Lycus
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The main difference there is that players complain about lack of real interaction with players, Twitter adds a direct way for the Developers to communicate with players, doing it in-game instantly makes it indirect to an extent. If you look at the way it would work, people on twitter would get a warning, yes, however everyone playing the game at the time would have just as much chance of getting the item as those following the Dev twitter, maybe just without the chance of being next to the City Guard. It instantly makes it non-exclusive and available to everyone. This is fine, however it removes the purpose of the codes being Twitter follower exclusive. Not only this, but if anything, if different prize codes are given out during the day, it is much easier for the same people to get all the items or duplicate items, since they have less work and simply just need to sit next to City Guard waiting for an announcement. The issue is, when you have it in-game the mindset of players will likely change to sitting at the Code Redeem point all-day, once their daily amount of battles is done, ready to instantly put in codes since there will be much higher competition for them. Where as when done over Twitter, people naturally do just get on with life until the codes are given or announced to be given at a certain time.
As for duplicates - the main issue with something such as yesterday is that if the same code is used and just restocked, people can simply copy the code at the start of the day and if NightWraith says 'I will restock the code at 3pm', they can then try at 2:58 or 2:59 and the code could likely be used while NW sets the restocking up and before he has the chance to announce it. It is simple to say 'just do it at exactly 3 and announce at the same time', but it is not that simple, there will always be a gap in time between the restock and announcement, this means that by the time of the announcement, the code could already be sold out. If it is not, anyone who is in a battle or elsewhere would stand no chance since anyone camping at the City Guard will be in instantly. That does not even take into consideration the fact that if large amounts of people begin 'camping' around the City Guard in anticipation for the code, lag arises and creates massive disadvantages for those with slower PC's. Due to this, using different codes each time means that no one can be ready previously with the box open and the code copied and already pasted in the redeem box. It gives everyone the equal chance to grab the code, then use it - if someone manages to get multiple items, off different codes, that to me actually shows that everyone has a fair chance to get in a redeem it. This I say because some people make it out to be 'impossible' to get in and redeem a code since it instantly disappears and it gives no one a real chance, however for two reasons I disagree with this and feel this is exaggerating;
1) If the same people are getting it multiple times, if it is so hard to manage to get these items, how are they managing to do this multiple times?
2) I have actually had a few people comment they managed to one of the items at least on a very slow computer, one or two were even in battle when announced, however were battling in the code room and redeemed as soon as finished.
In my opinion if people are getting that sort of chance for atleast a few of the codes, that shows that everyone who is ready and watching the twitters do have a chance of getting the item. If you are not ready watching Twitter or prepared in-game ready for it - that is not something we can help, it is up to you to prepare yourself for it if you feel it is needed.
Finally, timezone wise, everyone was given a chance. As stated in my previous message with facts given to back up my point, seven codes were released separately over a ten hour period, this gives a large majority of timezones at least one chance to redeem a code. If one person is up for those ten hours, may be due to them being in the same timezone as NightWraith or because they stayed up late then that is up to them, but ten hours is a long period of time and if they want to wait that long for codes, their choice. Yes maybe some people getting multiple is unfair, but this does not take away the fact the codes are given to help people in different time-zones have a chance. Maybe we could look into the possibility of putting a check to see if the person already has the item the codes giving to prevent duplicates, however I am not sure how possible that would be and cannot promise anything. The statement that it is 'giving almost everyone a chance' is a statement about allowing different timezones a chance, which was a complaint about the code previously, which we have made sure to work with. If people are taking advantage of the new, fairer system for their own personal greed and to have multiple weapons, that is their choice and not something we endorse at all, we changed the system to make it fairer for people. Due to this I feel that any anger directed at the Devs about this is slightly unfair since they are listening to feedback about codes, working with it and if there are still chinks that can be worked out, they will try their best to sort them! However if you look at the system of releasing different codes throughout a long period of time to allow different timezones a chance, it should make it a much fairer process for anyone, wherever they are in the world, the only thing that stops that is not the Devs, but the players who decide they will exploit the system so to say. Yes we could have foreseen it, but one step at a time and it is best to test out each section of the system and actually see what happens, now we know the issues that do arise we can look into possibly ironing them out, depending on how possible it is!
EDIT: @Below: See number 2) - faster internet connection, fair enough, but if people with slower internet connections are managing to get it... Speed of computer may be an issue for some codes at certain times, however others it seems more to be about simply being ready for it, which is up to the player to do. Codes are not designed to allow people to see the code 10 minutes after it is sent out, then be able to log in, find the City Guard and still be able to redeem the code (at least these codes were not), since they are made to be rare.
< Message edited by Lycus -- 7/8/2013 6:38:04 >
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