sorry, packrat friends
I decided to remove the application and unfriend all my packrat friends.
The game is hella fun, but interacting with it through Facebook makes it feel like a chore to me. I really wish it was a stand-alone application available for download.
I'd also like to keep my Facebook friends as people I know in real life, or people I've known online for a very very long time and have had lots of one-to-one conversations with.
I hope you guys keep having fun. And good luck on all your icon collecting endeavors!
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bcarneiro on Jan 26, 2008
I'm not a facebook user so I agree, I would love for Packrat to be something independent from Facebook, which I find exposes people too much.
maldenjen on Jan 26, 2008
I am a Facebook user, but I am pretty tired of apps, and as much as I'd like to try PackRat, and I wish the Chefs well with it, I don't think I'm going to play. Also, I restrict my Facebook friends to people I went to school with and/or know well in person.
jconstant on Jan 26, 2008
I'll admit it was addicting at first (5 hours straight the first time I played), but somehow it's lost it's appeal. Also, I'm not a big facebook/myspace person. I dropped it a few days ago and now that the twitching has pasted, I don't have much desire to go back (Unless the Chefs made it into a app outside of facebook. Then I might give it another chance).
I know they didn't want to take away from the IB, but I think it would have been better if they had found a way to tie it in anyway.
aaroncampbell on Jan 26, 2008
I tried packrat for a bit too. Had the same issue and removed it. I'm not going to add a ton of people that I don't know as "friends" just to play.
grantneufeld
on Jan 26, 2008
I’ve used the “limited profile” option to add folks I don’t know in person on Facebook. Check the privacy settings (link in the top blue bar near the right side) to decide what shows up in your limited profile.
katylava on Jan 26, 2008
i don't care who sees my profile actually. there isn't anything there i care to hide. i'm just anal-retentive and it offends my sense of organization to friend people i barely know.
maldenjen on Jan 26, 2008
@ Katylava: I can understand that! I don't have anything to "hide," but I have things not to share, you know?...Pictures of my little kid, cellphone number.
Well, I still wish well to the Chefs. I know they worked on this really hard. I'm probably 15-years older than their target user anyway. =)
grantneufeld
on Jan 26, 2008
@maldenjen: That’s exactly why I use the limited profile — I restrict access to things like my IM accounts, personal photos, etc.
louiemctool on Jan 26, 2008
i'm with you there, katylava.
i find myself hating it more than liking it. facebook apps in general seem to suck, and PackRat is probably worse off (in my own meaningless opinion) for being a FB app.
sucks, 'cause the "cards" the Chefs created for PackRat rock. i would so love to get my hands on some of those icons. (hint-hint, chefs).
oh well. right?
:)
anti on Jan 26, 2008
bears repeating.
louiemctool on Jan 27, 2008
whazzat?
*hic*
aaroncampbell on Jan 28, 2008
Well, limited profile or not, I use Facebook to connect with real friends (as in "a person you know well and regard with affection and trust"), so I don't want to "friend" people that aren't really friends.
elnitido52 on Feb 05, 2008
Told ya' so...
VINZ on Feb 05, 2008
i'm sorry to tell that i removed packrat too... As you said, it was interfering with my "real" friends and as i'm not a big facebook user this was disturbing. On top of that, i thought the game was about collecting icons, but icons i can USE. Not only cute picture to collect virtually on facebook.
Nice experience for some hours but not enough to keep me awake every night... If it was a standalone apps, maybe.
rowan6894
on Feb 05, 2008
I removed it too - was spending too much time playing. And who needs to collect more virtual stuff - I have too much real stuff! :)
cheiie on Feb 05, 2008
I didn't remove it, but I've stopped playing. It was fun for a while, then as it got more competitive, people got more and more mean (myself included) about things that shouldn't really matter.
The game, in general, loses its appeal very quickly, for a variety of reasons. Needing to play via Facebook being the largest of them.
aaroncampbell on Feb 05, 2008
I was hoping that it would be something you could play with others that were playing it. Instead, you can only play with other that are playing it IF you have added them to your friends list. That really lost it for me.