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Requesting Time Extension on gift selection
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ObieWan Kenobieie
Galactic Masonry MGZ
#61 - 2011-12-22 15:08:08 UTC
Using the account management screen is lame.

The holiday gifts are lame.

Eve is lame.



I knew about the ass backwards gift retrieval method, but couldn't be bothered after hearing that
there was nothing of worth to redeem.

I'm about as choked up about this as the "free" ships they gave us that I can't remember anything about.
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#62 - 2011-12-22 15:20:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Ranger 1
Soulpirate wrote:
Ranger 1 wrote:
If it's possible without a huge amount of trouble CCP is usually pretty good about these things.

That being said, everything EVE related runs off the same clock. It's on every post, on the in game clock... pretty much everywhere.

I'm having a little trouble being sympathetic.

If they go to the trouble of giving you a selection of gifts to choose from, the least you could do it pick it up before the deadline.


Perhaps it's not on every post?

Quote:
So, to be 100% clear, you can get your CA-2 only between Dec 12th and Dec 21st.
You can select your Holiday Gift during the same time.


From where I am sitting it's still the 21st, yet I cant get my gift? Where did they say UTC?

Also, why did I only see, and am continuing to see the reminder in the launcher AFTER the 'offer' had expired?

It's still the 21st..... where's my gift??



#40 Posted: 2011.12.22 07:59

The date and time is at the top of every post on the forum.

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Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#63 - 2011-12-22 15:25:46 UTC
Endeavour Starfleet wrote:
pixum mixum wrote:
@CCP

You'll only be hurting these people by giving them an extension, they need to learn to PAY ATTENTION and not make silly assumptions like that everyone should use only the timezone they live in as a reference, when EVERYTHING eve related has ALWAYS been UTC.

Please, teach them a valuable life lesson about not being so extrememly dumb and relying on someone to turn back the clock so they can clean up. It will only be to their ultimate benefit, both in eve and in real life.


This isn't some school or life lesson this is a product that we pay for.

Also the reason some of us have not "paid attention" as in looking at every detail of articles to see something as obscure as needing to use the account management is because we have been BUSY as hell during the holidays. A thing called a job and responsibilities. During this time we have kept our accounts active and paid and training but have not had time to watch every detail.

Hurting us? What hurt us was having a VERY short in game notice that didn't involve clicking on news links. That is reason enough to grant a short extension and give a better notice in my opinion.

Also how does us getting an extension affect you? It does not at all so your involvement in this topic is not wanted.


EVE is all about "lessons", and you paid nothing for this free gift.

Another lesson you will eventually learn, aquiring skills as quickly as possible is far, far less important than enjoying yourself... and using your brain instead is far more effective at earning income.

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Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#64 - 2011-12-22 15:30:03 UTC
Soulpirate wrote:
Tyburn Stannis wrote:
OK kids you've had PLENTY of warning and instruction on how to do this. Anyone who left it 'til 23:59 their local time is a freaking idiot, EVE announcements and events always run on UTC. And the whole "I didnt know what to do so I did nothing" cry-line just reeks of lazy spoon-fed imbecility. How in the hell do some of you survive in the real world?

It started with:

Eve newsletter #69 30/11/12, e-mailed to all account owners(unless YOU chose not to recieve it)

"Players with an active EVE Online subscription are finding a nice surprise in Account Management this week. The holiday gift page has been added, with over a dozen different gifts to choose from. The gift that you select will be stored in our system until December 22nd, when all selected gifts will be distributed to the players after downtime. The holiday gift selection ends December 21st. Be sure to choose your gift before then!"

Since then there have been multiple dev blogs, multiple news articles, multiple reminders on the log-in screen. If the info is right in front of your eyes when you enter the game and you fail to read it, thats YOUR problem.

All the way through to:

Yet another message on the log-in splash leading to an article, on the 19/12/11 http://www.eveonline.com/en/crucible/article/3273/the-genolution-ca-2-implant-and-the-2011-choose-your-gift as a last reminder and in BIG WORDS it says REMINDER: GIFTS MUST BE SELECTED BY DECEMBER 21ST, 2011

All these differengt ways of trying to get the message across - all saying the same thing.

Gift selection window is (was) 12th-21st.
Items will be available to be redeemed from the 22nd.
Select your gift via Account Management.

If you've managed to somehow miss all that AND the info being sent to your inbox... congratulations.


BIG WORDS.... I TRIED TO GET MINE ON THE 21st BUT COULD NOT! THE FIRST TIME I SAW A REMINDER WAS WHEN I GOT HOME FROM WORK ON THE 21ST AND THE OFFER HAD ALREADY EXPIRED!!!

What dont you understand?

And why the **** is a Christmas gift a limited time offer in the first effing place??

RollRollRollWoot for the 10 days fo Christmas RollRollRoll


If the offer was over, you saw it on the 22nd in EVE time. You missed it, didin't check your email for a month, refuse the news letter, whatever.

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Diarrhea Face's Diarrhea
Doomheim
#65 - 2011-12-22 15:32:01 UTC
J Kunjeh wrote:
I swear, some Eve players live to mock and ridicule others just for the sake of it.


these people get sh*# on in rl, so they feel the need to sh*# on others in a game
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#66 - 2011-12-22 15:34:25 UTC
…I'm just wondering how people manage to log and select a character in without looking at the login and character selection screens. Ugh
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#67 - 2011-12-22 15:37:44 UTC
Diarrhea Face's Diarrhea wrote:
J Kunjeh wrote:
I swear, some Eve players live to mock and ridicule others just for the sake of it.


these people get sh*# on in rl, so they feel the need to sh*# on others in a game


Yes, reminding people that they were notified of something in several different ways up to a MONTH before the deadline is indicative of personal issues. Big smile

The only personal issues I see are people blowing stuff off and then getting upset because they suddenly realize they should have been paying attention.

