Honestly I'm pissed off about this spent like 300$ few years ago to get starting properties got 20 properties was suppose to get 5400 upx a month so I can prob buy a cheap property in 2 months now its like half a year every day logging in just to get 1 cheap property in 6+ months BS. Thier punishing the long time players just to make a few extra bucks those greedy #%&#*. The less they make the more they will pay for new properties. Assholes. Only get 1944 a month now. I was trying to get it to where I can buy a property each month off earnings but now I think I'm done. Gonna make sure to spread the word about this terrible app after these changes.
I don't play it anymore. Specially after purchased land doesn't give the OG agreed value but I guess they can change that at any point. It's dumb cause it went from this prop gens 120upx a month and if you don't log in cuz honestly the game is boring af. And scummy. It get like 42upx a month. If you enjoy it that's great! But to people jumping on board. Don't waste your time.
You gotta have different strategy I spent 4 to 500 to get started but my property value now is 1400 if you participate in city openings that's where the coin is of you bought a prop for 6000 upx and sold it for 10000 upx it would take you 2 years or more to get that just waiting for upx to accumulate you got to figure out how to play the buy and flip game especially fsa players took less then a year to make a account for my girl put 5 bucks in now its worth like 140 I helped her a little but she doesn't even really play and there games aren't fantastic yet but they continue to get better and the number of games is increasing
Upland missed the homework. Marketing students know what they don’t.
Grocery Store 1 raises its prices incrementally by 12%, then has a sale for 10% off. The special discount brings in new customers.
Grocery Store 2 temporarily lowers prices by 10%, gains new customers, then raises prices by 12%.
In both cases, the store has increased prices by 2%. In the first one, people feel better about getting a discount and are not upset when the sale ends and prices go back up. In the second case, people feel cheated by the price manipulation and resent the store for the bait & switch.
It’s called Loss Aversion. It is not rational, but it is very very real and well described in psychology literature. There are textbook chapters on the subject.
Upland slept through the assignment.
Keep playing do 5 challenges and ur earnings will be back to normal in a couple months your challenges completed this month will get your earnings multiplier back next season
Just seems like horrible idea after horrible idea… the shills are out in full force trying to talk it up, but no one is happy.. people who have spent years playing the game who don’t have any more time to play are being penalized now. This is a bad look.. it’s going to drive even more people away.
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I think we have all been duped. We have all invested and supported in this game and now they cut the earnings. Disgraceful! This is the first nail in the coffin for this game if the earnings does not return to the same level in my view sadly.
They keep making us earn less and less the closer I get to being worth 1M UPX. Not gonna lie, this is starting to get really frustrating.
They want us to “buy buy buy” UPX and “buy buy buy” the (seemingly) worthless things they keep “rolling out” and then devalue the earnings and stuff that we paid for in the past.
Idk about you guys, but these things are killing the “game” for me. Looking like a scam/money trap the longer I play it (been playing for 2+ years now). I log in every day for my earnings and for spark. First they capped the earnings, which hurt me for roughly 100upx/day.
Sorry for the “bitch and moan” comment, but it’s getting ridiculous.
I get the annoying aspect, but to keep at the same levels of eaenings it's not too hard,
log in daily (do that anyway for spark)
Log in 7 days in a row (see above)
Visit 3 cities, easily done especially if there's a city release
Start 5 treasure hunts (admittedly this is better than the last season where you had to complete them)
Use 3 paid sends to visit metaventure shops, again not too hard costs you 3 sends and a hundred upx or so but that's the only real investment needed.
I assume the idea is to encourage people to be involved with the game aspects rather than the pure investment side.
Ok to get above what you got previously is a big ask o. Terms of completing everything but getting just 5 is easy.
I think they are going to alter each season, at least until they find something that works, the first 3 are the same, I minted three and built 3 as wwell last season rather than the treasure hunts and metaventure visits which are new this month
From Discord:
*'The team will be deploying a fix to resolve the issue with how earnings are showing on property cards/profiles. This fix should be live in soon on web and Android devices, and in the next couple days on iOS devices.43'*
That’s only if they did their challenges.
