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.

@palladium Some people feel like its getting easier, (like me) and it's getting harder for some people. I'm about to reach level 38 tomorrow. And I like that it becoming like that because who doesn't like new experiences in the game? There are new opportunities!

Yeah, I remember the old game. My first event was Christmas 2014, and I was bad and didn’t get anything from it. Honestly most of the things I miss are simply cosmetics but the replacements are not all bad. Like occasionally I miss the old Terra, Flame etc designs but the new ones still look amazing and fit in with the newer dragons. It was a smart move.

I did love the old starry background a lot, but the new one isn’t at all bad. Music, yes, I loved the old one, but I guess it was time for a refresh. That song had played for 4 years at the time they replaced it, keep in mind. The long time players were likely sick of it.

Like the other points raised, I’m not too fond of the YouTuber dragons, but I understand a lot of people like them. Other people hate the soccer dragons, but I like (a few) of them (Sportive is the best one IMO).

My favourite Dragon doesn’t even have wings. Alien Lurker. It’s more of a snail. But in a way, it fits in wonderfully.

Heroic Races were bad before I found this forum. Then I learned about the techniques to win and qualified every race. Heroics are a good thing overall but it would be nice to see a change every now again, so I can actually use Alien Lurker when I get him lol

In conclusion change is good, the game needs new things to hold us in, and the strange dragons are the best ones to some people.
Like my snail-like favourite, some of the awkward ones are the best!

@_thespacebeing_ My favorite of the sport dragons is fastshoot and I kind of liked the old music. And my favorite of all dragons is High Star.

You aren’t the only one who would like some of the old dragon city back. I will list a few things I really dislike which mean that I am actually going to stop playing after many years.

1. The quests are not possible to finish in the time scale without spending gems.
2. I have run out of islands, to get any more islands I have to spend a lot of money.
3. it’s near impossible for me to get to level 3 in arenas because in my view it is very obviously rigged to pit you against higher opponents more frequently than lower ones. Despite having good dragons I regularly face people with level 60 pls dragons and 5 stars. The selection is not random and is designed to encourage you to spend on food.
4. New dragons come along so quickly that they are effectively worthless. You get something new but unless you have orbs for several stars the dragon is effectively useless in arenas, or leagues,
5. Heroic dragons with stars. I regularly come across people who have heroic dragons with more than 1 star. Despite having lots of islands and gold/food I calculated that to get a second star on any heroic dragon after a race I would have to spend over 60 dollars (or about 40 pounds). For a virtual character in a game that could be closed at any time, this unthinkably expensive.
6. The purge of inactive fb accounts that took place means I only have a few people to battle with 2 level up dragons.
7. The endless adverts that you really need to view to get items or tokens to complete events. I realise they have to make money somewhere but advert revenue and you have to essentially buy stuff to get progress in the game?? Gibe me a break!
8. it’s just too complicated now, there are so many things to do each day in the game. It’s easy to spend an hour or more every day just doing regular tasks and events. If you don’t do them, you fall behind and then leagues and arenas are even harder.
9. the daily annoyance of closing multiple pop ups before you can play the game.
10. quests that require really hard to get dragons unless (you guessed it) you spend lots of money.
11. maze-quest things that are designed to not be completed without spending money on maze tokens.
    You may disagree but my opinion is that social point have effectively priced me out of the game. It’s just too expensive in time and money. It seems really greedy to me and I am disappointed that social point seem to treat the game as a cash cow. This is all just my views and people will disagree. But at the end of the day, I have to stop playing because the game is so expensive and it feels so negative to not make much progress for the effort I have out in. I wish those who keep playing the game all the luck and best wishes. I’ve told my alliance I’m leaving and am trying to give them stuff in trades before I go. Thanks and goodbye.

@palladium yes they should add a tab to swithc between new and old music

@giraffeydragon or at least give us the option. the old music is basically my childhood. listening to the old tunes while trying to breed an apocalypse dragon, my favourite…

the game from nowadays is broken and you know it. heroic dragons are a cool concept but way too easy to obtain and way too overpowered. I remember several years ago calling my friend because a weird brown „H“ was the rarity of one dragon… and this dragon looked so cool… later on this dragon‘s abilities have basically broken every battle and everyone’s goal in the game. the goal back in the days was „breed cool dragons and build a wonderful city“
nowadays it’s „if you don’t participate in this event for 6 hours you won’t get anything and are a bad player. many people have complained about a lack of events back in the days but I think that was good. if you just couldn’t play that much but if you could it was a fantastic game to play. and if you went online and saw an event you thought „omg an event! Maybe I can get some cool exclusives, that would be great for my collection!“ but nowadays it’s just „why isn’t it a heroic race i can’t win in battles without them“

the old soundtracks just give me vibes of nostalgia and i would be unbelievably happy if we have at least the OPTION in the settings to activate the old soundtracks as listening to them was one of the happiest experiences in my life, i don’t want this to be forever deleted from the game. and it can’t be that hard to implement them in the game again.

i know I always just talk about the same things but that’s my opinion and also, every comment on the internet says „i liked the old Dragon city so much I can’t believe how bad it turned out“
i don’t think Dragon City has become a bad game but several things just went wrong and I want you to understand that. And sure we have to move on. but not in a worse way

and these pop up windows when you join the game are incredibly annoying. I’ve counted 19 (!) when i started the game the last time (2 mins ago) and about 10 of them were about offers with packs you could buy with real money, 6 were about events and the rest was calendar and account linking with ios and dragon tv.

edit: it would be cool if these could be summarised in 2 or 3 pictures instead of 19. 1 for the offers, one for the events and one for the rest, maybe one extra for the calendar. Hey, I think no one would say „no I like to press the x button 42069 times before I can play“