Update: Rewards and Server Status (8/4)

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  • IReallyHatePVP
    IReallyHatePVP Posts: 254
    Prolly the best they can do, without just saying: here, have a Deadpool/The Hood cover, or 'sorry our servers burned down. Here's some gol-Hero Points'

    Now everyone go get their goats ready for those token(s).
  • Pylgrim
    Pylgrim Posts: 2,332 Chairperson of the Boards
    saurus wrote:
    I appreciate the compensation, considering that nobody really lost anything from the pve event going down...

    But was anyone else having connection issues hours before the crash? I couldnt log in for four of the five last hours of the even and ended up a soul crushing 7th, 200 points from 5th - and had been in first before the problem started.

    True, nobody lost anything from the pve. On the other hand, LOTS of people lost whatever they were aiming to get from the Thor PVP. I was aiming for a Yellow Hood cover. I got 750 "compensation" Iso-8 in the form of three 2*s. Yoo-freacking-hoo.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Pylgrim wrote:
    saurus wrote:
    I appreciate the compensation, considering that nobody really lost anything from the pve event going down...

    But was anyone else having connection issues hours before the crash? I couldnt log in for four of the five last hours of the even and ended up a soul crushing 7th, 200 points from 5th - and had been in first before the problem started.

    True, nobody lost anything from the pve. On the other hand, LOTS of people lost whatever they were aiming to get from the Thor PVP. I was aiming for a Yellow Hood cover. I got 750 "compensation" Iso-8 in the form of three 2*s. Yoo-freacking-hoo.
    It's the tactic of appeasing the largest percentage of your userbase by doing the least amount possible to do so. I would think there would be a great majority of those who weren't affected as much with the lost PvP hour and who viewed the compensation as bonus than ppl who were actually aiming for the hood covers (such as myself) and got **** by pulling nothing of use (750 iso) in the compensation packs. If the majority was the other way then they would've thought of a better compensation scheme (or would they?).
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It is just nice that when something goes wrong with the game that they at least try to give you something for your troubles. How many other games would not even compensate the players. Things could be worst!

    On to bigger and better things. In time things will get better supporting the players.
  • Unknown
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    yeah 750 iso is a joke for those who did put in hours into these events to try and get a needed cover.

    since the server outage was their mistake and many players did invest time in these events, they should compensate with one of the covers from each event people got screwed over instead of tokens and bag men.
  • scottee
    scottee Posts: 1,610 Chairperson of the Boards
    You know who's not on the forums complaining? All the people who were awarded covers because they were ranked higher than you when the servers went down. The playerbase overall did not lose out on covers. They still gave away the same amount. Actually, they gave out even more 3*'s than normal because of all the tokens.

    Yes, some people were planning to push late to try to move up in ranking. But the operative word is "try". It's not guaranteed that you'd gain enough points to move up. It's not guaranteed that the other people in your bracket weren't planning a late push too. It's not guaranteed that you would have gained another cover. You could have had 2 bad cascade matches in a row and actually lost points and ranking.

    So unless you all have invented an alternative timeline machine to see what would have happened if the servers hadn't gone down, the most you lost is the *opportunity* to play at the end of the event and move up.

    (BTW, the above machine should be called the Rabbit Hunter, and it would be used much more to give peace of mind over poker decisions than whether you would have won a cover or not.)
  • h4n1s
    h4n1s Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    Pylgrim wrote:
    saurus wrote:
    I appreciate the compensation, considering that nobody really lost anything from the pve event going down...

    But was anyone else having connection issues hours before the crash? I couldnt log in for four of the five last hours of the even and ended up a soul crushing 7th, 200 points from 5th - and had been in first before the problem started.

    True, nobody lost anything from the pve. On the other hand, LOTS of people lost whatever they were aiming to get from the Thor PVP. I was aiming for a Yellow Hood cover. I got 750 "compensation" Iso-8 in the form of three 2*s. Yoo-freacking-hoo.

    I must have been lucky, got three 3* covers out of those tokens - Patch, Psylocke and Loki..
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    scottee wrote:
    Yes, some people were planning to push late to try to move up in ranking. But the operative word is "try". It's not guaranteed that you'd gain enough points to move up. It's not guaranteed that the other people in your bracket weren't planning a late push too. It's not guaranteed that you would have gained another cover. You could have had 2 bad cascade matches in a row and actually lost points and ranking.