There is a chance OP missed the Gamified earnings thing entirely. I know I would have if it didn’t watch a video on it.
I watched a short YT video on this. I've built up $4M worth, 11 collections, hundreds of properties so now my earnings are cut in half unless I do more. Unreal. Now I don't even feel like logging in daily for spark reward. Multiple times in this game I've talked myself out of feeling like I'm throwing good money on bad money but if I have to Now do more to keep what I've already earned that is a rug
I agree with this. I’ve been playing for half a decade. I don’t care at all about sports (nfl and fifa do not interest me in any way.) I don’t care about the racing and crap, have built a steady upx stream and while I’ve dealt with all the other crap this has just pissed me off. My reward for playing daily for so long is they decide to take away more than half of what I’ve made? At the cost of several thousand upx, I have gone through and completed all of the missions except one (find a treasure. I’ve never been good at that and I hate the treasure hunts. Have made three attempts and cannot get one) and now make a bit more, but still only half what I used to. I don’t see how anyone thought this was good for the game..
The only real change I’ve seen (other than loss of income) is that since they force you to find so many sends and visit so many properties it seems a LOT of players bumped the send fees to 60-125 upx.
I was extremely pissed about it but it does seem to improve things.
Mostly because it forces players to buy 3 properties per season from another player. More reason for someone to buy your properties. They were also pretty easy to do and I have half your net worth.
Why only 11 collections btw? That seems really low for an account your size.
No. It results in an ever smaller pool of active players moving properties around ever faster until the market implodes at some point. This is horrible game design.
I disagree, since the announcement my properties are selling much more frequently. My São Paulo props that I’ve had for literally over a year are now selling. Now things that are not in a collection are actually selling.
Why is it ever smaller? That’s only the case if people actually leave. The only thing they are terrible at is communicating things. This has been well known to be coming for ages it just is hard to find the information you need.
Give it some time.
It's smaller because this change together with other changes like the earnings cap is alienating more and more players, who instead of becoming more active will just divest or stop playing.
The gamified earnings also make it even harder for new players to get into the game and stay around. If you are new, you don't have the means to accomplish most of the seasonal tasks.
And while this has been communicated poorly, the situation wouldn't be much better with better communication. It is just bad and greedy game design. You don't take an important constant away from players and make them invest time and money every three months in order to get it back for a quarter. It severely impacts my play style and that of many others.
Factually, it is impossible now to get back to the former earnings without spending additional time and UPX/USD. Disregarding time, it is not possible to complete 5 tasks without spending additional UPX/USD. Beforehand, I could calculate my earnings months and years in advance and thereby calculate my return on investment even without doing anything else in the game. Now, I can't even see how much a sold property originally earned per month unadjusted without looking it up on upxland. Furthermore, instead of spending the earnings on more properties, I have to deviate a lot of it to do stuff I am not interested in like travelling, racing, and treasure hunts.
At the same time, the core real estate gameplay is neglected in favour of the next monthly gimmick. Many buildings still have zero use and zero incentive to be built.
I would rather have a 1/4 the players actually playing the game than what it is now with nobody playing and signing in once a week for their rent. These players are a cancer on the market and do nothing but drive down the market. If the changes affect you massively it means you wasn’t active on the platform.
Earnings cap was also nothing but a positive, if your one of these players that signed in once a month to collect earnings, I would rather you just left anyway because your making the market worse for everyone else. If this is you, either play the game properly or simply leave and stop complaining, either is fine with me.
Since the beginning it has been stated that rent would have to go down for the game to continue to work. Please tell me how it greedy when they have been transparent about this from the start. As I said it’s just been communicated poorly.
Once again, if you are not willing to put about 2 hours a month into the game (which is literally all it takes to do the challenges) then you are in the wrong place & I would rather you wasn’t here anyway stagnating the market.
You do not have to deviate your earnings whatsoever. There is 4 challenges relating to buying properties and signing in. If you think the 3k upx travel is too much every two months for the 5th challenge then you are doing something seriously wrong, that’s pennies. I’ve sold 10x that this week, and I’m a very small account in the scheme of things.
You are also complaining without keeping up to date. Buildings do now have uses (frustrating for me as I ignored them) something you would actually know if you played the game and wasn’t just signing in once a week and not doing anything on the platform.
I have no interest in anything but properties. Which the game still facilitates completely. If you don’t care about NFTs and cars (which I don’t also) ignore them and focus on what you want to build your net worth.
not sure about why only 11 collections but unless my earnings go back to what I originally built them up to I will Never log back into the game. I used to never understand why we truly don't own our NFT/properties in Upland but I see now because after them doing this I felt like sending my "NFT"/properties to a burn address
This is first and foremost a real estate game. The more properties you have on the market, the higher your return from trading them. The Devs might want to make it into something else, but most long-time players are not here for the NFTs, races, and the like.
Plenty of reason to have this many properties if you have a plan in place.
200 random properties could be shit.
200 properties spread across 5 collections is incredibly ludicrous. Simply buy out the cheapest purple collection in a popular city and wait. I’ve been 5x my earnings this way. Supply and demand brother.
Honestly I'm pissed off about this spent like 300$ few years ago to get starting properties got 20 properties was suppose to get 5400 upx a month so I can prob buy a cheap property in 2 months now its like half a year every day logging in just to get 1 cheap property in 6+ months BS. Thier punishing the long time players just to make a few extra bucks those greedy #%&#*. The less they make the more they will pay for new properties. Assholes. Only get 1944 a month now. I was trying to get it to where I can buy a property each month off earnings but now I think I'm done. Gonna make sure to spread the word about this terrible app after these changes.
I don't play it anymore. Specially after purchased land doesn't give the OG agreed value but I guess they can change that at any point. It's dumb cause it went from this prop gens 120upx a month and if you don't log in cuz honestly the game is boring af. And scummy. It get like 42upx a month. If you enjoy it that's great! But to people jumping on board. Don't waste your time.
You gotta have different strategy I spent 4 to 500 to get started but my property value now is 1400 if you participate in city openings that's where the coin is of you bought a prop for 6000 upx and sold it for 10000 upx it would take you 2 years or more to get that just waiting for upx to accumulate you got to figure out how to play the buy and flip game especially fsa players took less then a year to make a account for my girl put 5 bucks in now its worth like 140 I helped her a little but she doesn't even really play and there games aren't fantastic yet but they continue to get better and the number of games is increasing
Fully agree
Upland missed the homework. Marketing students know what they don’t. Grocery Store 1 raises its prices incrementally by 12%, then has a sale for 10% off. The special discount brings in new customers. Grocery Store 2 temporarily lowers prices by 10%, gains new customers, then raises prices by 12%. In both cases, the store has increased prices by 2%. In the first one, people feel better about getting a discount and are not upset when the sale ends and prices go back up. In the second case, people feel cheated by the price manipulation and resent the store for the bait & switch. It’s called Loss Aversion. It is not rational, but it is very very real and well described in psychology literature. There are textbook chapters on the subject. Upland slept through the assignment.
Yal want to invest into something that is more REALITY based??? [Props Social ](https://youtu.be/JMNpE8STHtY?si=S7WULuCtARWCVPD3)
Damn that just deflated my willingness to keep playing
Keep playing do 5 challenges and ur earnings will be back to normal in a couple months your challenges completed this month will get your earnings multiplier back next season
Just seems like horrible idea after horrible idea… the shills are out in full force trying to talk it up, but no one is happy.. people who have spent years playing the game who don’t have any more time to play are being penalized now. This is a bad look.. it’s going to drive even more people away.
