So, people who are asleep miss Flash Sales, people at work miss Flash Sales, but what about people who are actually In Game while a Flash Sale happens? Already past the launcher, not likely to check the news on a game they are actually playing, they have no idea. How players are notified of these sales, or really any time sensitive news, is an opportunity for improvement on Cryptic's part.
Of course, Cryptic still makes me mad when they run a non-Thursday Maintenance and announce it less than 24 hours ahead of time and call it Scheduled Maintenance. If it can't wait until Thursday and it isn't something like a well publicized Tuesday Release, just call it what it is: Emergency Maintenance. If any other business out there tried to call a last minute outage of service part of their regular schedule, customers would be outraged.
Not the same issue, but both are communication issues that might have the same solution.
You know...you may have hit on a solution. Fly in and Chat notifications from Admin when people sign on: FLASH SALE is going on! People can check the store and see what is on sale when they get in the game.
They do it for when there is maintenance and for Endeavors that starts...why not Flash Sales? Of course, that would mean: would have to be organized and maybe talk to programmers. LOL!
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So, people who are asleep miss Flash Sales, people at work miss Flash Sales, but what about people who are actually In Game while a Flash Sale happens? Already past the launcher, not likely to check the news on a game they are actually playing, they have no idea. How players are notified of these sales, or really any time sensitive news, is an opportunity for improvement on Cryptic's part.
Cryptic's in-game communication is pretty much nonexistent. Server going into maintenance in 30 minutes is the only ingame announcements I remember ever seeing.
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You know...you may have hit on a solution. Fly in and Chat notifications from Admin when people sign on: FLASH SALE is going on! People can check the store and see what is on sale when they get in the game.
They do it for when there is maintenance and for Endeavors that starts...why not Flash Sales? Of course, that would mean: would have to be organized and maybe talk to programmers. LOL!
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