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Re: Recurring Pass Ripoff combined with b.s. "meter"

• rufnqaz 17 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 8:55 AM

  What is the point in the 'PASS'?  Considering the fact that it is impossible to play a simple 9-hole round without WGT freezing,  the pass idea does not work. It is a rip-off, as I am sure I am not the only person who has paid for and been screwed out of the money for passes. I do not believe I've been credited with a single usage of a pass!

   

  METER! What is the problem? This problem alone makes this game hardly enjoyable. Maybe if I had a CRAY to run it on.

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 9:31 AM

  Paying for passes is as senseless as paying for shot pals IMHO.

  Not only are they likely to "get lost", the one you pay for extends the time to the next free pass because the 12 hours start from scratch.

  Paying these 37 cr shows that someone has fallen into their pit of concurrency and greed. "Pay for the benefit of your CC!" - but it will come regardless, only a tad later.

  Best IMHO is to use it once per day with the CDP bonus in single mode play. This avoids discons (hopefully) and brings the best harvest to the CC. There's no other way to earn 883 XPs or both yourself and your CC (free of charge!) in three minutes!

  Concerning shot pals, most of my shots are 100% meter, and the most of the rest is 85+% - wasted shots on the pal.

• mukbrain 225 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 9:37 AM

  ^exactly, I've been doing that, and when I do a 9-hole CC stroke play when it is time for the CDP, 1100+ XP for me and the CC! Cha-Ching!

• Morgies 105 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 9:46 AM

  1. Bought 25 passes!

  Playing skins 4-handed and use a PASS ... WGT ERROR PLEASE CLOSE BROWSER ETC! Come back in .... 24 passes! Makes sense so far until ... I then get the message do you want to use a PASS.... Erm, wait a second DILEMMA!!!

   

  2. Ever noticed that we are all in the same country club nowadays :-)

   

  User Acceptance Testing <Facepalm>

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 10:12 AM

  Morgies:

  1. Bought 25 passes!

  Sorry, no offence intended ;->

  Morgies:

  Playing skins 4-handed and use a PASS ... WGT ERROR PLEASE CLOSE BROWSER ETC! Come back in .... 24 passes! Makes sense so far until ... I then get the message do you want to use a PASS.... Erm, wait a second DILEMMA!!!

  My 2 Pfennig: Refuse to that proposal.

  Option 1: A new discon might annihilate that pass, too.

  Option 2: Despite the message, the old pass might count eventually.

• WGTadmin2 1,152 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 10:48 AM

  If you play a ranked game and use your pass, it will not be lost.  We have a display issue where if you go to the multiplayer lobby due to a disconnect the pass will disappear but is actually still active.  This display issue will be fixed soon.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Mon, Aug 25 2014 10:57 AM

  The only time I had a player disconnect and void a pass I had spent credits on I sent Customer Support a nice business like message regarding what had happened and they gladly reimbursed the credits for the pass.

  From that experience i learned to only use the pass when i play by myself, or play with someone i'm pretty sure isn't going to have connection problems or quit.

  To do nothing proactive and let yourself be charged for 24 unused passes is insane.

  Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.

  No doubt, WGT has some programming issues regarding the Pass they need to iron out. They are aware of the problem and are apparently working on it.

  WGTdbloshoe:

  . . .  However I believe the main bug they have been chasing down is the CC Pass issues. 

  - WGTdbloshoe