While I admit that blizz should have told people that this would occur, I stand by my statement that it was obvious to people who do know how these things work.
You can say whatever you feel entitled to say to make excuses blaming players for blizzard mistakes that should not have impacted them.
Its a programming thing. hardly a mistake. Sorry about your loss. Take it as a lesson and move on. All you can do.
It’s a mistake that they are expecting customers to take the hit over their lack of quality control. When your restaurant messes up your meal is it fine with you if you don’t get the food?
I’m guessing you have only a main, so this wouldn’t impact you because you wouldn’t be getting these.
And looking at your honor level, it’s pretty clear you weren’t expecting a conquest chest. My god, how does someone manage to have an honor level of only 6? Do you not play the game?
It’s not a programming thing. It’s a bad design thing. You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about when you say “it’s a programming thing”. Blizzard has added many currencies in the past. Nothing has ever been like this.
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You clearly have no idea how programs work. Yes, blizz has added many currencies in the past. But none of them have functioned like this.
And this currency had absolutely no reason to function like this. This has nothing to do with programming. Blizzard wasn’t limited and needed to “program” it like this. There was absolutely no reason they couldn’t just unlock the currency on all 120 characters with the essence system unlocked. No other check needed to be made. This is not a programming thing. This is a bad design choice.
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LOL. Which is why it required testing, which they didn’t bother to do. Or, as suggested in the original announcement, they knew there were issues and released it, telling people after it was too late what they should have done.
It has to do with their obsession with restrictions, which are hard to work around and together. But they can’t just let us have something. One hand gives, the other hand takes away.
Beta for Azeroth: “You’ll be sorry you complained.”
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If you are complaining that it is not something actually account wide, I am afraid you are complaining about the wrong thing. And even if blizz did make the essences account wide, players would still likely need to log onto the characters that had the essences first in order for their alts to have access to them. It is just how these things work. Otherwise it would require a large scale scanning and copying process that would drain a lot of time and resources, and would have put the servers down for much longer than a normal reset. It is just faster and more efficient to do it this way with a checking system.
I want to know why aren’t all of my main’s essences that are lvl 3 or higher available for my alts?
When have I ever once said anything remotely close to complaining about something not being account wide? I have very clearly stated multiple times that all blizzard needed to do was unlock the currency automatically on every 120 character with the essence system unlocked. Nothing about that is a large scale process that requires a lot of time and resources. It’s a simple check. One most likely very similar to what they’ve done every single time they’ve introduced a new currency into the game. There was absolutely no reason to make people log onto different characters to unlock a currency.
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But there is no reason to add in a currency for characters that are not eligible to use such a thing. Therein lies the problem. If a character has not obtained the cloak or has no essences available for them to purchase, then there is no reason for them to be obtaining a currency to purchase more essences.
The way blizzard gets around this is requiring players to log into the toons that have the essences first, forcing a check.
No but they could have very easily determined what level 3 essences are owned on the logged in account and skipped the whole needing to log on multiple characters to get them all listed.
Except characters with all rank 3 essences ARE getting the currency. So there goes your entire argument there.
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Only if there is another character on the account that has a level 3 they don’t have.
It’s not something they would have “added”. It’s just a line on the currency tab. It took a great deal of programming to design the system that failed on implementation day because it required specific input from players who were not notified in advance.
There is also no reason to put in a complex new system to cross check lots of things, which requires players to be aware that there has been a news update or lose currency on all their eligible characters.
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While I agree that blizzard could have put out a statement or warning about how the currency worked initially, that doesnt change my stance on the fact that its implementation was correct. And even if blizz had put something somewhere, people would miss it or ignore it and still complain about it not being clear enough.
A correct implementation of something doesn’t cause this many issues for players causing blizzard to have to put up multiple messages everywhere. Blizzard failed. They turned something super simple into something more complicated than needed and didn’t communicate it to the players.
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Blame the people who complained about having another currency on the tab. Blizzard tried to make it so you wouldn’t collect if you didn’t need it and it blew up on them. Expect to collect every currency all the time now.
The character I played most 5 months ago is one that I barely log onto now. I was so excited to get that rank 3 on my priest that I just logged on right as soon as I got off work. Then someone told me about that post after I had opened my chest. Sad day
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