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Post by Serene on Jul 8, 2022 14:00:01 GMT -5
While I was initially upset about the rug being swept out from under Meridell, I am more just frustrated about TNT's radio silence on the matter, because I know that is going to be their solution. But all of that frustration quickly reset and turned into anger when I heard about the rumored shadowbans, it is incredibly insulting that legitimate players from all teams are allegedly getting caught up in this mess. Glad most people aren't attacking the DC players for something well outside of our control, but um, we're not happy, either. Or... most of us aren't happy, anyway. If we both were legit playing amazingly and we were facing off for number 1 and 2, that would have been epic, but we barely got 6th place and then somehow jumped to 1st??? And a bunch of my DC friends got shadowbanned who were playing correctly. Uncool, TNT. Very uncool. I am extremely sorry that anyone has attacked DC during all this. As if DC had any control over the results, not to mention the legitimate DC players who got caught up in the other mess too. You have all been so gracious through this whole ordeal.
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Post by Blueysicle on Jul 8, 2022 15:37:50 GMT -5
I don't play the Altador Cup anymore, but my grandfather still does. He plays for Meridell, and has been telling me all month how they've been winning nearly every game. So... yeah. Needless to say, he's a little grumpy about this. xD
Even though I no longer have a horse in the race, I'd also like to hear TNT's "logic" on these standings. Honestly, the way scoring and ranking has been since they changed the format several years ago was one of the big reasons why I retired from the AC in the first place. Putting in all that effort to help your team feels kind of pointless when the results seem so arbitrary at the end.
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Post by downrightdude on Jul 8, 2022 16:25:22 GMT -5
I don't play the Altador Cup anymore, but my grandfather still does. He plays for Meridell, and has been telling me all month how they've been winning nearly every game. So... yeah. Needless to say, he's a little grumpy about this. xD That's adorable!
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Post by Carolyn on Jul 8, 2022 17:27:48 GMT -5
Your grandpa plays?? Awww that's so nice ;-; My grandma loved my Krawk's petpetpet--the Flankin--she said it was an expensive cut of meat and that she found that to be really funny...
Ahh, if there's anything I've learned about Board 7 is that it tends to attract some very bitter people Lol. Most of the team board folks are great--it's just the complainers who jumped onto the DC board and made people upset. ^^; Like I said, not that many DC players are feeling happy about this decision at all. It's like... so arbitrary? And feels so unearned? At least Virtupets had a better win record than us (although again, MD should have gotten first)
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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 8, 2022 17:37:24 GMT -5
Sorry guys, I hadn't been paying attention to the overall standings at all, so I'm playing catch-up on the outrage RN. But yeah I wouldn't have wanted the win if I'd known they were gonna shuffle stuff around this much, with this little explanation. Did they have reason to think Meridell was sending a lot of fake scores or what?
EDIT: Fortunately I had the Yooyu Trading Card in my gallery! I literally just use my gallery as a secondary hoard for one-time-release items, where I can just stick stuff and forget it without having to wade through the SDB clutter. I guess that habit pays off on occasion.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jul 8, 2022 20:46:35 GMT -5
49 mil to get those 3 stamps? *Sigh* Eyeah. I think I will pass. Still waiting on the Other III avatar and I'm not well pleased about the rapid price increase for AC 17's items alone. 9_9 Might wait to get anything and go from there. Still feeling bad for Meridell--they were cheated out of a win. Glad most people aren't attacking the DC players for something well outside of our control, but um, we're not happy, either. Or... most of us aren't happy, anyway. If we both were legit playing amazingly and we were facing off for number 1 and 2, that would have been epic, but we barely got 6th place and then somehow jumped to 1st??? And a bunch of my DC friends got shadowbanned who were playing correctly. Uncool, TNT. Very uncool. *Sigh* If any MD player did this I apologize to DC for their unknightly behavior. Most DC players I've seen comment on this, while some are happy for the win, are as much confused about being given the cup as MD players are frustrated being placed 3rd. The only ones to blame here is JumpStart, if not for doing this but certainly going silent afterwards. Well, I see two things happening: (1) Either they stick to staying silent about this decision, only a dedicated group of Neopet players keeping this controversy alive, though then next Altador Cup would certainly be questionable or (2) the heat doesn't die down and they release a quick statement on the News page or, more likely, the Neoboards (that way it'll get deleted in a week or two and thus no record of this incident or them "answering" for it) explaining before the Finals they went through the scores and removed the suspicious scores thus how the results came out. No option is good, and the latter option would only be done if they notice there's a decrease in Premium subscriptions (not sure if there would be, I saw some players saying they're cancelling, but who knows what the actual numbers are). Sorry guys, I hadn't been paying attention to the overall standings at all, so I'm playing catch-up on the outrage RN. But yeah I wouldn't have wanted the win if I'd known they were gonna shuffle stuff around this much, with this little explanation. Did they have reason to think Meridell was sending a lot of fake scores or what? EDIT: Fortunately I had the Yooyu Trading Card in my gallery! I literally just use my gallery as a secondary hoard for one-time-release items, where I can just stick stuff and forget it without having to wade through the SDB clutter. I guess that habit pays off on occasion. Well a note about the shadowbans is that ALL teams had players reporting it; and many of these players are honest players who just spent the time to play a lot. Were there any fake scores? Maybe, probably, but I don't think the amount there are would have been enough to drop Meridell from 1st to 3rd. What could do that though is if they discredited the score of most of the ASG players who, as I said in my original post, didn't do anything against the rules; like them or hate them, all their scores are legitimate. Unless, of course, you're JS who takes the "getting rid of the child with the bathwater" approach to things (and who knows if they even got all/most/any of suspected cheaters; they went purely on amount of games played). Yooyu Trading Card: And the this prize shop keeps getting worse, as it not only has FOUR collectibles but it retroactively made a previous Gift item from the prize shop TWO YEARS AGO, aka an item that's no longer purchasable and no one knew at the time this would happen to, into a Collectible. Is there really no one thinking things through when making these decisions?! Are they purposely trying to get players angry?
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Post by Carolyn on Jul 9, 2022 5:12:14 GMT -5
Ahh my bad. ^^; The vast majority of MD folks were very kind and didn't say anything to us. I think it was from other teams mostly. The whole rigmarole honestly makes me feel like I'm going to put my energy towards writing and customization and that's about it. I have enough for a stamp avatar if the inflation doesn't get any worse. I was going to wait until closer to my birthday, but that may not be the best idea. All the prices are going into the stratosphere and they don't seem to be letting up. And TNT doesn't seem interested in managing run away inflation when a small subset of Neopians are dominating the market with hundreds of millions while many struggle to keep up. ^^; it's frustrating to say the least...
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Post by doctortomoe on Jul 9, 2022 23:07:20 GMT -5
I mean, I spent almost as much on those 3 stamps as I did on STS when they got rereleased.
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