Additive Drops confusion

"thomssi;c-2445588" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2445553" wrote:

"Xitarus;c-2445547" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2445545" wrote:

"Xitarus;c-2445544" wrote:

Compensate for what? What did you lose?

Well they are selling energy packs in the web store, which I bought this morning assuming the additive shards were in game due to posts that I read yesterday. Shady if you ask me, but nit surprised .

But you can still save that energy and use it tomorrow - in fact you come out better that way. I just don't see how it's anything but a good thing.

Yeah, missed the in-game pop-up warning me otherwise. Energy spent because I don’t want to lose out on energy gains today.

And why am I not surprised that you think that is ok for them to push energy packs before the event is available to most, while being available to some.

They clearly made a mistake here and had to walk it back. I do think they should have put some kind of announcement on the forums about it and I'm not sure why they didn't.

Sorry that you bought the energy pack without knowing that the event wasn't active. That's a mistake I could have made too - but there's nothing currently in the game to lead anyone to believe that the event IS active.




Normally there would be indicators here if there were bonus drops. Also the nodes themselves would be glowing gold.

If you were BRAND NEW to the game and never saw a bonus drop event before, I could see how you wouldn't notice - but I don't think you're that new. CG should have announced it here on the forums after they changed it - but at the end of the day it's on you to make sure you're getting what you think you're getting, right?

I sympathize - same thing could have happened to me - but I wouldn't be expecting compensation for my own oversight.

That isn't the point. People buy energy BEFORE their reset so they effectively get an extra day of buying at the 50/100/200 rates. At that point you would not expect to see the glowing gold, you expect it shortly after when your reset passes. What happened to people effectively costs them a day of the natural accrual of energy as it doesn't happen once past the 144 cap.

This is exactly why they pushed it back a day. A third of the world was already on the 19th when that update dropped. How was that third of the world going to spend crystals on the day before the drops started? That was unfair, so they pushed it back a day.

Some people likely still had already done their normal crystal spend on that day, and would have still missed out on that opportunity. On a normal day I'll do my crystal spend while I have breakfast, which was before the update. Lucky for me, I was busy that morning and I didn't miss out in this way.