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Turbine Responds To DDO Community Protest
Zarrot writes "Turbine has listened to the community and backed away from the partnership with SuperRewards that we discussed yesterday. Quoting: 'Based on your feedback, we're stepping away from the "Offer" category for now. We'll keep exploring alternate ways for players who want points to get them. We'll also continue to innovate in pricing and accessibility because that's who we are. As of today, the Offer Wall is coming down. We'll collect all the feedback we've received over the last few days and will use it to guide future decisions.'"
Thank-you Turbine, for bringing down the Wall so quickly in response to customer concerns, and for apologizing to DDO players. That helps immensely.
Apologies are few and far between these days, and it is refreshing whenever a corporation actually says they are sorry.
I enjoy playing DDO, and I hope that the apology will help mitigate the harm to the game caused by this incident, and I also hope that the game population will continue to grow.
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Simply, you don't understand the situation. They put a link to malware and scams on their site, and encouraged their customers to go there. They sent your user ID and email address of everybody who even looked at it to the scammers, even if the user accepted no offer.
If you have pre-cache turned on, your email and userid was sent even if you never left their site.
Actually using any of the offers, if you were so foolish, would result in malware installations.
You have to question either the competence or the ethics of any company that thought that was a good idea. I'm more prone to question their competence, in this case.