This seems like a pretty big change to the game, and it is reasonably evoking a big reaction from the players. But my guess is that the fragment count change is part of some bigger change or new feature that we don't know about yet. A lot of details on this particular change were provided by Fazes, but we don't yet know the whole story.
I will be reserving judgement until we actually see how this rolls out. If you personally feel that you should quit the game over this change that hasn't even happened yet, then do so. But maybe stick around long enough to see how this change actually looks and what other changes come with it. Who knows, you may actually enjoy it.
Well said as always @MtPollux! I too will reserve mu feelings until I know the details as not enough concrete information has been given to us as of yet. 👌😁
I’m really sorry for being professor positive here but I LOVE the updated fragment counts. I just got 8 red books from it on my challenges page with is maxed at 3770 so they are hard to come by and I am saving for the next magizoologist skill tree! I prestiged at least 10 pages (maybe more). I know that my count is zero for the next pages but I’m ok with that. Playing the game is fun for me and yes I buy coins and realize it may be a waste but prestiging all these pages where it was taking me forever to complete just makes me giddy! :)
Although it was a loss in some areas, I was delighted to be able to prestige some of the pages that I was unable to prestige before. Overall I think this was a positive change, although I hate that it's causing panic and frustration for some people.
Oh, wow, I wasn't expecting the change to happen so soon after the announcement. I'm working through the pages and try to understand what exactly is going on. From what I've noticed until now, you can prestige the page if you have already placed the image, even if the new number is bigger than the amount of fragments needed before. For example, I was allowed to prestige Moving Staircases from normal to bronze although I had only 4/12 Prof. Fleetwicks (4/4 on the old count) and only 8/9 Peeves's (8/8) on the new count. I'm not sure if this will be the case later as well or only now, right after the change.
Unfortunately the extra fragments do go away after prestiging, which feels bad with some hardly gathered over the months (the Knockturn Alley sign as one example).
Still, I got a lot of pages prestiged, so the overall feeling is positive, but I can understand how people with, say, 8 unicorns feel, when they don't get the extra 3 fragments on the prestiged page.
Hey! The change started rolling in today. We are looking into a potential bug, the team advises wait before prestiging pages for now. I will update here when I have any more info!
Oh ****, I just prestiged a bunch of Challenges pages, and some of the Exploration ones as well. I'll put the rest on hold for now.
Thanks, @hpwulola for letting us know. If there is a bug, would it be possible to retroactively fix it for people who've already prestiged their pages? And do you think it's possible to have a pop-up message in-game telling the people to not prestige yet. I doubt that so many people are checking this forum regularly and the natural response to the red prestige button is to press it.
@hpwulola Thank you for the update, but in my excitement I prestiged all my pages before checking back here. Should I submit a support ticket, but wait until after your update?
PS- I really like getting all those runestones and spell books!
@hpwulola unfortunately i've prestiged one page (buckbeak) so I hope i'll back my fragments. i have screenshot. i'm so upset because I feel that all the effort I've put into this game was a waste.
@hpwulola - your advice to not prestige was given too #%^*+ late. all those excess fragments GONE. this is what happens when you all (the HPWU team) give too little advance notice of major changes and then implement them without sufficient bug-testing. but this comes as nothing new to you all ... we have been telling you this same message consistently from the beginning and you all have been ignoring the same message consistently from the beginning.
To be honest, I don’t understand why everyone is so upset about “losing fragments”. I lost some too, but in the end there is a LOT to prestige, so yes, if you had 7 fragments and now you only need 5, you wasted 2, but instead of having to catch even more to prestigeC you can prestige now. So overall you came out better right?
I already prestiged a bunch before I realised the bug was there too, and I hope they will
Since this bug is costing some of us thousands of foundables (challenges required hundreds, but now 25 for gold), due to failure of the rollover, would it be possible to give us credit for foundables equal to at least 80% of our seen foundables? That way there isn't such a huge loss, due to a bug.
Mostly it's just that I feel blindsided. I checked here yesterday evening, and saw the proposal. Today, suddenly, all my pages were up for prestiging.
Then it turned out there was no carry-over either. Hm. So I asked a friend who advised me to leave it alone for now. (Thank you btw).
Then a message came on discord, then here. To not touch it. Now I feel a bit dizzy tbh. It's not the lost foundables per sé. It's just that it all seems very contradictory and *very* sudden...
I like the changes to the registry pages, it makes more sense in my opinion. But the challenge pages update is absolutely ridiculous! I've spent so much time working on prestiging a Wands page, which I finally did today. Not even an hour later, this update was implemented and I'm so annoyed by it. It's not a challenge anymore to complete these pages, its far too easy. I suspect many players will be completing all the pages on gold frames in no time, leaving no room for progression, and yet no reason to keep doing fortresses.
