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Neamhan
04.24.2012 , 11:21 AM | #41
Why would anyone ever hoard a couple of hundred DNA samples? Everything on that vendor cost less than 90 samples. What were they waiting for?

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thomasgallant
04.24.2012 , 11:21 AM | #42
Quote: Originally Posted by Partyrockk View Post
Huge blunder, BW.

I was gone for 3 days. Now the game time I put into the event is wasted. Ending the event means ending the ability to acquire currency toward the event items, and no more event quests.

This will be bad PR for SWToR. Not helping the silent masses that are on the fence about renewing. "Yay, I have a couple hundred DNAs that are now useless unless I stick around for a year. What a waste of time. /ragequit".

What game takes away an event vendor at the same time an event ends?

Really?

Fire your PR person if they haven't chimed in on this, BW.
did it say they were putting the vendor back in a few days once the infection died down?
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Partyrockk
04.24.2012 , 11:28 AM | #43
Quote: Originally Posted by Nariyna View Post
I usually don't post on the forums. The event was on the main web page stating it was going to end April 24, 2012. I am sooo tired of people thinking it is some one elses fault because they didnt take the time to read or get informed.
Let's say you're at work and you employer has an event for it's employees. For example, sales: "Sell X amount of items, and get a token you can turn in for some perk at the human resources website. The event starts on Sunday, and ends on Saturday night!"

On Wednesday, you grinded to get a lot of these tokens, but had a vacation scheduled on Thursday. You might pop into work on Saturday to get a few more, but not sure. You get back on Tuesday, and decided to cash in your tokens on the HR website. Event is done, so can't get anymore tokens.

Website turn in button is gone.

Call HR...

You: "Hey where is the turn in button, I have all these sales tokens."
HR: "The event ended, so you can't turn them in."
You: "Wait what?"
HR: "You were told the event would end on Saturday, and on Thursday, we announced that you couldn't turn them in."
You: "I was on vacation, why didn't you just say that when the event end date was first stated on Sunday???"
HR: "No exceptions."
You: "So I just wasted my time and effort and you're screwing me because I wasn't around for 3 days to hear you announce that you're doing this event a different way than 99% of other sales companies do their events?"
HR: "SIR!, we might redo the event at some point, possibly in a year."
You: "I don't even..."
Guy who cashed out on Saturday after hearing the notice: "LOL! Why you complaining!?"

Naw this won't piss anyone off.

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Ichikitsune
04.24.2012 , 11:31 AM | #44
Quote: Originally Posted by Partyrockk View Post
Let's say you're at work and you employer has an event for it's employees. For example, sales: "Sell X amount of items, and get a token you can turn in for some perk at the human resources website. The event starts on Sunday, and ends on Saturday night!"

On Wednesday, you grinded to get a lot of these tokens, but had a vacation scheduled on Thursday. You might pop into work on Saturday to get a few more, but not sure. You get back on Tuesday, and decided to cash in your tokens on the HR website. Event is done, so can't get anymore tokens.

Website turn in button is gone.

Call HR...

You: "Hey where is the turn in button, I have all these sales tokens."
HR: "The event ended, so you can't turn them in."
You: "Wait what?"
HR: "You were told the event would end on Saturday, and on Thursday, we announced that you couldn't turn them in."
You: "I was on vacation, why didn't you just say that when the event end date was first stated on Sunday???"
HR: "No exceptions."
You: "So I just wasted my time and effort and you're screwing me because I wasn't around for 3 days to hear you announce that you're doing this event a different way than 99% of other sales companies do their events?"
HR: "No comment."
Guy who cashed out on Saturday after hearing the notice: "LOL!"

Naw this won't piss anyone off.
Since you also knew when it was ending and when you were going to be gone, you should've not been lazy and hit the button until waiting until the day after. You are just pissed at BW because you procrastinated.

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jgoldsack
04.24.2012 , 11:32 AM | #45
Quote: Originally Posted by Partyrockk View Post
Let's say you're at work and you employer has an event for it's employees. For example, sales: "Sell X amount of items, and get a token you can turn in for some perk at the human resources website. The event starts on Sunday, and ends on Saturday night!"

On Wednesday, you grinded to get a lot of these tokens, but had a vacation scheduled on Thursday. You might pop into work on Saturday to get a few more, but not sure. You get back on Tuesday, and decided to cash in your tokens on the HR website. Event is done, so can't get anymore tokens.

Website turn in button is gone.

Call HR...

You: "Hey where is the turn in button, I have all these sales tokens."
HR: "The event ended, so you can't turn them in."
You: "Wait what?"
HR: "You were told the event would end on Saturday, and on Thursday, we announced that you couldn't turn them in."
You: "I was on vacation, why didn't you just say that when the event end date was first stated on Sunday???"
HR: "No exceptions."
You: "So I just wasted my time and effort and you're screwing me because I wasn't around for 3 days to hear you announce that you're doing this event a different way than 99% of other sales companies do their events?"
HR: "No comment."
Guy who cashed out on Saturday after hearing the notice: "LOL!"

Naw this won't piss anyone off.
Lol. Bioware never said you woudl be able to turn in the DNA after the event was over. Nor does "every other game company" do it that way either. Your whole argument is flawed.

Since people always compare SWTOR to WoW, I'll do the same. Blizzard removes currency from players at the end of events, as well as removes the vendors at the end of the event too. However, the difference is no one is generally surprised about it, because IT IS THE SAME EVERY YEAR.

Now, if Bioware HAD STATED that you woudl be able to turn in the items after the event, and then changed their minds halfway through, you woudl have a valid complaint. But they didn't, you only ASSUMED that you woudl be able to do so.
On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It is strange so many people choose to be stupid.

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tloops
04.24.2012 , 11:34 AM | #46
Quote: Originally Posted by Arjin View Post
I was. 220 DNA samples. Little window for a warning would have been nice.

Put a vendor on the fleet for a week. Put way too much effort to get these. Now I need to flush em down the toilet with all of my Merc, Champion, and Centurion comms????
they announced last week it would end today,why so surprised? if you would have taken 30 seconds to visit this site you would have known this.
TOR...the best single player game on the market

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Partyrockk
04.24.2012 , 11:35 AM | #47
Quote: Originally Posted by Ichikitsune View Post
You are just pissed at BW because you procrastinated.
>IRL Job, and family events.
>Decides they are more important than playing SWToR for three days.
>Procrastinating.

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Thegriss
04.24.2012 , 11:37 AM | #48
It was posted on mulitple forums as well as on the log in message on the launcher yestarday. Reading is your friend.

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jgoldsack
04.24.2012 , 11:37 AM | #49
Quote: Originally Posted by Partyrockk View Post
>IRL Job, and family events.
>Decides they are more important than playing SWToR for three days.
>Procrastinating.
That still does not make it Biowares fault you didn't spend them before the event ended.
On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It is strange so many people choose to be stupid.

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tloops
04.24.2012 , 11:37 AM | #50
Quote: Originally Posted by Agooz View Post
SERIOUSLY?? ok end the event and stop the DNA samples from being acquired, stop the dailies, etc... BUT WHY REMOVE THE VENDOR??? come on.
because the event is over...no event=no event vendor...not that hard to figure out
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