Extended Support Hours

defenderofdreams
defenderofdreams Posts: 78
edited February 2014 in General Discussion
Greetings Players!


We are pleased to announce that our Customer Service and Billing support hours have been extended to better, and more quickly, serve you. Starting now, our support teams will be working during the hours of 10AM to 7PM PST, 7 days a week. Need any help with login issues? Let us know. Having in-game problems? We're here to help! Make sure to bookmark our support site here and reach out to us anytime.

In addition, during this year and beyond, we will be constantly looking at ways we can continue to improve our support experience. For the near future, one of our goals is to be able to add live chat to our suite of support services. Stay tuned for more information!

Thank you so much for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you in-game soon.

- The PWE Team
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  • opkossy
    opkossy Posts: 11,177 Community Moderator
    edited February 2014
    in during when DoD's post got cut off! b:cute


    This is great news but I sure hope that the support staff was increased to accommodate this change. Otherwise... *shudder*
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  • Desdi - Sanctuary
    Desdi - Sanctuary Posts: 8,680 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'm with Kossy on this one. It is great news indeed but I also hope the support staff was increased otherwise we might end up with overworked staff that's not willing to help because they are way too busy, overworked and tired :<
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  • bobbyjoe2
    bobbyjoe2 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    For the near future, one of our goals is to be able to add live chat to our suite of support services. Stay tuned for more information!


    you had live chat in the past....ijs why did they remove it in the first place
  • FaceRolI - Sanctuary
    FaceRolI - Sanctuary Posts: 450 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    once upon a time there was live support chat.

    removing support button from new pwi forum page.
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  • Miugre - Heavens Tear
    Miugre - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I just have to ask this... how many support staff do you have? In recent years you guys have given every indication that you're paralyzingly short-staffed. o.O Did you finally bring some new folks on?
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  • Atropah - Sanctuary
    Atropah - Sanctuary Posts: 186 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Desdi - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I also hope the support staff was increased otherwise we might end up with overworked staff

    10am-7pm=9 hours and they probably have an hour lunch, so 8 hour work day. The standard for the US is a 40 hour work week then people get paid overtime, which companies hate. So people typically work 5 days, 8 hours. Since they are now offering 56 hours a week of customer service you can almost guarantee they hired more people.

    Also, with reforms in US healthcare coverage people now get benefits if they work over 30 (?) hours a week so its becoming a trend for independent companies like PWE to keep their employee hours under that and hire more part-time employees, rather than fewer full-time employees.

    From what I've seen in past tickets and pictures of the US office they have 2-4 people working support. I'm guessing that's been bumped up by at least 2 new people :D
  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    so if they hire pple that can work 3 days per week with a rotation, thats less than 30hrs = save $$ on company. And usually pple flock to gaming Q&A jobs >.> especially part times
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  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited February 2014
    FaceRolI - Sanctuary wrote: »
    once upon a time there was live support chat.

    removing support button from new pwi forum page.
    Live chat was removed because they did not have enough free people to support it.
    Miugre - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I just have to ask this... how many support staff do you have? In recent years you guys have given every indication that you're paralyzingly short-staffed. o.O Did you finally bring some new folks on?
    Last I was aware, they had about 25 people on the Support team and most of them were college interns. At the time, they were supporting 14 titles. I think it's 16 now.

    Would be interesting to hear if they've finally decided to expand that.
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  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »
    most of them were college interns. At the time, they were supporting 14 titles. I think it's 16 now.
    f:sneaky a battle of wits you say?
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  • Dami_ - Heavens Tear
    Dami_ - Heavens Tear Posts: 62 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Miugre - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I just have to ask this... how many support staff do you have? In recent years you guys have given every indication that you're paralyzingly short-staffed. o.O Did you finally bring some new folks on?

    do you know, all that money from the packs, rank and r9 helped for something.
  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Dami_ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    do you know, all that money from the packs, rank and r9 helped for something.
    must be the cost to keep the servers up b:thanks hey its running out hence the DC! b:cute
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  • Breannak - Raging Tide
    Breannak - Raging Tide Posts: 642 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Glad to know i don't have to wait forever to get my ticket replied to...
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  • porphy
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    edited February 2014
    Another day, another chance to get unchained.

