Which means Kongregate broke their API to launch a new currency which is as of yet useless to the vast majority of the playerbase.
Myself and many other Kongregate developers don’t actually have access to the feature yet. Only useful to certain select developers. Which leaves only the two game promotion features, which are only useful to developers. For some reason Kong thought it’d be a great idea to launch blocks without any sticker packs to spend them on. It also doesn’t help that blocks are completely useless currently. The fact that Kong hasn’t fixed this by now is completely ridiculous. Now we’re on almost an entire week of Block BOTD’s and it’s still breaking for a LOT of people. The subsequent day, the first BOTD with a block reward was launched. It’s a challenge so there are several days to complete it, and they’ll surely fix it by the time the challenge ends right? People were collecting thousands of Doeo’s, well above the 1000 required for the challenge and still not completing the challenge or receiving their reward. Something about the new blocks completely broke Kong’s API. People flocked to this game in an attempt to complete the challenge and earn some blocks. A few days ago, the feature was launched along with a challenge to collect a certain number of ‘Doeos’ in the classic game Doeo to earn 20 blocks. The launch of this new ‘Blocks’ feature has been a mess, and proves that Kong are still pretty incompetent. But you may have noticed that I said ‘allegedly’ earlier. Kongregate has been criticised heavily for not promoting new games that deserve a chance and just letting them rot out of sight for the most part. Allegedly you can use up a certain number of blocks to advertise your game on one of Kongregate’s pages for a set amount of time up to a week, including the front page. Promoted Listings are more or less advertisements you don’t have to pay for. When players earn this badge, they receive a block reward for their efforts.
Badge Bounties allow you to place blocks on a badge on one of your games. The other two ideas don’t seem bad at a glance either. Heck, there are several ‘games’ that don’t have any ‘game’ to them and exist solely for people to access Kong’s chat rooms. Along with badges, Kong’s chat rooms have always been an important part of the site and one of the main reasons people visit it in the first place. Stickers are more or less emotes that you can use in chat rooms to express yourself. The first is the most relevant for the majority of Kong’s community. These blocks can be spent on three different things: Stickers, Badge Bounties and Promoted Listings. By earning Badge Of The Day’s(or BOTD’s for short), Kongpanions, completing challenges and a few other things you can earn blocks as a reward. They’ve even been added to the main menu bar at the top of the site which previously hadn’t seen a change in years. What are blocks? And what exactly is the problem with them?īlocks are the biggest new feature Kong has seen in a long, long time. It’s a wider problem that’s been building up on Kong for a while, but I’ll get to that later. Which meant I was even more disappointed by Kong’s latest feature: Blocks. Since I was a kid, I’ve played hundreds of games on the site over the years, had some great interactions with the community and submitted some games of my own for the site’s monthly game jam. Kongregate is a site that has always been close to my heart.
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