Fantage pre-2014 was a fun and welcoming environment with lots to do. All the events during that time were actually fun and well-programmed and actually felt rewarding to participate in, everyone was included. Sure there were premium only items (that you could technically buy as a non-member with e-coins), but non-members could still buy items.
Then, post Fantage's 2014 Anniversary event, where the upper management also changed (source: employee reviews on glassdoor), everything else changed with it. The whole map changed. Everything became condensed and combined together, it wasn't fun to explore anymore. All the games were put into the arcade instead of being a fun world experience. Features were slowly cut off from up, bugs never fixed. Events became dull, calendar stamp collecting events instead of actual activities to do and all event items were forced behind paywalls of gold. You couldn't even use stars or e-coins to buy limited items by the end of Fantage's run.
Did I forget to mention gold? Oh boy, gold SUCKED. When it was first introduced, you could either get it by paying, and if you were a non-member you could occasionally get it by winning in events or selling items in MyMall with the MyMall seller tickets you'd get sometimes when you get your daily prize. Then, next thing you know? MyMall got a paywall, only premium members could even USE it.
As a result of all these paywalls, Fantage became dull and boring, and when something becomes dull and boring, the community starts to dwindle, and when the community starts to dwindle, nobody uses the already in-game games, the fun drains even more, and when the fun drains even more, more people quit, and when more people quit, the people behind Fantage start to lose motivation to actually run the site, and when motivation dwindles, money dwindles, and then the cycle repeats.
So, at the end of the day, Fantage WAS a fun and inclusive space for all players, but after the upper management changed it was just a downhill spiral of paywalls, loss of motivation and a fading community from there.
It was at least fun while it lasted.
- A Fantagian from 2011-2018 (kitcat46)
The site has over-priced premium currency (gold), over-priced premium, an overly protective censor in which doesn't tell you if your words have been censored, even basic words like "devour" or "suck" or "House" and even any numbers. With the community strangely flirty and obsessed with topics young adults should only know about including being "dom" or dominated, which refers to a sexual act, a "Whun" or a Girlfriend/Boyfriend, subjects like sex or making out, if you have premium everyone immediately flocks over to try and make you their whun, generally they are new players. To make this worse, there is a massive market for swimsuits which feature bikinis whilst the male swimsuit shop has 3 pairs of swim-trunks. Remember that this site is supposed to be kid friendly, so having literally around 40 types of bikinis is a bit strange to say the least. Also the site frequently re-uses events with no creativity what-so-ever in the whole act of it. The site makes this worse with daily rewards for players whom bought premium which include gems, free item tickets, money, ect. Which makes the whole game favored towards pay-to-play players. Another sneaky practice from Fantage is how their premium works, in tiny words it states that it will AUTOMATICALLY re buy premium when it runs out without your knowledge, but as it it is stated even if its in tiny font they can technically legally do it. The premium is cheaper in the long run if you buy the 12 month premium, but to those who only wanted 3 months they will be infinitely given the fees for refreshing the premium regardless of what you wanted. To my knowledge there is NO way to prevent this unless you just do not buy the premium. Also money is difficult to obtain making it nearly impossible to buy thing normally, and to top it off there is a leveling system which rewards player who earn "Badges" and level up, the only problem with this is that I can seriously BUY many many levels with small level restrictions before I can do so. And also GUESS WHAT, the levels require REAL LIFE MONEY to purchase
POSITIVE FEATURES
-Large Verity of items
-Lively community with player constantly online
-Games require little or no intelligence to play
-Players aren't afraid to pretend to be females to obtain item from horny children in which as them to be their whuns
-If you desire a "Whun" you can easily find one as Female characters (not saying actual girls just people who have a female avatar) are so common it makes you think that people are really desperate to see cartoon females
-Finally, the vast majority of items are obtainable with free-to-play money
PROBLEMS
-Too many players whom flirt with the first premium female they see
-People discriminate newer and poor players(although not so much now as before)
-Gold and Premium are expensive as heck
-Buying Levels is too overpowered
-while all gear sold in normal stores is obtainable by regular currency 90% of the total gear is only obtainable by being premium
-With such irritating censoring communication is nearly impossible, which is made worse by the game not telling you what has been censored or not
-Prays on children in which use parent's credit card
Parents, keep that credit card away from that child of yours or you'll lose your life savings
For those of you hating on fantage need to get a life. Members are treated just as non-members are just a few extra stuff. I am a non-member and I can handle fantage just fine. I dont have members picking on me. Its because some non-members annoy or threaten members. And seriously? Membership only cost $7.95 for one month its not that expensive. You can easily go buy a karma koin from the store and pay it from there. If you get banned for 99 hours its just a protecting ban because they believe your account is being hacked. All you have to do is send them an email stating that your account is banned and they will unban you and you wont get banned anymore. If they didn't have membership then they wouldn't be able to run fantage anymore because it does cost a lot of money to run a virtual world. And the language like "ello" in "hello" is just a shorter way to communicate like "lol" or "brb" its nothing bad its just a way to shorten words. Fantage is for 6-14 but some 15-17 year olds still like to play as well. It does not cancel your membership if you miss a day -_- And it blocks almost everything you say because it doesnt want people to cuss. The lucky bot does actually give 100,000 ecoins and all the other stuff it says it gives. Trade n sell or tns is closed due to scamming now they have a better and safer way to sell items for a virtual money called gold. You cant judge something you havent even had the chance to look at. You guys go on fantage and just find something to be hateful about. The fantage school is still there. Ok. So please think before you post something hateful about something you barely tried. And also please go outside and do some family stuff instead of sitting here looking for a website to judge. Thanks.
- A proud fantagian since 2010 ~