So it awards people who are online right? 2 mins ago a guy named "Seaplusplus" won. As soon as i saw that, i whispered him. Says "this user is not currently online"
I mean, if he won, i dont think he'd log off immediately. Explanation please?
And yes i triple checked if that was his name. Whatsup Three Rings?
Sometimes I get that message even when the person is online and on my friends list. Might be a possibility here.
You only have to be online for the hour to count towards the lottery of that hour. Meaning you could just chill in haven for a minute and count for it and log off with a possibility of winning.
Why would OOO risked its reputation of integrity just to stop us from getting 1k extra ce? And most of the lottery players just show up for the last few minutes, and leave right after the winner is anounced, so it's totally reasonable for you to not find him. If you still have doubt, keep checking on other winners as you wish. Hope this answers the question.
it's reputation already kinda sucks..
@ Rebirth47
Really? i thought they made it clear that you have to be online at the time of the prize to win?
I don't know how bad their reputaion really is, but I really doubt they're at the level of scammers yet.
@ Rebirth47
"in 2 minutes, a lottery drawing will be held amongst all online players for a prize..."
So according to this, you have to be online at the time of the draw
Hold up. Their reputation sucks? Cite some sources, lest ye be spreading lies and harmful rumors.
@ caseyweederm
if youve been around as long as me, youd probably think that too
im too lazy to cite it all to prove to you. i dont care about proving my opinion to randoms ~
You don't have to give me the citations, could you just describe to me how bad their reputation really is, I'm quite curious.
I thought I've given you a well thought out answer to why this is not a scam. You don't have to thank me, but I would be grateful if you can answer my above question. I really would like to know more about this bad reputation of OOO.
This whole event is obviously a plot by OOO to not give us stuff they don't have to give us, in a game we own no part of. Congratulations.
There are so many beggers in this game, do you want to get spammed when you win?
My "best" guess would be "free server stress test". But the again, that can't be right? There ought to be better ways. Maybe they're trying to raise the average player IQ by adding an hourly disappointment to the ingame experience of all those people who can't guess what their chances are beforehand until enough of those quit? :D
Anyway, it's a fun event. Maybe the devs just have a strange sense of humor and did let the new PR-guy push his "great idea" into the game for fun. Every time I see a red message I can't help chuckling, thinking:
"Attention SK people!!! In 20 hours, a random Noob that probably will never log in again after next week will receive 2 gel drops! Until then, we will repeat this message every 5 seconds. You're welcome!"
xD
I must say I'm not keen on my name potentially being broadcast server-wide, as killerjas30 has already pointed out people may simply be avoiding unwanted attention.
Or they might just have other things to do...?
Sleep is a good one.
If you ask me, this lottery is absoluely dumb, seriously only 1k of CE and a temporary upgrade? Wow, I wish I was the 2nd winner (since the 2nd winner won 3.5k CE.)
But yeah, this lottery is just a scam, someone gets picked who absolutely does not play often, or has too many CE, and that's it. I mean couldn't they pick 5 people for each hour INSTEAD OF ONE?! (It would solve alot of issues.)
Seriously, can't it be other prizes other that dumb cheap prizes, and after that being scammed by half of the community with either one of these messages: Congradualtions, Mother ******, Noob, of well you see, most would be negative
No, really, Ichiban2go. You've made a lot of bluster and not a lot of sense.
Do you realize that libel is wrong? That fostering negative emotions for any reason can only result in more negativity?
Negativity is bad. Are you a bad person?
Second, what's the deal, guys? This is a free give-away event. It's good publicity.
Three Rings' evil plan is to reward existing players and get new players to join.
Devious.
This lottery is not a scam. They did stuff like this during beta. Just because you didn't win don't be angry at them. Get over it.
this thread AKA the 'I was not the person who won so I'm mad' thread. Because I'm sure you'd still be posting nonsense like this if you had won something. The people who cite the winners as being newbs or already rich are just as bad.. its a random lottery what do you expect. Love it or leave it but this post and general line of thinking is a waste of time.
Lessee, 56 prizes given out. Roughly about ohh...2000 people currently in clockworks, and an additional who knows how many hundred in Haven. Plus who knows how many more logging in right before the giveaway. That's a 3% chance of winning something with just the people in the clockworks. So yeah, the numbers are against you.
OOO rings should make a free Give away to Beta Members then one for regular member and another for New Players ejejjeje like that the odds of wining something should be in your favore rite? uhhh may be not ejejejje the drawing is all computerate the computer selects the wining player its all random... get over it, im playing since Beta and i never won nothing! sow the odds of you wining, something should be.... a trillion to 1! or may be more, who know and no body cares!
I think it'd be better if they A) did this often or B) had a 100CE giveaway EVERY hour (or two or three), all the time. Giving out more than one prize would be cool though since the prizes aren't that great as far as this goes. We'd still have plenty of people complaining though so I guess it wouldn't matter. It'd be better overall if they coul single out people who logged in withing 5 minutes before the draw or did it randomly within each hour rather than ON the hour. Seriously, how many of you guys just logged in? I fail to see how its a scam though. We didn't have to buy tickets or something, we just sit around and see if we won or not.
What? A thousand energy is quite a considerable amount.
More often? What? What are you even? How do you...
Okay. You know what 'special' means, right? Not ordinary.
You know what awesome means, right? What Three Rings is doing. Even if only three percent of the players win anything, that's so many tonnes more than zero. This is a special event, some people are going to be very happy.
Don't act so entitled. Please.
