Why offer them free with paid subscriptions and then cause you to lose them if you don't pick them up on time? I recently came back after a long absence and had no idea that they would go away, and not being used to the whole simucoin concept, I promptly forgot about them. The recent talk about the EG changes reminded me and I went to take a look and had less than should be there, or so I thought. It's kind of upsetting to have lost out on 2 months of simucoins for a plat subscription just because I didn't know as a returning player that I had to make sure to collect them every month.

If they are being given out for free and it's okay that we have them, then they should accumulate until you collect them. Offering them up and then snatching them back isn't cool.

Josh

They should at least tell returning players in an email that they have to go get them or lose them, and Gemstone is hardly a phone game.

Josh

I didn't get an email about it, perhaps because my account was closed at the time it was implemented. I've also not seen forum posts or Facebook announcements. Maybe those also happened while my account was closed. The news item I missed.

Still not happy that I missed out on something that is now going to be so important for my favorite festival.

Josh

I just checked all the emails I've received since 2015 and there's nothing there. I seem to be getting all the invitations to pay events just fine. When returning there are thousands of posts and it's easy to miss a single post about it. I do intend to get them monthly now that I actually know about it. I have to wonder, though, what's the point of not just giving them to people? Why give them and then snatch them back if they are a bit slow?

Josh

Newsby runs a headline at least once a month reminding people to log in to the Simucoin store and claim their free ones. I will try to make sure it happens twice, but sometimes headline space is at a premium and all.

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>>What's the actual point of requiring them to be manually claimed vs. just crediting the account every month though?

Data. Probably for marketing.

Doug

For crying out loud. Do you even want to play the game at all, or should the entire thing be automated? It's a perk, you have to remember to collect them. Just like the login rewards, you actually have to login to collect them. Or maybe Wyrom should remote control all our computers and do that for us too.....

This isn't normal!
What do you mean this isn't normal!?!
This is way worse!!

<< For crying out loud. Do you even want to play the game at all, or should the entire thing be automated? It's a perk, you have to remember to collect them. Just like the login rewards, you actually have to login to collect them. Or maybe Wyrom should remote control all our computers and do that for us too..... >>

Perhaps you should pay attention to what you read before you respond. If you had, you'd know that it had nothing to do with forgetting to collect them.

Josh

<< You said yourself you forgot after you returned. >>

As I said, you need to learn how to read better. I never knew that they had to be redeemed monthly and stated that.

<< Here is an excerpt from the announcement plus the link to it if you would care to reread it: >>

Can't re-read something that was never seen or known about, but keep trying.

Josh