Quality Control on Blog Posts

Going from 2M max milestone to 25M max milestone is not a design flaw. 2M final max milestone was up on the blog 3 days before the event started and stayed up 2 days after the event started until it was mysteriously changed (without an update time stamp - which unlike other Scopely blog updates that reflect an edited date time stamp) on the portal quietly under the cloak of darkness, hoping no one would notice the sly change.

Contests should never be 'works in progress' up until the last minute things are set to go live. No reputable company that deals with research to test to consumer operations would ever operate in such a manner. It's absurd to use that as a justification for the follies that befall your company on a regular basis. "Last minute" should never be an option for consumers and players of this game who spend their own, real, tangible income on a product which they know isn't tangible but expect to get the best value and entertainment for the money spent.

Its your company's lack of focus, quality checks, and attention to detail that put content creators in the unenviable positions they find themselves in all too often. Whether intentional or not, you feed them the information they regurgitate to all of us. We take them at their word because they take you at your word all the while your words more often than not end up being half-truths. If you don't want that burden on your content creators, then create an environment where information is reviewed, proofread, and checked for inconsistencies.

I'll give you credit for something and you're right about this - "a subject to change situation does NOT make the full blog inaccurate". What it does, at least in this case, is make the blog unreliable. It invalidates everything every player was preparing for right down to every last dollar, euro, franc, or whatever currency players had prepared themselves to spend on the solo and faction events. Oh and let's be clear about one thing, this was not a typo or subject to change situation. A typo would be listing the final milestone at 2,500,000 instead of 25,000,000. Subject to change would be replacing one class/era/gender of required superstars for another. This is the clear definition of false advertising and bait & switch. Please review Webster's for the definition on each wording if you and your cohorts are unsure.

If you as a company (and spokesperson for this company) are going to live/die on the "last minute" changes excuse as a reason to justify continued failure to your player base and paying consumer base, I'd assume we would all be okay with contest(s) being delayed just a little bit further just to ensure everything has been double, or even triple checked just to review and validate there are no "design flaws" with the contest format when it actually goes live.

Finally saying you strive (or will strive) to do better are just meaningless words at this point until you as a company actually put some work into doing so. In the past 45 days alone there has been so many gaffes in this game that has either required your company to do rollbacks, send out apologetic in game messages, or allow things to stand as they are without correction. Simply put you've burned us too much as a player base and your words are starting to ring hollow. If you want us to believe you are trying to do better and will do better by us, then start doing it. This cluster of an event would have been the perfect place to start but yet again the chosen option by Scopely has been to sweep all the broken mess under a rug and hope no one notices.