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AQ Bracket Issue [Resolved: Compensation Given]
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We shouldn’t even be having this convo. If the collector was involved the outcome of compensation or whatever it is, would be leaning towards the gamers best interest. That just goes to show how much the @kabam staff and “the team” have changed. Like @Kabam Miike said its about the free stuff they are worried about. We can’t have free stuff anymore. It’s all about what’s retrievable during whatever it was that caused a problem.
Now, I'll suck it up and lose out on having those map 5 rewards boosting our prestige and therefore allowing us to gain a higher rank rewards compensation. But I hope the mods look at this, see the errors in the way they often communicate and try to stop being so ambiguous.
Quite honestly it would have been a lot easier to just cancel AQ, restart it a few days later. Especially with the ongoing IOS issues of overheating (Maybe other devices too not checked).
Just my 2 cents.
Actually, I thought about saying it's probably best to run through as usual and they'll sort it out, but a) people rarely listen regardless, and b) anything you say can and will be held against you in a Court of Kangaroo.
i would also add b/2: expecially if you talk nonesense and act as the usual troll.
The map you run determines what your points are at the end of the series. It’s very likely that any alliances running map 3 all week could land in the advanced bracket instead of expert, especially if their prestige is average. Alliances that ran map 5/6 this week will most likely land in expert.
So you want compensation for being careless?
Why be concerned about that when you could theoretically be helpful, and not be concerned about that when it becomes moot?
If you're wrong people could hold it against you, but that's supposed to be the incentive to avoid being wrong whenever possible.
It's not being careless. It's working within an established routine that was created by the developers where the developers (albeit unknowingly done) changed the routine without any notice. Players had no reason to believe anything would be different and proceeded with the same routine they were used to but were instead greeted with a changed mechanic with detrimental results.
In a way, this like like the multi-node portals in the Lily challenge. Option A is usually the next line of opponents whereas B takes you to the final boss. Then without warning they're flipped on path 5, and now your legends run is up in smoke because you just skipped path 6.
It's unintentional, but it does have it's effects on the player base. If anything, more and more of us are ignoring any semblance of a routine and double-checking every button before we press it.
That deserves nothing.
I’m so thankful I don’t know anyone in the game like this, or in my alliance or any friend I have who plays this game. What a terrible take on all of this.
For the same reason we are having this discussion. I wasn't 100% sure what was going to happen, and I didn't want people to say I'm responsible for suggesting it. As I said, anything said on here is scrutinized.
“Under investigation” means that at some point the game team decided this was a legitimate issue and set out to look at what kind of solution was warranted. It does not necessarily mean it is still actively under investigation.
The issue that is still being discussed is why Kabam issued an ambiguous notice re: the current botched AQ week, then refused to respond to the questions that came almost immediately thereafter about what “free to run...if they do choose” meant until well after AQ had started. That led a fair number of alliances to think that this week was a “free” week of AQ for purposes of placement (consistent with similar past botched AQ weeks), and they’ve continued to express their anger after the game team announced belatedly that this AQ week wasn’t, in fact, “free.”
It’s as simple as that.
Are you new to the forums @CFree? I can’t tell whether you’re having a hard time following the discussion or just trying to be provocative. My suggestion is to go back toward the start of the thread and try to catch up.
Dr. Zola
Then you were not sure about what Kabam intended, and shouldn't imply it was obvious. You can't say everyone should have managed their alliances based on what you assert is obvious, when you wouldn't even manage your own forum postings based on that same obviousness.
It is easy to be certain in retrospect. But it is also totally meaningless. You wouldn't stake anything on being right, so you cannot blame anyone else for claiming to be uncertain about the best course of action to take.
Total agreement with you on this @DNA3000. I would prefer no announcement to one that’s ambiguous on its face. There is quite simply no way the game team could have issued that statement, seen the immediate flurry of questions, and then failed to understand that their word choice was problematic.
Dr. Zola
No. That's not what I said at all. There seems to be an epidemic of minsinterpreting comments.
I wasn't sure what they intended to do to compensate. The comment from Moderation was quite clear to me. Even before the comment, I had the thought of playing through and letting them sort it out after. Which is why we never altered anything and played as normal.
This place is becoming notorious for twisting words.