Slots, slots and more slots!

Every other week, Ameba Pico greets us with a new slot challenge. Although this might be fun for some -- I find it really frustrating. Why? Well, I know this can help you with earning different clothes and decors. But the downfall is ... well, what about the newbies?

Some (newbies) aren't aware of how the slot campaign works and how you win Casino Dollars (C$) to advance to another challenge and gain prizes. For them, slot challenges look impossible to complete it because of the big amount of C$ you have to win. Apparently they're not familliar with the Auto-clicker Tool that helps you bank C$ very quickly while you're away from the keyboard. Sadly, they just keep ignoring the slot campaigns since they know they can't complete it anyway.

What I'm trying to say is, someday players will get tired of completing every challenge. Also, Pico admins will run out of ideas in making new slot challenge themes. So why don't we get back to the old - but awesome - Pico quests? I think the last time we had one was the ninja quest in Edo.

I wonder why Ameba Pico stopped making quests. Those were fun - and not to mention newbies can play it, too. If Ameba Pico is capable of creating 3 quests, then why not make it 4? 5? 6? Or unlimited? I'm actually willing to bet that 90% of Pico players like quests better than slot challenges (that promise there's 7x winning but it's actually just 5x.)

That's a good idea right there, people.  And I don't know why Ameba Pico likes throwing out their very few good ideas. Instead, they keep their boring and bad ideas that are aimed to make money out of us.

Ameba Pico language.

To kick things off here's a commentary from a tweenage writer. She's been a great encouragement to Picostyle and we're hoping this is the first of many posts she'll contribute to the blog. We simply call her "The Young Gun". - The Picostyle Team



Every day we travel around the game, searching for props, doing our daily ring backs and greeting our buddies. But seriously, how hard is it to complete your sentences with a period? I mean, the game's amazing and stuff. But are the players aware of how they speak inside the game?

It's necessary for you to write and speak in correct grammar. Not only will it make you look smart, but it keeps the place's chat box neat.

No one would appreciate people typing LYK DIS or lIke ThIS. Yes, we can say it saves time to type in shortcuts. Besides, this is the internet. It should already be natural to use shortcuts like, brb, gtg, btw, etc. But it only costs 3 seconds to complete your sentences with proper capitalization, correct grammar and of course-- spelling.

Here are a few funny things I;ve noticed about the language we use in Ameba Pico:

• lol is used even when the person isn't really laughing. It's overused to the point where it is now just an expression of being speechless. And what's worse is that people are putting along unnecessary letters like lolz, lolsxz, etc.
• afk is a reasonable shortcut to use ... but there are some people that can't understand what it means. I've tried telling this to my close friends in real life, and they don't know its meaning. So chances are, a lot of players aren't aware of this word.
• curse words your mother would not approve of. Unfortunately, this game has been open to several curses like The F Word -- as well as swearing in non-English languages. The F Word can be used in any type of sentence. Though it gets filtered, players still find a way to use it.

Sure, using these words are much more convenient. But if you want to look smart and neat, I suggest you better start cleaning your vocabulary and fixing your punctuation. After all, it isn't so hard to do it.