ML dissapointment

[Rage]

Greetings

First a thank you to the BG leaders for pressing on despite of horrible conditions. Besides that sundays ML2 hunt was a disaster. Very long lagspikes and lots of LD's made it a most unpleasant journey. Since Lag is supposedly not anything GOA can be held accountable for ( I argue otherwize ), we put upp with it. When we finally had steps 2.4 and 2.10 left we discovered that the 2.4 mob isnt up, it wasnt up when we entered the temple, and didnt spawn during the entire stay. Possibly she was stuck in a wall. That really dissapointed me, since I had spent 4 hours+ on that hunt, and will probably have to rejoin another hunt and spend another 4 hours+ that time. To me that is horrible quality of service.

What I would like is a formal excuse or some compensation for my efforts. I know howeveer that such will not come, since GOAs policy in that matter is very customer unfriendly. I find it unfortunate that the MLs which could have been a wonderful addition to DaoC, due to poor computing skills and poor ISP service on part of the providers, have turned into the most frustrating and boring part of the game.

For those that read all the way down here, I hope that some agree with me that GoA should take the time and review cases where raids have gone foul becuse of poor service quality and compensate the people participating.

with regards
Rage - LoM

 

[Jarroman]

well apart from the above ...

IS IT POSSIBLE???? NO FECKIN E & E ON @ PRIMETIMES??

i bet E & E are playing WoW beta

this is so feckin lame ..... ffs first the endless mass ld-s then the non-pop step .. spent over 5 overall for nothin

imo make another ML2.4 ML2.10 only raid....

cba joining new on from the beginning.. so damn unfair!!!

 

[scorge]

well apart from the above ...

IS IT POSSIBLE???? NO FECKIN E & E ON @ PRIMETIMES??

E & E are volunteers and as such, can play whenever they want. May be you should have said "no feckn GM's on at primetime"..

 

[Jarroman]

well whatever ... makes no diference tbh . we needed help and we got nothin

 

[Gorrion]

The lag spikes have sertainly done its parts in destroying the game, and with less than ½ the players gone on all server from the release of TOA and untill this day, im afreid there is no saving DAOC.
Even more players are leaving the game now, and there is a good chance these will not return due to the release of other multiplayer internet games that will be released soon. These factors in itself dont take much math to figure out what will happen . . . DAOC will, and probally already have "died".
The frustration is imidiate and very damaging to those of us who desperate hope to get somthing in return for what we have "PAYED" for, but it seem that even GOA has the FULL RESPONSEBILITY for providing their costumers, they have done nothing at all to solve the problem in the "soon" 4 month the Open-Transit or whatever the problem is.
The retarded no brains at GOA is the root to this problem, again and again and again whe have been witness to their incompetence, and it almost feel's like they are laughing in our faces when WE the players get requested to mail Pling-plots and traceroutes to ...GOA@morrons.com...
With no regret to any written here
Regards
Gorrion

 

[Dorin]

ingame game master checking wots up with the boss would be handy, but thats kinda rare

 

[Antabus_Vodka]

The GM`s wont come online because the cba with the lag..

 

[Chronictank]

GM's are not paid to be online on the weekends, nothing to do with lag, OT, players, witches or space aliens.

Even if they were it is unlikely they could do anything other than minimul stuff from home, send e-mails to GOA to pay them to be online on the weekends but expect a higher sub at the end of the month

 

[Tilda]

well apart from the above ...

IS IT POSSIBLE???? NO FECKIN E & E ON @ PRIMETIMES??

i bet E & E are playing WoW beta

this is so feckin lame ..... ffs first the endless mass ld-s then the non-pop step .. spent over 5 overall for nothin

imo make another ML2.4 ML2.10 only raid....

cba joining new on from the beginning.. so damn unfair!!!

Firstly, did you check irc? ( #E&E on quakenet)
I was there most of yesterday.
Secondly even if you had spoken to me, there wern't any GMs on as they arn't paid to be on at weekends.

Tilda

 

[Teslacoil]

hehe, thank god to you all fellas , i was so pissed of myself that i missed ml2 and now i hear what a hell you al must've had , so thanks for making my day pleasant.

 

[old.Whoodoo]

I was on the start of the raid, but gave up due to the lag making 50% of the BG vanish every 5 mins. However, there were no GMs online (couldnt find any on WoW either hehe) at the time of the raid Im sorry to say.

As a non-GOA employee, theres little else we can do, we try our best so please dont slate us for at least trying to offer the community help.

 

[mightybunny]

So what you are saying is dont do masterlevels in the weekend?

 

[Gear]

If it makes you feel any better, I had to cancel my ML3 raid as well.

 

[Jarroman]

well, no gm on @ times//days that they would be wanted mostly !! intersting...

as far as the E & E channel on quakenet , my apoligizes, i had no idea it even exists!!

ohh and sth else... well if E & E can't do anything more than the rest of us can do , then what's their role ?!

 

[old.Whoodoo]

ohh and sth else... well if E & E can't do anything more than the rest of us can do , then what's their role ?!

http://daoc.goa.com/news/benevole_present.php3?id_article=608

(has a smoke and calms down before launching into a barrage of expletives - will suffice for now)

Our role is to offer advice, report issues to GOA and try to be in the places GOA cant be all the time. We are not GMs, we are volunteers who take time out to answer questions, contact GMs whenever possible and generally aid the community as a whole. We have ways normal players do not of contacting GMs in emergency situations, and many people have found this of benefit, including on ML raids, artifact or other bugs that can be instantly fixed. We do not have a 24/7 pipeline to GOA, and even they take a day off.

We may not seem in your eyes to do much, but im sure most people would say we do a little more than most.

 

[Rage]

Greetings

The real issue for me this time wasnt the lag, it settled down and we endured, but to top it off 2.4 was bugged. So despite the lag we couldnt even complete the ML du to a faulty product. No game is bugg free, but one year after release I think we have earned a bugg free ml 2.

with regards
Rage - LoM

 

[Jarroman]

i c , oki ... e & e are not to blame they just exist to contact GMs when one is needed.

but the fact was that there was no gm ... why ? because it was sunday ?? isn't it a 24/7 game ? and well ... oki i understand someone can't be all the time loged in watching everything etc etc ... why not havin more GMs then ?!

and after all Rage is right ... if so many months after ToA relase we can't do a ML2 raid properly due to malfunction of game engine , it is bad service.

i don't know whose fault is it i do know tho that it ain't the player's fault!