I generally refrain from inappropriately reviewing products or services in a negative light; however, I created a ticket in July of 2024 that received absolutely no response despite being pinged and notified. Although I swiftly resolved said issue by disabling KixsChatGames's AFK tracker, I still believe said issue should have been responded to and addressed.
Generally, I'm more adimant to being respectful to open source plugins, given I have the option to assist and resolve said issues; however, this isn't the case. That said (in the same ticket no less), instantiated an additional mention regarding integrating Folia support (which likely isn't remarkably challenging for this resource); with once again no response. As a result, I'm forced to remake the plugin from scratch just to migrate over to a platform that functionally (by design) is similar to Paper and generally just needs scheduler modifications.
If you are running a server with KixsChatGames, run KixsChatGames on Paper/alternative fork, enable sync-response-processor, and disable exclude-afk-players, KixsChatGames will perform and act optimally. Otherwise, support is improbable and so is your ability to request new features with a provided response concerning viability.
I'm very sorry to hear about your poor experience with KixsChatGames and my support. I understand how frustrating and time consuming it can be to deal with server issues like this and a lack of support from the developer.
With the sheer volume of tickets and inquires I receive, it is not uncommon for some tickets to appear to be ignored. In reality, I am just working through a very large queue and doing my best to prioritize what seems most pressing. Unfortunately, many users feel as though they have an extremely pressing issue and ping me repeatedly when in reality it is not that. This adds to the complication because it makes it harder for me to sort everything. Like in your case, even with pinging some pressing tickets may unintentionally fall into low priority. In that case it's important to reach out to me via SpigotMC dms or even consider DMing me directly on Discord or writing in the support channel instead of a ticket. These all raise the likeliness I will be able to respond accordingly to the priority of the request.
While I do my best to to keep up with all inquires, there is typically a delay before I can fully address every request. I am only one person and pleasing everyone is simply not feasible at this scale. I am a student and have extremely limited time these days to nurture my plugins and users like I did in the past. In the limited time I do have to provide support, I have to prioritize critical issues reported by multiple users over support for implementing new features such as Folia support, or addressing one off issues likely stemming from the environment the plugin is running in. At the end of the day I am a Spigot developer and this is a Spigot plugin. I have never had intention to add multi platform support for it, even for Paper. While its certainly something I'd like to do for all my resources eventually, I do not have the time on my hands at this period and instead am focusing on keeping scope maintainable for my resources.
If you reach back out in my support discord and reference this review I would be happy to take a look at your situation and see what I can do. I have not received other reports of significant performance problems relating to this plugin, so I believe your experience may be partially or entirely related to your environment or configuration. I'd also like to mention that by enabling the sync response processor the plugin will actually use more resources and process responses on the main thread, which is highly unadvisable over asynchronous processing. This option should only be enabled if you have issues with the async processor. Async processing may appear laggier if the server is already under load because it is waiting for the server to have sufficient resources before processing, as to not further lag the server.
Finally, regarding your open source comment, I totally agree. I'm happy to let you know that I do plan to open source all my paid resources at some time in the near future so the users and plugins can receive the development and improvements that I have been unable to provide due to my personal circumstances.
All in all I appreciate the mostly positive review. And again please feel free to reach back out. SpigotMC dms are the best place for extremely urgent problems as I receive much less traffic there.
Version: 2.1.8
Plugin is amazing! Comes with such a HUGE library of already created games that are super easy to edit and add in your own to. Was by far one of the easiest plugins ive found to configure! I cannot recommend plugins by this dev enough!
Thank you very much for the kind review and recommendation!
Glad you enjoy the plugins :)
Version: 2.1.3
This plugin is awesome! Ignore all reviews that are negative! :) When setting up this plugin I recommend changing the Required Players to 0 if you are playing with a smaller group of people. You can also change the time interval for games to which is cool! :D
I just want to say this plugin is outstanding, from switching to ChatReaction to this was worth every penny. It was annoying to configure at first however players love it and it's worth its price.
