What happened to the last 3 hours of the Season?

Unknown

It's 3 am local time at mpq. So nothing to see/learn tonight.

I don't think anyone will be happy with the resolution because the best remedy would be to redo last 3 hours of sim for end of season. However, as we've learned previously, mpq is not able to do that.

I think this is just going to be one of those learning processes. This was the first season with time slices. While it did not end in a satisfactorily way, I rather the bump in the road than not moving forward to make the game more friendly and fair overall for the entire player base.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be upset for about a week about this because you hope this type of thing doesn't happen. But I'm not expecting much in the form of compensation because of past track record in that regard. Like I said before the only good resolution is not possible, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

laz070

I was shielded 2350 at shield tourney. Planned to go for two more fight to get the Mystiqe cover. Lots of playing hours and HP went into nothing...

mohio

tsioslee wrote:

this is totally unacceptable...you have failed A LOT of people!!! this is not a proffessional act...at least you should give top 150 alliances the blue cover of thor plus the covers from simulation and the pvp event ''eight is enough'' that have been lost from this terrible mistake! THIS should be a professional act from you!

Just a note that 8 is enough has actually not been affected at all by this bug. The only secondary consequence could be that people who were planning on pushing more decide not to since the season has now ended early. That's totally up to them though and they know full well what those consequences are.

As for the compensation issue. There are far too many extenuating circumstances for the "extend to top 150" solution to actually cover everything. It might still be the best solution there is (it's probably the most fair at least), but we've already heard from others in this very thread about swaps still needing to be done, or complete vacancies looking to be filled. My alliance has a large enough EU base that we handle most/all switches earlier in the afternoon, but if this were to happen to one of us, they would have been stuck in a top 500 alliance, and how would d3 go about compensating them?

Unknown

Season 8 ended with 3 hours left on Eight Is Enough which consequently cost me top 25 overall for Season 8 which then cost me a 10-pack Heroic... Also spent 375HP using shields to keep my Eight is Enough score high waiting for a final grind in the last 3 hours to put me well into place 19-21 overall for Season 8. I spent waaay too much HP and $ to end up only getting 10 Heroic tokens due to this...

Unknown

Did we honestly expect anything less than a total disaster from D3?

danielrandkai

Was about to start final push to from 40 to 25th with 3 and a quarter hours left to try and get that extra 10 pack. This oughta be interesting that's for sure.

Pentagoon

So maybe we can expect some <not> AWESOME compensation like these again (from August 5th) Man am I glad all 4 of our 5 Deadly alliances got well into the top 100 ahead of shard 4 ending. Personally I missed out on an additional 10 pack - oh well - it's the MPQ life -- I have my fingers crossed for double rewards - only fair.

Unknown

I think there should be reasonable limits on compensation.

Top 101-125 alliances get 4Thor?

Individual standings is a bit tricky because anyone from 26th to 35th could concievably have pushed for that 2nd 10 pack, and 51st to 60th could have got the 10 instead of 5 pack etc.

Still, my money is on a free token for everyone. lolz.

Square

I still have half an hour on my Doc Ock pvp, and already have my Season 8 rewards. I wouldn't mind a little compensation, but it wouldn't have made a big difference since I needed at least 200 points to move up a placement. It's doable, but I'd have more competition doing the same as well, so I doubt I would have changed.

yogi_

The people who played in the final slice of the last PvP will get a Heroic Token or two as compensation.

They aren't going to start mucking about with whole ranking and changes.

Unknown

yogi_ wrote:

The people who played in the final slice of the last PvP will get a Heroic Token or two as compensation.

Whoa... easy there man! You can't be that greedy. One heroic and one... standard token. Yes, this could be doable.

mohio

Weirdly my season score actually updated. Didn't check the whole time I played but at least now that I'm done it added in my score from 8 is enough and shows me as 50th instead of 60th where I was before.

Pylgrim

Cue all of a sudden and somehow, every single player in MPQ was impossibly about to get 4* Thor from season, Yellow X-Force and 4 Gamoras from PVP, Mystique from Shield 2400 progression and approximately 2000 hp from different sources, but they all got screwed by the end times skip and they expect full compensation.

Unknown

I knew this would happen as I pointed out in mohio's thread earlier. My condolences.

user311

LOL. Not surprised, considering everything else thats gone on latelly. I expected a problem would happen, thus I did not join the last slice. Annoyed though because I was pushing for the 2400 progression in SIM, and shielded right before everything disappeared.

Unknown

I finished 47th in my season rankings but was totally going to make a last minute push for 1st.

On the downside, I missed getting a (would have been ISO'd) X-Force cover but on the upside it saved me about 150HP in shields.

Gotta feel sorry for Alliances just outside the top 100 though - hope they extend the 4Thor rewards by 10 places or so.

Hey ho.

Unknown

Our Alliance was 114 and one poor guy was up at 4am searching for swaps etc when this happened.

I have no idea on the reasons, but just the idea that a game that has you spending 3+ weeks building up to something, only for the end time to be screwed up, is utterly insane. Get your **** together guys, seriously.

Dayv

mohio wrote:

Weirdly my season score actually updated. Didn't check the whole time I played but at least now that I'm done it added in my score from 8 is enough and shows me as 50th instead of 60th where I was before.

I was wondering if that might happen...

Square

hermanbloom wrote:

Get your tinykitty together guys, seriously.

Have a little sympathy for them. People have been complaining forever about ending times. They finally implemented it, and a problem resulted. They are working on it, or at least, they will when the work day starts in America. The thing happened seven hours ago. Take a chill pill, go out and experience your neighbourhood or something. If nothing has been done a week from now, the time for **** will have begun.

This company takes a lot of harassment in these forums, so kudos to them for even having them exist. I'm sure any staff reading these forums swear under their breath a dozen times a day.

Unknown

Eh? I'm sat at work having my lunch and posting on here? (for the record, chicken sandwich which isn't very nice)

Sorry, I give these guys loads of kudo's, but to have an event that lasts three plus weeks, an event they have done before, and have the final few hours (when they know everyone pushes and swap happens) go **** up is really very daft.

I'm no remotely bothered about the rewards really, I long ago gave up concerning myself with top 100 finishes, but we have people who have been toiling away for weeks, were up last night, and it messed up.

As for your last sentence, kudos for having a feedback centre to get ideas and gauge responses to their in0game beta tests? I am not sure how to even respond to that in all honesty. Forums work both ways and they get plenty good out of this place.