Might I recommend a forum topic pertaining to in game bugs, feedback, fixes needed, etc? That would sure help the devs hone in on the major issues and serve as a one stop shop for dev focus.
Also, can we please get a "Server Status" link put somewhere on this website? If one exists, it's in diar need of relocation because I looked and couldn't find one.
I sent a ticket in early June took about 3 weeks. YMMV..........
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fathomfulMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 207Bounty Hunter
edited July 2013
Ha 12 hours that is sooooo cute.
My ticket is sitting at 11 days. Nada, nothing but an auto generated response.
This is a really really easy thing to fix as well. I read that shard merge had happened so sent some mail to a friend, guess what no shard merge so just need my mail returned to me.
11 days and no response yet.
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cipher9nemoMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
GW2 not only answered my "I got hacked" ticket within a few hours, but had my characters gear and currency replaced within 3 days. The only thing they didn't replace were my tradeskill items, which had been emptied.
One of my guild mates who played GW2 with me had a ticket in their queue for 4 days until it was answered regarding being charged twice for something that paid once. I had other tickets in for GW2 which were much less important and answered in about 1.5 days. So your experience was unique with Arenanet/NCSoft if they answered it within a few hours. Still, it took 3 days to get your currency replaced.
The point is: within 12 hours is still an unrealistic expectation. I agree that PEW has horrible customer support and my one ticket with them took two weeks.
My ticket is sitting at 11 days. Nada, nothing but an auto generated response.
This is a really really easy thing to fix as well. I read that shard merge had happened so sent some mail to a friend, guess what no shard merge so just need my mail returned to me.
11 days and no response yet.
Not sure where you got your information from....shards haven't been merged yet. All that's been said is that they will be merged at some point in the future.
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fathomfulMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 207Bounty Hunter
Not sure where you got your information from....shards haven't been merged yet. All that's been said is that they will be merged at some point in the future.
Right it was completely erroneous information. It just doesnt make sense that i wouldnt get mail returned when it was sent to a bad spot, or at least some sort of answer.
cipher9nemo, usually necroing refers to threads alot older than a week or two, and generally threads no longer of value or issues solved.
In my opinion the state of customer support (or lack thereof) is still an issue, a big one at that, and the other was regarding Founder Pack scams, still relevant and even more so with the newly added Feywild packs - add to that I responded to someone directing posts at me. In short I believe I exercised my rights within the forum's rules and after my own interests.
Also, they were in old tabs I found when cleaning Firefox from 90 out of 100 tabbed pages. :P
If it bothers you enough for you to further bump them with this question, simply disregard the threads and move on, if they don't concern you, and get back to me if you see me necroing threads months old on topics no longer relevant or more current and in depth discussed in long active threads.
So whats the longest time you have waited for a response to a ticket?.... I'm at 12 hours and still waiting.
i have been playing MMOs for a long time and never waited this long for a response from a GM or a DM, maybe I'm lucky or maybe this game is just ........
Never had a single ticket answered.
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johnfell, why are you necroing two-week old threads? I've seen you do that in others as well.
Necroing is considered better in many circles than creating a new topic. Forums are weird animals. If the guy had made a new topic, folks would be in here posting "Learn to use search", but if the person uses search and finds a pertinent thread a few weeks old they get "Why are you necroing threads?"
Necroing is considered better in many circles than creating a new topic. Forums are weird animals. If the guy had made a new topic, folks would be in here posting "Learn to use search", but if the person uses search and finds a pertinent thread a few weeks old they get "Why are you necroing threads?"
So which is better?
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jihancritiasMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited July 2013
19 or so days I think. It was for items that disappeared in my mail, when I tried moving them to my bag. They closed the ticket and said to open another if it persists. I gave up. I don't play anymore.
I opened a ticket in EVE Online, it got answered in five minutes, and was resolved in five minutes and one second. TSW, takes about half an hour usually, to get a response, and about five minutes to get it resolved, usually. Good companies there.
19 or so days I think. It was for items that disappeared in my mail, when I tried moving them to my bag. They closed the ticket and said to open another if it persists. I gave up. I don't play anymore.
I opened a ticket in EVE Online, it got answered in five minutes, and was resolved in five minutes and one second. TSW, takes about half an hour usually, to get a response, and about five minutes to get it resolved, usually. Good companies there.
Waiting times here for support are insanely long. More and more people testify to this. Yet still certain people and mods (refering to their player personas, not their "authority", wich would be forbidden here, just to clarify intent) will either call you and the others a liar, or a whiner, or claim that for them it only took a day, or whatever.
