn't worth it.
During the game, I used £40 of my own money to try and go through the game quicker but I won't give them another penny as it's not worth it.
I was saving my items like you but after them not even introducing the Mo Bile character, when it was an obvious link for the cards and game to merge and go forward, I knew it was the end.
And talking about money, Topps want to start digital cards, which will be a major bust, if it's anything like this game!!!
I've now got 6 characters to max out at 70, as it's only coins I need now, so I will play towards the end of March.
I started this game about a week after it came out and for it to end up as a whimper, is a massive shame.
I just hope they don't pull the plug before I max out, so I hope you manage to max out too!!!
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