well. had 4 1/2 years but i never did a single one. not like it's a huge loss to anyone. it's only 8 achievements, anyways! 8 new achievements will be out in no time.
cant wait till you revamp saggi so we can only do 5 quests and he pays out 5k more than you spent
of course Geek has to go and we keep crap quests like Quentin that suck no matter how many times you tweak it
Geeking Out [RETIRED] Complete 5 Computer Quests. 0/5
Obviously this will not effect me. I just hope that if you guys are going to start getting rid of more quest givers that you fix all the current questing kinks.
Sorry if I said annoyed, but this is the truth.
face palm Seriously, this needed to happen. Not going to complain there. Tier or no tier, no one was doing these things anyway (minus the very few of you weirdos out there. Yeah, I said it.) Morostide is going to be sad without his fantasticness. But really, why not a warning? "It's not needed." It doesn't take effort either, really. Does it really matter if a few people get lucky enough to get another achievement because they got a 7 day warning? Why it IS polite is because of how we feel. Do we own the site? No. When it comes down to it, will our word be final? No. Is out our means to bread on our tables? No. However, some have been year a very long time. WE feel like part of the family. To us it's small, and close nit, and we love that about it. It's why we left "them" and came here. Some have children younger than the years spent on this site. After that kind of commitment, after the money some of us have put in.... we just want the respect of it, that's all.
:( I'd have liked a warning. The only reason I hadn't finished those achievements already was because of the expected revamp.
Why couldnt it have been Drunk Carl instead? He never gives anything good, even as a weekend quest. And I hardly know of anyone who does his quests.
Complete x Computer Quests: 15/25 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cS0gNkJ.jpg[/IMG] Some people in these comments are carrying on like Keith & co just pissed in their sandpit. Guess what? this isn't your sandpit anyway. Don't give me any of that 'paying customer' crap either. NO ONE makes you spend real life cash on this site. If you choose to do so, you're buying account upgrades and pretty crap to stick on your little virtual person. Or pet slots. Whatever. You are not buying a stake in the way the site's run. It's not a donation. It's a purchase. You have no call when it comes to decisions like this. And for all the cries of "What about new users?? Now they'll never get the achievements!", it's funny how I never see an account younger than 2 years bitching about this stuff.
Can't say I really did his quest. Hell, to put it bluntly, I avoided his quest at all contest. Never saw much profit or good items from it. Oh well, enjoy that retirement Melman!
At first I was a bit annoyed because of the achievements, but then
this. I think that's actually what bothered me the most, none of us was expecting this sort of surprise? I mean the retirement of the stock market has been talked about yet it's still there, the retirement of the holiday shop was talked about (yes!) and was a huge slow process (because of other reasons, but still), for those who follow the site's news everyday this just creates a... lack of safety? feeling, on the lack of better words :x Feels like we can't really plan our gaming.
Well, if more quests ever get retired, I don't think it's going to be Sarah because she's the "poor" counterpart to Saggi for newbies, what leaves us with Drunk Carl - which is always a loss and mostly asks for pirate items anyway (which could eventually get incorporated in other quests). Is DC going to bite the dust too?
I've been here for three months and this makes me sad :c it feels like the world of Subeta is getting smaller.
:( this was a very profitable quest. rip.
Wow, after reading most of these comments, some of you people are so darn rude that it's a real big shame. Even if Subeta gave you all a week or two week in advanced warning, you still wouldn't have been able to get ALL his achievements since you can only do so many quests a day. Most people here (not counting the newer members) had plenty, PLENTY of time to do his quests; some had over 5yrs to get them all done. While I understand there's a lot of achievements out there that keeps people busy, if he was a high priority, then those who really, really wanted all his achievements would have went for them. Instead of being overly rude and complaining, how about many of you learn from this and start doing those important quests since we never know who'll be next to become retired :).
I say happy retirement to ya Geek!
This is bullshit. Kill all the profit in quests and get rid of one of the most profitable ones. Good job subeta.
I never even did Melman's Quests even when he was the special quest for the weekend.. and I know I am hardly the only one.. so what if we don't get the acheivments for him now. I didn;t care about them, and there will be new quests and new acheivments... REally those who are freaking out.. there was also no warning about the holiday shop retiring... I didn;t see people flipping out over that.. I HATED The Computer Geek Quests...so...not sorry they retired him...and can I say.. I agree with several other comments... some people need to stop acting like they have a right to be rude and freaking entitled. That's not the same as a calmly stated opinion.
i love his quests. good sp payout during weekend :(
I've got all these achievements done and i hardly ever did his quests, so i'm not personally too bothered by this, but i do think changes this big should be preceded by a warning. I'm pretty concerned now about what else may just suddenly disappear without notice at any time. >_>
Cool tribute items though. I look forward to collecting all of those!
Man, even though I didn't like doing his quest, I wish we had until Feb. 7 to finish up whatever tier we were on.
Well damn, more achievements ill never be getting ><
Pff! that's what I get for not doing his quests. Ah, well. There's plenty of other quests to do.
Now what I'm wondering is....will there be another quest to take his place?
Has anyone tried doing the other quests today to see how much the pay out and items given has been improved :).
Thank you for all the quests Computer Geek.
Enjoy your retirement ^_^.
Geeking Out [RETIRED] Complete 5 Computer Quests. 5 25 43/50 Wow, almost 7 years and only did 43 of these quests? o.O Wonder why that is? hmm... ~ I say Good fucking riddance.