Fortunately, CCP is holding your hand again. It's unfortunate that most won't appreciate it.

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J Kunjeh
#68 - 2011-12-22 15:49:37 UTC
Ranger 1 wrote:

Fortunately, CCP is holding your hand again. It's unfortunate that most won't appreciate it.


I love when CCP holds my hand...it makes me all warm and fuzzy in my pants.

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#69 - 2011-12-22 15:58:11 UTC

It would've been easier to just give us all snowball launchers again.

The illiterate wouldn't have had to read confusing sentences masking the hidden location of the selection pages. The slow to act wouldn't have had to petition for a 2nd chance. And the unobservant wouldn't have had to try and locate that giant gift-box button in order to click on it.

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
Endeavour Starfleet
#70 - 2011-12-22 16:02:08 UTC
For those who arent here just to violate the forum TOS. Remember you can try to petition if you failed to remap.
Disdaine
#71 - 2011-12-22 16:05:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Disdaine
Tippia wrote:
…I'm just wondering how people manage to log and select a character in without looking at the login and character selection screens. Ugh


Quite easily.

Routine action becomes automatic.

Front page plex ads usually get ignored in the 2 seconds it takes to enter password and press enter, then I'm already at entering station before I have time to notice there's some patch notes. Sometimes I can hit the read more before it's disabled otherwise I check it while logging in an alt account.

Last email received was a newsletter on the 3rd.

All could be solved by a blinky eve mail. I mean they sent us an eve mail when they gave us 1000 aurum...
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#72 - 2011-12-22 16:15:43 UTC
Quote:
For those who arent here just to violate the forum TOS.


I do not think this means what you think it means.

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Cletus Graeme
Shai Dorsai
#73 - 2011-12-22 16:16:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Cletus Graeme
War Kitten wrote:

It would've been easier to just give us all snowball launchers again.


This TBH. I don't think CCP "gets" Xmas. It's supposed to be about giving - yes - but instead of useful boring stuff how about some useless fun stuff!?

Where are the HIC/DIC SNOWbubble launchers that allow you to drop bubbles in hisec inside which it is snowing?

Where are the Santa NPCs flying through belts in their reindeer pulled sleighs full of (useless) xmas loot?

Where are the xmas-tree shaped POS for us to anchor with little angelic looking Hilmars on the top?

Where are the Santa outfits (including fake beards) in the NeX store?

Do we really need more boring useful stuff at this time of year? Does EvE have to mirror RL?

Bring back the launchers!!!
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#74 - 2011-12-22 16:18:03 UTC
Disdaine wrote:
Tippia wrote:
…I'm just wondering how people manage to log and select a character in without looking at the login and character selection screens. Ugh


Quite easily.

Routine action becomes automatic.

Front page plex ads usually get ignored in the 2 seconds it takes to enter password and press enter, then I'm already at entering station before I have time to notice there's some patch notes. Sometimes I can hit the read more before it's disabled otherwise I check it while logging in an alt account.

Last email received was a newsletter on the 3rd.

All could be solved by a blinky eve mail. I mean they sent us an eve mail when they gave us 1000 aurum...


So out of the multiple methods they used to get your attention, they failed to use the ONE METHOD that you prefer to pay attention to. For shame CCP, for shame.

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Bad Messenger
Rehabilitation Clinic
#75 - 2011-12-22 16:27:12 UTC
I think extended selection time could be nice move.

It is not about that you did not read mails etc...

It is about that gifts should usually make people happy.

Now it seems that there is lot of unhappy people, so whole gift thing did not work out at all. Situation would have been better without gifts at all.
Arollissi
#76 - 2011-12-22 16:32:59 UTC

They could have at least sent us a reminder notice to our in-game emails

We have never had to choose before and I was trying to choose carefully. I didn't chose in time.


I Feel RIPPED-OFF

But... that's Not Exactly a NEW Feeling over the last year with CCP
Nova Wayout
The Lezbian Institute
Freaks In The Sheets
#77 - 2011-12-22 17:02:42 UTC
DVK Rotineque wrote:
Good idea!
I did not choose a gift, because I do not know about the time limit.


I did not know there was a time limit either...

Actually, I did not know about it at all until someone talked about it on Team Speak

There should have been an In-Game Email about it.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#78 - 2011-12-22 17:21:07 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
Yet again, CCP gives its users a big middle finger by giving "gifts" and then taking them away if we weren't around when the notice went out, or if their patch installers covered up the ONE-TIME gift announcement. I wasn't even able to click it to find out what it was about, and never saw it again.

Thanks, CCP, for reminding us that you don't really give a damn.

edit: at least it's not anything I'm going to greatly miss.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Nemo I
Haven Industry
#79 - 2011-12-22 17:26:23 UTC
CCP can you make Time Extension on gift selection?
Sentinel 7
Signal One.
#80 - 2011-12-22 17:29:36 UTC
Yes, how dare they give away free things, which required basic comprehension skillz and minimal participation... I'm unsubbing right now in utter rage and a general emo-fit.