Well, this is the incentive I need to get going on those other quest achievements that I've put off. Other than kicking myself for not getting them, I won't miss him. Happy retirement!
there are 44213 "official items" on the site. Not including CW. but this does include items that are not available such as full gift boxes and the totems you receive for anniversaries.
It took me a couple of read throughs, too. Geek Quests are retired and gone, effective immediately. The special items mentioned in the post, though, are what that deadline refers to and will be found through other people's quests until the 7th. :3
I am sad to see the computer geek go since I was working on his achievements, but I left him to the last just because I found his quests soooo boring. oh well some achievements I just can't get now. My own fault. However, I do agree a little bit of warning would have been nice.
I am looking forward to the tribute items though and other things that may be coming our way.
, you're right, my apologies. That was for ! What can I say, I got used to talking to you, LOL.
Meh. Never did his quests, anyway :p Happy retirement, Melman!
This really kind of makes me sad.
I actually think that the Geek gave out the best SP after Saggi, so I'm disappointed to see him go.
(And yes, I do have the achievements, and blew well past the top tier.)
GOOD BYE GEEK QUEST AND YOUR NEVER ENDING TOWERS AS PRIZES. I WON'T MISS YOU.
If there is a good reason to do away with it.. .like say, people having 45,000 different items in a shop causes a stain on the servers... then yes, you should accept the fact that you had ample opportunity to get the achievement, and the reason you aren't able to now is because Subeta as a site needs to change in order to grow and becomes a better, more stable site.
amusing. Since there is not that many items available on the site unless you include Cw.
Way to live up to your name Wolfy :P Pets should not ever be retired, nor should the pet NPC's be turned into humans. Almost every pet that wins the spotlight is a furry of some kind so yes, they have a place here.
As for this guys quest, I can't say that I'll miss it. His items are nice too but none that I'm willing to suffer for, same goes for the achievements. See ya dude
think you meant that for someone else xD
I always liked him on WSQ and was eagerly awaiting his revamp, so I'm rather sad to see him go. I think a month's advance warning would have been kinder, even if most people wouldn't be able to finish their achievements completely.
Anyway, this is a wake-up call to stop putting off Major(ly Boring) Drills quests. And Minion Feeding. And get the last few cards for my Trading Card collection. Won't be surprised if those latter two in particular bite the dust this year.
, you may not buy things from the cash shop or the CW pawn shop or CWs as they're released, but a lot of us do. THAT'S what I mean by paying customers.
I don't see how taking away the computer geek quests combats "boredom" or "improves" the site. Unlike say, drunk carl I've never seen anyone that particularly hated the computer geek or wanted him to be done away with.
Does taking this feature away from the 5% of us who use it improve the game for the other 95% in any way? I doubt this was a big drain on subeta's resources or anything.
Will not be missed by me. Everyone needs to calm the hell down, ya lot of whiney losers.. Maybe subeta will have something else in store...？Either way Im glad to see him go. I personally think a few pet species should be done away with too.
But I do agree, a weeks notice would have been a smarter move Subeta.
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If there is a good reason to do away with it.. .like say, people having 45,000 different items in a shop causes a stain on the servers... then yes, you should accept the fact that you had ample opportunity to get the achievement, and the reason you aren't able to now is because Subeta as a site needs to change in order to grow and becomes a better, more stable site.
I still think you're misunderstanding me. I care about the achievements, but not enough to bitch and moan about it. That's just stupid. It was just when other comments were made like how we don't care about his quests and why we should have gotten them by now that cause me to point out how that's not necessarily true. It's the principle that matters to me, the fact that excuses are being made to justify not giving a warning when they always give us advance notice when stuff is about to change that bothers me.That's my opinion, I expressed it and you might not feel the same way but that's ok. If you really want to keep discussing this matter with me, then feel free to comment or smail me as I fear we are flooding this board and possibly in danger of straying off topic.
On a side note, the addition of quests having the chance of giving out new items is a nice gesture.
okay so its fine he's retiring but what what WHAT is this? Achivement page already says retired? why so if we have til the 7th? Why should I waste time trying to add a few more to my numbers (and grabbing at least 2 more levels of achievements for me) when they are "retired"?
