8-year vet badge?

I have been waiting on my 8 year vet badge a month now.

Finally came to the site and found this.

Very disappointed.

I'm now on my 8 year vet badge, time served, dues paid and it really wouldnt be a problem for them to fix it, they gave me the other seven without any problem at all and they make new badges for new stuff all the time.

Was wondering if the fact that vets 6 years or more are only a minority of the player base, if so perhaps that is the problem, in other words we dont matter any more, the dynamics of the game have changed now it's free to play. A bit of a cynical view perhaps but lately I'm feeling a little unloved and uncared for.

Heck! I really do want my earned 8 year vet brand new shiny badge

Warbaby, NOBODY earns yearly veteran badges anymore. The time tracking system is completely broken. It's been broken since the switchover from "Veteran Badges" to "Paragon Rewards Badges" when Freedom launched in September.

Nobody is earning their 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 year badges, either. It's not just the 7 and 8 year vets who are having troubles.

The system got broken, and I have a feeling the reason they haven't fixed it yet is because it was broken on NCSoft's end, not Paragon's.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

I was due my 5 year yet badge 4 days after freedom. I reported it about a week after it was overdue.. Got the same canned response so many others have reported. Same reported tracking problem. I've re reported it a couple of times since, just to see if any progress has been made and the reply has been the same. I can't guarantee, but it seems pretty plain to me that freedom's new system broke the old. And I don't think (outside of some really weird outliers) we will see vet anniversary badges any time soon.

Edit to add: If anyone really wants, I'll re report it again, and notify y'all of the response.. I'm not sure, but I may be close to case zero on this... At least, I've not seen anyone miss a vet badge by less than a week.. And still be waiting...

Point being, I think yearly vet badges are totally broken beyond repair. I just wish they'd come out and say so as opposed to continuing to dangle hope. The longer they dangle hope, the more people get added to the list of folks expecting yearly vet badges that aren't getting them.

The same issue that's preventing us from rewarding the other annual badges introduced with Issue 21 is what would be preventing us from awarding an 8 year badge of similar nature.

At this point, I do not consider the issue as dead and will continue to advocate for the issue to be addressed in some manner in the future, however right now there are other issues which are much higher on the priority list for us to address.

FYI: This issue, while seemingly simple, is actually very complicated. It involves not only development time from Paragon but also development time from PlayNC in Austin and potentially support from Seattle. This is not a task that would be easily accomplished and would involve a significant investment of time. This, along with the complexity of how to actually award the badges under the new system (annual badges just *don't work* under the new business model as years subscribed are not tracked in the same manner), are the major roadblocks preventing this from being resolved anytime in the near term.

As an additional FYI, additional CS tickets should not be filed regarding this issue. While I do understand that this may be disappointing to some of you, unfortunately no amount of appeals will fast track this project.

Thanks and my apologies to have to be the bearer of bad news.

Thanks for addressing it at least so we have an official response.

We knew all this already. We have Zwill's word, now, which still won't be enough to satisfy some folks.

Thanks, though.

I believe the easiest solution would be to just forget the whole "months paid" metric and just go with registration date. You registered in June 2005, you're a 7 year vet; you registered in June 2010, you're a 2 year vet, regardless of billing status in the meantime. I said this back when the badges were introduced in the beta; they're "veteran" badges, not "time paid" badges. The other badge series (the old Veteran ones) already tracks how much money you threw at the game.

I want my 2 year vet badge :C

And you should have it because you deserve it - but only the heavens know when. Me? I'm not going to hold my breath.

As others have said, thanks Zwill for at least letting us know about it!

Personally I'd be more interested in a badge that says whether you're premium or VIP - I get so annoyed with two or three people trying to join an Incarnate trial as premiums (the same is true of Cathedral of Pains).

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

I think even us badge hunters knew the AE badges were a seriously bad idea when they came out, though, which is the biggest difference here. And the solution was not the best, but completely understandable as they didn't want all the junk arcs designed just to badge farm. Now it's just junk arcs designed to xp farm.

I'm a little annoyed by the yearly vet badges because I have enough of the time paid badges (and it really was time paid, not buying points) that I qualify for more years of vet than I have, but because I had to stop paying at one point (financial duress), I'm stuck at the yearly vet badges I have, which is three. I've paid for at least 60 months. It's bad enough that I had to miss out on The Constant, but this annoys me even more because I at least have paid that much, just not in a row.