Developer’s Console update ! WTF ?????

Hello guys,
My balance is negative too. I hope they will not ask us to send them money back too. They have made a so important change so suddenly… I can understand someone just registered could have bought one or more poses with the money they give for free to start playing, but it’s not creators fault. It’s normal to leave the game or to just use it sometimes if things are like this…such a pity.

I think all of the dev’s balance are negative now with the ‘new rule’. is that means we unintentionally in debt to AChat lol? with the new rule in place, creators are looking at nearly a 50% reduction in their dev earnings (at least thats what im getting in my dev console).

i understand that alterations are important part of platform evolution. but i’m not entirely understand the rationale behind the new rule, particularly the notion that 1k free A$ can propel one to lvl 10.

if AChat is inclined to modify established rules, i propose that they, at a very minimum, settle the outstanding balances of dev earning prior to enforcing the new regulations, then resetting the balance to zero and start the new calculation system afterward seems a more reasonable approach.
Why should the new rule retroactively apply to past purchases? It seems unjust to penalize creators because AChat didn’t have the “perfect” system figured out from the get-go.

I am sending you my email exchange with support which shows that they don’t even know what they are doing and that they make fun of us considering us idiots:

myself:
I don’t understand this update.
Isn’t the money of a user below level 10 worth it?
if a user lower than 10 then moves up to a higher level, are his purchases subsequently considered good?
you made this rule retroactive and it is not acceptable.
from my balance I am negative by $669 while yesterday I was positive by $731
is it a joke?

support:
Hi,

we are terribly sorry, the correction of the balance was made because the purchases of the registered free users were also counted, which means no real income. This way we have paid more for the designs than it comes to form the real (countable) sales, and the balance can turn even to negative. We can make new payouts when the balance is positive again.

Sorry, we had to correct the data, as we have made payouts without real income base. These payouts were already done, so our correction is not retroactive regarding this part.

myself:
no! I’m sorry.
you had already done the counting of free registered users in the past.
I wrote to you to understand why the number of pieces sold sometimes dropped and you gave me this explanation.

in the notice you say that users who have not reached level 10 are not counted and therefore eliminated.
you have removed me from the count of clothes that the registered free user cannot buy because it goes beyond the A$1000 that is given as a welcome gift from you.

it is clear that they write one thing on the site and respond to another by email.
I leave the considerations to you

as I have already written regarding purchases with the welcome A$1000, it is true that there is no real profit, but the A$ purchased or obtained in the form of a gift is.

Seriously?

This is an absolute disgrace.

So member Designers and creators spend a lot of time and creativity, making amazing poses and clothes to keep the game exciting and relevant and frankly giving Achat a much needed time boost so their own designers can concentrate on the Game update… and then they penalise our member creators!!!

Achat, the newcomers gift is YOUR GIFT to promote & encourage new joins. You make a profit when they become premium members. You don’t share that profit out.
You cant give a A$1.000 promotion and then effectively charge your own member designers and creators for it.
That’s a ridiculous state of affairs.

Pay the designer and creators what they deserve.
Every time a New Join or someone under level 10 chooses one of their designs and you do not pay … It is THEFT, plain and simple.

If you don’t want to pay the designers, then don’t allow New Joins access to their designs. Give your own designs away for free, not theirs.

This is shocking.

I would add: we have been told that purchases made with the welcome gift AS are already checked.
This 10th level rule is absolutely made up and baseless

I’m speechless and deeply sad.

Guess I won’t be designing anything for a long time. Sadly there are 35 designs already sent over the past few months yet to be published.