He could have been changed to ask for items from Home Appliances, Bits and Bytes and Trading Card Center, and even Get Mugged! and Quick Bites. They would have been appropriate and the items in the first two shops are completely useless and need an outlet to get them out of the economy anyway. I don't see how he was redundant at all, even if other quests very occasionally ask for those items.
I've started doing quests again now that they've been updated and doing them isn't like pulling teeth anymore. I'd have done his too if he had been brought into the new system. I don't do Saggitarius's quest either for the same reason. Wait, no, I did it yesterday just to check it out after a long time, and the old system still sucks enough that I'll probably still avoid it.
If you wanted to get rid of quests no one likes, why are Drunk Carl and Drills still around?
lolwut, "paying customers"? I've been a Subeta user for over 8 years, never payed for absolutely anything with real money (which I totally would, if I had the means to). It's 100% optional to pay for anything. So I have no idea what you're talking about. If Subeta stayed the same for years and years or even shut down, I think that would come a lot closer to Keith not caring about the users. I don't see how making changes in an attempt to improve the website is NOT caring.
"I just feel like Subeta (Keith and other decision makers) are taking away all the reasons I am on Subeta."
Me too. I wonder if the outrage about this would be less if it weren't coming on the tail of other huge changes. It seems like we're not giving any time to adjust to one big change before another one is thrown at us, and apparently, there are more to come... too much change can, in fact, be a BAD thing.
I love how one move erases all the positive sentiment about how so many of the quests were being changed for the better, with payouts that actually mattered and listening to user feedback and stuff. Meh....sorry to see the geek go, but I wasn't doing his quests and I'm just not feeling the apparent outrage that others are. The tribute items are seriously cute tho! Can't wait to get my hands on a few of them.
Keith doesn't care about his customers, because he looked at his user data, saw that very few of us did these quests, and decided to do away with it? I don't really think that is a fair statement. In fact, I think that's a total overreaction.
"If getting the achievements was important to you, why didn't you do them already? If they weren't, then why complain about no longer having the opportunity? "
Just wondering something.. I have spent YEARS working on the hoarder achievement and spent RL money on cash shop items and GA for extra quests. Going by your opinion here I should just suck it up and deal with it when Keith cancels that too? I mean I have had years to work on it.
I have all the quest achievements already except Battle (Poky has to cancel a lot). The quest ones are the easiest to get even though time consuming. I just feel like Subeta (Keith and other decision makers) are taking away all the reasons I am on Subeta. It is supposed to be my happy place.
Bahkow! That's just total garbage. The Geek was the best, or should I say, Melman was the best. I'm gonna miss him. I love the Binary Code Shirt. Good for gamers who wanna wear it if EPICon comes around.
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I completely understand that people have lives... I too have had to take my time to get certain achievements. I am still working on Battle Quests because they bore me, and I ONLY do them to get the achievement. And if Battle Quests were retired tomorrow I'd miss the achievement and be bummed but at the same time, I'd understand that the only person I should blame is myself... because there are days like today that I haven't even bothered to do one, let alone all of them.
The fact remains that this is an achievement that anyone that has played for a year or longer should have been able to get with ease, if they cared. Some of you just need to take a little more responsibility for not getting the achievement rather than bitch and moan about how Keith has made a mistake by not warning you.
Thats kinda dumb. I havent gotten any achievements yet from the CG quests mainly because they were too expensive anyway. He asked for overly priced items and gave cheap prizes. But still...
, that does not make me feel better about the achievement that was just jerked away, or change my feeling that Keith doesn't really give a damn these days about his paying customers.
I would complain about achievements but let's be honest I was never getting those achievements (in 2+ years I've only completed 12 of his quests, so he won't be missed)
I am a okay with it i barely did that quest.
I had pretty much forgotten about his quests so I don't really mind that they are being done away with xD
I don't do sagittarius quests either for the exact same reason lmao When I am feeling really energized i manage to power thru like 4 or 5 of them at most so yay I can still use that argument
but now that i'm thinking another thing that i think people don't use much is the blue building quests but please don't get rid of the blue building guys
I used to play daily years ago, and I took I hiatus for a few years. Now that I'm older, I've come back determined to complete goals and achievements and such. So here's a new-old user saying that I'm slightly disappointed that that was no warning. :/ Oh well though, time to get those tribute items!
