zigzagoon Posted:

but those who play domination get shiny medals and e-peens from those medals

what’s wrong with giving out an e-peen to those who don’t play domination?

Umm, that is pretty crappy logic. All aspects of the game are open to everyone. Players choose whether or not to compete in different areas. No one has to sacrifice playing Dom in order to play INCIT. No one is required to choose between Forumbuildr and gaining consecutive peens.

Really, I wasn’t going to comment on this. It was brought up in klan and I am aware that anything I say will likely sound whiny. I agree with everything the Pro wrote. I also agree that it is a bit frustrating to a regular player to discover that playing everyday is both not enough and apparently bad planning.

I love the idea of something like this. I think mini missions are neat, just really cool when they happen. However, CZ recently announced very proudly that they had crossed the 130k user mark. 25 out of 130,000 is steep. Considering that the alternate prize for completing the quest is pretty much just collectible?

My experience was: log in, see new quest, awesome! Run through the quest. Heh heh heh. Go to Flamebate to check the chatter on it. Discover that the epically awesome quest prize was extremely limited and had already been grabbed before I even logged on. Feel disappointed. Realize that even if I had shown up earlier, due to actually using my visits I wouldn’t have been able to participate on the character I consider to be my main.

Does the peen vs participation doc lessen the content, of course not. Could the general release of the content been done in a way that would have left people feeling less annoyed, yup.

Also, while surprise is cool, some real notification in a game that is self limiting via the 4 per day visit structure wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Comparatively – when World of Warcraft released its latest expansion they released several “be the first to _____” awards. Obviously very exclusive, but they did let players know weeks in advance that they were on deck. This allowed the players who cared to compete for those things to plan ahead or at least be on line when the things hit.

To me the twitter blurb, “We’re going to be launching a special new quest shortly for those who have finished episode 2.” gave no indication of anything. I’ve seen “coming soon” on this site mean 2 hours and I’ve see it mean 3 months. It’s been a pretty flexible thing.

I’m not mentioning these things because I think they should go back and change them, just perhaps consider them in the future? I think people are aware at this point that they might need to have flezz on hand for some sudden quest ala the starving_2_death scenario. Check, we need to have some flezz if we want to participate in cool bonus stuff. Visits? Without notice that really forces a hard choice between actively job boarding or playing Dom and sitting around waiting for potential bonus content. Log in to see images!

See, sounds whiny. Log in to see images!