Society Update: Removal of the Chat Room

Hello everyone, sorry for the recent inactivity, we froze all posts while we got some stuff sorted out. With that, we have decided to remove the chat room! It has been around since the society was started and it's very bittersweet to see it go. From now on, if you want to contact the SASS team, the only way to do that will be through our email or Discord server.

Random Saturday Ep 02: Is AJ Going Downhill?

'Sup guys. I'm back with this week's Random Saturday post. Ok, just want to say that I lied, random Saturdays occur once every two weeks. Without further ado, let's go.

Today's topic is about AJ in general. Is AJ going downhill? Well, AJ started back in 2010 when there was no member - non-member difference. Those were the early days of AJ. Back then, AJHQ was able to roll out new content at a rather steady pace. It was, after all, new at that time. As with all new things, content is easy to create. More lands got released, Mt Shiveer, Kimbara Outback and the Oceans are lands that did not exist in the old Jamaa.

However, as time went by, AJ became more developed. To help AJHQ keep the content coming in, they need funds. Where do they get that? Memberships, of course. The member - non-member divide began to grow, and with each update, the divide only worsened. Remember the times when Oceans were member only? For those of you who joined AJ in recent years, non-members of the past had fewer animal choices, couldn't change the colours of their items and didn't have access to (almost) all adventures. That was when AJ probably reached its lowest in the earlier days. However, things took a small turn.

AJ noticed the problem. They made changes to the system by allowing non-members to change their item colours and more. While it worked for a while, I personally do not think it can pull AJ out of the hole it dug itself into. Mindsets were fixed. The member - non-member divide is still there. Older players are leaving. It just isn't the same AJ that we knew from the past. To make things worse, since AJ is already well-developed, new content rarely comes out, if at all. In other words, I feel that the content in AJ is getting stale. Could this be a contributing factor to the downfall of AJ? Maybe.

Now, let's look at an example. In 2017, club penguin closed in favour of a new club penguin game, club penguin island. By doing that, it allowed club penguin to start anew. AJ had AJPW. However, AJ still existed. Also, AJPW wasn't completely new - it was simply AJ-for-mobile-minus-adventures-plus-treasure-hunts. AJ didn't really start afresh like club penguin did. In that sense, it didn't truly come up with new content.

All in all, I do feel that yes, this is AJ's downfall. If AJ doesn't do something about it soon, I feel that the AJ userbase will just fade away. With the userbase fading away, AJ's funds from memberships will be cut (since there will be fewer users), just further speeding up their downfall.

Well, that's it from me now. Do tune in 2 Saturdays from now for your next Random Saturday. Ciao!

-Dew

P.S. With the downfall of AJ, comes many consequences, for one, many people would lose their jobs. All of the AJ Youtubers, bloggers, and employees, for example (That includes us) would be down and out. Not to mention all of the merchandise and resources gone to ruin if and when this occurs. Think everything that went down with Club Penguin on a slightly larger scale. Thanks, Dew, for letting me invade your post!
-Is

Society Update: Code of Conduct Update

Howdy-do-da everyone. Life is all well and good and now, for some exciting news. (It's not actually exciting, I have to do this) We have updated the Code of Conduct. Two new rules have been added, numbers 16 and 17. I seriously recommend reading it. Everything going on here will make more sense if you do.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/106Q88FiB6oSKGlWxRwKZq7me8eMj3IlVXesLs94HdhU/edit

Toodle-oo

-Is

Society Update: Resignation

Hi all, I am so terribly sorry to inform you of this but, Beta Maretu has resigned. We have no ill feelings towards her and wish her the best. Like many people, she grew disinterested in the game and had many scheduling conflicts. We are not only down an agent, we are down a friend and will severely miss her and everything she has done for SASS. Farewell Mar, good luck with everything.

Peace

-Is

Random Saturday Ep 01: Flower Crowns in AJPW

Hello guys! Dew here. We've started a new series titled "Random Saturdays", in which we post about non-scammer-related AJ stuff. Without further ado, here is your first Random Saturday post.

What I'll be posting about today is the return of flower crowns in AJPW. It's been out a while now, but flower crowns have returned to stores. It is currently being sold at epic wonders for 2,200 gems. That's right, it's being sold for gems.

 Flower crowns were released during the Beta Testing period of AJPW, and they used to cost only 500 gems. What made them very valuable is that they disappeared from stores after Beta Testing. You might think that the price hike is reasonable for an item as valuable as a flower crown. However, I personally do not think so. Back then, gem earning was rather tough. Best Dressed and Jamma Derby didn't exist, making gem-earning more difficult. Now, with more games added (jammer vs jammer included), gem-earning is relatively easier. This could mean that the valuable flower crown could be bought for relatively similar effort. However, the release of the flower crown in epic wonders disrupts the trading plans of jammers. What if the flower crown was the only valuable thing they had on trade? In my opinion, AJHQ made the item close to worthless by releasing them in stores. This is even more so if they become "permanent items", or items that never leave the stores.

In summary, I do not think that is was such a good idea to release the flower crowns back into stores. I feel that AJHQ could have come up with a better way to make the crowns available to all jammers to obtain, instead of using gems which are easier to obtain these days.

Well, that's all for now. Do tune in next Saturday for another episode of Random Saturday! Yay!

Monthly Update - July

For the first update, this new series. It's mainly to make sure everyone is on the same page about society happenings. Basically, one of our agents will be picked to write a brief summary of the past month and everything semi-climactic that happened in it. Organization, am I right?

Secondly, we hit 10,000 pageviews this month! I already made a gushy post about that. You can read it here.

We've also implemented a schedule to go with the new recap thing. All agents have been briefed on it. We will be doing scammer posts every Monday and Thursday with other special surprise posts throughout the week.

The final new thing we have added comes from our Discord server. We put in a Fun and Games channel where we play some games Delta Dew put together which rotate every five days. It's so much fun. You can join our Discord through the many links on the site.

With that, I bid you all ado... Until tomorrow. See you then!

-Is