"Cuzzins;c-2313288" wrote:
Point is that many players are already used to seeing an icon that has typically been provided and so when it doesn’t appear they don’t look for it. Changing expectations, especially for casual users is difficult. Same has occurred in the past when they shifted free stuff in shipments for example, people expect it to be where it is consistently when they play a game like this daily and repetitively.
Discord should not be a panacea for broken game functionality. The game should not be broken to sell content.
This exactly. Providing a consistent user experience is GUI programming 101. When you set your users up to expect a thing, they structure their routine around their expectations of how the GUI is going to act and what information is going to be provided in specific locations in the software. Changing those kinds of things leads to frustration. If there was some kind of way to dismiss those notifications, that would be one thing but you can't do that without buying them. Those icons hide otherwise useful information that people are accustomed to interacting with.
Is it a huge deal breaker? No. Generally speaking though, if you want people to have a positive experience when they interact with the user interface, you need to provide a consistent experience.