Fortresses were easily my favourite part of this game, and now it's been completely ruined. Cant see myself playing it much more if it stays like this
What a shambles! A change that wasn’t even necessary and horribly executed. I have lost countless fragments due to this change...sorry I didn’t realise you shouldn’t prestige the page cos there is some sort of bug!
I liked the game as it was with some foundables insanely hard to get and others less so, it was kind of quirky. Now just feels it’s been dumbed down. Seriously thinking of quitting after this, worst update ever. Loved this game up to now but this stinks.
I didn’t know you shouldn’t prestige, lost soooo many rare fragments (that I spent both potent potion on and dawdle), and also painful to do this in mid event that have fragments from fortress as rewards, but I collected them all, before the update, though I already had that fragment placed, so I also lost those extra 15 quidditch books :(
Sacking it I reckon, have played since the game since it started. Now we have a dumbed down game and zero credit for the 1000s of fragments that have disappeared, where is the challenge of collecting the tough foundables now?
Whoever decided this is a good idea is a moron, if this can’t be rolled back then I’m gone.
I really don't like the update, I don't know either it's update or an issue but after fragments update 7/10 fragments are departed in one cast, even low threat level. And I have already prestige 2 pages but its rollover and just now WU give notice or other.
@MMMaartje sorry but i completely disagree with you. I've been playing since day one so i feel i have wasted my time. I had 40/49 of Buckbeak (very rare) and now I've lost 27 fragments.. It's not what they promised and I'm very very disappointed. I want back my fragments... that's all.
Maybe some items should have upgraded their rarity? I have several items that should be low or medium, but are so hard to find: eg. cruel nagic, Boggart cabinet, Niffler :(
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This seems like a pretty big change to the game, and it is reasonably evoking a big reaction from the players. But my guess is that the fragment count change is part of some bigger change or new feature that we don't know about yet. A lot of details on this particular change were provided by Fazes, but we don't yet know the whole story.
I will be reserving judgement until we actually see how this rolls out. If you personally feel that you should quit the game over this change that hasn't even happened yet, then do so. But maybe stick around long enough to see how this change actually looks and what other changes come with it. Who knows, you may actually enjoy it.
Well said as always @MtPollux! I too will reserve mu feelings until I know the details as not enough concrete information has been given to us as of yet. 👌😁
Is it reset today?
The excess fragment not carried over the next prestige.
Just try first family (care animal...)
After prestige to bronze it show zero fragment.
Yup, all excess fragments are gone once you prestige the page...
so the extra fragments do not transfer to the next prestige page.
Level 50
I’m really sorry for being professor positive here but I LOVE the updated fragment counts. I just got 8 red books from it on my challenges page with is maxed at 3770 so they are hard to come by and I am saving for the next magizoologist skill tree! I prestiged at least 10 pages (maybe more). I know that my count is zero for the next pages but I’m ok with that. Playing the game is fun for me and yes I buy coins and realize it may be a waste but prestiging all these pages where it was taking me forever to complete just makes me giddy! :)
Although it was a loss in some areas, I was delighted to be able to prestige some of the pages that I was unable to prestige before. Overall I think this was a positive change, although I hate that it's causing panic and frustration for some people.
Oh, wow, I wasn't expecting the change to happen so soon after the announcement. I'm working through the pages and try to understand what exactly is going on. From what I've noticed until now, you can prestige the page if you have already placed the image, even if the new number is bigger than the amount of fragments needed before. For example, I was allowed to prestige Moving Staircases from normal to bronze although I had only 4/12 Prof. Fleetwicks (4/4 on the old count) and only 8/9 Peeves's (8/8) on the new count. I'm not sure if this will be the case later as well or only now, right after the change.
Unfortunately the extra fragments do go away after prestiging, which feels bad with some hardly gathered over the months (the Knockturn Alley sign as one example).
Still, I got a lot of pages prestiged, so the overall feeling is positive, but I can understand how people with, say, 8 unicorns feel, when they don't get the extra 3 fragments on the prestiged page.
Hey! The change started rolling in today. We are looking into a potential bug, the team advises wait before prestiging pages for now. I will update here when I have any more info!
Oh ****, I just prestiged a bunch of Challenges pages, and some of the Exploration ones as well. I'll put the rest on hold for now.
Thanks, @hpwulola for letting us know. If there is a bug, would it be possible to retroactively fix it for people who've already prestiged their pages? And do you think it's possible to have a pop-up message in-game telling the people to not prestige yet. I doubt that so many people are checking this forum regularly and the natural response to the red prestige button is to press it.
