50 Sacrifial Souls would be a good way to compensate and get people to forgive rather than point fingers...
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laughing my B-locks off here! :D
Did we ever get any compensation before? please guys,don't be naive...it's not like this is the first time a massive Fup happened. We just need to adapt again and learn to live with it.
And for those who are losing hope, here is a different view on the whole problem: http://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/sh...-of-the-Nation
For there is nothing wrong with the game, we are all just crybabies...
/sarcasm off
That would be nice and fair, since the update I'm unable to log in, which not only made me unable to get weekly pvp and daily rewards, but also the whole sacrificial promotion so far. It's hard to decide to invest into something when it's the third time since november that I've been locked out of the game by a bug for a longer period of time.
Hey Sparton, thanks for your reply and for giving some insights. I am always a big fan of communication! No patch this week is quite unfortunate - and means no PvP for three weeks in a row for me.
I understand the reasoning behind your explanation and kind of expected things to be this way. So while I can follow you most of the way there are just some things I want to touch on.
While agree that there would be a 24h period that is a problem, the scenario we have now is way worth, namely: X days of "normal" gameplay starting to count from Sunday until the update hits, Y days of weirdness and Z days of aftermath. The problem is that Y is way too large; if an update comes out on Wednesday it would have to be no higher than 2 to not affect two complete weeks of competition. Since the fix doesn't come on a Saturday we basically have the same aftermath in both cases. Granted, if it is a similar case to now and there is no update for 5+ (working) days, it doesn't matter again...
A second thing: As I said above I'd argue for immdiate bug fixes where ever that is possible and wouldn't want to postpone them. Just active character tuning should have a schedule that matches the one of the Arena. This might blur over into the uncoupling issue, though.
I don't wanna take this line out of context, but that seems to be an issue many players around these forums, maybe even the majority, have at some point formed an opinion about - and yeah, I am aware we have a sample bias here - : The ratio of bugs fixed and new issues introduced by updates seems to not be in the games favor and, maybe more importantly doesn't seem to be getting much better. I know you have to work on new content and I want new (especially PvE) areas as much as many other players, but if you gave me the choice to have a bug free game and wait a month longer for a content update or to continue the way it went the last few month, then I would strongly prefer the former. I suspect there are many players with a different view, but I got the feeling that those who'd prefer an at least temporary focus on bug fixes are growing in numbers with each update (of course I hope that's not wishful thinking).
We on the outside have no idea what prohibits an effective QA of updates, we just see the result and by using the means we have avaible can only try to voice concerns.
I personally have the impression that you guys are doing your best (maybe that's just due to yours and your team's communication here, but if so, that's alright for now), otherwise I wouldn't stick around. It feels to me like you are understaffed with sometimes ambitious deadlines you want/have to meet - unless management reads these pages we then are a dead end anyways. :p
I think one problem is that the definition of what a (gameplay related, not technical) major issue is has changed so drastically with PvP that "the old way" just isn't feasible anymore. While I notice that especially more comitted players see those issues as a challenge, doing their best to either use them to their advantage or to find a way to avoid them, I think it will hurt a lot in the long run by limiting the player base. Even if a fix comes out on Tuesday it has been 14 days of weirdness; I don't want to know many players find that off-putting.
The only way that NF might possibly give out 50 souls or some type of "blunder" reward is if everyone in the forum community decided not to log into LotB for a few days, in protest to the lack of commitment or successful attempts (take your pick) to improve the stability of the game (or just being able to login for some).
I don't foresee this happening as most of us have a sense of obligation to our troopers and still attempt to play PvP in it's intentionally flawed state.
As long as everyone keeps playing and the overall numbers stay acceptable, NF will continue to release poor updates with an unapologetic attitude.
I personally have quit trying to complete daily tasks and now only autoplay my troopers and cherry pick PvP battles for iron coins. The overall appeal to continue anything beyond that or make donations to the cause is on hold from this end.
We should all really think about doing something to show NF that just because they communicate with us, doesn't mean we are ok with the continued lack of excellence.
Think I figured out why the start button was removed, to prevent losing pop ups from sacrifice, battle, etc reward screens when the game crashes. Must have been causing issues with graceful restarts. If that's accurate I welcome it. Just wanted to post because there's discussion about it in here and could be a possible reason it was gutted.
Hello everyone. I've been away for a while. I've kind of kept up with the forums to see what's going on, but I haven't played the game for quite a while. This afternoon I got an itch to play. I've run into a couple problems. I ran into one opponent in pvp that would freeze on the loading screen every time. Tried 3 times to play him, and I had to restart the game every time. No error message or anything, just stuck on the load screen.
So I thought, whatever, I'll go hit the secret locations. I got through the first two world no problem. But when I tried battlefield normal, I got the freeze again. No error message. I can't seem to get into it. It uses the trooper I select though (surprised I had any left). Is this a known issue? I've read about a lot of the current problems, but I can't remember seeing this one anywhere.
Ha. Must be. I can't get into any levels on battlefield or, Christ I can't even remember what the last world is called. Able to play the first two though. I suppose I could try uninstalling and all that jazz.
Disappointing though, I gave up because these guys couldn't get their shit together. Sorry sparton, kaz. Not trying to be a jerk. I want nothing but success for you guys. Your coming up on a one year anniversary soon. Things should be running pretty smooth by now.