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• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Sun, May 25 2014 4:52 PM

  the same problem is happening in alternate..someone crashes and the game forfeits...I don't think anyone is cheating...just another glitch with the game,,,seems everytime they do updates..different problems surface

• MBaggese 15,378 Posts

  Sun, May 25 2014 5:08 PM

  Premed:

  MBaggese, what are u traying to say with that link

   

  The point is, you have copied and pasted your original thread text in this post, and used that paste as a reply to two other posts.

   

  Quite annoying.

   

  Be original, think of something new to say.

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Sun, May 25 2014 11:35 PM

  MBaggese:

  Premed:

  MBaggese, what are u traying to say with that link

   

  The point is, you have copied and pasted your original thread text in this post, and used that paste as a reply to two other posts.

   

  Quite annoying.

   

  @Premed, you get the point of splitting the answers?

   

• Premed 776 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 4:52 AM

  Yes i did post the same text (copied & pasted) in reply to issues raised in other posts because it was relevant.

  The relevance is important. Communication is very important on big issues that affect thousands of players and to take away from the issue because I may have broken some posting etiquette that I was aware of seems unfortunate.

  Either this type of occurrence is deliberate cheating or is accidental because of some bug but we need WGT to tell us what is happening before all the good honest players simply leave and all that remain are the cheaters and sand baggers. I know most people will think that I am banging my head against a brick wall but if enough of us bang together we may have an impact.

  I have done plenty of experimenting recently and have some interesting stats when it comes to completion of games – ie disconnects in stroke play vs disconnects in match play – it is just staggering how bad it has become

  The reason I started match play in the first instance was due to the many disconnects in stroke play. Now it is the other way around and I don’t mind if a player just disconnects and I winn but its absolutely awful that the other guy disconnects and HE wins and im left with the message that I disconnected.

   

  C’mon WGT what’s up with this? I’ve sent several tickets and never got a proper answer. However WGT did send me a free sleeve of balls as a gesture – I am sure they wouldn’t have done this if there wasn’t a live issue.

   

   

  RANT OVER (for now)

• adaputter 1,954 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 5:16 AM

  i know how you feel i have played or started to play 3 matchplay games in the last 30 mins everyone crashed on the fist hole can or will wgt sort this problem out lucky i dont play with expensive balls because the game takes wear and tear of the ball and eventually wgt takes the ball off you 

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 6:16 AM

  No one's trying to cheat any one, Its not the other players causing the disconnects, Its the way the game's been since Pinehurst was Introduced.  I thought the problem of getting timed out instantly had been resolved as i have not encountered it the last few times a players been disconnected, but i might be wrong then.  But rest assure, Its NOT some one trying to cheat you deliberately.

• KellyGreer 448 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 10:24 AM

  Is this guy really so clueless that he doesn't realize this is a WGT issue?  Seriously??

  These things have been happening here on WGT regularly for quite a while now.  I had two straight games this morning that didn't get past the 3rd or 4th hole because WGT (once again) screwed everyone by basically canceling the game and then having the nerve to tell me that the other team had forfeited the game - which they did NOT do. 

  Last Friday I tried to get a game going and tried to do so FIVE TIMES - none of those games lasted more than 2 holes as WGT constantly crashed the games and had people disconnect (when they did not do so).

  This site has become insane lately.   I can only think that they are purposely TRYING to get everyone to quit playing this game.  Because that IS going to be the result if they don't get their act together soon.

• Premed 776 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 10:52 AM

  KellyGreer:

  Is this guy really so clueless that he doesn't realize this is a WGT issue?  Seriously??

   

   

  No - im not clueless. I have pretty much stated that I dont know the exact cause and ive made this clear when i  posted the piece below

  ""Either this type of occurrence is deliberate cheating or is accidental because of some bug but we need WGT to tell us what is happening before all the good honest players simply leave""

  Id just like some real clarity from WGT on the issue. Im not as sore loser, i dont mind losing to a better play any day of the week whether or not there are credits involved. So if match play is broken then tell us so that we dont waste money on balls, losing credits in disconnected matches and finally lose patience and seek our entertainment elsewhere.

   

  I am a huge fan of WGT but i have seen other large online platform games fall from grace and if that happens to WGT then we all lose.

   

  Paying customers generally have two options when they are not happy with the service they receive

  1 - Complain to the service provider who will hopefully take action to rectify the cause of the customer dis-satisfaction

  or

  2 - Say nothing and discontinue using the service that is not meeting their expectations.

   

  Generally speaking a service provider will much rather deal with customer complaints than just lose a customer but if customer service is so poor that they either cannot or will not deal with the issues then there is normally one outcome - The customer will walk away.

  
  

  
  

• macscrubbler 1,790 Posts

  Wed, May 28 2014 3:37 AM

  hi

  you are right on the ball  buddy ..there are terrible problems playing the game in windows 8.1 .....internet  explorer 11...crashes lost balls cursor not stopping when playing right of the ding line...i have lost umpteen balls ruined potentially great rounds

  ,  I do not want to clutter my pc with numerous browsers...we should al contact WGT ..This is potentially a very expensive game if you want to obtain the  best gear, and i could do without losing mid range balls due to these unforeseen  glitches

  jimmy thescot

• Premed 776 Posts

  Wed, May 28 2014 2:08 PM

  Well to be fair they dont sound like WGT issues. Im using windows 7 machine bout 4 yrs old , average spec and i dont really have any of the problems you describe (except of course for badly missing the ding every now & then but thats my own fault NOT WGTs) and I personnally have very few game crashes when playing either single or multiplayer stroke play. I mostly use Chrome but i use other browsers occassionally.

  Ive been using a windows 8.1 (64 bit) machine at work and to be honest i have no faith in it - have had multiple silly niggly probs especially when networked with older machines & printers.

  The problem i was highlighting is specifically with match play. I know there can always be accidental disconnects. In the past when this happened they player that disconnected lost the match - only fair.

  But now some players have managed to find a way to manipulate disconnecting (via slowing down their flash or some-othe technical tweek) to result in the the match being won by the player that disconnects.

  The jury seems to be still out whether this is either deliberate cheating or a genuine bug - personally i cant believe its a bug due to the nature of the way it happens.

  So I think will start a little experiment and log every match play game i play along both the successful ones and the problem ones that  encountered bugs   - ill post the findings back here in a day or two.