Review much appreciated! Glad you enjoy the plugin :)
Version: 2.0.2
very slow support, the plugin has a major bug where if you don't restart your server for over 3-5 days. the answers take around 20 seconds to get registered by the plugin. and if it goes up to 6 days the plugin runs out of the configured time before registering the chat answer. The plugin also causes lag and I reported this one month ago.
I apologize for the slow responses, university takes up most of my time these days. I do my best when I have the free time though :)
I'm afraid the delayed answer registration is not a bug. The plugin runs async to prevent lag, meaning if the server is under load, KCG waits until there is enough available resources to complete processing. The only thing I can do about this is to add an option to make processing sync, which will cause lag if your server is already under load.
It's good practice to restart your server daily. If you're using a lot of plugins, chances are a good few are not handling their memory usage properly. As you've said, after 3-5 days the issue occurs, which leads me to believe that the server memory is being slowly consumed by memory leaks in other plugins, which ultimately makes async tasks delayed.
I am happy to add a sync option, but do note that this will cause lag if the server is already under load, which it appears to be.
Hope this helps clear things up! Thank you
Version: 1.9.9
Since i added the plugin to my server and now it has been performing excellent!
I had the problem that the chat in my server became inactive so i searched for a solution. This is the solution! I started using kix's chat games and i've been using it for about a week now. My servers chat has become a lot and I mean a lot more active than before.
The plugin is easy to setup and you can just add as many trivia questions as you want.
I would love to see more chatgames than the plugin already has!
Just wanted to say that after setting up the chat game plugin just now it seems incredibly well made and it was a joy to configure.
I also really like the way the colors and formatting is from default so I barely had to change anything in regards to that it looks pretty amazing straight out of the box!
Felt the need to say something since it's rarely this nice to setup a new plugin.
One of the best plugins a server owner can add to its server to spice it up. Would definetely recommend it. Also, plugin's ready after loading it up, no need for excessive configuration everything's premade. Easy to setup and edit, excellent plugin and documentation overall. Developer is fairly friendly and eager to help.
The developer legit spent multiple hours if not days helping me get sorted with the plugin. Had some conflicting plugins that made Chat Games a bit wonky but the developer pumped out multiple versions to help get it resolved. Without a doubt the best.
Additionally, the plugin has multiple game modes as well as a leaderboard so it is the full package.
The best chat games plugin out there. I'v tried couple of plugins like this one, but none of them worked perfectly like this one! And support is the fastest that i'v ever seen. This plugin is worth 100% of the money. Keep up the good work.
Absolute godsend plugin. I was using Simple Chatgames until I needed something for 1.17 and this is so much better! I am absolutely in love with the ability to have a pool of random prizes, the trivia is easy to set up and generally the plugin is very lovely.
I had an issue and joined the discord. Almost instant response and Kix reacted with a plugin update.
Chat games are a central thing of the fun and the chat on my server, so I seriously could not stop talking about how happy I am with this plugin. 100% worth it, would buy twice if I could
12/10
If you've read the plugin page, you probably already know some of its features, that it's incredibly lightweight, high-quality, and so on. I'm not going to repeat those features since you can just reread the plugin page if you need those. Instead, I'll add to that and tell you about my experience with this plugin.
If you look at my other reviews, I usually have suggestions for the author, even if the review is 5 stars. That's not the case for this, since there's literally nothing I could think of to make it even better as it's already super good.
This plugin will boost player retention & engagement with the community, and reward them for being active in the chat. It'll integrate them into the community, which is very important for almost any server.
You can set the chat games to happen pretty frequently and some will think they're so much fun, they'll spend lots more hours on the server playing chat games.
Finally, there's a wide variety of trivia questions, vocabulary words, and also chat game types that come with this plugin, meaning players will never get sick of chat games, and even if they do you can sell toggling chat games as a rank perk!
TL:DR: If you want to grow your server or give back to your community, BUY THIS PLUGIN!
Excellent plugin! A very good way to make the chat much more interactive! It has good pre-made configurations and very good customization! Excelent dev <3
Thank you for the review! I will add the force start command next release :D
Version: 1.0.0
This was the only chat game plugin I found that supports doing trivia, Kix always makes very high-quality plugins so I knew that this would be a great addition to my server.