Since we now have to pay we expect also adequate customer service. When will the badge be out? My hacks have been measured during the anomaly and I expect to get it asap. Do your work now!
Niantic has more important things to focus on than a badge. How about you focus on your life for a bit of time and wait patiently like the rest of us till the badges are eventually awarded? Such impatience is rediculous, the event literally just concluded a few days ago. Badges in the past have taken days to sometimes weeks to be awarded.
I don't care for a free badge. But since I'm now paying I expect a decent service. And since no one of Niantic shows up anymore at anomalies, not even our German CM, it is more then adequate. They do nothing and collect our money...... for what? Niantic was even not able to order enough server capacity in time, their solely task at anomaly day.
Niantic does nothing? Well how did Ingress ever become to be made? How was the complex Umbra event ever laid out and coded, the various 120+ ciphers made, the algorithm for measuring the longest link programmed, the various media objects illustrated, the additional ancillary websites programmed and maintained for Investigations, etc? Oh wait, that was all done by Niantic and a team of real life hard working indviduals that are just trying to support their families no different than you and I, and that is continually updating and trying to improve upon the game. Your argument that they do nothing and are just collecting money is the worst logical fallacy I have come across on these forums in quite sometime. Also yout argument that their sole task was to have more server capacity for the Anomaly event is also laughable for the very same points I mentioned earlier as there was sooooo much more at work in the background to even make this event possible.
Stop being so self centered and think the world should revolve around you because you spent money... it doesn't.
It is a paid event. Badges should be applied to the profiles either during or at the very least, right after the event. Most of it is getting fairly automated now. They should be able to auto assign the badge once the requirements of the agent have been met (ie during the anomaly) if not right after the anomaly. It should be automagic by now.
Back in the day, when we used to get the awesome printed swag, we used to get these nifty little cards with an alphanumeric phrase on the back of them...once we entered said code in, boom! We'd have a badge! It was like Magic I tell ya!
Your points are actually valid, but as we can all see they do not yet have an automated system in place to hand out the badges, or do not have that functionality enabled yet as for whatever reason they do not believe it to be working well enough yet.
This in mind, we have to be patient and wait for the manual review process that they have been utilizing as of late since they stopped handing out those fancy cards you spoke of. In the future I agree and hope they will eventually have automated functionality for event badge rewards.
" I mentioned earlier as there was sooooo much more at work in the background to even make this event possible." This makes me laugh.... Do you know how much Niantic did to organize the anomalies? Check out the flag at Dresden afterparty and you will get a clue.
Little from my understanding, as it was done mostly if not all by POCs, this still does not give you the right to argue Niantic did nothing during the event, they were the ones to program and make the event even possible. Without the coding and foundation in place for the event to operate at a system level, any of the POCs efforts would have been completely useless. Be thankful you all even get to play Ingress in whatever capacity, the developers at anytime could easily pull the plug now that PoGo will soon be handling the majority of portal/pokemon stop nominations and reviews. I'd LOVE to see your complaints then, but the community forums would likely be gone by then as well... probably for the better.
And all of this over a USELESS badge that provides no game functionality...
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Niantic has more important things to focus on than a badge. How about you focus on your life for a bit of time and wait patiently like the rest of us till the badges are eventually awarded? Such impatience is rediculous, the event literally just concluded a few days ago. Badges in the past have taken days to sometimes weeks to be awarded.
I don't care for a free badge. But since I'm now paying I expect a decent service. And since no one of Niantic shows up anymore at anomalies, not even our German CM, it is more then adequate. They do nothing and collect our money...... for what? Niantic was even not able to order enough server capacity in time, their solely task at anomaly day.
Niantic does nothing? Well how did Ingress ever become to be made? How was the complex Umbra event ever laid out and coded, the various 120+ ciphers made, the algorithm for measuring the longest link programmed, the various media objects illustrated, the additional ancillary websites programmed and maintained for Investigations, etc? Oh wait, that was all done by Niantic and a team of real life hard working indviduals that are just trying to support their families no different than you and I, and that is continually updating and trying to improve upon the game. Your argument that they do nothing and are just collecting money is the worst logical fallacy I have come across on these forums in quite sometime. Also yout argument that their sole task was to have more server capacity for the Anomaly event is also laughable for the very same points I mentioned earlier as there was sooooo much more at work in the background to even make this event possible.
Stop being so self centered and think the world should revolve around you because you spent money... it doesn't.
It is a paid event. Badges should be applied to the profiles either during or at the very least, right after the event. Most of it is getting fairly automated now. They should be able to auto assign the badge once the requirements of the agent have been met (ie during the anomaly) if not right after the anomaly. It should be automagic by now.
Back in the day, when we used to get the awesome printed swag, we used to get these nifty little cards with an alphanumeric phrase on the back of them...once we entered said code in, boom! We'd have a badge! It was like Magic I tell ya!
Your points are actually valid, but as we can all see they do not yet have an automated system in place to hand out the badges, or do not have that functionality enabled yet as for whatever reason they do not believe it to be working well enough yet.
This in mind, we have to be patient and wait for the manual review process that they have been utilizing as of late since they stopped handing out those fancy cards you spoke of. In the future I agree and hope they will eventually have automated functionality for event badge rewards.
" I mentioned earlier as there was sooooo much more at work in the background to even make this event possible." This makes me laugh.... Do you know how much Niantic did to organize the anomalies? Check out the flag at Dresden afterparty and you will get a clue.
Little from my understanding, as it was done mostly if not all by POCs, this still does not give you the right to argue Niantic did nothing during the event, they were the ones to program and make the event even possible. Without the coding and foundation in place for the event to operate at a system level, any of the POCs efforts would have been completely useless. Be thankful you all even get to play Ingress in whatever capacity, the developers at anytime could easily pull the plug now that PoGo will soon be handling the majority of portal/pokemon stop nominations and reviews. I'd LOVE to see your complaints then, but the community forums would likely be gone by then as well... probably for the better.
And all of this over a USELESS badge that provides no game functionality...
It is being pushed right now, so everyone chill out :-)