Thursday, 2 June 2011

Major overhaul for Corrie Nation

New Media Age is reporting that ITV is going to pull its social networking game, Corrie Nation, at the end of July in order to give it a major overhaul. Its popularity has been falling and ITV have been looking for a new development team to expand the game.

An ITV spokeswoman said, “As part of our ongoing transformation strategy, we are exploring how users want to interact with all our key programme brands outside of the linear TV experience. As part of that process, we are planning to take Corrie Nation offline for further development in the summer.”


I tried the game briefly but it didn't really grab me. Then again, I don't think I was really part of its target audience. I know some of the blog's readers are players, how do you feel about it?
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous2 June 2011 at 14:57

    i have played this game from the beginning. a great concept but was far too rushed from the start at the beginning you could purchase many items but with little corrie gold now and for the past three months ! nothing new has been added to the game . i am so dissapointed and i am pleased it is being taken off ! lets hope it comes back better than this attempt has been !

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  2. Chewy2 June 2011 at 15:06

    Glad to hear it, I played the game for months, hoping for Wider Weatherfield, then suddenly the "Coming Soon" disappeared and no more updates were done, it felt very half done. I hope the new dev team show more love to it

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  3. bbhilda2 June 2011 at 15:56

    I tried it for a while, but couldn't really see the point of it. Maybe I wasn't playing it properly, but each time I played I ran out of things to do, and never seemed to get enough gold to buy much. You kept getting the same easy questions over and over again for the characters, I found it boring.

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  4. Anonymous2 June 2011 at 16:06

    I loved the game, but within a couple of months I had bought all of the buildings and characters and completed the collections. I waited for updates, new characters and for "wider Weatherfield" to appear but it never happened. Hope the redevelopment is better.

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  5. Chewy2 June 2011 at 16:56

    I feel sorry for those users who bought Corrie Gold

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  6. Steve2 June 2011 at 17:17

    couldn't get on with it - seemed to be no purpose

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  7. PeteJK2 June 2011 at 18:22

    I played it for about a Month from the start... then it started getting boring. It started to get slow and quite frankly I didn't want to play it anymore. However with Cityville, one of my most frequent Facebook games(I'm on it all the time xD), it's fast and playable with lot's of goals and collectables... let's say the game is expandable. Now I hope the new Corrie Nation will be like this, come on ITV look at the other Facebook games! :)

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  8. Frosty the Snowman2 June 2011 at 19:09

    Game is pretty boring and just the same thing. Pretty rubbish, needs a lot of improving.

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  9. Anonymous2 June 2011 at 22:04

    I would have tried it, but I don't have Facebook. Maybe it would have attracted more casual users without the Facebook login.

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  10. Anonymous3 June 2011 at 22:56

    I tried it. It crashed everytime the Rovers needed 'restocking' and.. yeah, just... tedious...
    Had to keep reloading the game to make any sort of progress, but definitely felt like it was lacking in any sort of real 'game play'. If they'd have included 'mini-games' to compliment it rather than additional 'quizzes' that failed to load half the time.
    It could've been something really good, but it wasn't. Lets just hope that 'CorrieNation 2.0' has the look and feel of a game that you can't leave alone that includes more interaction within the game rather than depend on 'neighbours' all the time to help with missions and tasks (which should be left to all the 'villes' that there are out there already - why be so samey??) I want a CorrieNation game that relies on ME and what *I* know and be able to share that. Interaction is key and playability has to be user orientated rather than 'oh, I need 900 neighbours to put a pigeon on the cobbles if I buy 4,000 newspapers from the Kabin and distribute them'.
    There are way too many scams for me to enjoy other games on Facebook, so CorrieNation has to stand out to be one that's not affected that relies on the gameplay from the user who logged in, not anything else!
    Until CorrieNation 2.0 rolls out, I'm giving up games on Facebook until it proves to be amazing.
    And then I'll decide.

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  11. Anonymous30 October 2012 at 02:10

    Are they ever going to bring the Corrie Nation game back? What is taking so long? It has been months! Have they "thrown in the towel" or are they still working on a new game? I really want to play the new Corrie Nation if it ever comes back. I hope they continue to parallel the game with what is going on in the street. It is fun to follow along. :)

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