I've followed the Billing FAQ instructions as to how to request an online handle change, the reasons why are in the ticket(s) as are the requested changes, I'm just not posting those here.
the first ticket I placed was
Online Handle Change - #509777 - Star Trek Online Date: 01/22/2010 Status:Resolved Reply:Yes
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I waited a bit as I knew there were a lot of other bigger things going on, but since the handle wasn't changed and many days had passed, I put in a new ticket on the 16th of Feb, (25 days later)
#672723 On 02/16/2010 Status Resolved reply =Yes
Hello, GM Destra here. This is a response to all open Billing tickets. Fortunately, many of the issues that affected players during release have been resolved by back end fixes we recently implemented. However, during the week of launch we received so many tickets that our CS team is currently fighting against a formidable backlog. If your issue has not been resolved by our back-end fixes, please reply to your ticket. Doing so will re-open your ticket and return it to its original place in the queue. I apologize if this causes any frustration. All tickets that do not receive a reply before the end of the weekend will be closed automatically. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the extreme delay in responding to your ticket. We are working as fast as we can to answer all tickets submitted as quickly as possible. We have increased staffing to combat this issue and hope to reduce our backlog of unanswered tickets very soon. If your issue has already been resolved, or you have submitted any duplicate tickets, please feel free to close those outstanding tickets and we will respond to your original issue as soon as is possible. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding. Regards, GM Destra
A canned reply and the issue has not been corrected. Today I put in the third ticket (44 days after first request.)
Display name change - THIRD request | Ticket #732907 - Star Trek Online... | Date: 03/07/2010 | Status: New | Reply:No
Somewhere in that 44 day wait I also sent in two emails to Billing. I did not get any reply to those emails. Not even a canned received email. Yes, I have the right email address for my account, I do get the cryptic marketing emails addressed to my account here.
Currently: My display handle has still not been changed so it's not resolved. I have been very patient waiting and putting tickets back in but that this point. I need more HELP from Cryptic than just following the FAQ and sending in a billing ticket/email.
Comments
Second ticket:
So, twice now they've told you to re-open the same ticket if your issue is not resolved, and you've ignored that and moved yourself back to the back of the line, and you're complaining you're at the back of the line....
Find the email from your first ticket. Reply to it to re-open the ticket, which will immediately jump way ahead in the line. Next time, READ the "canned responses" they're sending you; there's important information in them.
Yep, I've been looking at them in the same light, very low priority & mass-closing due to huge volume. It's too bad there's no way to re-open a closed ticket on the website, as I'd have done that instead of adding a new ticket.
the email, I send did over lap the time period when the two ticket were closed. I'll be waiting, as I have been.
That is not the case at all. Please re-read what I typed again, and please do not assume that I didn't read those two replys to the tickets.
Short(er) version:
1. I put a ticket in, it was mass-closed, I emailed, got no reply. I waited as the volume of ticket was huge.
2. I send in a second ticket, as there is no way to open a ticket form the web See link http://www.startrekonline.com/tickets
when that one closed I again emailed Billing. and again got no reply. and again waited a while.
3. there nothing wrong with my being patient, or my putting this in as a third ticket, or posting that info here.
As coderanger pointed out "cosmetic things like this are lower priority requests than getting game bugs dealt with or handing billing errors."
Auric Goldfinger - Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.
hmm.. I didn't see that on the web support "My Tickets" link. If it's in game, I never looked there for it. I felt there wasn't a need to as all the info showed on the support web page under 'my tickets'
When I look at "my tickets" on the support web page, I can see three buttons.
Open tickets | Closed Tickets | Create a new Ticket
When I click on Open tickets and select a ticket, I get two buttons at the bottom, Edit & Close.
When I click on Closed Tickets and select a ticket, I get NO options at the bottom.
So if a ticket is closed by support which then places it the closed list. How does one re-open said ticket?
I just looked at my tickets in game. Closed tickets show the edit button as being greyed out. (the closed button is greyed out for them too, but that doesn't apply.) I didn't see a reply button in game at all.
Perhaps there should be an edit button, reply button, or a re-open button in cases like this?
BOTH tickets told you to REPLY if your issue was unresolved. NOT open a new one, or wait 2 weeks.
As in.. reply to the email.
Actually, I told him to re-read what I had posted.
I stated that I did send in emails in the original text. seems you missed that as well.
this is the part you both ignored:
Somewhere in that 44 day wait I also sent in two emails to Billing. I did not get any reply to those emails. Not even a canned received email. Yes, I have the right email address for my account, I do get the cryptic marketing emails addressed to my account here.
Those emails were my reply emails to the first and second Tickets. Sigh.
Just so we're on the same page, have either one of you had to re-open or reply to a Ticket?
The first paragraph, covers the time with my first ticket, it's being closed, and my follow up email.
The second paragraph covers why I sent in a third ticket.
The email itself is a reply to my then open second ticket, no idea why my email back didn't get it re-opened, but by golly, they've been busy after all.
Hello,
This is a response to all open Billing tickets.
Fortunately, many of the issues that affected players during release have been
resolved by back end fixes we recently implemented. However, during the week of
launch we received so many tickets that our CS team is currently fighting
against a formidable backlog.
If your issue has not been resolved by our back-end fixes, please log into your
account at http://startrekonline.com and submit a Support ticket for further
follow-up. We apologize if this causes any frustration. All tickets that do not
receive a reply before the end of the weekend will be closed automatically.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the extreme delay in
responding to your ticket. We are working as fast as we can to answer all
tickets submitted as quickly as possible. We have increased staffing to combat
this issue and hope to reduce our backlog of unanswered tickets very soon.
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.
Regards,
The Cryptic Studios Support Team