There are -countless- MMOs that have customer support so vastly superior to this games pitiful excuse of "support", and no matter how many people chime on this fact, support it, there will, once again, be the clique that try to dispute it, with rare situations or excusing this company because "oh, but its so early! they have alot on their plate!", regardless of the facts that every MMO has had alot to do, yet many still managed fine, and design the service better or hire more people or whatever works for them.
The Customer "Support" or "Service" here has always been pathetic. Despite the roar, constructive or not, from these forums or their FB or twitter, it has not gotten better. There is no real excuse. Other game companies continue to do it very well. Personally I have no idea what to do about it.
But people still defend it. Amusing.
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fathomfulMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 207Bounty Hunter
edited July 2013
Well it took my ticket 24 days to get answered.
They basically told me to screw off too bad.
Just a warning if you send mail to a bad address it will NOT be returned, it CANNOT be retrieved. If you open a ticket you will wait for for two weeks just to be told to screw off.
Just a warning if you send mail to a bad address it will NOT be returned, it CANNOT be retrieved. If you open a ticket you will wait for for two weeks just to be told to screw off.
Well, just take comfort in the words of our dear Moderators;
One week no response, then something along the lines
"While I would love to be able to restore your items, I am unfortunately unable to do so at this time. We make every effort to be able to verify and restore any loss. However due to various reasons this may not always be possible. I am sorry about your loss and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. "
Well, great. Their fault. I am willing to accept compensation. People, you are stealing my cash here... not Gold, but
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merlin420idMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 0Arc User
Just a warning if you send mail to a bad address it will NOT be returned, it CANNOT be retrieved. If you open a ticket you will wait for for two weeks just to be told to screw off.
I have submitted two tickets since the game has began.......First one took 22 days and was like the poster that i quoted. Next ticket had to do with not getting three character slots when I bought more (as a founder's pack purchaser, I'm supposed to get three instead of two)........It took them 24 days to get back to me on that one, and while the problem wasn't fixed (I still only get two toon slots), they did give me 500 zen to buy more toon slots. They told me to reply to my ticket if the problem hadn't been solved. So, I guess in another 3 weeks, I'll find an email that is just another automated response probably.
This is the third PWE game that I've played, and yes, I have to say that customer service completely sux. But it seems to be better in this game than the previous ones i've played. The one thing I've noticed though, they don't really ever fix anything, they just throw zen/freebies at the problem and hope the player is happy and shuts up.
Took me only about 2 days to get a response to the one ticket (not bug report) that i filed. Of course, the response had NOTHING to do with my issue and i ended up resolving it myself a week or so later by uninstalling all of my PW games, cleaning my registry, and reinstalling them all (the ONLY thing that fixes it), but i did get a response, anyway. Now i know when my launcher stops loading i need to follow those steps again.
The longest response in ANY game i've played would be probably a month in Champs Online. And then the response was just "we can't help you." Hands down, CO has the worst CSR in the industry. Or it did before TrailTurtle joined the team. i haven't had to fill out a ticket since then.
so many people complaining about waiting over 3 weeks to get an automated response with defaulting their ticket to closed or responses that have nothing to do with their ticket, not really sure you can consider that customer service....
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darkstorn42Member, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited July 2013
There are a lot of tickets people are making and they have a small GM staff, you need to be patient, they will get to you in time.
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fathomfulMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 207Bounty Hunter
edited July 2013
I can understand them taking a while to answer. I am more or less upset about the specifics.
I mean if you send mail to an incorrect address you are just screwed. I mean yea typos sucks and can be prevented but still all the items i sent just dissappear in the ether? Cant return the message and say invalid address or something. ugh. terrible.
I can understand them taking a while to answer. I am more or less upset about the specifics.
I mean if you send mail to an incorrect address you are just screwed. I mean yea typos sucks and can be prevented but still all the items i sent just dissappear in the ether? Cant return the message and say invalid address or something. ugh. terrible.
Yeah you would think that would basic mail box addition, trying to send to an incorrect mail address should be returned with an error message- invalid mail address.
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fathomfulMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 207Bounty Hunter
Yeah you would think that would basic mail box addition, trying to send to an incorrect mail address should be returned with an error message- invalid mail address.
Exactly seems like it would be more work to suppress the error that would be returned than it would be to just let it come back.
Either way i have just learned you never use mail for anything just face to face trades lol.
