Knee Jerk reactions out of frustration.

Shadowslayer

Ill start by saying that ive been part of many gaming communities, as i imagine most here have been. This is has been the absolute worst gaming experience ive endured, with no real solution for it. I get that things got screwed up. But when you have a product you are charging a consumer base for , you have to be held more accountable for the lows, just like celebrating the highs. This game STILL has so much potential and im not ready to write it off, however there is zero trust in the dev team to do this job correctly. If you cant step up, please step down.

EvilDead

You obviously never endured old school MMORPGs on "Patch" days. It was often almost pointless to try and play for 1-2 days because EVERYTHING was screwed up. Those were monthly subscription models, so you were always paying "not to play" on patch day!

Everyone is frustrated but soon we'll have forgotten this patch and hopefully we'll not endure such a huge outage in the future. 

ZW2007-

I played World of Warcraft for years in the beginning and anytime there was a full day of down time, they added an extra day onto the end of my sub.

Shadowslayer

While i appreciate your input, i dont see how forgetting about this helps anyone. Letting a company off the hook for pushing out updates that break the game (repeatedly) isn't a good look for the longevity of a game. This isnt "old school" gaming. The market is far more competitive than it ever has been before. And comparing short comings of other updates, doesnt negate what another company does. 

EvilDead

Hopefully, we'll get something for all the downtime and chaos. The game it seems, is almost 99% up and running. At least very close to that.

That's not shabby. Anyway, we're all frustrated. Let's give them some time to sort us out. If they don't, then we can play a new game but I haven't seen one yet that gets patch day correct 100% of the time. 

They do need to start letting us test new releases in my opinion but we'll see if they listen.

Shadowslayer

Besides some slow spots and tezz4 eating all my runes and staying at lvl 1 i am very excited to get back into the action lol. This was me extremely frustrated yes. I, like many others, have put a lot of time and money into this game. Paying real money for currency and being double charged or not recieving anything for your currency is just demoralizing. 

__Adam

EvilDead said:

You obviously never endured old school MMORPGs on "Patch" days. It was often almost pointless to try and play for 1-2 days because EVERYTHING was screwed up. Those were monthly subscription models, so you were always paying "not to play" on patch day!

Everyone is frustrated but soon we'll have forgotten this patch and hopefully we'll not endure such a huge outage in the future. 

Are you seriously comparing a massively multiplayer game with literal miles of content (from 15 years ago!) to a single player card game?

bk1234

I think the use of “forgotten” was rhetorical. Having been in this community since it was formed I can tell you — MtGPQ players don’t forget. 

However we do find a lot of enjoyment in new features, PW and sets and many of us have been here a very long time — and have sailed through much rougher waters. 

Why do we stay? The concept is awesome and provides endless opportunities to make old things new, our coalitions are our families... and we like to build decks and match gems. 

So maybe “forgiven” would be a better word. Will everyone forgive, no, some will permanently leave because of this — but those of us who genuinely love this game and those of us who have had far worse gaming experiences other places will be here tomorrow building decks and matching gems — and when something else goes wrong, we will react again. 

Always count on this community to speak their minds and hold people accountable. 

Shadowslayer

I can get on board with forgiving. This game is special and my reaction was based on my love. Not hate. I want to see this game 'proliferate'  

Azerack

Yup, I'm with @bken1234 on this one... And as such, I won't be happy with being treated as if we're just "little people" who they "deign" to allow us playing their game. 
...especially after forking over $15 or $30 a month, now!...

Lakestone already posted and said they gave us 100 crystals, and so that, at least, is acceptable for a day lost.. Would I have played if we hadn't gotten the 100 crystals? Maybe, probably.. But the more that happens, the less we can forgive because we don't forget. 

Brigby has to tow the company line when it comes to announcements, so I never blame him for anything. Why shoot the messenger?

But I always hope that he, Lakestone, Tombstone and anyone else part of the company brave enough to dive into these forum "waters" relay our dissatisfaction to the "people above" because they're who drive this whole thing. 

Because without us, they can't know everything that's failing and they don't have people to recommend the game.