The advice came too late! I lost 52 fragments of the three-headed dogs, which definitely hurt a lot!
@hpwulola Thank you for the update, but in my excitement I prestiged all my pages before checking back here. Should I submit a support ticket, but wait until after your update?
PS- I really like getting all those runestones and spell books!
@hpwulola unfortunately i've prestiged one page (buckbeak) so I hope i'll back my fragments. i have screenshot. i'm so upset because I feel that all the effort I've put into this game was a waste.
thank you
@hpwulola - your advice to not prestige was given too #%^*+ late. all those excess fragments GONE. this is what happens when you all (the HPWU team) give too little advance notice of major changes and then implement them without sufficient bug-testing. but this comes as nothing new to you all ... we have been telling you this same message consistently from the beginning and you all have been ignoring the same message consistently from the beginning.
What's with the 50/55 on gold prestiged pages? Honestly, test drive any changes before implementation.
To be honest, I don’t understand why everyone is so upset about “losing fragments”. I lost some too, but in the end there is a LOT to prestige, so yes, if you had 7 fragments and now you only need 5, you wasted 2, but instead of having to catch even more to prestigeC you can prestige now. So overall you came out better right?
I already prestiged a bunch before I realised the bug was there too, and I hope they will
fix it, but I don’t see why it’s such a big deal.
Prestiged all my pages... will we be receiving credit for all the ones that didn't carry over or did I just lose out on hundreds of foundables?
@hpwulola
Yeah I had a field day at lunch time prestiging everything! Oh well, it’s not like I lost my job or my health! Just some Harry Potter fragments!
It's updated... 😯
Since this bug is costing some of us thousands of foundables (challenges required hundreds, but now 25 for gold), due to failure of the rollover, would it be possible to give us credit for foundables equal to at least 80% of our seen foundables? That way there isn't such a huge loss, due to a bug.
@hpwulola
Mostly it's just that I feel blindsided. I checked here yesterday evening, and saw the proposal. Today, suddenly, all my pages were up for prestiging.
Then it turned out there was no carry-over either. Hm. So I asked a friend who advised me to leave it alone for now. (Thank you btw).
Then a message came on discord, then here. To not touch it. Now I feel a bit dizzy tbh. It's not the lost foundables per sé. It's just that it all seems very contradictory and *very* sudden...
I like the changes to the registry pages, it makes more sense in my opinion. But the challenge pages update is absolutely ridiculous! I've spent so much time working on prestiging a Wands page, which I finally did today. Not even an hour later, this update was implemented and I'm so annoyed by it. It's not a challenge anymore to complete these pages, its far too easy. I suspect many players will be completing all the pages on gold frames in no time, leaving no room for progression, and yet no reason to keep doing fortresses.
Fortresses were easily my favourite part of this game, and now it's been completely ruined. Cant see myself playing it much more if it stays like this
What a shambles! A change that wasn’t even necessary and horribly executed. I have lost countless fragments due to this change...sorry I didn’t realise you shouldn’t prestige the page cos there is some sort of bug!
I liked the game as it was with some foundables insanely hard to get and others less so, it was kind of quirky. Now just feels it’s been dumbed down. Seriously thinking of quitting after this, worst update ever. Loved this game up to now but this stinks.
I didn’t know you shouldn’t prestige, lost soooo many rare fragments (that I spent both potent potion on and dawdle), and also painful to do this in mid event that have fragments from fortress as rewards, but I collected them all, before the update, though I already had that fragment placed, so I also lost those extra 15 quidditch books :(
Sacking it I reckon, have played since the game since it started. Now we have a dumbed down game and zero credit for the 1000s of fragments that have disappeared, where is the challenge of collecting the tough foundables now?
Whoever decided this is a good idea is a moron, if this can’t be rolled back then I’m gone.
This was awesome! Stop complaining people. I just prestiged tons of pages and got 6 spell books out of it. Thank you!
I really don't like the update, I don't know either it's update or an issue but after fragments update 7/10 fragments are departed in one cast, even low threat level. And I have already prestige 2 pages but its rollover and just now WU give notice or other.
@MMMaartje sorry but i completely disagree with you. I've been playing since day one so i feel i have wasted my time. I had 40/49 of Buckbeak (very rare) and now I've lost 27 fragments.. It's not what they promised and I'm very very disappointed. I want back my fragments... that's all.
Maybe some items should have upgraded their rarity? I have several items that should be low or medium, but are so hard to find: eg. cruel nagic, Boggart cabinet, Niffler :(
In summary - I do not like this update :(
Here here Hoyot, hit the nail on the head, it just feels like a complete waste of time now... just give us fragments back please!!