Sincere apologies to anyone who might have been offended by my little display of total frustration. Apologies also for my dark sense of humor, which is difficult to understand. Still, I would like to hear from the community what they think about all these developments with G5. It's looking more and more like Secret Society is relatively unimportant to G5, and this is the only game of theirs that is even vaguely interesting to me. And one in which I have heavily invested in terms of time, and brain cells, ha,ha. I swear, sometimes I even dream about teepees! I am seriously considering invading my brain cells with a Mytona game...at least they kept the good artist. Maybe G5 needs to know that they can loose their "cash cow" if they persist in ignoring the end user. I think I might even go to the extent of writing their CEO, Vlad, and letting him know that his faithful are leaving the flock if he doesn't turn this around.

Do it Goat! Vlad huh? The name does not exactly invoke the idea of a warm fuzzy 'people' person, does it? DW

I agree with you, Goat. I have tried a couple of their other games and it’s just not as fun as SSHM, imo. I have also invested a lot and I just don’t understand the point of them taking it over if they are just going to put it on the back burner.

I saw that Seekers Notes had another new update and I downloaded but just got back from a work trip and haven’t had a chance to check it out. That game is close enough to SSHM that I can play a little bit but it doesn’t keep me engaged for long.

I plan on up dating my App Store review. I wonder if we can create a petition online and get a lot of signatures to show G5 that a lot of people are feeling this way as I know not everyone has time to write an email to Vlad. ? ~JacquelineB

Vlad Suglobov is the CEO, moved from Moscow to San Francisco in 2011. (So he speaks English, ha,ha). I also intend to contact Vsevolod Chernushevich, the art director, but don't know where he is if not still in Moscow. I couldn't dig up an email for either of them, but the physical address for Vlad is Suite 3170, 44 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94104. Been a long time since I wrote an actual paper letter, but I am up for it if I have to. Will keep digging. If anyone is interested, G5 is having their annual meeting in early May, not that I believe they will talk about SS. As for the petition, I don't have the computer skills to construct a wiki survey, but think it would be worth while to get the community's input. It would sure carry a lot more weight than my single voice. Any takers??? Please help! Looks like we either shut up and let them starve us or try to turn it around. Please, ask your friends to weigh in. Maybe we can fix this!

So, I sent off an email requesting Addy's for both above, and within MINUTES, got a reply back from Dmitry Gerastenok, Head of Customer Support!  He asks, "why do you need these contacts?" Ruffling feathers, everwhere I go when that is not the intention. To be continued.....

Goat, so far I found an email for their investor relations manager and their email naming convention appears to be first.last@g5e.com. It’s possible Vlad will be vlad.suglobov@g5e.com. Usually, executives that have been with the company for a long time have more than one email address but they get routed to the same email inbox. For example, my husband has three bc as the company grew, the naming convention changed but they didn’t get rid of the older email addy’s to avoid contacts getting a bounce back and thinking he had left the company.

I have used this naming convention with success in the past when attempting to contact company executives in the past. It’s worth a shot! I haven’t had a chance to compose an email of my own but hope to this weekend. ~JacquelineB

Edit: forgot my game name again...??‍♀️

Spoiled, thank you! I just finished writing back to Dmitry, who sez..."please feel free to describe it here. I'll make sure the team knows about your concerns." To which I just sent a pretty good list. Now I think I will just copy that to Vlad and Vsevolod. Is that the right thing to do? Or do you think they're over there in Moscow laughing their way to home? All this trouble for a game? I admit I could enjoy it if this list of concerns ever gets to the right people, in different places, probably. But then, I depend on this game for something, and I think that things are going wrong. I actually told them that they should have to pay for opinions like mine if they wanted to keep players long term. I am looking at something at Mytona. If things don't change, I will have a giveaway party. American Indians had a much superior culture! PS if I am boring anyone, just please tell me so. 

I guess we will have to wait and see what sort of response you get. I was re-reading some of the statements G5 made about wholly owning this game. I wonder if they don’t mind if it doesn’t do well. It specifically states that G5 will pay MyTona (amongst other things) continent revenue share payments over the next year and the total sum to be paid to Mytona is somewhat dependent on the performance of the game.

So, now I am thinking, it’s possible that they plan on taking their time hiring the writer and new development team, while doing minimal maintenance and new content bc it will lessen how much they potentially payout to MyTona.

Then, when all of that part of the agreement is done they can flood places with ads for the game, hype up how awesome the new team has made it and essentially relaunch it without giving MyTona a piece of the pie, so to speak. I could be totally wrong but I like trying to figure out the possible reasons they might be okay with disappointing so many loyal game fans ?️‍♀️? ~JacquelineB

Should I call you Jacqueline? You know, I so agree with you...follow the money trail. I can see them purposely ignoring us, just to drive Mytona's share down. You can read about them claiming a negative cash flow of -$936,000, which they attribute to purchasing SS. And yet, their profit rose by 75.6%; they posted revenues of 45.1 million just for the last 3 months of 2017. What they don't say is how much of that profit came from SS. Reminds me of how some people purposely make a bad investment, so they can use the loss to offset taxes. And there's an interview Vlad gave where he goes into marketing at least 10 FTP games. So they seem to be spending more time and effort on their other games. I kind of think there will be no response...just like there is no new challenge. And I am not much on playing this waiting game. I'm off for now. I don't believe they can even fix the small list I sent them. And I am already old.

in my opinion this is done (no more facebook avis) so everyone would try to get a new avi from the game, thus spending more money on buying events items. this is money milking strategy, this is not a glitch.