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rhinohelix
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Ut,
Did you get one of these emails before you get the password reset? I have gotten these every time I log into any account (game/forum/website) from a new computer:
I have been corresponding with Support since day 2 of Early Access trying to get my Forum account set up; they did ask some seemingly shady questions, ie what is your secret question. In the end I had them call me, let the first call go to VM and googled-search the number to make sure it was tied to Zenimax.
Did you get one of these emails before you get the password reset? I have gotten these every time I log into any account (game/forum/website) from a new computer:
I have seen this a few times, even just trying to log in after patching. I may have just missed something in the sequence, though.email from [email_sl said:[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */[/email]]Greetings XXXXXX,
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I have been corresponding with Support since day 2 of Early Access trying to get my Forum account set up; they did ask some seemingly shady questions, ie what is your secret question. In the end I had them call me, let the first call go to VM and googled-search the number to make sure it was tied to Zenimax.
rhinohelix
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Huh, I didn't know who owned them these days: "? 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved." It does seem very "The Verge'd" Web 2.5ish.
The way the actual review read, I thought it was much more inline with what users have rated it: 7.4, which I think is fair. My perception of the game, though, misses a lot of what many commenters/people are upset about. I don't care that "the economy is non-existent." I laud to a certain degree ZOS not creating a magical universal market for good and services to be delivered instantly all over the fantasy globe. The real answer would be regional auction markets but given what they are still working on, I won't hold my breath. I never thought that an auction house could be detrimental to a game until Diablo 3 but now not having one doesn't that doesn't bother me at all. I liked the options one gives you, ala GW2 but its just another method of acquiring things. I guess I will never get over the EC Tunnel as my favorite "economy" implementation, which was actually terrible in its own way as well.
The public dungeons are cool; when you have more than one player on a quest, the companion appears completely different and appropriate. I haven't hit that many quest bugs in Live. The "other burglars" complaint in the review stems from them trying to avoid instancing everything; either you instance everything and people complain about the game being non-social or you don't and have people complaining that it ruins immersion. Its really very often no-win.
Again, as I have said previously and Rescola said earlier, all I expect out of this game is 6 months. Hopefully they are lining up expansions and fixes and add-ons, too, but right now it scratches the itch I have, although it hasn't kept me from spending money on Marvel Heroes, yet, dammit.
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Cinge
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Crazy no real balancing besides bash spam. So I expect to still see DK mowing through people with banner, root, bats. Though the slight change to inhale target cap helps a little.
I think its crazy they are already raising the VR cap to 12 already. Makes people right now think why on earth would I try to gear up in vr10 stuff.
The light armor ability is still useless. 300 pt damage shield, so one minor spell and you lose the spell absorb, which in pvp will happen instantly. Doesn't even come close to the medium or heavy armor abilities usefulness.
I think its crazy they are already raising the VR cap to 12 already. Makes people right now think why on earth would I try to gear up in vr10 stuff.
The light armor ability is still useless. 300 pt damage shield, so one minor spell and you lose the spell absorb, which in pvp will happen instantly. Doesn't even come close to the medium or heavy armor abilities usefulness.
Bought from their website, submitted a ticket for a refund, gave all the required info over a number of days until finally someone said "We will not refund you." What do I do to get them to give it?
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Maybe you have too many hours /played and they figured why the fuck would they give you a refund and let you have all the time you played for free.
You could always do a charge back, but I'm not sure how that effects future business with bethesda/zenimax.
Hell they are probably getting hit by people who have lots of hours in and have decided they are done with the game but figure hell why not try to get my money back.
RobXIII
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Yeah, I'm thinking they saw a trend develop, and quickly changed policy to 'no refunds, too late!' I'm not going to press the matter, I got some enjoyment out of it, and I'm glad I didn't waste additional $$$$ on the edition that should've been standard (paywalling a race? Reheealllly????!?!?!11!eleven). And is it true if you didnt pre-order or buy the pricier version, that you can't be any race/faction? So odd..
Best change from the upcoming patch - all AOEs only affect like 6 people now, even heals. Oh, and by "best change" I mean "what the fuck are you thinking ZOS?" they slipped this shit into the patch notes too, to try and sneak it past people.
Bondurant
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Or maybe people saying they got a refund lie. It's Internet, where the "oh boy I bought this game but since I got a refund I'm off the hook !" trend is strong.
Do you have a source on this ?Best change from the upcoming patch - all AOEs only affect like 6 people now, even heals. Oh, and by "best change" I mean "what the fuck are you thinking ZOS?" they slipped this shit into the patch notes too, to try and sneak it past people.
EDIT : nevermind found the answer.
PTS testing + patch notes which slipped this note in under the General portion of notes under Combat & Gameplay:
Fixed an issue with several area-of-effect abilities where they could erroneously hit an unlimited number of targets.
Tuco
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wutBest change from the upcoming patch - all AOEs only affect like 6 people now, even heals. Oh, and by "best change" I mean "what the fuck are you thinking ZOS?" they slipped this shit into the patch notes too, to try and sneak it past people.
AOEs affecting unlimited people was a huge boon to PvP in this game. It made being grouped up a liability, now it's not =\
At least heals only affect 6 people. In GW2 and other games AE is capped or reduced on lots of people but healing isn't, so stacking is hugely beneficial.
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It's a pretty dumb mechanic, there's nothing worse than hitting some AoE and knowing it only affects 6 targets, it's like shooting with blank shots. GW2 did that too and it was quite bad. They should just double the ressource cost of some AoEs and / or lowering damage coefficient so people won't spend hours spamming them while being full mana. While I understand bad players concern aka stand in the red circle dilemma, I think it's a pretty bad change, it will totally kill any incentive for small scale optimized PvP roaming groups to have the possibility of taking down larger groups. Everyone and their grandmother will group up in huge raids, and this will become GW2 all over again, Zerg Vs Zerg Vs Zerg chasing their own tails.
AE caps suck and can defeat the purpose of AE. This is a zerg PvP game and unlimited AE caps can help to crush a tide. I remember when Blizzard first implemented this. It was the death of Arcane Explosion.
If your email was hacked and you use a strong, unique password(ie... you don;t use that email/pass combination anywhere else) then I would worry about my computer being ratted. There is no way a brute force attack would be able to break a relatively strong pass.
I tried to enjoy the game but after the full 24 hours of "you can't patch" for no reason, and an entire thread of people also affected by it, the bank errors, constant botting and hacking bullshit, and maintenance during play windows I'm out.
I am trying to do a charge back, but they have never worked for me. I tried to do one for the Sim City Tuco got us all on, like 15 hours into the game when it was readily apparent that it was a pile of shit, and Wells Fargo refused to do it. This time I'm going through Mastercard so we'll see.
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