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  • heerohex#3018
    heerohex#3018 Posts: 4,880 Community Moderator
    edited February 2014
    +1

    PWE will be a lot stronger with Weekend support from the start! +1

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  • Vinat - Sanctuary
    Vinat - Sanctuary Posts: 1,200 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You make it sound as if support is available at the click of a button.. but this change is pretty irrelevant if it's still going to take several business days to get a response to a ticket.

    Let us know when you have LiveChat up and running again.
  • Gyurakzoltan - Archosaur
    Gyurakzoltan - Archosaur Posts: 683 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    "Customer Service and Billing support hours have been extended to better"
    My question is, for a GM or Admin, what happens if Customer service fail and trying to get rid of my problem, an easy one, and the problem is caused by server restart and NOT by player issue, i know its not hard to check some things for a GM ingame or out of the game about a player, so 1 week delay about the problem is not accetable ! im asking what should i do, if my problem still exist due that Customer Service havent done anything about it? shall i PM a GM or an Admin? can that help?
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  • ovenusarmanio
    ovenusarmanio Posts: 6,695 Community Moderator
    edited February 2014
    Gyurakzoltan - Archosaur wrote: »
    "Customer Service and Billing support hours have been extended to better"
    My question is, for a GM or Admin, what happens if Customer service fail and trying to get rid of my problem, an easy one, and the problem is caused by server restart and NOT by player issue, i know its not hard to check some things for a GM ingame or out of the game about a player, so 1 week delay about the problem is not accetable ! im asking what should i do, if my problem still exist due that Customer Service havent done anything about it? shall i PM a GM or an Admin? can that help?

    5 business days or 1 week if you run into the weekend, is the normal amount of waiting time. During high volume of tickets it can take even longer. I don't know if they will have today off but it is a holiday here as well, although most businesses are open, there are also some that are not as it is a federal holiday. I wouldn't be surprised if PWE was open though.

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  • Gyurakzoltan - Archosaur
    Gyurakzoltan - Archosaur Posts: 683 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Thank you for the answer Venus, that could be the problem, its not my acc, my friends, but he didnt said he got a reply in friday, only that he got a reply and then nothing happend after, explained him about weekends and holidays, he is not good at english, neither me, so he got some hope now :) I know its not his fault what happend, thats why i posted to ask :) Thx again b:kiss
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  • Msdoomdesire - Sanctuary
    Msdoomdesire - Sanctuary Posts: 86 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Note: nothing to do with topic.
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  • Ms_loveshot - Heavens Tear
    Ms_loveshot - Heavens Tear Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Defender of dreams they don't help at all. they never fixed the dragon orb issue they never fixed my mixed up email issue and they refuse to fix the fact that the skill I got which cost me 60 primordial bloods was the wrong one and wont fix this.

    I tell them I clicked on the demon one got sage instead and they wont fix it or compensate me in any way
  • CoinFarmer - Lost City
    CoinFarmer - Lost City Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited February 2014
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    A question, so I been sending tickets to pwi for the last 2 months now and have yet to get a non auto-response response, last ticket sent 6 days ago w/ no response at all. Have also tried calling their company over the course of a few weeks (never picked up phone even once) what would be the best course of action at this point? Keep sending in tickets? Call another department and complain to whoever picks up the phone? Some other third option?
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  • Fabuleux - Lost City
    Fabuleux - Lost City Posts: 920 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    CoinFarmer - Lost City wrote: »
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    A question, so I been sending tickets to pwi for the last 2 months now and have yet to get a non auto-response response, last ticket sent 6 days ago w/ no response at all. Have also tried calling their company over the course of a few weeks (never picked up phone even once) what would be the best course of action at this point? Keep sending in tickets? Call another department and complain to whoever picks up the phone? Some other third option?

    Calling another department would depend on what you're wanting, no? inb4 they redirect you b:laugh

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