News

Game News:

9/26/12: Bakery Story Halloween goals

9/3/2012: Restaurant Story Olympic goals removed

8/27/2012: Fashion Story Olympic goals removed

8/13/2012: Bakery Story Olympic goals removed and Fashion Story Olympic goals original deadline

8/1/2012: Restaurant Story Olympic goals

7/26/2012: Fashion Story Olympic goals

7/19/2012:Bakery Story Olympic goals

5/24/12: Pet Shop and Zoo Story 2 level cap raised to 50

5/17/12: Dragon Story (aka DragonVale ripoff) released. Bakery Story regular goals part 2

4/24/12: Pet Hotel released. I will not be making a page about it (may change in the future but I wouldn't count on it)

3/27/12: LV cap of most games raised to 99

3/16/12: Pet Shop Story and Zoo Story 2 St. Patrick's Day goals

3/13/12: Valentines items and goals removed

2/15/12: Christmas items and goals finally removed

2/13/12: Kooky has said, "The last word I got from Gm was approx 2 weeks after Valentine Days the goals will be removed."

2/9/12: Fashion Valentine's goals part 2

2/2/12: Farm and Pet Shop Valentine's goals

1/27/12: Fashion Valentine's goals

1/25/12: Update on Seasonal Content Removed on Jan 20 (posted 1/19/12): Lists what we were supposed to expect on 1/20...

1/20/12: Restaurant Valentines edition has been released with goals. Bakery Valentines edition and goals have not been released (yet). Androids still do not have goals (yet?).

Site/Personal News:

5/31/12: Updated top navigation to reflect focus on game guides changes and transitioned Bakery to look like that

5/16/12: Restaurant story revamped with one topic to a subpage to be more "guide-like"

5/7/12: Weekly Updates page format change

5/3/12: Gallery page created. Empire Story gallery moved under it.

5/2/12: Bakery Story page revamped. Will roll out with the other pages too eventually.

4/26/12: Interviews page, concept stage. Moved all the games' Updates and Goals pages together under one.

4/23/12: Unofficial goals page, concept stage

4/15/12: Started a blog

4/1/12: Added Empire Story section with gallery. :3.

3/30/12: Subpages for Pet Shop and Zoo2 (I know, finally :p) and Club changed to Nightclub

2/18/12: Added (original) Zoo and Treasure Story section.

2/4/12: Yes, I'm no longer banned on the forums (since 2/2) but I will not be coming back to post in it. I am a bit too outspoken for that forum and dislike the illogical censorship.

Other reasons I don't like their forum (and TL...) includes but not limited to (mostly found in Renewed Enforcing of TL Forum Rules):

• Unable to link to "unauthorized" third-party URLs (instead of just removing questionable links) or unable to use it "too" much (I had to... each time someone asked a question that could be answered by the forums/my site, I linked to it because I'm sorry, but if people are too lazy to find out the answer themselves, then I'm too lazy to go to my site and copy and paste the information they need so would rather just link to the site). ButterPanda's response, "It is okay to post this link once in awhile, however, please do not post it in every or most of your posts. Since you have it on a few of your other posts I will leave this one removed and not remove the others. If it pops up too many times I or other CM's will remove it."
• Unable to post discussions about the forums' ToS (really?...)
• Unable to post "feedback" you get in "private" messages from a moderator or staff member: "Emails between TeamLava Support and our users are not appropriate for this forum." (Well yeah, so they can keep on censoring people and leaving everyone in the dark since people can't talk to each other about what happened)
• Unable to "create duplicate threads" (I don't think they really hold people to this one, though if they did, they'd have to warn/ban a lot of people who are too lazy to find their answers.)
• Unable to "cross link." (See unable to create duplicate threads. xD.)
• However, as soon as you have a dispute with others, TL backs their ass out of it, they "have no obligation, to monitor and/or manage disputes between you and other users of the Site." (Not that I'd want to but seems to be the opposite of what their other rules...)
• Releasing unofficial (if they don't have an official answer who does...) information on the day before changes were to be made, to boot.
• Releasing official information and not following it through. Not that I'd have wanted them to remove the Christmas content but they haven't upated people with new information if they have changed their minds and I wouldn't be surprised if they do it the day before again... Also, they removed City and Club Story content early due to a "critical bug," meaning they couldn't bother getting off their lazy asses to fix what needed to be rectified. So again, leaving players in the dark and not following their words.
• Constantly releasing (limited) new content yet neither working on many major bugs faced by many nor implementing many (necessary) changes
• No confirmation button (for gem purchased content) yet tons of new advertisement pop-ups, so we know it's a matter of them being lazy and greedy...

All in all, like I said to GroupMagma on the topic of their illogical rules, "If someone steals a car, you don't go and turn around and say no one can drive...," since he said "As for the "censorship" imposed in the forums, I assure you it is not something we enjoy enforcing either. You can direct your thanks to the minority of users who abuse the forum rules, which we are generally very lenient on."

Finally, I have to stop myself often at lashing out at stupid people who post an easily answered question when, if they put a bit of effort into it, they could find what they're looking for. They're basically ignoring the hard work of those who try to have the information as readily as possible. I don't like lazy people and I don't like playing by stupid rules.

On a sillier note, with the serving and price changing back, I would advise against eating the BBQ Chicken in my restaurant. I think I see mold growing on it after being left out for a week... o.O.

1/30/12: Banned for use of the word "butt" as in "He's just a kiss *butt* to TL." Hey I compromised... I used butt instead of ass or lame/crud instead of crap...

1/29/12: Warned for using the word "crap" because it is "profanity or something inappropriate on the forums" (ButterPanda). To which I retorted back, most people don't even consider that profanity...