News & Updates

March 12, 2014
St. Patrick's Day 2014: You have probably noticed that the citizens of GoldFire City have been getting festive again, with lots of green everywhere! In addition, from now until March 21, 2014 @ 11:59 PM CDT, for every 100 Gold that you purchase, you will get a limited edition Lucky Poker Table item (yes, this does mean that, for example, a single purchase of 500 Gold gets you 5 limited edition items)!

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In addition to our already released Google Chrome Web Store app, we now have an app in the Windows 8 Store! You can get it for free (we appreciate ratings as well) right here.
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Tired of clicking all over the place while walking around outside? Good news, there is now an alternate way to walk: simply hold your mouse down in the direction that you want to walk and you will keep walking that direction until you stop holding the mouse down.
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Grand opening signs will now show over your casino's door for the first 7 days after it has been opened.
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The walls have been redone to facilitate an upcoming release. For now you won't see any difference, but there will be a lot more variety in the near future.
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A few various performance tweaks.
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Players will no longer look like they are flying in front of buildings if they disconnect right when entering a building.
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The price of sold items now correctly takes into account all of their upgrades.
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Crew buildings are now open by default so that anyone can go inside and see your creations. We plan on adding an option in the future to make them private.
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Some players were seeing incorrect data about janitor jobs, which should now be fixed.
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Upgrading from a 3-star with an alternate design to a 4-star now works as expected.
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Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause "dead bodies" to appear outside while you were in your condo.
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If you check the pre-turn checkbox to auto call within a few seconds of your turn, a confirmation dialog will no popup to confirm that you actually wanted to call that value.
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The countdown warning sound for poker, blackjack and roulette now only plays on your own turn.
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The south-facing green Jungle Slots item has had its animation corrected.
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Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented job information on the job board from updating until you reloaded.
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Fixed a bug that would break the game if you joined a poker table, left and then tried to rejoin immediately.
March 10, 2014
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You now have the ability to renovate your casino buildings to use a new design! So far we've finished the alternate building designs for the 1, 2 and 3 star casinos, but the 4 and 5 star casinos will be coming soon. To update your building, simply go to edit your lot and click the next/prev buttons, then renovate! This is free right now, but it may come with a cost/time in the future.
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The manage properties window has been completely revamped to show lots of new information about your casinos in a much more eye-pleasing layout (casino type, profit, status, etc).
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There are now twice as many AI characters walking around the world and visiting casinos.
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AI characters will now talk when in casinos, giving insights into how well a casino is performing and how they are doing when playing games.
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AI characters can now also play all casino games and do other activities in casinos other than just slots.
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The position of the bet and rebet buttons in Blackjack have been switched.
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There is now a warning sound for the last 5 seconds of a countdown when playing poker, blackjack or roulette.
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Fixed a bug in poker transfer that prevented it from working sometimes.
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When you close modals with the 'x' button, it sometimes caused issues with the screen panning inside casinos.
March 5, 2014
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New job: Entertainer! You can unlock this job game by reaching level 10 as a Bartender. As an entertainer, you will be a performer on stage throwing cards at targets in various configurations. Be careful not to hit your lovely assistant or you'll lose points!
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There is now a min bet button to go along with the max bet button on slot machines. If you currently have the max bet set, the button will change to min bet.
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The difficulty of the bartender job has been re-balanced.
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Improved the on-boarding flow for new users.
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The always-present bug of the stuck pigeon should be fixed now.
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The murder mystery and mail pickup missions will no longer generate invisible NPC's.
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The mini-map will no longer break if you expand it while walking up to a taxi.
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Fixed a bug preventing you from purchasing a crew building even when your crew had enough funds.
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Chat messages will no longer bunch up when you first open chat and scroll up.
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Crews that aren't level 5 are now correctly hidden from the battle list.
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Fixed the mouse-pan bug that sometimes caused the screen to go "crazy" while walking outside.
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Poker dealer/player chat no longer gets overlapped by player avatars when expanded.
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Fixed a bug with display of crew rankings.
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Fixed several server errors that were causing crashes.
February 26, 2014
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There's a new way to earn Casino Points while playing poker: Poker Cash Game Raffle. How it works, is that every 15 minutes, any player that has been at a cash game for 10+ minutes and is actively playing will be entered into a drawing to win 25 Casino Points. One player will be selected from this group at random and announced globally as the winner. Good luck!
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We've added a new poker tournament, but this one has a Casino Point buy-in with big chip prizes: Bi-Daily 25 CP Turbo. You'll start to see this one scheduled later today and tomorrow.
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Closed a loophole in the Roulette jackpot. You can no longer win the jackpot if you are playing zero-sum bets (for example, betting on red and black or odd and even).
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Fixed bug introduced with crews that prevented new floors from being built in casinos.
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Roulette now correctly restarts after a server restart.
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Scrolling up and down in crew chat now works.
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Only those with crew "member" permissions are able to invite other crew members.
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Fixed a bug with the deduction of taxi fares.
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Clicking the "cancel" button while editing a floor will no longer break the screen panning.
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Fixed the inception bug that allowed you to play CasinoRPG inside of CasinoRPG from the news screen.
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Prevent crew bank deposits of 0 chips/casino points.
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Fixed a rare poker tournament bug that could have caused issues when switching between tables.
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Getting a 21 on a blackjack split now correctly auto stands.
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A rare bug could cause ghosting of players in blackjack, which should now be fixed.
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Fixed bug in sprint party missions that could have prevented your stats from visually updating.
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Pre-select the correct crew logo on the settings screen.
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If you don't select a crew description, prevent the placeholder text from being saved as your description.
February 25, 2014
If you are interested in hearing about some of the vision we've got for the future, be sure to check out the TED talk that James gave recently about the power of truly social games.