Very true, but consider how many other achievements are out there and how some literally take months to get, even if a user plays every single day. Some achievements like deleting an either can take years if someone just can't make the sP quickly. It's not that nobody cares or forgot about them, it's that they are one of many to do. People also have lives and can't play on subeta all day. You know, some stuff just happens in real life and you have to take a break, it's not that you don't care. It's a matter of priorities.
And again, yes it sucks no achievement, whatever. It's just common courtesy to give a warning, even if it's just a day before you're going to make a site change that affects the user base. We get warnings when there are other site changes, how is this any different? Everyone may not be doing his quests, but some people do like him. Heck I liked him, he gave a decent payout. If there was a note in this announcement saying "sorry we didn't give sooner notice before doing this" I would be happy with that, but the fact that Keith's giving excuses that don't even justify actions instead of just admitting they made a small mistake is not right. "Hey guys, didn't realize this would be such a big deal to some users, we're sorry but we had to get rid of him" would have been fine.
At least you can get a bunch of other achievements now for the other quests.
I totally had a feeling this quest was doomed, those achievements will always haunt me. Just like the stupid Amy ones cries Personally I thought this quest in particular was a HUGE waste of time. :D
I'm rarely the type of person to rock the boat but after reading this page I have a couple of things to say:
Subeta is a community and therefore people have a right to voice their opinion BUT, while some people manage to complain in an understandable manner, others are way too impolite (completely rude, even). I've read some comments here where people speak to Keith as if they're so entitled, as if nothing on Subeta should change without their permission. Uh, hello? He's the OWNER of the site. Have some more respect and be a bit more humble.
As someone already pointed out, if nothing ever changed the site would become boring. These changes are made taking into account the MAJORITY of users. Like Keith said, less than 5% of users were doing Geek's quests.
PS: To whoever had the nerve to say people weren't doing Geek's quests because there was no Search Shops link: I'm guessing you can't be bothered with Saggitarius either? Oh, that's right, Saggitarius gives lots of sP.
: you must not do Drill Quests very often/have really bad luck. He has given me items worth over 5mil.
Because a LOT of older users like me have started doing quests again with the new, quicker way of shop search, that's why! I used to hate quests, now I do them daily and I was really excited about actually reaching the achievements.
Lol, i didn't do his quest anyway.
Communication is the key, it is for everything online and in real life!
Have a nice retirement. Won't be missed by me.
I just feel like people like you, that have had literally years to get the achievement, shouldn't NEED to be warned that a quest is going to go away in order for you to do the quests. If getting the achievements was important to you, why didn't you do them already? If they weren't, then why complain about no longer having the opportunity?
Kind of pissed off.
Oh wow, I'd apparently done 29 of his quests. I don't remember that at all. I guess I won't miss them lol. But good luck, Melman, enjoy retirement!
if we're being completely honest, i forgot this quest existed more often than not. case in point: i saw this news post and thought "oh right, that's a quest." can't say i'm too upset over this being scrapped. sucks for the people who liked it, but i can't say i fall into that catagory. though now i'm curious if other forgettable quests are going to get the axe (looking at you, drunk carl)
Okay, so what I don't get is why they don't take away the Drill quests. No one seems to like them because they don't give like hardly anything. Why did Subeta Team deduct the amount of quests we can do, and then shortly after, take an entire quest member away? Either one or the other Subeta Team! If you are going to take any away, take away the Drill Quests. And Why was there no warning of this change? I mean, in a way there was with them saying the quests will be reduced, but my gawd! I didn't think they'd moreless kill off one of the quest members.
I gotta say that "giving fair warning" of the quest being retired would have been a baaad idea. People are losing their ever-loving shit right now because it was yanked without warning. Would it have been better if something was said a week or month in advance? Doubt it. The screaming about "OMGGAIZNOTENEOUHTIIIIIME!!!!!11!!1 I HAVE A LIFE YA KNOW!!! NOT COOL YOU SUCK BAAAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!" would have commenced and it would have lasted throughout the duration of the entire warning period and beyond, ad nauseam.
Why prolong the unbearable agony of OMG missing a couple of achievements out of hundreds? They yanked it like a band aid. Now the healing can begin.