Thank you MA and all the players. Like anyone in my situation, I'm both happy and sad that everything turned out all right. I'd like to congratulate the 3rd and 4th place, especially Psychos who sent a support ticket telling MA that the winners were wrong even though it could have cost him his prize.
I've already congratulated the first place winner soon after he got that hof and took first place. but congratulations again
I know how Lizzie felt because I had similar thoughts about this event when I lost the first place in the last 30 minutes after having had the lead in over 47hours... It was tough
Some of my greedy thoughts at the time: "hofs are not that common afterall, it's not easy to get one just because you're trying extra hard. and especially to time it in the last 30 minutes. ppl have done 10k kills missions without getting a single hof" and so on
However, the false result and the correction has removed my doubts.
I'll be honest and say that I did not belive that MA could make a mistake like this. Like a madman I've been visiting this forum every day, checking my mails, emails, checking the news over and over, Waiting for MA to explain to all the upset players the reason for the results I was hoping that they would do this really soon because that thread was attracting way too much negativity. like someone else said:
"What do you think people intrested in this game will think after they've read through this thread?"
Since I did not want to belive the results was wrong, I was eagerly waiting for a response similar to these:
"Sorry the timezones in the invite was wrong, the event started 2 hours early and had to end 2 hours early"
"Sorry, we did not explain the rules in full in the event invitations, Since this is a individual event you had to do 100% of the damage to the mob on your own. Meaning a <99% health mob would NOT counted"
I can not deny that I got a double morale now, losing a grand prize like this twice is really heavy... This might sound extremly selfish since I still got the second prize but if you could think yourself in my situation you'd probably feel very similar...
As for all the negativity around this "secret event" I hope you all have started to understand the importance of it all. some of these inactive players have been very active in the past and has undoubtedly been very dedicated to this game. Beliving that something that could bring those players back would be a bad thing is really outrageous and not thought trough at all.
They sent out this survey and got almost 1000 replies! Who knows how many replies they Did not get! Either way all those 1000ppl and everyone that did not reply has all deposited >10$ each(some maybe even over 10k peds) plus the 500 players that started playing again might have already deposited an averege of >10$ each. So this event has defenitly already paid for itself a few times over for a prize which was most likely even donated for advertisment purposes.
Some might have missed the post about it but there'll apparently be a similar event for the still active players so there's no reason to be upset about unfairness anymore.
I really like this game but it's not a game I'd want to jump in to alone. when I started in 2008 I had a lot friends but since it was so hard to keep your money and the lack of goals they quickly lost their intrest and quit... I have not been very active since then but I've always had entropia in the back of my thoughts, visiting the forums now and then.
... I always thought that I'd start playing again.
However, There's sadly alot of negativity here and it sounds like it's even harder to keep your money now compared to how it was 4 years ago. It's sad but I still can't bring my friends to play this game as it is right now.
I've got my theories how to improve the game but what I belive to be the absolute biggest improvement would be what I replied in
this (Thread) about people getting the chance to choose their own risks when it comes to hunting.
One more thing I think would be very helpful for this game would be to remove all old posts full of whining, negativiy, complains and so on. removing a new thread would be really frustrating for the OP and he might bring his bad experiences somewhere outside of the forums where you have no control(this you would not want). but old threads, I don't think anyone would care if they were removed but they still exist and they might have bad impacts on possible new players. just a thought.
for fixing yet another MA screw up.