So whats the longest time you have waited for a response to a ticket?.... I'm at 12 hours and still waiting.
i have been playing MMOs for a long time and never waited this long for a response from a GM or a DM, maybe I'm lucky or maybe this game is just ........
I have never placed a ticket in this game so my opinion on NW is pretty useless. While I haven't played many MMOs I spent years playing WoW, a very popular MMO - in my experience 12 hours isn't a bad wait time, I have seen ticket times up to two weeks on WoW. Just be patient and someone will eventually get to you, try to remember these guys have to answer everyone's ticket and there is likely a long line of them. Another thing to remember is this game is free to play with their only revenue coming from advertisements and the game shop/store, whatever you want to call it. I find it likely that they do not have a large staff. Whatever the issues on their side is complaining about it on the forums probably isn't going to get your issue resolved any sooner.
There are a lot of tickets people are making and they have a small GM staff, you need to be patient, they will get to you in time.
There are alot of tickets around the time of a newly launched MMO? Obviously?
If something has a bug filled beta and continue to have glaring flaws and bugs and broken mechanics post-launch will there be more tickets? Obviously.
Should they maybe have planned for this eventuality, seeing as how they had a closed, then open, beta, where tickets poured in, and knew what to expect, and should at that maybe have planned for even worse? Obviously.
Could they possibly have shown even slight anticipation and handled it in ways of having a better CS design or hired more people or even volunteers or other strategies other companies in this market has employed throughout the last decade or more? Obviously.
Countless MMOs have far, far superior customer support, and handled launches and early stages so much more efficiently it's not even funny.
And it's not even just about the absurd wait times, but the manner in wich they respond, when they finally do, wich is evident if reading this thread or the many others on the subject.
Advocating patience is fine - a virtue and all that - but that also warrants that the service or company in question has earned patience from it's customers; they are, by their actions, simply not worthy of extreme patience (10-20 day waits and nonsense responses) in many peoples minds. Can you honestly blame the frustrated customers? Is a call for patience truly appropriate?
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Also, can we please get a "Server Status" link put somewhere on this website? If one exists, it's in diar need of relocation because I looked and couldn't find one.
I sent a ticket in early June took about 3 weeks. YMMV..........
My ticket is sitting at 11 days. Nada, nothing but an auto generated response.
This is a really really easy thing to fix as well. I read that shard merge had happened so sent some mail to a friend, guess what no shard merge so just need my mail returned to me.
11 days and no response yet.
One of my guild mates who played GW2 with me had a ticket in their queue for 4 days until it was answered regarding being charged twice for something that paid once. I had other tickets in for GW2 which were much less important and answered in about 1.5 days. So your experience was unique with Arenanet/NCSoft if they answered it within a few hours. Still, it took 3 days to get your currency replaced.
The point is: within 12 hours is still an unrealistic expectation. I agree that PEW has horrible customer support and my one ticket with them took two weeks.
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Not sure where you got your information from....shards haven't been merged yet. All that's been said is that they will be merged at some point in the future.
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Right it was completely erroneous information. It just doesnt make sense that i wouldnt get mail returned when it was sent to a bad spot, or at least some sort of answer.
Jumping in here; True, but Neverwinter boasts 11-20ish days, or more, on the other hand.
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In my opinion the state of customer support (or lack thereof) is still an issue, a big one at that, and the other was regarding Founder Pack scams, still relevant and even more so with the newly added Feywild packs - add to that I responded to someone directing posts at me. In short I believe I exercised my rights within the forum's rules and after my own interests.
Also, they were in old tabs I found when cleaning Firefox from 90 out of 100 tabbed pages. :P
If it bothers you enough for you to further bump them with this question, simply disregard the threads and move on, if they don't concern you, and get back to me if you see me necroing threads months old on topics no longer relevant or more current and in depth discussed in long active threads.
Never had a single ticket answered.
Necroing is considered better in many circles than creating a new topic. Forums are weird animals. If the guy had made a new topic, folks would be in here posting "Learn to use search", but if the person uses search and finds a pertinent thread a few weeks old they get "Why are you necroing threads?"
So which is better?
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I opened a ticket in EVE Online, it got answered in five minutes, and was resolved in five minutes and one second. TSW, takes about half an hour usually, to get a response, and about five minutes to get it resolved, usually. Good companies there.
Waiting times here for support are insanely long. More and more people testify to this. Yet still certain people and mods (refering to their player personas, not their "authority", wich would be forbidden here, just to clarify intent) will either call you and the others a liar, or a whiner, or claim that for them it only took a day, or whatever.