    And the chances would actually have been even worse than usual for people to do all that well in that last hour since so many people had been neglecting the pvp all day to focus entirely on the pve. It was obvious very early on from how low the average pvp scores were compared to usual that there was going to be a massive flood of pvp attacks the second Deadpool ended. It was going to be the worst time possible to try the "do it all in the last hour" strategy. It would have been a severely messy hour.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Ralstonator wrote:
    scottee wrote:
    Yes, some people were planning to push late to try to move up in ranking. But the operative word is "try". It's not guaranteed that you'd gain enough points to move up. It's not guaranteed that the other people in your bracket weren't planning a late push too. It's not guaranteed that you would have gained another cover. You could have had 2 bad cascade matches in a row and actually lost points and ranking.

    And the chances would actually have been even worse than usual for people to do all that well in that last hour since so many people had been neglecting the pvp all day to focus entirely on the pve. It was obvious very early on from how low the average pvp scores were compared to usual that there was going to be a massive flood of pvp attacks the second Deadpool ended. It was going to be the worst time possible to try the "do it all in the last hour" strategy. It would have been a severely messy hour.
    I know for a fact that I would have been able to climb to top 5 easily (maxed Sentry, Thor, Daken and 9 other 3*s), but I'm not complaining about the outage. I got off lightly, since I climbed to top 10 just before the outage and the Hood covers I got went to my secondary Hood anyway. Season-schmeason. Those that were less lucky, I feel sorry for. But it can always happen, and so, like memento mori, hamstero mori.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    scottee wrote:
    You know who's not on the forums complaining? All the people who were awarded covers because they were ranked higher than you when the servers went down. The playerbase overall did not lose out on covers. They still gave away the same amount. Actually, they gave out even more 3*'s than normal because of all the tokens.

    Yes, some people were planning to push late to try to move up in ranking. But the operative word is "try". It's not guaranteed that you'd gain enough points to move up. It's not guaranteed that the other people in your bracket weren't planning a late push too. It's not guaranteed that you would have gained another cover. You could have had 2 bad cascade matches in a row and actually lost points and ranking.

    So unless you all have invented an alternative timeline machine to see what would have happened if the servers hadn't gone down, the most you lost is the *opportunity* to play at the end of the event and move up.

    (BTW, the above machine should be called the Rabbit Hunter, and it would be used much more to give peace of mind over poker decisions than whether you would have won a cover or not.)
    Again, it's not exactly rocket science, when people have been doing it reliably for months now. Espeically for people who hadn't even started the pvp. I'm fairly sure if your score is 0, it's pretty kitty hard to push and not actually improve your rating
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    I meant to say memento hamsteri (?) but whatever. Morghulis hamsters, etc.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    So, has anyone else been getting intermittent comlinks today? As in, like, right now?

    I was trying to make a push in the pvp to shield up, but apparently it doesn't want to let me

    EDIT: that's weird, it's working on steam, but not on my phone (using both wifi and cell data). It apparently thought I retreated a few times though, downing hood and taking like 40% off the other 2 characters on my team
  • scottee
    scottee Posts: 1,610 Chairperson of the Boards
    Spoit wrote:
    scottee wrote:
    You know who's not on the forums complaining? All the people who were awarded covers because they were ranked higher than you when the servers went down. The playerbase overall did not lose out on covers. They still gave away the same amount. Actually, they gave out even more 3*'s than normal because of all the tokens.

    Yes, some people were planning to push late to try to move up in ranking. But the operative word is "try". It's not guaranteed that you'd gain enough points to move up. It's not guaranteed that the other people in your bracket weren't planning a late push too. It's not guaranteed that you would have gained another cover. You could have had 2 bad cascade matches in a row and actually lost points and ranking.

    So unless you all have invented an alternative timeline machine to see what would have happened if the servers hadn't gone down, the most you lost is the *opportunity* to play at the end of the event and move up.

    (BTW, the above machine should be called the Rabbit Hunter, and it would be used much more to give peace of mind over poker decisions than whether you would have won a cover or not.)
    Again, it's not exactly rocket science, when people have been doing it reliably for months now. Espeically for people who hadn't even started the pvp. I'm fairly sure if your score is 0, it's pretty kitty hard to push and not actually improve your rating
    Yeah, there is a percentage of the population whose push would be guaranteed. They're the main ones that miss out. For them, it gets chalked up to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    Though the strategic advantages of pushing in the last hour do need to be weighed in relation to the risks of things like server/internet going down, cascades of death, real-life emergencies, letting others in the bracket think they have a chance. This game doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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