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Get rid of the 2.30 TIMER

• pb1711 1,183 Posts

  Sat, Mar 23 2013 1:41 AM

  foregettaboutit:

  chrisironsbones:

   Let us choose what timer we want, just like a shot timer.  Would this be so difficult?????

  I think you hit the nail on the head with that one chris. Simply give the participants in the game the choice of either 2 and a half minute timer or the 5 minutes.

  Fore

  Yep, I think that may be the only win/win outcome here.

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Sat, Mar 23 2013 2:59 AM

  WakeIsland:

  chrisironsbones:

  Just got stung for the first time (will definitely NOT BE THE LAST) due to the change from 5 minutes to 2.30 timer in matchplay challenge.  My daughter pressed off switch on PC by mistake, and It took 2.45 minutes to boot back up and get online.  OF course when i got back I had LOST MY CREDITS.  Who's wise idea was it to tamper with the timer in the first place????

  Yes, If its a FREE GAME have the shortest timer you ever want.  But when there's credits riding on a macth KEEP IT AT 5 MINUTES.  We get screwed enough money wise playing WGT without the added hazard of a 2.30 minute timer.  what ever customers want, WGT seem to do the opposite just to annoy them.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE put $ matches back to 5 minutes.  How many other poor players will get stung by this action??  My poor 4 year old daughter (who likes watching me play) was GUTTED and nearly in tears when she realised a game we were winning at the time got ruined by this stupid new idea of a timer.  Stop living in a fantasy land and give the customers what they really want.  Alll those posts about moving the timer fall on deaf ears as usual.

  Can I also ask a simple question.  Do any of the WGT ACTUALLY PLAY THIS GAME??  If they did they would realise that 2.30 is not enough when getting disconnected.  Either by game freezes or your own PC.

   

   

  WGTicon:

  Hi

  We're still collecting feedback on it. Thanks for the report:

  -wgticon

  How many more threads need to be created so you can "collect" appropriate feedback.

   Another Thread: http://www.wgt.com/forums/t/161132.aspx

  Another Thread: http://www.wgt.com/forums/t/161865.aspx

  The WGT staff cannot play for credits so therefore it does not effect them.  Please allow players playing for credits an option for 2:30, 3:30 or 5min clock.  This happened to me twice today and lost credits because you cannot get back in 2:30.  By the time the computer restarts, or router restarts, to load WGT on your favorates, log in, hit play now, and click the continue game if it is still there which it never is takes at least 3:30min. 

  ...... and I could direct you to another Thread too.....   In All Threads Wgt Admins or Moderators said they were listening to the people who wanted a shorter time....  This is rubbish... ok there have been people wanting the shorter time, but the case against the time change has been greater....  I think we can come to an agreement, when setting up a game... then we can choose the  time needed to get back or change it back to 5mins.

• WakeIsland 213 Posts

  Fri, Apr 5 2013 8:46 AM

  WGTicon:

  Hi

  We're still collecting feedback on it. Thanks for the report:)

  One thing to consider though: why should a timer be different for credit or non-credit game if the idea is to allow ample time for someone to get back in case of a disconnect?

  -wgticon

  Just wanted to follow up on "We're still collecting feedback on it" 

  It's easy for WGT to blame the internet for a lot of issues with this game. I play a number of games online and this IS THE ONLY game where my screen freezes or my router restarts.  Two games this week, my screen froze and could not get back in the allotted 2:30 min and lost credits in match play, my router restarts at least once a day and only happens when I am playing this game?  I have dully noted a number of times about these issue.  I am not asking for credits back but PLEASE have the option to change the disconnect game clock for players playing for credits to 4 or back to 5min.  You can see by my daily activity I have played fewer games due to this issue.