Happy retirement to you Melman! I can't give an opinion on the quests due to me being inactive at times, but hopefully with the other revamps will be worth what I can get from them. <3
So, Subeta features are "use it or lose it" now, huh? What exactly is the point of this, besides angering those who did do his quests or didn't get a chance to? Not really seeing how cutting a feature improves the site, unless it was somehow using a ton of resources or something.
Geeking Out [RETIRED] Complete ______ Computer Quests. 333/500
well, at least i got to 333, and it's a number i like. but not even half way through? u_u im very VERY disappointed. saying this quest suddently became important for me: this quest didnt suddenly become important. lol. i have a life outside subeta, and cant afford questing everyday. if you dont find questing relevant, it's a different story. i wanted those achievements..
Glad to see him go, since a revamp would have been difficult and since so few users actually did the quests.
Well damn it. I loved those quests. They were a good source of sp for me. I pretty much always did these first. :( Really, are you just trying to make me no longer love this site?
EH?! He's already shut down...? sigh
Dammit. There goes that achievement.
Yeah, I only did 109 of Melmans quests so he obviously wasn't top priority for me. Hope he has a good retirement, and that we see him around the site at some other point :)
"His quests have been there for years, same with the achievements. If you haven't completed them yet, you weren't going to unless we told you to do them"
That's a rather narrow-minded assumption. Who do you think you are?
I think my biggest issue is that there's been a fairly open dialogue about quest revamps recently -- which has been awesome -- but there was never any hint that there may be quest retirements like this. Removing a site feature is a big enough thing that I think it does warrant some kind of advanced warning, especially if user feedback is already being involved in the revamp process to the extent that it has.
Personally, I didn't do his quests. I don't even care about the achievements. But I do know that there a PLENTY of other achievements people are working towards. To focus on one at a time can be tiresome and boring. To say, "His quests have been there for years, same with the achievements. If you haven't completed them yet, you weren't going to unless we told you to do them which isn't what achievements are for," isn't a good approach. Yes, most Subeta users have been here for a long time, and should have eventually slowly built themselves up to those quests. Everyone also has other things to do with their time. Yet, they come on here, doing whatever it is they enjoy. I'm sure the most they'd want is a small heads up. The heads up doesn't even have to be so that they may do the quests quickly before they go. It's just a heads up. Maybe some users liked to do his quests not for the achievement, but just because they liked his quests?
I don't know. Like I said, I never cared about his quests. I just feel that the couple of things Keith posted himself made me sort of tilt my head sideways thinking, "Is this the same Keith from earlier in the day, whom gave a worried user back their totem that got zapped?".
Still love you, Keith.
oh nooooo his quests were my second favorite after saggitarius. but I do think that since the other quests have been revamped so nicely it makes up for it. also i'm really loving those eyes!
Oh and another note: Why should people have been warned?
Because I think if users were told retirements of certain features are in the works they can offer ways to make that feature more interesting for the site rather than removing completely. Always nice to have other ideas flowing.
Oh and another note: Why should people have been warned?
Because I think if users were told retirements of certain features are in the works they can offer ways to make that feature more interesting for the site rather than removing completely. Always nice to have other ideas flowing.
I agree with most of what you said except the remark on people waiting for the revamp. Myself (and others from what I have read) were sick of questing and the new feature ressurected our interest. Yes, in my case this also includes saggi. I do him from time to time ONLY because of the SP (which geek didn't have) but definitely not all the time. When I saw the revamps happening I was super excited that I could finally start earning these "tedious" achievements I've always wanted but never felt the payout was good enough so it was slow going...to the point where since they took so long and were boring I stopped. Again, this is where the revamp would have done a lot of good.
I understand the reason behind removing it if not many users were doing it, but with revamps happening ALL quests should in theory be worth the effort soon enough and since we only can do 10 of each (reg accounts) then it will make doing ALL quests from everyone even more likely.
I would have liked to have seen it revamped and then if it was still dead it could be taken down for that reason. I figured the goal with the revamps were to making questing more fun and appealing, not kill it off if it was never given a chance after a revamp.
So the achievement is now impossible. Darn.
Can't say I'm sorry to see him go. Didn't do his quests and quite frankly don't care that I don't have the achievements for it. Would much rather focus my time on achievements that interest me or are ones that we know are only around for a short time, like for holidays. So buh-bye Melman. Not going to miss you.
awe, right after I already did all my quests today. :P
Bummer. I would have appreciated a warning. No, I usually didn't do his quests, but that's because I don't have time to do everything every day on the site. I did his quests when he was the WSQ, but was working on the other quest achievements first. I was, however, looking forward to the day when he'd get the shop search links on his quest page -- that's a huge time-saver.
I think this was a pretty clever way to get people to do quests and other under-used features of the site. Well played, Subeta... well played.
runs off to visit Drunk Carl for the first time
I've been working toward finishing all the quest achievements for months, and he was the last one I needed. I put off doing his quests (and Cinthia's) because they weren't very profitable and I knew they were going to be revamped soon and would be less of a burden. :| There goes that goal.
Awe, good for Melman! I'll miss his quests - they were good to me~!
As always, with no advise. I would like if give an advice everytime something will be retired, like SubQ sets, and more important: quests... They give achievements
Ok so subeta didn't warn us, they made a mistake. There are hundreds of other achievements, I'm sure no one was going to successfully collect them all anyways. No one is going to like every change, there will always be people against it. Shit happens, we move on.
You could make 300k off him in a good day, 750k on WQ. Too bad so many people say it's good he's gone just cause they never bothered to attempt him. I wish I hadn't logged in today because seeing this ruined my mood.