Zwillinger

This, so much this.

Also, it's a request I've brought up to the appropriate parties again.

They know, and understand, our pain regarding this feature.

Yes, you're absolutely correct. It's less time spent for us.

Last week we had to invest two people for an entire day and a second person for another entire day to sending out codes via PM, and even then we ran into technical/API limitations.

It is *not* a wise investment of my teams time to spend an entire day on another project and cause other aspects of the Community to suffer as a result. At the same time, when faced with the option of do something or do nothing, I choose to do something. I respect those of you who disagree and choose not to participate. Please know that your concerns have been heard. This is simply the best possible option that we have currently available.

On a similar note, Hit Streak and I have invested a rather large amount of time in this conversation. While I appreciate everyone's concern, this is one of those decisions that I have to make that won't make everyone happy. I apologize if you're one of those people. For now, this is how we're going to operate Tweet Code Thursday, until we have a better solution.

FWIW, this whole thing is giving us ammunition.

Showing that we can grow Twitter rapidly and raise our engagement rate gives us ammo.

Showing that we had to invest an inordinate amount of time in something gives us ammo.

Showing that we need something more optimal gives us ammo.

At the end of the day, we're not going to stop working to grow our different Social Media Platforms with the tools we have available, but we're going to keep on asking for better tools to continue doing so.

You're welcome...

You Big Doofus.

Lead Systems Designer last I checked, but yup .

As has been covered previously in this thread, we don't currently have this capability.

Significantly more work. This has become an all day endeavour for both Hit Streak and I.

Since you're the only one who has the code, you can always wait for the Account Center to be working properly again .

I know, it's not RIGHT NAU, but the code won't expire anytime soon .

(Re: the Account Center, we still have no ETA on the login working again.)

Look at it this way...

Now you have an extra code to give to one of your Yank friends .

I *just* finished saying I would suggest it in a product management meeting a few posts back. I'm pretty sure it will have buy in once some time has passed for exclusivity purposes.

You are so buying me a beer next weekend.

I am going to be very clear about something, and it's going to make some of you angry. I hope that you will all take it in a reasonable and rational manner.

We are not going to ask permission each and every time we want to run a promotion. We are going to do things that some people don't like. You are invited to voice your displeasure, in a rational and constructive manner, should this occur. We will do what we can to make a promotion appealing to as many people as we possibly can. At the end of the day though, we will disappoint someone. Years of running contests and promotions have shown me that this will happen, no matter what you do.

In short, no.

I'm probably miscommunicating...

We want to be able to do something like this. The *current* solution we have is what isn't ideal, but it's what we have to work with.

Snow, I do appreciate what you're trying to do here, really I do, but the reality is that would probably take months to get pushed through the Web team. Ideally, we would have a web developer here, at Paragon, that could just fire things like this out the door.

We don't.

Trust me when I tell you that most of the proposed solutions you are all pitching is something that we've either thought of or considered. We WANT generic coupon codes. We WANT to be able to generate a Social Media app at the drop of a hat. Sometimes these things just take time to accomplish.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback on this matter.

Nope, that functionality is not currently available, but it is something we've requested.

There's other things you're not accounting for such as development time, time from PlayNC, time to put it in the Market...

Please never assume that something can *just be done*.

And the resources in question is the Community Team. We do A LOT of things manually, because we don't want to cut into development time for our requests. Time that could be spent working on new content like powersets or new missions or spent coding QOL improvements. This time has to come from somewhere, and I would rather they do something like coding a UI upgrade than building a Facebook or Twitter interface.

Not quite sure where I said anyone was wrong for disliking it...I said I understand why some folks dislike Social Media in general. I absolutely understand what they don't like about it, and admitted that it wasn't an ideal situation further up the thread.

Disliking it or not though, we're doing what we can with the resources we have available to us. Is it ideal? Nope.

FWIW, we're discussing different ways we can promote it that don't involve a mad dash. That *will not* be the case for this week though as it basically requires me scheduling someone's entire day dedicated to this project as opposed to a few minutes each hour.