Any opinions on HOC?

I personally think it's pointless. Just another stupid method to bring attention to this declining website o-o

Pretty much.

I'm pretty sure they laid off the entire dev team who made it recently.
I'm not sure why Gaia keeps trying to make games that have nothing to do with their website at all. If the games were any good I could maybe understand, but most of them are just thrown together with Flash game engines/APIs, and incorporate nothing from Gaia into it (such as avatars, the world, etc).

Awesomolocity wrote:

Pretty much.

Im saying this, because I recently tried it for the first time and I was just laughing at its stupidity.

Tree wrote:

I'm pretty sure they laid off the entire dev team who made it recently.
I'm not sure why Gaia keeps trying to make games that have nothing to do with their website at all. If the games were any good I could maybe understand, but most of them are just thrown together with Flash game engines/APIs, and incorporate nothing from Gaia into it (such as avatars, the world, etc).

That's extremely true, because these stupid Yu-Gi-Oh wannabe characters had no connection to Gaia, were not interesting, and only made my laptop be run slower.
I can understand Zomg, because it made quite a big effort, but HOC was absolutely ridiculous.

I loaded the game then saw what it looked like and exited as fast as i could and never opened it again

WhiteJawz1 wrote:

I loaded the game then saw what it looked like and exited as fast as i could and never opened it again

Haha, me too. I almost chocked on my food from laughing. I was eating spicy wings when I did it.

I played it once, and really I was unimpressed. I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that people might actually like their games if they weren't so irrelevant to the Gaia world.

I played it once or twice, I found the whole game to be just...boring.
It's like spending time watching grass grow, but worse.
You have to click like 5-10 times each round of a fight.
It's not interesting in the slightest.
Sure the art is pretty nice, but the game play is horrific.
Only reason I'd ever play it is if I wanted to make 50k gold a day through the 1 Essence : 10 Gold convert grant.
But that would be too much effort, grinding and plain boringness.

I only played it for the achievements.

Wow, they did work harrd on it, but they forgot to make it fun and interesting.

Played it for the gold, then I realized committing suicide wasn't worth it.

eduardmontes94 wrote:

I personally think it's pointless. Just another stupid method to bring attention to this declining website o-o

sounds about right

I like it. The 50k a day is pretty easy to achieve and is a nice little bonus IMO.

gessekai wrote:

I like it. The 50k a day is pretty easy to achieve and is a nice little bonus IMO.

Yeah, I've got to say the 50k a day is a nice trickle of gold in.
What's the best way to get essence in HoC easily and quickly?
I heard it was this 'mission 9' - but if you have a better one please share.
If I can gather a lot of essence on multiple accounts I could rack in a few hundred k a day.

Oh, I never played it. You can make 50k a day? That's OP.

Double post... my bad.

R o b b i e wrote:

Oh, I never played it. You can make 50k a day? That's OP.

You can also make 50k a day with zOMG! which is probably quicker.
150k if you're a donor.

Also you can make 100k a day on Booty Grab, which is notably quicker but very, very boring.