MPQ Global Defense Community Challenge

Bowgentle

As expected, this has slowed down to a crawl now.
Most people will miss the added questions, sadly.

Seph1roth5

If it popped up every day reminding you to click I would lol, but I forget.

DAZ0273

I think it might be broken? I can't even find a way to access the most recent stuff since yesterday.

AlexR

@stef_focus said:
Previously I only needed an email address to be able to contribute, but now I need to have a specific social media account? Why the change?
(or is it only me? do they think I am a Skrull and that Skrulls don't know about social media?)

This. I have been able to participate with just an email adress up to now. But now it tells me:

Verification Needed
Sorry! We need you to verify that you are a real person. Please log in with any of these social networks to get started:

Apparently if you don't have a social media account, you're not a real person to Gleam.

That means no participating for me. I don't want to link social media accounts to gleam.

Punisher5784

@AlexR said:

@stef_focus said:
Previously I only needed an email address to be able to contribute, but now I need to have a specific social media account? Why the change?
(or is it only me? do they think I am a Skrull and that Skrulls don't know about social media?)

This. I have been able to participate with just an email adress up to now. But now it tells me:

Verification Needed
Sorry! We need you to verify that you are a real person. Please log in with any of these social networks to get started:

Apparently if you don't have a social media account, you're not a real person to Gleam.

That means no participating for me. I don't want to link social media accounts to gleam.

It is a weird verification. We already enter our MPQ name, which is linked to an email and a real person playing their game

LavaManLee

Actually, did anyone enter their MPQ name for this event? Usually I do it after the first entry but I don't think it asked me for it.

Bowgentle

I didn't even have to log in, gleam remembered me from last time.

KGB

@LavaManLee said:
Actually, did anyone enter their MPQ name for this event? Usually I do it after the first entry but I don't think it asked me for it.

I didn't and I also thought that was different. As you say, in prior contests we entered our MPQ name as verification. This time you had to link a valid account of some kind. It doesn't have to be social media, a gmail account works just fine.

KGB

MPQBlaine

@KGB said:

@LavaManLee said:
Actually, did anyone enter their MPQ name for this event? Usually I do it after the first entry but I don't think it asked me for it.

I didn't and I also thought that was different. As you say, in prior contests we entered our MPQ name as verification. This time you had to link a valid account of some kind. It doesn't have to be social media, a gmail account works just fine.

KGB

Hey there, the reason we are not asking for player names is due to the fact that the rewards will be gifted to the entire player base this go around. We've asked for player names in the past as we rewarded just those players who participated in those events.

As for the verification issue, as @IceIX mentioned, this is an update on Gleam's side which we unfortunately do not have control over. Please check out their Contestant FAQ page for further information: https://gleam.io/docs/faq/contestant

dxanders

@LavaManLee said:
It honestly can't be that hard and should be spelled out as part of whatever contract they signed with Gleam for to run these events.

I don't know how much you have to work with third party> @LavaManLee said:

@Bowgentle said:
They said it's not on their end.
You can't expect them to put dev hours into this for the 5 people who don't have ANY useable accounts in 2023.

They don't have to put dev hours in. I am sure they are paying Gleam and Gleam decided to do something different. It's a phone call to Gleam to change it back. Not their own dev hours. And there are WAY more than 5 people who don't have access to at least one of those five apps. My alliance alone has seven.

Have you ever had to work with a third party vendor? Because I have, and I don't think it's necessarily as simple as you think it is.

My guess is that Gleam is focused on extracting social media information for users, and that they aren't particularly interested in carving out unique environments for clients that don't want to take that approach.

WilliamK1983

I liked the "community challenge" where we had to post 10 times on the forum and got a 3* Reality Stone. Bring that back.

LavaManLee

@dxanders said:

@LavaManLee said:
It honestly can't be that hard and should be spelled out as part of whatever contract they signed with Gleam for to run these events.