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Crews! This is a feature similar to guilds in other MMO's, where you can form a crew, team up with friends and challenge other crews to gambling battles. Crews can also get upgrades like XP and casino bonuses. You can also purchase a crew lot and build a Crew Hall where your members can hang out, meet and show off. Your crew name will show over your character, on your profile and in global chat.
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Global chat has been updated to add a new tab for crew chat. This is chat that can only be seen with others in your crew. You can chat in crew chat by going to the tab, or typing "/c" before your message.
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The client now checks with the server that it is running the latest version of the game and notifies you if you are out of date. This will be especially useful when we push out new updates, as you'll get an instant notification of the new version.
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The following medals are now awarding correctly: Millionaire, Elevator Music, 90 Hours Played.
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Fixed several issues from this past weekend that were causing server crashes and other various issues.
February 18, 2014
CONTEST UPDATE: Due to the below mentioned bug that has now been fixed, we've extended the referral contest by a week.

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Bartender Job: This new job is unlocked once you reach level 10 janitor status. You access this job the same way as the janitor job. Get ready to mix drinks for the onslaught of casino patrons and see if you can get a new high score!
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Fix bug that was causing share links to not always load your casino floor correctly.
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Fix bug in Roulette that would sometimes cause 2 spins to happen simultaneously if a player left at the same instant that the first spin was starting.
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Purchasing a casino/condo item now updates the status of other items based on your updated chips/casino point totals.
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Fix a few bugs with slots.
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Fix a bug in that caused by scrolling too quickly.
February 8, 2014

NEW CONTEST: For the next month we'll be running a referral contest with some big prizes. We've made it incredibly easy to participate and win, so get all all of the details by clicking the contest icon in-game (to the right of the Casino Points display) and by going to this forum post.

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53 new character customization options are now available (there's even a ninja outfit)!
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In preparation for upcoming jobs, we've created a "job board" that lets you access all of your jobs and see an overview of stats for all of them. You currently access this the same way you access the janitor job (by clicking on the mop bucket in your condo).
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There are now keyboard shortcuts for the Yes (y) and No (no) buttons when selecting what to do about insurance in Blackjack.
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Fixed a bug in Roulette that threw an error saying you didn't have enough chips when you had only the amount for one max bet.
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Adding/removing friends from the profile inside CasinoRPG now works correctly.
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Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause world objects to visually disappear (such as flower beds in parks).
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Several bugs relating to Roulette jackpots have been squashed.
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Updated our audio engine to fix some cross-browser issues.
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Repositioned an out of place fire hydrant and manhole.
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Prevent the taxi window from being cut off on smaller screens.
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Leaving BJ/Roulette on an upper floor no longer causes the outside walls/lower floors to disappear.
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Various bug fixes for sprint party missions.
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Various bug fixes and tweaks with the new slots.
February 5, 2014
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Jungle Slots! Our latest and greatest third slot theme is now available to play and place in your own casino.
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Along with the jungle slots comes a whopping 42 new jungle themed items!
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32 new indoor tiles are now available for your casinos and condos, including some new jungle-themed tiles.
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New leaderboards! You can now track the rankings for: Roulette Rounds, Largest Slot Wins, Poker Winnings, Total Casino Profit and Current Consecutive Days.
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The formula that calculates the score used in the monthly and all-time rankings has been completely recreated to give a better overall look at gameplay.
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The timer on Roulette is now 25 seconds instead of 20.
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Several Roulette bug fixes and tweaks.
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Various other bug fixes.
February 3, 2014
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Yes, the much anticipated fourth casino game is finally here - Roulette! Just go up to any roulette table to play (there is a new roulette table item that can be purchased for your casinos). This is a standard roulette game with one zero that seats up to 4 players at once. There is also a progressive jackpot.
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The Bounty mission (first team party mission) can now be started more than once every reset period.
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Other players will no longer appear to "teleport" randomly when walking around the map.
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Fixed bug with bartenders not always staffing open bars.
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Fixed a few more pigeon pass bugs.
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Various other bugs and tweaks.
January 29, 2014
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We now have our first team-based party mission: The Bounty! The premise is that some modern-day Robin Hoods thought it would be a good idea to raid a few of the local banks and spread the wealth. You are tasked with assembling a crack team to track down the lost chips. This is a race against time and wits as you must collect them before the other team! Check near local banks to find this mission giver.
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There is now an option in Poker Cash Games to select a 6-player table rather than just the default of 9 players.
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All casino game jackpots (Poker, Blackjack & Slots) now reset to 25,000 chips instead of 0 chips when someone wins.
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Anyone banned from global chat will now also be banned from local chat as well.
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Your casino managers will now longer spam you with alerts about extra garbage.
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An error is no longer thrown when you are trying to list your only 25 Casino Points for sale.
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Fixed issue with adding items to vault over your single casino limit.
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Several other various bug fixes.