Apparently a lot of people still don't know..

infrequentia
infrequentia Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
So I'm in game, chillin' on my venomancer, killing some monsters and just semi-reading the world chat that people seem to have gotten quite fond of. And they start to talk about characters and zen being deleted after closed beta.
Sure, most of us know that, but some people started to type in the world chat about how they didn't know and why they were deleting them.
After all the threads and talking about it, I thought most people know. I was quite shocked when so many stepped forwards and said they had no idea.

Even if people don't like going to the forums and read and post (which I enjoy so much), they should at least pop in once in a while (or at least once before they start playing) and read the announcements. Don't you think ? o:
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  • sahrai
    sahrai Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I am honestly not surprised at all. I expected this to happen, and I would expect after closed beta ton of people creating threads to ask where their characters are.
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  • infrequentia
    infrequentia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I can imagine. Tons of threads with people saying they got ****, or asking where the characters are, or why there were no announcement of this (even though there were, but people don't read stickies), and that they went through all of that for nothing.

    Tough job for the admins/mods to get people calmed down. I wish them good luck with it.
  • shizo
    shizo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    That's why Games having age limits normally....
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    They should put a mesage on the connect screen to that effect.

    90% of players in any game don't read the forums.
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • baifang
    baifang Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    shizo wrote: »
    That's why Games having age limits normally....

    In a "Perfect World" perhaps....

    *couldn't resist*
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  • reizo
    reizo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    They should put a mesage on the connect screen to that effect.

    90% of players in any game don't read the forums.

    uh huh sure..90% my ****..
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  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    They should put a mesage on the connect screen to that effect.

    90% of players in any game don't read the forums.

    90% hardly read the message screen also, I've never read that. I'll skim it at best once in a while, not to often.

    The best spot you are going to get people's attention is in the game itself. Say a periodic system message telling people these characters are going to be wiped!.

    The message has to be written in a way that catches there attention. Something like:

    Close Beta ENDING! Scheduled character wipe in #### check Forums for more info.
  • infrequentia
    infrequentia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Yea, announcing it in game a couple of times wouldn't be all bad. o: Maybe that'd reduce the threads when OB comes at least by a few.
  • irbis
    irbis Posts: 294 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    more like
    READ THE DAMN FORUM OR WE'LL CUT YOUR INTERNET CABLE!!!
    yea. this should work lol
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  • infrequentia
    infrequentia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    That's a bit violent.
    I bet it could work, though. xD
  • irbis
    irbis Posts: 294 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    with so much "net-kids" around? better then a sniper bullet :3
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  • rena
    rena Posts: 184 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    They should put a mesage on the connect screen to that effect.

    90% of players in any game don't read the forums.

    Exactly what I was going to say, people use the forums is a rather small percent of the whole community. The % is even lower for p2p games. I would suggest putting some hourly system messages to let the players know.
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  • cheianah
    cheianah Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    haha thats not as bad as what happened the other day, someone actually started asking what a beta key was.................

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