Am I the only one who thinks Dragon City was mich better years ago? I still remember the time when I heard the old, wonderful Dragon City music, when there were no heroics in the game, when there were no primal or wind dragons. The time, where no heroics were required to fight against other players, because there were none. The time, when there were no „might stars“ or even orbs or the tree of life. When there were no titan dragons or those special attacks like "primal howl" or so. The time, when there were no arena fights, just quests and league. The time when there were no alliances. The time when the gui buttons and all dragons and simply EVERYTHING had the older, better look. And so on, and so on...
This time was a wonderful time, it was a big part of my childhood, it was a BETTER time, and I hate to see Dragon City getting worse and worse... sigh

palladium

Not I, other than some of the old style habs, dragons aka pure, the only thing I wish back from the old days is the never ending tournaments. I like most of the new style if doing things though i wish we had some "healing" dragons for the arena.

@palladium I think they can not get the game stuck in the past. It is like in real life. We have to move on. Things have to change. It is nice to look back but not if we want to stuck.

@Palladium, I played this game about 5 years ago for some time and then quit because it got boring. I remember that there were gaps of a few weeks between events then. And no arenas, no tree of life, no orbs.
I started again on January this year, after the High Frozen Heroic race, and found that I liked the "new" game much better! Actually, it seems like I love most of what you hate.
Surely the game became more demanding since these old days, so I think I can understand your feelings. And the orbs looked like a scam at first glance - now they're selling bits of a dragon instead of the entire beast, what will they think of next?! But I like the strategic possibilities that ranking and empowering offer, and also the new elements.
I only wished they would find a better use for the Ancient World, it's still a dead end somehow.
I think @Bettina-Löffler put it very well - the only constant thing in life is change.

@palladium I liked the old music, and your point about the Titans. I didn’t like the Titan or Vampire ( Mythic are sorta ok)
They feel like a money grab to me.

I like Alliances, but they add a new level of competition to a simple fun game. They do add a level of socializing though. I think stars were only added as another way of clearing space for dragons. I don’t like them tbh. Orbs for trading is good because it gives players an opportunity to get older dragons.

I think that SP’s concept of ‘Dragons’ has become very loose. They’ve incorporated very non-Dragon like features to dragons. I’m never going to get over that one.

The old SP will always be a big part of my childhood, and probably a part of many many others, but if SP stayed in the same place and never moved forwards, the game would have died long ago.

But seriously??? Get a grip on your dragon designs SP!!!

LOOK AT THIS AND COMPARE THEM!!

Dragon!

Not A Dragon!

Dragon!

Not A Dragon!

Dragon!

Not A Dragon!

It’s Not DragonCity so much as Dragons and Beast things City

@the-dragonificer you raised some good points and I agree with most, but if there is one thing about the early year or two that I did not like, it is the childish, juvenile look of the early dragons. One of my favorites was Void, who I purchased for his look alone....who really doesn't look like a dragon either. I think that is one of the main reasons I do not like the look of Mully, Eddie and Josh, they look too childish for me.

For me the early game was very simple but it was not engaging, there were gaps with nothing to do but breed. Which is good if you were missing breedable dragons. The tournaments ended, so when they added changes it was more engaging but the rewards are still too low make them enticing.

I don't really care for the arenas, but that is because I'm not really into the competition or the fighting.

My biggest part i enjoy are the events, and with those the new SP blows the old SP out of the park. I did like getting the specialty habs but I do not miss all those junk decos they used to include. The progressive islands were very buggy back then, so they've improved on those alot.

While the current game formats are more of a time drain, they are definitely more engaging.

@palladium if you liked greadness and in general less updates then i dont know what to say.

Like, if this game wasnt updated, It would be dead.

Instead,it Is triving! You should be happy for that instead of saying that the old days(That frankly sucked) were better.

@the-fronginier I do agree with most of that, but I think it’s more nostalgia that made @Palladium want the old game back. It would have died had it not moved forwards, but doesn’t mean we forget a chunk of our childhood (or a chunk of your life depending on your age).

@the-dragonificer it Is also nostalgia for me, Dont worry, i played this game allot back in 2014/15

But yeah, Forgetting the past is a bad thing, Imagine if they repeated the same errors as in the start.... Oh god

Well from what I know dragon city back then was not that sloppy which is good but right now they are starting to run out of ideas from what I see which will start to make the forums very helpful mabye.

@the-dragonificer said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@the-fronginier I do agree with most of that, but I think it’s more nostalgia that made @Palladium want the old game back. It would have died had it not moved forwards, but doesn’t mean we forget a chunk of our childhood (or a chunk of your life depending on your age).

yes, you're right. it is nostalgia.
also, i think socialpoint has no more Good ideas for new dragons. I mean, look at all those youtuber dragons. why? why are these in the game? the unnecessariest dragons in the whole game. the dragons they invented in the old times were much better. (except the poo dragon)
@bettina-Löffler you are definitely right, we surely have to move on, but do we have to move on this badly? i mean look at some of the newer dragons or look at the donut dragon. yes, this is a Good example, look at the Donut dragon. why do we have this one?
and I still dislike many of the heroic dragons. please tell me your opinion about THAT if you want to. thanks.

@palladium I think it is a matter of taste. I also like some dragons more than others. For example I dont like Burger Dragon. BUT my husband loves it. He says it is so funny. I am sure many kids love the YouTuber Dragons which I dont like. But that doesnt mean that they should not be there. I think there are dragons for players of each age and that makes the game popular. Just my opinion.

I think you are right @Bettina-Löffler . but the old music was much better.

@palladium I play muted.

@bettina-löffler said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@palladium I play muted.

Me too, I can honestly say I have never listened to the music or sound effects so I have no idea what the old or new sounds like.

@nynaevelan said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@bettina-löffler said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@palladium I play muted.

Me too, I can honestly say I have never listened to the music or sound effects so I have no idea what the old or new sounds like.

I sometimes mute, but I often like it better with the music. Adds a level of interest to the game. (For me) like the events music for instance. Although sometimes it’s annoying

@palladium I really DO want the old dragon city back also. I only started playing in 2019, but I know a lot about the old version. It was easier to get exclusives (by special breedings in the ultra breeding tree.). And heroics are terrible! I think rares, very rares, epics, and legendaries are much better. But I still wanted wind as an element before.

@the-dragonificer I agree. I really wish they still Called Droconos Dragon just "Droconos". It only had one word in it and it didn't have the word Dragon.

@zarif-bin-kaiser said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@the-dragonificer I agree. I really wish they still Called Droconos Dragon just "Droconos". It only had one word in it and it didn't have the word Dragon.

Every dragon has the Dragon in its name, what is the issue with Droconos having it also?

@nynaevelan @Bettina-Löffler I have been playing muted for years. I didn't like the music. I thought that the main screen music was too wimpy for dragons. Don't know what it sounds like now.

@nynaevelan said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@zarif-bin-kaiser said in I want the earlier Dragon City back!:

@the-dragonificer I agree. I really wish they still Called Droconos Dragon just "Droconos". It only had one word in it and it didn't have the word Dragon.

Every dragon has the Dragon in its name, what is the issue with Droconos having it also?

Not Yggdrasil.