Greetings all..
Hope all had a very good holiday season and the new years rings in with great hope, health, and propserity for all of us..
Now, to the root of my elevated blood pressure and ill-tempered attitude, The LATEST give-away.
It is my honest opinion, that a (and/or any) give-away that features an Item to be used in-game, and give-away entry is NOT available to enter in the OFFICIAL forum, or anywhere else by IN GAME means, is an up-front, back-handed method scheme to either bolster matrix levels or "Followers" for these out-of-game, social media sites.
Personally, I do not "Twitter" "Facebook" or other sites to find out what is happening in "Star Trek Online". In the past, "bug" issues have been first released on FaceBook, Twitter, and even RedEdit(sp) web sites, and, that information was provided in the Forums from PLAYERS; not Community Managers, DEV's, or any other "official" spokesperson.
I wish those luck, that go the ONLY way to enter; out of the game for the miniscule possiblity of winning the item. I'll just get mine from the Lobi Store..
tyvm.. Have a nice day.. Have fun, Be nice to each other..
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Just not worth it.
edit: and honestly, I don't care all that much about giveaways like that, either. Oh, well, them's the breaks. But I agree totally about announcing meaningful game news / bug issues / etc, on social media and not on the so-called "official" forums. That's just shoddy customer service.
All you need to know.
"All about ignoring the paying customer"? Last I checked this one, the last one, and the toy ship game giveaways have all been open to current players, just done through social media instead of in these forums. So: factually incorrect, the best kind of incorrect.
Wait what? How is this excluding paying customers? Where's any stipulation about paying versus non-paying?
Also for frame of reference, out of all the potential communication medias (Forums, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch), Twitch and Reddit get the least "exclusive rewards". We've only done one Reddit giveaway.. ever. Twitch we haven't been doing streams (because scheduling me is now a bit of a nightmare). Forums have our screenshot contests which is the only way to get flat ZEN (Unless you're from EU and won a Wizkids promotion). Facebook has been largely 3rd party promotions such as Wizkids (Twitter did as well). Twitter has been more in-game items such as a T2 ship and these Lobi whips.
But if you're looking at a method to do a giveaway on Twitter, you need to have an impacted entry method. If you do it off of current follower data, then you inevitably send codes to inactive users which then means less active users get to enjoy the rewards. If you do it based off of retweet or likes, it allows people to enter within a literal click-of-a-button. You don't have to enter, but nothing is barring you from entering. If you want to debate the merit of something not being available to people, let me remind you that this is literally a digital distribution that is available on a media platform that is free for you to sign up for.
Just like our forums (Which is powered by VANILLA)
Is this specific giveaway only ON our Official Twitter account? Yes.
Can you go on there? Yes.
Do you want to? That's up to you.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I hear that can have a long shelf life...
I ignore papyrus users just because I don't like them.
ALSO THREAD IS NOW CLOSED WHOMP WHOMP.