I don't know how much you have to work with third party> @LavaManLee said:

@Bowgentle said:
They said it's not on their end.
You can't expect them to put dev hours into this for the 5 people who don't have ANY useable accounts in 2023.

They don't have to put dev hours in. I am sure they are paying Gleam and Gleam decided to do something different. It's a phone call to Gleam to change it back. Not their own dev hours. And there are WAY more than 5 people who don't have access to at least one of those five apps. My alliance alone has seven.

Have you ever had to work with a third party vendor? Because I have, and I don't think it's necessarily as simple as you think it is.

My guess is that Gleam is focused on extracting social media information for users, and that they aren't particularly interested in carving out unique environments for clients that don't want to take that approach.

Yep, sure have worked with third parties. It's my job as a Partner Manager. And if one of our partners strays from what we agreed to, it's my job to figure out what happened and rectify it. It really isn't rocket science.

It's honestly up to Broken Circle if they care or not. If they don't care, they don't push the issue. If they care, then they can.

liminal_lad

@LavaManLee said:

@dxanders said:

@LavaManLee said:
It honestly can't be that hard and should be spelled out as part of whatever contract they signed with Gleam for to run these events.

I don't know how much you have to work with third party> @LavaManLee said:

@Bowgentle said:
They said it's not on their end.
You can't expect them to put dev hours into this for the 5 people who don't have ANY useable accounts in 2023.

They don't have to put dev hours in. I am sure they are paying Gleam and Gleam decided to do something different. It's a phone call to Gleam to change it back. Not their own dev hours. And there are WAY more than 5 people who don't have access to at least one of those five apps. My alliance alone has seven.

Have you ever had to work with a third party vendor? Because I have, and I don't think it's necessarily as simple as you think it is.

My guess is that Gleam is focused on extracting social media information for users, and that they aren't particularly interested in carving out unique environments for clients that don't want to take that approach.

Yep, sure have worked with third parties. It's my job as a Partner Manager. And if one of our partners strays from what we agreed to, it's my job to figure out what happened and rectify it. It really isn't rocket science.

It's honestly up to Broken Circle if they care or not. If they don't care, they don't push the issue. If they care, then they can.

I’m not sure you can generalize your experience to this situation. Gleam might have changed their platform so they can no longer turn this off. Broken Circle might not have the same clout that your organization does and might be unable to get this done.

BC might be able to switch vendors if they’re not in contract, but they might not have much more leverage than that.

Scofie

A couple more questions on there today!

bigjojo04

Those appear to be the last new questions added as well. Only additional points you can earn now are the dailies for the next 6 days. Hopefully we can at least get up to tier 5, tier 6 may be a bit unattainable at this moment but can only wait and see at this point.

Sidlon

One of the new questions seems particularly odd. “What name did Nick Fury (Director of Shield) grow up with in MPQ?”

The expected answer seems to be the name of Nick’s son Marcus. Is this actually info we should be able to find in MPQ somewhere???

Scofie

@Sidlon said:
One of the new questions seems particularly odd. “What name did Nick Fury (Director of Shield) grow up with in MPQ?”

The expected answer seems to be the name of Nick’s son Marcus. Is this actually info we should be able to find in MPQ somewhere???

I put a different answer and got it correct. Total guesswork. Can't find that info in the game.

Sidlon

According to the MPQ wiki, we’ve been playing Nick Jr. Maybe this was his original ingame bio that was shortened at some point?

https://marvelpuzzlequest.fandom.com/wiki/Nick_Fury_(Director_of_S.H.I.E.L.D.)

SaltnPeppa

The intrusiveness of Gleam policies to access our social media is definitely not good. Use SurveyMonkey like the old developers did. At least that didn't ask for anything except for survey related questions and our username.

The survey questions can be adjusted like in Gleam then someone can easily collate the data with a few keystrokes to give out the event prizes without being so intrusive.

Cataliban

New question worth 2pts...