RE: Riftwatchers: Success, debrief, request, proposal, and future sale plans
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Amazing initiative!
Proposal #1) Vote is no.
Explanation : During the pre-sale, there is a prompt that clearly states how many bonus packs you are entitled to. All you needed to do is copy the number that is written. While it is annoying that someone could have gotten more pre-sale packs through the bonus, these people still got pre-sale packs. The bonus packs offer starts at 100 packs, which means these players already snagged 2 promo cards guaranteed. There are people who missed it by a few minutes, and got none.
Proposal #2) Vote is yes.
If someone had started the purchase flow in the pre-sale with the intention of buying a pre-sale pack, then it is unethical to sell them a non-presale pack. I think it is very honourable for the Splinterlands company to offer the refund on behalf of the DAO.
Proposal #3) Vote is no
Anyone who managed to buy in the pre-sale showed on time, and completed the the pre-sale within the first 500K packs. We all have places to be in life. For future sales, perhaps a new pre-sale mechanism can be found that would provide a fair and level playing ground for all players, regardless of their situation.
If someone truly believes in this community, then there will be more sales, and more events to be a part of. Missing out is never fun, but that doesn't mean the world is over.
Perhaps the DAO can vote for approved users that buy on behalf of any other player that fears they will miss out of the pre-sale. That way if you know you won't be home, or you know you can't complete a sale fast enough, you can safely delegate your buying to someone who can try. There is no guarantee that person will get the pre-sale packs either. That is just the way of the game!
This is true, but in the case of the 4000 odd CL packs I have bought in batches, this is not how the UI has worked.
I've probsbly made at least 15 CL batch purchases, and so was completely unprepared for this new, regressive approach.
If you've got the vouchers, I don't see why you wouldn't want those bonus packs. And so inkeeping with the UI CURRENTLY IN PLACE FOR CL PACKS, that box should really have been autofilled.
Yes, I agree that the UI was not good, and I have no doubt that those players that didn't add their vouchers for bonus packs would obviously have wanted them. In fact, the only reason I got my bonus packs, is because I declined the confirmation, because my bonus packs didn't appear in the confirmation. In this aspect, the UI was identical to the Chaos Legion pre-sale. After declining the transaction, I saw that the bonus pack window had fully appeared, I filled it in, and completed the transaction, meaning I risked the possibility of missing out on the pre-sale entirely. Luckily that wasn't the case for me, but with 96 seconds only, there isn't a lot of time to lose.
That being said, the 500K per-sale packs are all gone now, and getting a piece of those 500K packs was the reason we all showed up. I don't support expanding that amount. Had you succeeded in putting the vouchers, that would have pushed another player out of the 500K. Or perhaps not taking the extra few seconds to fill in your vouchers is the reason why you managed to get in the 500K packs in the first place.
I absolutely support allowing those who missed out on the bonus packs to use the vouchers to get more packs, but I think they should be general sale packs.
If you noticed, the TowerDefense pre-sale was also a completely different UI then compared to the RiftWatchers, with some similarities. You first had to press 'buy now', with no option of scrolling down, and then then put in your vouchers and payment method.
Cheers!
This seems fair to me.
Tower Defense I've not got involved with, but as a completely different game I would have no preconceptions of how things would work.
Anyway, let's see how things pan out, I'm looking forward to battling with some new cards :)