Ironblade

I did Moonfire on Friday and Saturday and had 8 people both times. I did Manticore on Sunday and we got enough to start that (7). Maybe there was some kind of event going on while you were recruiting, or maybe you just had bad luck.

I'm logged in now. The correct channel name is indeed Infinity Badges 2.0

It's true they can only do so much, but it seems that *A LOT* of people missed any announcement. I think their highest priority should be to fix their email announcement system. I rarely get their announcements, yet I get every single confirmation from the NCSoft store. This suggests that one of those email systems is faulty.

If they had that email system working reliably, THEN any failure would rightly be placed on the players because it is IMPERATIVE you have a valid email address on file.


ooooooo Good one! I didn't think of that. And it's quite possible that they have the system set up so that in-game 'ads' would override the player settings. That's how I would have done it. If we're going to post important game news on the billboards, rather than paid ads, I would have it ignore individual 'opt out' settings.

But is there an 'Awesome' button?

. . . authorization to irradiate my WHAT!??!

Merging tables qualifies as 'mucking' with a database. What SnowGlobe described is very routine. I do it every day at work. Well, not every day but it's not a big deal.

(shrug)
And I first went online with a 1200 baud modem so I'm not a newb to this. In the absence of any actual problems (the game worked perfectly for me on first install), it never occurred to me to go looking for news.

Oops, I didn't catch that in the initial mention and I quoted it that way.
I'm not logged in now, so I can't check, but I think the name is actually Infinity Badges 2.0. Hopefully someone will be along shortly to confirm or refute this.

If you were paying attention, I didn't say anything about you. i.e. I did not name you, quote you, or link to the thread.
You, on the other hand, called me out directly. Grow up.

I think a lot of people are listed as logged in to the forums while they are off doing something else. I have seen a number of people, who I know don't 'live' on the forums, showing as online for most of a day. Also, while I normally log out when done, I have been known to alt-tab to another application and forget I'm still logged in.

Analogy FAIL.
I was referring to communication by NCSoft to EXISTING CUSTOMERS. You're talking about advertising.

Very good point. You can tell a lot about an SG by how they present themselves to the public.

You know, people still seem to be missing my point. Someone (or some group) in Marketing have the job of getting the word out about these things. They failed. Putting it on the customers is irrelevant. Someone at the company failed in their job.

And if they don't visit the forums or web site, how would they know of the 'established method'? What if they don't even know that the forum EXISTS? I certainly didn't when I started playing. And since this was my first online game, it never even occurred to me that the forums might exist.

We're hearing complaints from people who really wanted these things, i.e. MOTIVATED people. The company failed those customers. The customers simply didn't know what they didn't know.

I didn't get any. I get less than half of their email announcements. And they're not disappearing into a spam folder. I have NEVER missed a single email from the NCSoft store, yet these announcements rarely reach me. Conclusion: they use different email systems and one of them stinks.

No, because:

1. The email system stinks. I didn't get any email about and it was NOT due to any problem with my email. I get less than half of their announcements.

2. If someone doesn't visit the forums, how would they know to look at the forums to find out about it?

I would think anything important should go in the global message of the day. I haven't seen that being used much lately.

You might want to mention which ones you still need.

And I'll say again, this is wrong. The company tried to communicate something and FAILED. Their marketing department wasn't trying hard enough and/or doing it right. Blame the players all you like, call them all the names you like - the company still failed.

Don't give me that BS. "Lazy slob" is a euphemism and you damn well know it. I don't post lies so don't slander me!

Wendy was referring to visiting the tailor, not just doing a costume change. The queue window itself tells you that you can not use the Tailor window while on the queue.

You keep putting the failure on the customer. This is wrong. When a company runs specials, promotions, sales, etc, their GOAL is to ATTRACT ATTENTION. If they are not doing that, then they have FAILED.

If you're running a special and try to get word out to your customers, and most of them don't hear about it, then YOU HAVE FAILED. Call the customers lazy if you like but the COMPANY has FAILED in their goal. Rationalize it all you want, but the bottom line is that the sales/marketing department blew it.

Nonsense. Ask people for opinions and recommendations. This will give you a decent chance of finding a good SG *BEFORE* you start joining random ones. You will have better odds of finding one that suits you - particularly since everyone's definition of "best" will vary. Do you want an SG that does a lot of task forces? One that role-plays? One with regularly scheduled events? One that makes a point of mentoring new members? The SG ranking tells you about NONE of those things.

I'm on that one and like it. I'm also on:
Inf Badge Seeker - A 'badge' channel, but all TF's and many arcs have badges.
Infinity Hamidon - A 'raiding' channel, but general teaming the other 160 hours of the week.
AE Anonymous - For all teaming EXCEPT AE stuff.


Good channel - I'm a mentor on it, but it's cross-server. The ones listed above will give you the most 'bang for your buck' for finding teams specifically on Infinity.

Particularly since the person selling the IO's may just be some random player, rather than a 'marketeer' or 'hardcore' player.

uh huh......
But in this thread: