Let’s Keep it in Perspective
While the messaging re the start of the BH bonus drops was messed up, it’s not the end of the world. This is a great game. It’s easy to get caught up in momentary frustration, but we all make mistakes. While some of the stuff CG does is cash-grabby, they don’t hide the ball, and I don’t think for a second there was anything nefarious going on with this miscommunication.
I understand people want recompense if they used crystals to refresh energy based on the erroneous communication. Personally I used energy thinking it was live, but I used it in a place I would have used it regardless. So there were no bonus drops when I thought there were going to be some. I’ll live.
I hate to see people so angry that the game is no longer fun for them. CG has been better than most hosts at comp’ing players when something goes wrong on their end.
Let’s have fun. It’s the weekend, and OT Chewie is inbound!
I understand people want recompense if they used crystals to refresh energy based on the erroneous communication. Personally I used energy thinking it was live, but I used it in a place I would have used it regardless. So there were no bonus drops when I thought there were going to be some. I’ll live.
I hate to see people so angry that the game is no longer fun for them. CG has been better than most hosts at comp’ing players when something goes wrong on their end.
Let’s have fun. It’s the weekend, and OT Chewie is inbound!
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I spent my normal refresh on Bastila and confirmed no event. It’s bad messaging. CG has stated in the dev posts about it. No loss.
I would also suggest for future bonus drop events for the devs to include a picture of what the bonus event table looks like with the in game announcement. How many people playing the game do not come to these forums at all or until there is a problem. I plan on posting a PSA for the next event like this with a picture of the table(unless CG does it for me) but that won't reach all the players like an in game mail would.
What do they have to gain from botching the announcement? It's at worst incompetency.
Not from me, I never trust these people.
Then why play? Why would you get involved with a company you don't trust? You wouldn't buy a car from someone you thought it wouldnt be good...
I've played games that make CGs communication look top notch. Yeah, they botched it, but it's not like it wasn't readily apparent
Edited for language. - EA_Cian
At best your point has some merritt because there's a way to tell if an event isn't active. I guess you feel the two communications that went out saying it was active, isn't enough to justify people being upset, then that's on you!
Agreed. MSF is much worse at this than CG. That is even with all the time to see the good and bad of this game model
Have a little awareness that some of the player base plans their game time and energy use on official in game messaging and Dev posts on the forums.
Midnight local time means when your day refresh is, so if there is the infamous DST in the mix it could be 11-12-1 depend9ng on when you started playing
If you’re told “your workweek starts on Monday”, and then you show up at 11:59 pm Monday night, you’d be immediately fired for stupidity and incompetence.
“Poor communications” is when insufficient information is provided. That is frankly preferable to MISinformation, which is what this was (at best).
"If I get a Temporary Work Assignment with Capital Games and I am scheduled to work from the 22nd through the 26th, since it's Capital Games you don't show up to work on the 26th as it will be over 11:59pm on the 25th."
Then Compare it to this:
Just to be doubly clear about TopHat’s message mentioning “through” the 26th, Bounty Hunter Bonus Drops will go live on 9/22 at midnight Player Local Time and stop at the end of the day of the 9/25.
We are working on messaging and timing so we can prevent this in the future. This may result in some adjustments to the start time of events to prevent this confusion.
IF THEY WOULD QUIT CONFUSING US THEN WE WOULDN'T BE CONFUSED!!!
This is a good idea... I like it. No promise that it’s our final version but it’s definitely got merit. Thanks for suggesting!
How about there is a glowing circle saying bonus on the right hand side of the main screen, and the ls and ds tables have glowing gold font..... And, when you go to a hard node when bonuses are active, they could show you the bonus shards you could earn, highlighted in gold with the the word bonus under them...... that would help.is know.when bonus events are on....
Oh wait..... Nevermind....
Same. Bonus drops have always been activated upon daily refresh. I didn't see any reason for this to be different and it wasn't.
Because in SBCrumb’s original dev post on sept 20th, the title said “starts tomorrow” and also said “runs from September 21st...” when they didn’t start until the 22nd. You can even see the strikeout edit in the post.
For clarity, I am a 6 mo player who knew to look for the glowing things and was not fooled, but a few vets were. Many of the newer players who hadn't experienced the double drops(and the recent slicing bonus was only on level 80+ accounts) did not know what to look for and were fooled. But after a while, you have to start accepting responsibility for continuing the same actions hoping for different results.