Facebook & Settlers

It would seem Blue Byte/Ubi Soft has been running the contests for this game on Facebook lately.

I would just like to know who here would prefer to have the contest either be here on the site.... Or at the least allow people to enter the contests from both here and Facebook??

No offence to people who use Facebook but as a heads up Blue Byte not everyone uses Facebook, twitter, ect, ect.

However they continue to run most contests off Facebook thus more or less telling anyone with out Facebook screw you!

I have spent hard earned money on this game I have played this game from Closed Beta (daily) and yet I have no way to enter contests because they refuse to run them on their own site.

Honestly Blue Byte are you out to push people away??

For the record I do not use Facebook Twitter or anything else cause I personally feel those sites are unsafe.

They allow people to give out too much information that can end up causeing the users more trouble than they expected.

These sites change user agreements when ever they feel like it and you have to just deal with it which when changes come it almost always makes the news I read as yet another thing that is either screwing the users, violateing the users trust and other things, attempting to take users self made material as their own (Stealing it), Or makeing it so that what you the user have done is now a rules violation on your part thus getting you into trouble.

At least that is how it reads in the news articles I have read about Facebook thus with all this going on I just don't see how people can stay members of a site that does that.

Then there is the fact that just before the company went public the co-founder changed his country of residence so he wouldn't have to pay taxes whice granted would not have fixed the national debt or balanced the world economy but every little bit helps.

Anyway guess I am done standing on my soapbox I now return you to your regularly schudled gameing thanks for reading my complaint/gripe/rant or whatever you call it.

c'mon be a lemming... billions of flies cant be wrong

Actually, except for the poll, I haven't seen any contests run on facebook. The screenshot of the week is placed on facebook, but run through the forum. I think that facebook is a viable way to garner interest, and a poll to see what events folks liked will do just that.

Thats all well and good drum up support get people playing ask them what they liked all great BUT..... put it here as well I'd like to add my 2 Nuyen's worth to the totals but as I refuse to use Facebook guess my opinion is worthless.

Thank god I have spent over 200 bucks on this game on this game.... Oh wait I have!

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Originally Posted by LadyTerra

Actually, except for the poll, I haven't seen any contests run on facebook. The screenshot of the week is placed on facebook, but run through the forum.

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This is correct; we often advertise the forum contests on our Facebook page, but an overwhelming majority of our contests are run on the forums (like our New Years Resolution contest) or in game (such as GM trivia). :)

my fav event was when i saw bb kate in game

Ok so I guess I just read things wrong at some point I could swear there were more Facebook only events.

Still this latest poll would be nice here as well as on Facebook.

So I made the comment that contests have been going to facebook vs. here on the site a few days ago.

I was told by BB_meesherbeans "we often advertise the forum contests on our Facebook page" and an overwhelming majority of our contests are run on the forums.

Today I log on and what is the latest new news why there is a new contest on Facebook ONLY!

Sigh

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barenski, thanks man, im probly gonna have some bizaar dreams after comin accross tht video clip dead tired, and zoning out on it...real bizaar lol

Morgan, you are correct, the vintage mug giveaway goes directly to facebook and NOT to this forum.

I also do not use facebook, twitter, etc. I also have put money into this game, and have been playing it loyally for over a year now.

I understand from a business point of view wanting to utilize the social media outlets, BUT, I also agree it is NOT fair to those people who do NOT have facebook, etc, and play ubisoft games.

I believe it makes even BETTER business sense to make it equal and fair to ALL players.

make a fb account just for the sweepstakes, same w twitter, you never have to look at them again. thats what i did for the twitter entries. the initial problem some here have with fb is tht you dont want your personal info on a site like that, which i can completely understand. you can create as many email accounts on yahoo as you want, for free. so make a email account there, use tht account for ur fake fb and twitter accounts, and you are set

honestly lostsoul913 I could care less who knows what about me I think the whole concept of social media is a bad idea and should be shut down before it leads to much bigger problems.

Facebook/Twitter/redit(?)/linkn(?)/what ever other ones you can name poster says: Hey guys I am going for dinner and a movie be back in like 3 hours!

Some criminal who happens to have made friends with said user thinks to themselves: Well there's my next robbery location.

And thats just something simple that could happen now apply that murders rapeists kidnappers ect ect social media at some point in the near future has the potential to cause massive harm to the people useing it and the owners could care les as long as they get paid.

Speaking paid the co-founder gave up US citizenship before the IPO just so he didn't have to pay taxes thats pretty slimey in and of itself.

Ok Ok I'll stop and get off the soapbox again sorry just somethings make me sad for the future of this world.

morgan, i understand your point of view completely, and in many ways i agree with you. i was simply making a suggestion of how to enter the sweepstakes using facebood and twitter w/out actually putting ur info out there on either site. a dupe email account thru yahoo, link a dupe fb account and twitter account to it, enter the sweepstakes that way. only have to check the email to see if you've won the sweepstakes. i have probly 10 or so dif yahoo email accounts i've used for stuff like tht in the past lol

technically everyone on ur friends list can figure when u're home and when u arent, so fb only marginally increases security threat u already hav playin this game. i can probably figure that just by trackin ur TO posts, people are creatures of habbit.

i wonder if i can trace ur ip if we are on same adventure or chat in wisper. hehe , im going to try that, im bored enuf

well seeing as I rarely post trades in the TO eh lol

Facebook is free to join. Great way to communicate events!

There is an alternative way to enter the contest. Someone in your guild with FaceBook access just has to click on the other ways to enter and let you know what you need to do.

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Originally Posted by LostSoul913

make a fb account just for the sweepstakes, same w twitter, you never have to look at them again

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I refuse to open a fb account just to enter competitions.

We had to register our personal details here when we joined, what's wrong with advertising the comp on fb and then they have to come here to enter?

Oh look a new poll is up ........yeah IF you use facebook!

So yet again Myself and others that do not want too for what ever reason are left out of yet another poll about the game!

So glad I was a closed Beta tester and my opinion still matters so much!

Woot new game update complete with a new poll ........that so many would LOVE to vote on if only it was here you know on the site for the game and NOT on facebook!

Feel free to post your response to the poll here. It isn't an official poll that will affect the game in any way (we would never put that on one exclusive social media site). We're just interested in feedback! What's your favorite new item in the Guild Market?

lol None... Just a note to the BB's, Make your own Forum pages for contests. don't use a unofficial post like Morgan here. while i don't mind (care) what Morgan said here, its confusing to enter a normal players post for a BB's Official Contest. (even if the BB says that it isn't official)

(so what i am saying is BB's please make a Officially unofficial post for each contest that comes up)

Just a note ;) cheers.

(ps)please get some practical items in the Guild Market, i mean, c'mon, stones? really? anyway, cheers :D

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Originally Posted by The_Director

l(so what i am saying is BB's please make a Officially unofficial post for each contest that comes up)

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We could most certainly do this!

lol srry if my statement sounded like a rage, it wasn't :)

whats my favorite guild coin item so far the jolly geo oh wait you took that usefull thing away for 4 useless things nevermind.

I also don't use fb and won't. And yes, my favorite Guild Coin item was the Jolly Geo. Wonder why we didn't have a poll about what items to make available for guild coins.