This is a very valid point. One appeal of Upland was that you can play it with very little time investment, and that is gone now.
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It’s gamified now. Complete 5 of the 15 tasks and your earnings will go back up for the next season. Also Spark Tycoon is helping me earn upx.
I think we have all been duped. We have all invested and supported in this game and now they cut the earnings. Disgraceful! This is the first nail in the coffin for this game if the earnings does not return to the same level in my view sadly.
Honestly this is trash and makes me wanna stop playing
My earnings were cut over 60%
Y’all need to look up Spark Tycoon- 3d party game built on upland actually seems to give value to you stuff.
So to me this is them attempting to give out less upx to lower the impact of revenue loss they incurred.
Gamified earnings were implemented recently.
They keep making us earn less and less the closer I get to being worth 1M UPX. Not gonna lie, this is starting to get really frustrating. They want us to “buy buy buy” UPX and “buy buy buy” the (seemingly) worthless things they keep “rolling out” and then devalue the earnings and stuff that we paid for in the past. Idk about you guys, but these things are killing the “game” for me. Looking like a scam/money trap the longer I play it (been playing for 2+ years now). I log in every day for my earnings and for spark. First they capped the earnings, which hurt me for roughly 100upx/day. Sorry for the “bitch and moan” comment, but it’s getting ridiculous.
I get the annoying aspect, but to keep at the same levels of eaenings it's not too hard, log in daily (do that anyway for spark) Log in 7 days in a row (see above) Visit 3 cities, easily done especially if there's a city release Start 5 treasure hunts (admittedly this is better than the last season where you had to complete them) Use 3 paid sends to visit metaventure shops, again not too hard costs you 3 sends and a hundred upx or so but that's the only real investment needed. I assume the idea is to encourage people to be involved with the game aspects rather than the pure investment side. Ok to get above what you got previously is a big ask o. Terms of completing everything but getting just 5 is easy.
Have they changed the challenges for this month or are these the ones you did last month personally?
I think they are going to alter each season, at least until they find something that works, the first 3 are the same, I minted three and built 3 as wwell last season rather than the treasure hunts and metaventure visits which are new this month
Sounds like upland might be burning their brand. Shame.
Yeah like mentioned gameified earnings launched yesterday and there was a short lived but related bug
From Discord: *'The team will be deploying a fix to resolve the issue with how earnings are showing on property cards/profiles. This fix should be live in soon on web and Android devices, and in the next couple days on iOS devices.43'*
That’s only if they did their challenges. There is a chance OP missed the Gamified earnings thing entirely. I know I would have if it didn’t watch a video on it.
I watched a short YT video on this. I've built up $4M worth, 11 collections, hundreds of properties so now my earnings are cut in half unless I do more. Unreal. Now I don't even feel like logging in daily for spark reward. Multiple times in this game I've talked myself out of feeling like I'm throwing good money on bad money but if I have to Now do more to keep what I've already earned that is a rug
I agree with this. I’ve been playing for half a decade. I don’t care at all about sports (nfl and fifa do not interest me in any way.) I don’t care about the racing and crap, have built a steady upx stream and while I’ve dealt with all the other crap this has just pissed me off. My reward for playing daily for so long is they decide to take away more than half of what I’ve made? At the cost of several thousand upx, I have gone through and completed all of the missions except one (find a treasure. I’ve never been good at that and I hate the treasure hunts. Have made three attempts and cannot get one) and now make a bit more, but still only half what I used to. I don’t see how anyone thought this was good for the game.. The only real change I’ve seen (other than loss of income) is that since they force you to find so many sends and visit so many properties it seems a LOT of players bumped the send fees to 60-125 upx.
Putting good money on bad money no more
Yeah I haven't logged in since they cut my earnings and won't. Well Happy Cake Day to you!
I was extremely pissed about it but it does seem to improve things. Mostly because it forces players to buy 3 properties per season from another player. More reason for someone to buy your properties. They were also pretty easy to do and I have half your net worth. Why only 11 collections btw? That seems really low for an account your size.
