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• drmoose 3,541 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 3:55 AM

  I know this has been suggested before, and probably won't be changed, but, I see no real reason why the end of match discussion time was eliminated. I'm also not a big fan of the 60 second clock. Okay, I get that, time = money, but, many of us play this game because we enjoy the social aspect of it. Both these changes make it less enjoyable. I've seen suggestions for a "work around" but, IMO, this is not something we should have to do. The game was better, and more enjoyable before these changes were made. So, if WGT is at all interested in offering us the best virtual golfing experience, I'd like to see them undo these two things, and give us the "social" aspect of the game back.

  Doc :)

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 5:50 AM

  ^^^^  Hear! Hear!  What Doc said!

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 6:44 AM

  I third the motion! And fix the chat.

  Odd how the social aspect of this game keeps taking hits and making it harder to be social.  :-(

• Rabbit274 1,178 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 6:49 AM

  Agreed about the time at the end of the round - it's a bit crass to just not do anything about it.

  On the 60 second issue, you can change it to 90 in the game setup. The 60 seconds is just the default timer now.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 7:29 AM

  Rabbit274:

  On the 60 second issue, you can change it to 90 in the game setup.

  Why should players always have to adapt to WGT whims?  Work-around after work-around!  IMO it wasn't broke.  Fix what is broke WGT.  Run these "enhancements" by players first.

  I for one will reject any MP game with a 60 sec. timer (except blitz which has no 90sec).  Maybe this will backfire on WGT with fewer MP games being played.  Because invites are declined with a 60 sec timer.  Longer time to set-up a match possibly could lead to less matches overall.  And less MP games means less fun for players.   And more players say the hell with the game!

  BTW, if they had asked I would have said add a 75sec option as the default.  I could live with that.  We have 30-45-60-90 options now.  Someone forgot 75?

• twinponds169 3,041 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 8:42 AM

  andyson:

  Work-around after work-around! 

  Andy, could getting more players to use the 60 along with cutting out all the end time to say ty's and gg's be some sort of attempt by them to lessen the load on their servers? Just wondering......

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 9:11 AM

  twinponds169:

  Andy, could getting more players to use the 60 along with cutting out all the end time to say ty's and gg's be some sort of attempt by them to lessen the load on their servers? Just wondering......

  A couple of reasons that I highly doubt that.

  1. I think cutting the MP end time was unintentional on WGT's part and a bug introduced in a new release.  How much time was saved?  5 sec? 10 sec?  On a 30+ minute game?  Not worth it IMO.

  2.  WGT would be foolish to have a fixed number of servers so I assume their agreement with their Host would provide for dynamic load balancing which increases/decreases the number of game servers on-line to WGT automatically based on traffic and server loads.

  It's been a long, long time since I've seen a "Please Wait, all servers are busy" type message when logging in

• twinponds169 3,041 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 9:37 AM

  andyson:

  A couple of reasons that I highly doubt that.

  1. I think cutting the MP end time was unintentional on WGT's part and a bug introduced in a new release.  How much time was saved?  5 sec? 10 sec?  On a 30+ minute game?  Not worth it IMO.

  2.  WGT would be foolish to have a fixed number of servers so I assume their agreement with their Host would provide for dynamic load balancing which increases/decreases the number of game servers on-line to WGT automatically based on traffic and server loads.

  It's been a long, long time since I've seen a "Please Wait, all servers are busy" type message when logging in

  Makes sense. Thank you for your input.

   

• AlbertoBQ 2,560 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 12:22 PM

  I second drmoose.

  WGT, please fix the end game chat issue. 

  -abq-

   

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2016 1:45 PM

  If they cannot fix the in game chat, how do you expect them to fix the end game chat?

  Maybe they should just remove all "Invite Friends". Who would ever want to treat a friend so abruptly?

  As for the time saved, it is all lost with the constant reconnecting to the games.

  WGT may be a TopGolf company but it sure is not Top-shelf.