Here is the item in question: Cat Faces
reapersun
The problem is, we didn't ASK you guys to spend 6-10 hours DDing for this item. Our thought process was like "oh, we need to release this in a finite quantity, what can we do besides manually gifting them" to "oh we should put them in DD, that'd be cute, a few users will get it and tell people and some other people will get it and it'll be fun;' it'll be expensive for awhile but at least it'll be available, if they actually like the item and want to work for it they can earn the gold." We didn't think, "haha, this way users will spend ten hours trying for a random grant that they won't get, haha." The work you guys put in was an extreme we were not expecting, call us naive. But it's definitely not "how you play the event."
It reminds me of the Jack event in zomg where users continuously layer hopped to make the most gold off of Jack. It's a broken down "efficient" method, not for the enjoyment of the event itself. They layer hopped to maximize the gold profit and made it hard for some people to fight Jack even once. You guys want something from DD so you spend hours and hundreds of clicks brutalizing the DD while calling anyone who got it early a braggart or unworthy. You might not consider clicking for hours "efficient", but the point is that it's a streamlined approach maximizing the chance for payoff and not for enjoyment. The joy and mystery of someone going and finding it on the first try was what we wanted. Not rewarding luck or anything, just getting the item out there.
Also every time I see the phrase "slap in the face," I want to slap myself in the face. In B4 someone posts "slap in the face" a hundred times. But seriously, your perception is that we've done something with the intention of personally offending well meaning sincere people. But we just wanted the item to exist. I can't believe people can say they'd rather it not exist. This is just ridiculous to me.
It reminds me of the Jack event in zomg where users continuously layer hopped to make the most gold off of Jack. It's a broken down "efficient" method, not for the enjoyment of the event itself. They layer hopped to maximize the gold profit and made it hard for some people to fight Jack even once. You guys want something from DD so you spend hours and hundreds of clicks brutalizing the DD while calling anyone who got it early a braggart or unworthy. You might not consider clicking for hours "efficient", but the point is that it's a streamlined approach maximizing the chance for payoff and not for enjoyment. The joy and mystery of someone going and finding it on the first try was what we wanted. Not rewarding luck or anything, just getting the item out there.
Also every time I see the phrase "slap in the face," I want to slap myself in the face. In B4 someone posts "slap in the face" a hundred times. But seriously, your perception is that we've done something with the intention of personally offending well meaning sincere people. But we just wanted the item to exist. I can't believe people can say they'd rather it not exist. This is just ridiculous to me.
