I seriously need your guy's help... #rhtc #royalehigh
[Lengthy post about the current state of Royale High, please take the time to read. 📝]
I need you guys to speak up and help ask for a new Campus 4 with more classes and more gameplay elements added to Royale High.
Seasonal sets, seasonal minigames, seasonal things in general are *not* going to save Royale High or make it better. Eveningfall last year was incredible, but that's null and void when we're in July.
Yes, we do have a wave 2 of summer update on the way. But how much of it will be permanent? A set? No matter how gorgeous it may be, will it make Royale High as a game *fun* again? Or will it just provide temporary motivation to grind in the repetitive system in place?
Playing the base game shouldn't only be enjoyable when there's something to grind for. I should be doing minigames for the fun of it, not just for the reward it offers.
So far we know there's a new set and the Jetski mini game. If the Jetski mini game is like the other seasonal minigames (Egg hunt flowering, snowball fight glitterfrost, etc.), then it won't have any actual impact on the long term viability of this game. I am by no means saying that these are not good implementations, or that I hate any of the seasonal minigames. But it just can't be the only gameplay updates we get.
Royale High players can't live for just Seasonal updates. We need permanent gameplay improvements. More classes so the day-to-day schedule isn't the exact same. More engaging mini games. A lot of these classes get the job done in terms of functionality, but suffers engagement wise.
Flight class gets the job done, but are you genuinely having fun flying into circles for 2 minutes straight with the same song in the background? Because I'm not. It's not a horrible class, it's just very boring to me. Honestly, the only classes that give me any amount of dopamine is Computer Class, English, and Potionology. Swimming class is comes close but is still kind of very boring. I've never *not* gotten an A. It's too easy.
Basketball class is basically just stand in spot, click and hold, wait for specific number to show, let go, wait for ball to roll back. And you do that about 20 times and get an A. Archery class is kind of just spam click on the targets, (with it having massive input delay, making it not very enjoyable,) flashcards are flashcards 😭(sorry, I hate memory games). The first half of swimming class I feel like lasts too long. I personally get pretty bored clicking space bar every 3 seconds for a ~~2 minutes. It's not that it's unenjoyable. I mean, I like that sometimes there's 4 rods to jump over, and I like the speed changes, but it's not enough to keep me entertained the whole time it lasts. As for the second part...jump a couple times, go through the circles, then go back. It's just not very fun at all to me. Maybe if it was an actual *race* that rewarded you based on what position you got would it be more fun. Nearly everyone gets As in that section.
There were so many classes that were teased in the mermaid campus that were just entirely abandoned.
(Which, I will always think hyping up your community and then not following through on any of the promises 9 times out of 10, is honestly kind of sleazy to me. Like...you gave your starved community hope so that they'd buy your toys and play again with no real intention of going through with your promises....)
Do I think Barbie and the Dev team are disciple people who just love to upset us? No, not at all.
But I do think the development team lives in the clouds 🥹. In a completely different world than the playerbase, focused on what they *feel* like adding rather than what the community desires. Royale High isn't just a small passion project. The game has earned millions in revenue, has official toy lines that bring in *millions* every year. You're players are giving you millions of dollars every year, so that you can *consider*, *maybe*, *possibly*, *one day*, *hopefully*, add something we've been asking for years.
This idea that us players --including players like me who have bought every toy, gamepass, and has given this game so much of my time, energy, and money-- this idea that the only way we can get through to the developers and ask for them to make the game enjoyable is to go viral on twitter asking for a change (but don't consider posting it unless you're super, duper, extra nice with a dozen sprinkles on top and the ENTIRE jar of cherries along with it.)
I have made countless threads begging for changes that we've been promised years ago. Begging for 8 year old bugs to be fixed. Going out of my way to make an entire thread recording, describing, and posting dozens of bugs in the game.
Begging for the game to become enjoyable again because this game has been my hype fixation ever since I was in middle school. I am now 20 years old, commenting on @RoyaleHighValks tweets, on my knees asking if there's any news on when the toys I bought in *2024*, 2+ years later, are going to get their promised rewards.
I know Valk team can only do so much. They *do* ask the team on our behalf, and I'm thankful for that. But that's a praise for the Valk team manager, *not* the developers who put that massive wall in place between us and them, with only Valks and Neo being allowed to enter that tiny gate of communication.
2 people who (in my non-factual, entirely speculation view,) don't really even play the game (at least regularly, without any bonuse,), and don't really understand the player experience.
No offense, but it's very wrong in my eyes to release purchasable goods with promised reward that give players incentive to buy them, and then keep us waiting for multiple years to actually get that reward.
(Also, no. I am not under the belief that the rewards are "a gift the devs are giving to be nice that you're not owed", because the promised rewards are buyers incentive. A large portion of players would not have spent money on the toys if not for the promise of in-game rewards.)
