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So, This year for Darkorbits 7th Birthday, they gave everyone a Free Hades Gate in the Newsletter! Let's go, We all get a chance to do a hades gate for free! Get a lf4 possibly? Ohh wait, it's a shame that half of the players on each server are not able to do hades for 2 reasons. 1. They are to Weak, and 2. no one wants to carry a weak player through hades. Most people like myself were expecting a Birthday Gate, Which ALL Players can do. But no we get a hades which about 50% of us can do. The thing that ticks me off the most is BDR Rockets. I have been registered on Darkorbit for 6 Years, even if i didn't get the b-day gate, i cant get BDR rockets for being a loyal member like you have done for the past 3 or 4 b-day events? So how is it fair to give a prize that most people can't use?

 

This bday is a joke. It is like they have given up. I cant believe it, I am very disapointed

 

Id say that about 30% of the community also have email issues, such as myself. This means we wouldnt even get to use the Hades gate code thats sent to us. I would have preferred a bday gate aswell..

 

Who voted yes?

 

Im not mainly because i havent got the email yet and if i don't i'm loosing out on the free gate/free gg spins :L

 

I'll be honest in the past the birthday gate came out and it was a nice 'twist' on the standard gate, but this past year with the hades coming out and everything being pushed twords the hades its gotten a little lame. Personally I would like to see a birthday gate like in the past with the anniversary year number in the center of the gate and some special whatever. I mean on a scale of 1-10 i give it a -1 ... very disappointed.

 

Yeh i was looking foward to this years gate as well because its always different to previous gates and is really fun to do but this year there wasn't that :L

 

Exactly, Darkoribt Sold themselves short...

 

Half of the challenge of Hades is just getting people to participate.

 

This years anniversary is a sad reflection of how I see DO. It would seem to me that the drivers are still about what DO perceives is best for them rather than what is best for the average player.

Using the new letter to give out the Anniversary reward does nothing for the players.

In my opinion it is just a ploy to get players to subscribe to the new letter. So once again forcing players to do things regardless of if they want to, to be able to get something in the game.

For some reason DO seem to want to force players to do the hades gate, or as a minimum manipulate players into doing it.
Maybe it is because weak players will struggle with doing it, or maybe it is because the uptake for it is low,
with less that 400 players having done the hades gate on GB1.

Even the kronos gate has more at 433 players having done the kronos gate, with all other gates needing to be done for the kronos gate.

So the hades gate is the least used gate.

Maybe it is time that DO starts asking its players before making changes like this, but I suspect that isn't going to happen, because in my cynical view DO does not care about its player community, only about the money it makes.

 

+1, we want a B-Day Gate not a Hades!

 

Hello,

As this is a *Vote* type of thread, it has been moved to Speaker's Corner.

Regards,

 

Just when I thought that Bigpoint were really paying attention to what their customers actually want they go and pull a stunt like this. I was so disappointed with this years birthday event and I'm not some petulant schoolkid sulking in the corner. I was e-mailed a promo code for just one of my five accounts, spread across four servers, so only one of the accounts gets the chance for the hades. In the past I only had to log each of the accounts in on the day to get the gate for all of them. No birthday rockets either, or indeed, anything else useful. Ok, so the rockets were in the additional bonus boxes, but only a few at a time and as usual, you had to collect a lot of stuff you didn't need or want as well.
It won't stop me playing, but I've now realised that BP are back to their penny pinching, skinflint ways.
Oh, and Merry Christmas to you all, whatever religion you follow.
MajorLukeDinnit on GB1 and US West
30771608 & 34525914

 

To be honest I question whether the drives really changed.

In my view the bot ban could have been a financial decisions rather than because the fair players were complaining as they could have easily sorted out bots over the last few years.
When you break down the other change like newbies protection and auction item being changed from uri to credit ( The uri items that were changed to credit actually became more expensive as they could be obtained for credit in the auction very cheep, much cheaper that what they cost now.) They don't really address the real issue that is killing the game which is the cost of all equipment and other UFE items like bio, upgrade, drone designs, formations, ship designs, hangars etc. etc. the list is crazy. Also chance.

In reality the game which was once a MMO space war game has turned into a Farming Casino game.

The recent actual changes have been completely insignificant in the scheme of things, when you consider them in relation to becoming UFE.

 

After revisiting the specs of the Hades gate (I had to contact support to get the gate), I'm not sure that I'll ever get around to doing it. My ship is capable of it, but it looks like a bit of a slog (I don't mind the Kris for some reason, but the other two NPC's are my least favorite) unless I use a bunch of good ammo. Plus, I'm more of a solo player so getting a group together and hanging out for that long is kind of a lukewarm idea. If I had wanted to do a Hades gate prior to this, I would have done so.

I miss the birthday gate even more than I did before. It was fun and a change of pace, and I had fun in both my FE ship and noob ship last time. So, free is free and all, but I'm kind of meh. The gate will just kind of hang out there until I get around to feeling like the hassle.

 

Hades gate is so stupid, birthday gate is fun

 

No tradition. 4 years of a birthday gate that gave good rewards (BDR rockets).

I also am not happy that every year for their "birthday" they added something major (new UI, new designs, etc.), but they didn't do anything this year.

 

shame on you all, you bitch over a free gift ????In denmark we dont expect a gift from the "birthday-child" we Give them a gift.

 

With all due respect, we are not bitching over free gifts. We're just saying, "Thanks, but WTH?" It just feels kind of slapdash wrapped-in-newspaper compared to previous years.

And the "birthday child" isn't any sort of child; it's probably made more Quatloos than you or I in the past annum.

Sort of even-keel about the whole thing, I guess. Not thrilled, not REMOVED off. What'd I say? Just...Meh.

 

i dont get the gift
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