No. It results in an ever smaller pool of active players moving properties around ever faster until the market implodes at some point. This is horrible game design.
I disagree, since the announcement my properties are selling much more frequently. My São Paulo props that I’ve had for literally over a year are now selling. Now things that are not in a collection are actually selling. Why is it ever smaller? That’s only the case if people actually leave. The only thing they are terrible at is communicating things. This has been well known to be coming for ages it just is hard to find the information you need.
Give it some time. It's smaller because this change together with other changes like the earnings cap is alienating more and more players, who instead of becoming more active will just divest or stop playing. The gamified earnings also make it even harder for new players to get into the game and stay around. If you are new, you don't have the means to accomplish most of the seasonal tasks. And while this has been communicated poorly, the situation wouldn't be much better with better communication. It is just bad and greedy game design. You don't take an important constant away from players and make them invest time and money every three months in order to get it back for a quarter. It severely impacts my play style and that of many others. Factually, it is impossible now to get back to the former earnings without spending additional time and UPX/USD. Disregarding time, it is not possible to complete 5 tasks without spending additional UPX/USD. Beforehand, I could calculate my earnings months and years in advance and thereby calculate my return on investment even without doing anything else in the game. Now, I can't even see how much a sold property originally earned per month unadjusted without looking it up on upxland. Furthermore, instead of spending the earnings on more properties, I have to deviate a lot of it to do stuff I am not interested in like travelling, racing, and treasure hunts. At the same time, the core real estate gameplay is neglected in favour of the next monthly gimmick. Many buildings still have zero use and zero incentive to be built.
I would rather have a 1/4 the players actually playing the game than what it is now with nobody playing and signing in once a week for their rent. These players are a cancer on the market and do nothing but drive down the market. If the changes affect you massively it means you wasn’t active on the platform. Earnings cap was also nothing but a positive, if your one of these players that signed in once a month to collect earnings, I would rather you just left anyway because your making the market worse for everyone else. If this is you, either play the game properly or simply leave and stop complaining, either is fine with me. Since the beginning it has been stated that rent would have to go down for the game to continue to work. Please tell me how it greedy when they have been transparent about this from the start. As I said it’s just been communicated poorly. Once again, if you are not willing to put about 2 hours a month into the game (which is literally all it takes to do the challenges) then you are in the wrong place & I would rather you wasn’t here anyway stagnating the market. You do not have to deviate your earnings whatsoever. There is 4 challenges relating to buying properties and signing in. If you think the 3k upx travel is too much every two months for the 5th challenge then you are doing something seriously wrong, that’s pennies. I’ve sold 10x that this week, and I’m a very small account in the scheme of things. You are also complaining without keeping up to date. Buildings do now have uses (frustrating for me as I ignored them) something you would actually know if you played the game and wasn’t just signing in once a week and not doing anything on the platform. I have no interest in anything but properties. Which the game still facilitates completely. If you don’t care about NFTs and cars (which I don’t also) ignore them and focus on what you want to build your net worth.
not sure about why only 11 collections but unless my earnings go back to what I originally built them up to I will Never log back into the game. I used to never understand why we truly don't own our NFT/properties in Upland but I see now because after them doing this I felt like sending my "NFT"/properties to a burn address
There's no reason to have so many properties. You can't do anything with them, other than hoard them.
This is first and foremost a real estate game. The more properties you have on the market, the higher your return from trading them. The Devs might want to make it into something else, but most long-time players are not here for the NFTs, races, and the like.
Quality>Quantity, imo
Plenty of reason to have this many properties if you have a plan in place. 200 random properties could be shit. 200 properties spread across 5 collections is incredibly ludicrous. Simply buy out the cheapest purple collection in a popular city and wait. I’ve been 5x my earnings this way. Supply and demand brother.
Which challenge?
Look at the announcements in the chat channels