There are -countless- MMOs that have customer support so vastly superior to this games pitiful excuse of "support", and no matter how many people chime on this fact, support it, there will, once again, be the clique that try to dispute it, with rare situations or excusing this company because "oh, but its so early! they have alot on their plate!", regardless of the facts that every MMO has had alot to do, yet many still managed fine, and design the service better or hire more people or whatever works for them.
The Customer "Support" or "Service" here has always been pathetic. Despite the roar, constructive or not, from these forums or their FB or twitter, it has not gotten better. There is no real excuse. Other game companies continue to do it very well. Personally I have no idea what to do about it.
But people still defend it. Amusing.
They basically told me to screw off too bad.
Just a warning if you send mail to a bad address it will NOT be returned, it CANNOT be retrieved. If you open a ticket you will wait for for two weeks just to be told to screw off.
Well, just take comfort in the words of our dear Moderators;
Everything is fine. Just fine.
"While I would love to be able to restore your items, I am unfortunately unable to do so at this time. We make every effort to be able to verify and restore any loss. However due to various reasons this may not always be possible. I am sorry about your loss and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. "
Well, great. Their fault. I am willing to accept compensation. People, you are stealing my cash here... not Gold, but
I have submitted two tickets since the game has began.......First one took 22 days and was like the poster that i quoted. Next ticket had to do with not getting three character slots when I bought more (as a founder's pack purchaser, I'm supposed to get three instead of two)........It took them 24 days to get back to me on that one, and while the problem wasn't fixed (I still only get two toon slots), they did give me 500 zen to buy more toon slots. They told me to reply to my ticket if the problem hadn't been solved. So, I guess in another 3 weeks, I'll find an email that is just another automated response probably.
This is the third PWE game that I've played, and yes, I have to say that customer service completely sux. But it seems to be better in this game than the previous ones i've played. The one thing I've noticed though, they don't really ever fix anything, they just throw zen/freebies at the problem and hope the player is happy and shuts up.
The longest response in ANY game i've played would be probably a month in Champs Online. And then the response was just "we can't help you." Hands down, CO has the worst CSR in the industry. Or it did before TrailTurtle joined the team. i haven't had to fill out a ticket since then.
I mean if you send mail to an incorrect address you are just screwed. I mean yea typos sucks and can be prevented but still all the items i sent just dissappear in the ether? Cant return the message and say invalid address or something. ugh. terrible.
Yeah you would think that would basic mail box addition, trying to send to an incorrect mail address should be returned with an error message- invalid mail address.
Exactly seems like it would be more work to suppress the error that would be returned than it would be to just let it come back.
Either way i have just learned you never use mail for anything just face to face trades lol.
I have never placed a ticket in this game so my opinion on NW is pretty useless. While I haven't played many MMOs I spent years playing WoW, a very popular MMO - in my experience 12 hours isn't a bad wait time, I have seen ticket times up to two weeks on WoW. Just be patient and someone will eventually get to you, try to remember these guys have to answer everyone's ticket and there is likely a long line of them. Another thing to remember is this game is free to play with their only revenue coming from advertisements and the game shop/store, whatever you want to call it. I find it likely that they do not have a large staff. Whatever the issues on their side is complaining about it on the forums probably isn't going to get your issue resolved any sooner.
"I'm trying to spend money on your game, but.."
There are alot of tickets around the time of a newly launched MMO? Obviously?
If something has a bug filled beta and continue to have glaring flaws and bugs and broken mechanics post-launch will there be more tickets? Obviously.
Should they maybe have planned for this eventuality, seeing as how they had a closed, then open, beta, where tickets poured in, and knew what to expect, and should at that maybe have planned for even worse? Obviously.
Could they possibly have shown even slight anticipation and handled it in ways of having a better CS design or hired more people or even volunteers or other strategies other companies in this market has employed throughout the last decade or more? Obviously.
Countless MMOs have far, far superior customer support, and handled launches and early stages so much more efficiently it's not even funny.
And it's not even just about the absurd wait times, but the manner in wich they respond, when they finally do, wich is evident if reading this thread or the many others on the subject.
Advocating patience is fine - a virtue and all that - but that also warrants that the service or company in question has earned patience from it's customers; they are, by their actions, simply not worthy of extreme patience (10-20 day waits and nonsense responses) in many peoples minds. Can you honestly blame the frustrated customers? Is a call for patience truly appropriate?