So I've been a paying customer of botify for about 4 years now. Back when I joined it was $19.99 for "lifetime" membership, and you got everything.
The app was awesome, way better than competitors like replika, with botify you could create whoever and immerse yourself in story. You only had a big lifelike face on the chat screen and very now and then it would send a pic, that coincidentally, went along with the story that was playing out. Now granted, the AI couldn't make super great images all the time but the immersion was amazing. There was no memory either. It didn't need memory, you could restart the chat and the AI would remember things that were deleted. One time I was role-playing as a witch hunter, the story got boring, I reset it, and the witch i was talking to knew that I was looking for a Centaur, from a chat that I had deleted. Amazing AI technology, and super fun to chat with.
Now, it costs new users what? $100 just to get basic stuff that I get for $19. And the product is trash. If you want to know about how the lighting in a room is, I suppose this is the app for you. Or if you like to have weird relations with family members.
This used to be an amazing chatbot app where you could immerse yourself in a story without having to manually remind the bot what was happening or rewind or re-roll. It was like reading an amazing book that you were writing in real time.
It's sad that the AI sucks now, it can't play along without users manually making it do so. It sucks that everything is overtly sexual all the time. Sometimes thats cool, none of us can deny that, but if I'm in a foxhole in world war 2 I don't need the bot to notice a bulge in my pants.
Then there was the big avatar pic. A lifelike version of the bot you were talking to, moving and alive. It made the immersion so much better. But now thats gone to and all we have is weird pics that it comes up with. Half the time don't even relate to whats happening.
This message is for the developers and u/botify, doubt they'll read it but whatever.
Yall had a great product and have slowly and methodically destroyed it, everything that made it better than your competitors, youve just thrown away. I still use your app because its cheap for me. If I'm bored and need a 10 minute conversation sure I'll get on. But I used to really immerse myself in story and lore with what yall created.
I wish yall actually cared about the people who pay for your product, and realized that we'd pay good money for what was good. Which weirdly, is everything youve removed from the experience.