Imagine going to Mcdonalds. You pull up to the drive thru, and you're thinking about getting a Cheeseburger for 2.99. But before you order, you see they have the Kids Meal for 6.99 that offers a toy that comes along in it. If I purchased the Kids Meal and was given the Burger, Fries, and Chocolate Milk, the workers can't then tell me "Well, we'll give you the toy at some random date that could possibly be years from now. Have a great day! *shuts window".
I don't think it's crazy to say there'd be a big outrage at that Mcdonalds! And no, slapping a "coming soon!" does not justify it. Especially since this classifies as deceptive advertising and goes against consumer protection laws in BOTH Mcdonalds and Royale High's case.
I'm sorry for the massive threads recently. It's just that I've had a really tough childhood, and Royale High was my escape of it all. Seeing the state that it's in right now is heart breaking to both me and my childhood self's heart. This thread is a last ditch effort, a final cry out loud in hopes that other people will assist in trying to get the developers to do the necessary changes this game needs to stay magical.
In the thread below that I'm quote tweeting, I bring up some more concerns if anyone is curious.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this thread, and I apologize for the length. Hopefully it isn't null and void, and hopefully either @neopolitime or @RoyaleHighValks see this thread and consider trying to help push for these additions/changes.
sickening how they treat these people. it must be so disheartening to try desperately to work for such an unresponsive and careless game team only for your amazing work to get ignored or dismissed. my heart goes out to everyone who this has happened to within the rh community.
and we also know this goes beyond artists of the game also, even other influencers (we all remember what happened to callmehhaley and MANY before her, for example) and other people who built this game from the ground up. rh would be NOTHING without these people, so it's truly -
it truly baffles me the most considering it's not like rh couldn't use their help. for a game that's about to turn 10, it's WILDLY lacking in terms of literally every aspect, especially with new items or even the goddamn toy sets we STILL have yet to receive after years.
as an outsider it really feels like they're just using these people for a few items, thanks them for one or two instances and then ghost them no matter what else they could contribute to the game? that's so so fucked up to me and it must be SO saddening as an artist.
especially considering chroma is a BADGE HOLDER. you'd think these people would have a more solid way to get to barbie/other devs but apparently not? this reminds me a LOT of what nöa has come out and said about got set that one time, and even mattcrystal3 w/ their removed sets.
i'm sorry but this is EXTREMELY weird of rh to me, and i feel like this is a bit of a pattern with a few others who've designed items who aren't official devs? how on earth do you not even have the decency to treat these talented people with the basic decency of responding??
i dont think id ever want to be apart of the monsterverze community and would prefer just seeing how the game goes afar because what the fuck do you mean their scrapping the spider legs on a spider set because people were complaining about being scared of spiders. it's a MONSTER game.
the monsterverze community genuinely feels like theyre stuck in 2020 😭✌️THESE PEOPLE STILL ASK YOU TO SPOILER CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE IT "TRIGGERS" THEM.
and don't you DAREEE have a font or emoji in your name..GRRRR!!
😭like im a pretty progressive person, i have disabilities mentally and physically, im a queer minority, but jesus christ it gets to a point where we're not being progressive we're just being sensitive and babying the community. Billy is scwared of bugs so we can't have any bugs in the game about monsters and rotting corpses.
genuinely a giant "fuck you" to people wanting to be spider creatures in this game. not that the game is funnto me either way.
It doesn't look horrible but it looks a little too busy. The Phoenix just doesn't look right to me and looks more like hair. the wings just look kind of like a ugc item? they honestly should've been lile actual firey wings with motion like valk wings.
lavish retweeted
Replying to @RoyaleHighValks
@RoyaleHighValks what are we doing bro first u falsely ban me from trading then you make me wait months for a response to tell me to explain 30 trades from 5 years ago now im banned from your game??? im lvl 30k why on earth would I be doing anything wrong for how much I play this
Replying to @RoyaleHighValks
Trick because the community wants the big grand school we were promised. Not the beach house one we have now.
I do love the 2 extensions but one singular hallway that looks like an actual school and then the courtyard just isn't enough. You guys made the new school so small and cramped and deprived of any royalty that it doesn't even feel like a school let alone a royale high school.
You guys need to realize that most players only come on for seasonal events and to trade. You guys don't have a stable playerbase because your base game is not enjoyable. Majority of Campus 4 is reused classes and you guys scrapped literally like 10 of the classes that were supposed to be new.
Trick because y'all always and I mean always putting "coming soon" plastered in the game and never actually deliver.
Coming soon new phases for the school we were waiting for and had a lack of updates for 4 years just for it to be scrapped.
Coming soon for the Toys that I bought in 2024 when we're entering 2027 and I still don't have all that I paid for.
Coming soon for the fencing class, mermaid class, math class, etc that you guys just never delivered.
If you guys want a stable playerbase that comes back each day you need to stop trying to focus on implementing grinding incentive (like the mermaid shop and cloudcash) and focus more on making the actual school fun to play.
But you guys will ignore this message because you guys hate when people call it out