No, when they say special I imagine better than a steam mask and more CE compared to the rest of the prizes. Its not awesome, its a random giveaway. Clearly we could all go without we just do it because its in our nature really and we know that even if we have the smallest chance then we may as well try. Anyhow, you need to calm down seeing as my post was centered around getting the whiners to stop whining rather than satisfy your odd need to call people out on everything. I question if you even read my entire post, the last two sentences of my post in relation to yours make it look as though you didn't.
Not EVERYONE on this game uses steam. I don't use steam, and never heard of it until I played this game.
Yes this is a good deal. They are doing something good for the community. They were giving away weapon slot upgrades yesterday. Heat amplifiers are worth it if you don't have to pay for it.
Please don't personally attack people, especially if you're debating. It doesn't look good.
Wow this thread go out of control..
I dont really care about winning, 1000 or 3600 CE are insignificant to me.
I was callin it a scam cuz the winner was not online, and initially the GM's said you have to be online at the time of the prize to win, not cuz i didnt win, not cuz im whining, not anything u guys assumed.
Well that is all. Continue with ur discussion lol
Except the winner was obviously online and then left. That leads us back to its free and you have just as good a shot as everyone else. Thats not really a scam. I would leave too, there's another topic discussing the massive flood of tells you get when you win and I wouldn't want any of that junk, especially the friend requests. Its not even all that much yet the noob beggars will swarm you.
It's not a scam... Real people win, not bots.
Why would you give about... (however much CE costs in $) to a bot? What's the point? :|
lol, why cares so much when quitting? unless not quitting?
I just talked to one of the winners, definitely not a bot. I talked about how they were being hated by a group of people at the Auction House. It was fun although I didn't expect a respone from them.
BOOOYYYCCOOOTTTTT IITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay thanks for the replies. Its not a scam i understand. I dunno how a simple "explain" got this much.
What you can do in protest is to log off just before every drawing. Then you can't complain that you lost, as you didn't enter.
People think you're mad about not winning the prize, except that they don't know you're one of the richest people in the game >.>
Nice conspiracies here LOL
Three Rings has a great reputation, as far as i'm concerned. I've been playing their games for years.
You do know why a simple "explain" got this much. I've explained it to you in the very beginning, the discussion would have ended right there if you just agree it's not a scam, and thank me for the explanation. but you have to refuse my explanation by saying OOO has a bad reputation. I'm guessing you just want the attention. BTW, you're welcome for the reply. Always glad to help :D
Scam is a seriously negative word. You can't suggest it without offending people.
Three Rings does not need me to stick up for them.
I spoke up on my own behalf out of confusion.
I still don't understand. Why would anybody hate Three Rings for this? What possible motive could a person have to suggest accusations of unfair play? Why would anyone think poorly of Three Rings?
Honestly, I haven't heard one bad thing about them. No, only good things.
Personally if I won something I'd log off immediately after winning to avoid the /tell spam. XD
A thousand energy is quite a considerable amount.
uh, no, 1000E is not a considerable amount. That is about $2.50 worth of energy, so OOO giving it away once per hour is spending a whopping $60/day. Of course, it really isn't costing OOO anywhere near $60/day since they can magic up the CE and all that it might be costing them is a slight reduction in CE purchases.
Getting $2.50 worth of CE may be a lot better than getting nothing and OOO doesn't have to give away anything, but it is *NOT* a considerable amount.
Its not a scam unless you were guaranteed 1000 ce and didn't get it. Which you weren't. So shut up.
I still don't understand. Why would anybody hate Three Rings for this? What possible motive could a person have to suggest accusations of unfair play? Why would anyone think poorly of Three Rings?
For whatever reason, some people are quick to make accusations of wrongdoing, or jump on conspiracy theories. It kind of reminds me of all the people on Puzzle Pirates who insist that the poker game there is rigged. It doesn't make sense for Three Rings to do such a thing, but people somehow get the idea that it must be true.
The event did not seem as a scam to me. I honestly did not get anything, but I did not care.
What I do care about is that this event was poorly planned and exxecuted. As some already stated: "every full hour, massive ammounts of people logged in for 1-5 mins to leave again if they did/ did not win anything".
What does this mean for the casual paying and non-paying players?
It means that on every full hour, the server gets filled with players that do nothing but waiting, pushing up the limit of what the server can hold. People that actually tried to enjoy the game got stuck in massive lagwaves due to this. Where I've been playing fine between hours, I've died 4 times in an arena directly in sequence because of this. And yes,I had my graphs on low. My game functioned perfectly with the same graphs before the event.
It also means that players who never play just logged in to have an aim for the prizes.
Ironicly enough, both of the hiccup matters could have solved by either a stresstest (but they prolly already knew this would happen, but pushed on), or by the limit of stating that the character in question should have had at least 1 hour of in-game time (making it less interresting for people to stay on, but also making the lag more over the hour hinting people to stay away the whole weekend). Adding prices would only make it worse.
In the end the player online readings are a lie. You have them on, but they weren't doing anything.
I REALLY don't know why ppl are STILL trying to prove this to me. I already say i was wrong. Can you not see that? or are u just reading the topic and posting random crap about it? seriously -_-
OOO has a very good reputation in my mind. Conspiracies are what they are, crap. There is always way more proof against conspiracies than there is for them people just like to believe them in this circumstance because they want to complain. There was what 6000 users online at a time? Yeah you have a very small chance of winning.
It could have been a "slave" account. Meaning a guy created a secondary account, and logged on several in order to have better chances of winning. That, or he only logged on in hopes of winning, and when he did logged off.