Avatar update

Frits van Turenhout_NL

I’ve been around for about 15+ years now. Maybe way too long but that’s another subject.

In all those years i have never ever had a conversation with anyone about avators that are offensive in any way. Who decides what it offensive or not?
Avators is the only way to make your account YOURS! Is this now been taken away from us?
Nutts, crazy, unbelievable idea. 1001 things to improve, and THIS is on the top of the list?

Maybe next time try to ask the paying (!) customer what THEY think is important to improve.

Avatar, a simple small part of the game. But the only way to make your account YOURS.
Hey…. Let’s take that away from all managers.

I will stop now before i wet my pants laughing…

xinyanggan

And how will the next update be? Pay to equip an avatar? We all know by now that pestering competitive players to fix a problem caused by a few non-competitive players is easier than putting on your overalls and doing what you're supposed to do, ban.

You could improve the competitive side of OSM instead of further damaging it.

Apsjaarr

“there's only a very small percentage of managers who would think of doing this. But still, it's dangerous and unsafe. And it happens.”
Worst excuse ever ,
We all should stay of the internet then
Just ban the guy if it’s offensive. Probably gonna take a while but we are used to it.
I’ve seen more inappropriate nicknames then images on here why don’t you filter them out with the sign up ?
And what’s the point of crews now? it’s like you play every weekend the same club with the same logo and the same colors .
What a joke.

Majstor Matt

@SpecialOne Managers usernames can be innappropriate and used in malicious way as well.. maybe you should give us all User ID's generated by the game so that those people cannot use managers names with bad language as well

I know its bit harder to monetise that but oh well

MarkusRW5

@majstor-matt said in Avatar update:

@SpecialOne Managers usernames can be innappropriate and used in malicious way as well.. maybe you should give us all User ID's generated by the game so that those people cannot use managers names with bad language as well

I know its bit harder to monetise that but oh well

But 18, 81, 88, 69 and some other numbers should be forbidden then.

niekpro2005_60_NL

@specialone What shit update, take this one back please an ban the people wo take a bad foto as avatar, simple right

fals9nine

great idea, I don't mind paying for Bassie and Adriaan avatars, Peppi en Kokki avatars would be nice too.

Yogeek

@fals9nine Sure, especially as you can download it for free, right now! The developer is a genius! ha ha ha

Harry Poon

Thanks everyone for sharing their input and discontent with this feature update (I believe we weren't clear enough on when this is coming). It's coming soon.

I just wanted to weigh in saying that we will not be charging anything for the avatars that we are offering. We might someday, but as with everything in OSM, the huge majority of content is free. So you would only use Boss Coins to pay for extra special ones for example. But again, this not even on the list for now. All avatars with this update will be free.

And to explain a bit more about why we're doing this. We have over a million managers. Someone can upload inappropriate content every single second which is available to everyone to see. This is a serious problem because there are minors playing our game. And the sentiment around user generated content is changing everywhere. From governments, to Google, to games.

Ideally, we would moderate the inappropriate avatars like some of you already suggested. This simply isn't possible due to the huge scale of avatars in OSM. There are no tools available for us that can easily detect inappropriate content for images. And we also can't check every avatar before it's uploaded.

These things combined forced us to make this call. On one hand we're happy that OSM will be safer, on the other we also loved having custom avatars as it's a great way to add a piece of your own personality to OSM. But we also think that this new system can be cool too. We can easily add new ones, also based on what the community wants. I hope we can turn our attention to thinking about cool stuff we can add. ^Luuk

Fear Force

@harry-poon Yes, I agree if some people use inappropriate Avatar it will be bad, but why do we need to pay BC to get avatars this is only to make people lose BC right?

Why not make all the avatars that will be available free

You are making two bad mistakes.

You are stopping us from using custom Avatars
You are making us pay BC to use Avatars that will be available

Do you guys only know money and Boss Coins?

Tell me on which date this update will be available, then i will know when i will stop OSM.

maniek_56

@harry-poon Nothing can replace creative avatars. With the moment of the update, a certain part of this game ends.

Harry Poon

@fear-force As I said, all avatars that will be available will be free in this update.

Harry Poon

@maniek_56 I agree to some extent. We are as disappointed as you that this beautiful part of the game will be less creative. But still, we will be able to replace at least some of it's creativity if we manage to become creative ourselves in searching for new ones we can add.

Fear Force

@harry-poon You said "So you would only use Boss Coins to pay for extra special ones" What is that? you wrote this am I right?

Harry Poon

@fear-force You are right. But I also wrote "We might someday". Meaning that we could introduce avatars for Boss Coins in the future but aren't planning on that now. However that will go, all avatars in this update will be free. Sorry if I was being unclear.

ملك اللعبــــــة

@fear-force You're right, I wanted to comment on that too

Fear Force

@harry-poon Ok, but why will we need to pay to have an avatar while all these years it was free, and everyone had custom Avatars. That means you are planning to make us pay BC to get good avatars in the future

maniek_56

@harry-poon Now everything can interfere with avatars. Color, symbol, pattern, shape. Maybe there will be cool, nice avatars. However, this will not make any impression on adult players

Fear Force

Anyway, complaining won't make them step back on their decision, so i will stop complaining and think as if nothing happen. Having no custom avatar won't stop me playing OSM as before, I will forget that there is avatar that can be added on your profile

Harry Poon

@maniek_56 I think that's a good point and one of the negative effects of this update. But let's see how it plays out.