I never did his quests, so I'm unaffected by this. But I guess it's sad for those who liked his quests.
When he was the weekend quest he'd give a good pay out. I liked the old quests though. Too bad I haven't been doing them for like a year.
ah erase that statement of mine. my bad :)
I thought it was Feb 7 as stated and yet he was already decommissioned in his task... has my calendar been wrong all this time? -kitty tilts head-
YAY!!
The only thing I wish they would take away is that annoying Calvin Blackmoon. He torments and stresses people out of the constant site is down page. He should only be seen when the site is really offline not cry wolf every 5 minutes. If I had a battle pet I would love to get him as a battle challenger to take my stress out on him XD. Darn character has been tormenting me non stop for over 2 years and nobody can do a darn thing about him.
You can take all the quests down if you want I don't care. They lost all the fun and they aren't challenging anymore. Who cares about being to click a button under the item to go to the shop search. There was nothing wrong with the copy and paste method. There is nothing left of the original subeta that I loved and cared about. The new subeta has no feeling. Things we use to be allowed to do are no longer allowed. Please if you want me to learn to care about the site again fix it how you want it to be and give us all time to adjust. It's not disable friendly anymore.... We come here to get away from real life for awhile not be thrown right back into it....
I wish I had all the achievements for his quests before this was shut down (taken away). That's what I get for not sitting in front of the computer and questing non stop until earned, oh wells
would have much rather seen Drunk Carl go. but I always end up happy with changes that are made. I think too many people get stuck in a routine... Looking forward to whatever new feature comes on :)
Good thing I was about 200 quests away from the next achievement tier.
On the one hand I'm sad about the quest achievements that are now permanently lost to me (but at least I got about half of them).
On the other hand, I'm happy to see him go. Especially with the revamps, poor Melman just didn't really have a place. "Hi, I ask for toys and give out crappy prizes...just like Cynthia. Except she gives out good prizes now. So. Yeah."
It doesn't bother me in the least that these quests are gone. I just think Drunk Carl would have been more logical.
I'm honestly surprised that people actually did his quests enough to be so butt frustrated about this.
As far as I was concerned, I thought no one did his quests because the payout was usually always horrible.
It's nice to see some of these more worthless quest givers go.
The Computer Geek has closed up shop!
But the news said until February 7th? x(
Urgh, the desire to make a troll comment is strong in this thread. Jus' sayin. As for me I can't remember ever doing this quest so don currrr. Goodbye, Melman (is that your name?) enjoy your retirement! Looking forward to new things Subeta has coming up!
2 much of this:
in here.
He's been around for years. A majority really didn't like these quests. I personally stopped doing them because of how annoying they were and I never received any of these crazy sP payouts people keep talking about. O WELL, MOVE ALONG PPL.
Gee, I'm gone for a few days and I come back to this!? Didn't even get all the achievements...
The best part about this quest going away is THIS HAS ALWAYS DROVE ME NUTS.
HI I'M THE COMPUTER GEEK I NEED PARTS FOR MY PC... CAN YOU BRING ME A SOCCER BALL AND A FAIRY PRINCESS DOLL? Like wut... I'm no professional computer builder or nothing, but I'm pretty sure hoping the fairy dolls will fix it and/or beating it with a soccer ball won't yield much success okay. THe fact that he doesn't ask for nor GIVE computery technical things has always annoyed me. Like illogical.
And I do agree that SOME of the Bits and Bytes store is useless.. I mean who needs floppy discs... or a VHS player? But the wires, PC parts, etc are fabulous TC fodder that people do in fact have uses for c:! Plus other quests do ask for all restockables/particular colors and such.
Plus I think the rock bottom prices of wearables would merit a quest a lot more than the small pool of PC related parts or a COMPUTER GEEK asking for toys |D...
Support the change. Also, love the tribute items XD I will hopefully be able to get a nice hoard of some of these before they poof.
Goodbye Melman. I am going to admit I am not sorry to see these quests go, I always had bad luck and just kinda gave up.
Bad choice, SubetaTeam.
the first day without him and i already miss something....ah yes its a few 100k sp Q.Q
Never mind, I'm blind xD
The Computer Geek has closed up shop!
What? It says that we'll till february the 7th :s
I agree with other uses, Carl is the worst quest. Tried some last week to remember why I didn't do his and was reminded again. Should have retired Carl instead.
one last comment. the geek tribute items are making me do the revamped quests when I normally avoid all those like the plague. and so I take back what I usually say about Quentin being the worst quest on the site, I now know that it is Library Quests that is by far the worst. Is it normal to lose 25k on every single item fetch or does Alexander just hate me. Because if it is the latter then the hate is mutual.
I'm guessing you realized he was giving good sp payouts and rather than face the bitching when you inevitably nerfed revamped him, you decided to just get rid of it altogether? :/
Are you SERIOUS right now. He was one of my favorites, and I never finished the achievements. This annoys me.
I thought we had till the 7th of Feb??
Lame move. :/
I always loved doing Computer Geek quests. I am going to miss those :( I wish they would have gotten rid of Drunk Carl instead. Happy retirement Melman!
I just feel as though staff wants to take as many ways to earn sPs away from us as possible.
I'm sad to see Geek Quests retired.. They were ones I'd always recommend to users when they asked, "Finished Saggi and Wizard quests.. Any others worth doing?".. Sadly busy offline has meant I've not had much time to quest at all of late but I did get all the achievement tiers for his quests.. Learnt not to dawdle on those when Amy met an unexpected and sudden 'end'..
Would've like just a day's notice (hey, the quests retire at midnight), just to be polite. ): I had no desire to complete these quests ever, but I stop playing when sites start to pull stunts like this. There isn't anything wrong with being polite.
Well, some warning would have been nice, but what's the use? He's still gone. I now feel that nerds everywhere are underrepresented. Farewell, Melman. You will be missed (at least by me). :(
Oh fuck all those achievements i'm missing :'(
Some more achievements that will be unachievable forever Dx
Kind of a dick move. A lot of sorrow could have been avoided if they just gave a little warning last week.
I somehow knew that this would happen but so close before the last Achievement? Bad timing...
Thanks for the heads up :[
From Mori: [item2=Computer Geek Sticker]
Thank you. You're more useful now that you're gone ~
Happy Retirement, Melman. Yes, a notice would have been nice. But that's Subeta, right? Now, who needs Bits and Bytes anymore?
Aish~ and I really liked doing his quests... DX
That's sad.
I don't understand why this was necessary... Like others, I was waiting for a revamp and actually did plan on completing those achievements. A warning wouldn't have hurt either. Maybe it wouldn't necessarily have allowed too many users to get the achievements in time but some would have been able to scramble and get an achievement or two out of it. Achievements aside, his quest wasn't bad at all. I just don't get the reasoning behind throwing it out completely when it at least benefited some percentage of users.
I agree with you. I never did his quests so it doesn't affect me one way or the other. I keep hearing people say they were waiting for the revamp. So it takes a little more time the old way but they still get done. I guess I don't understand people using that as a complaint because if they wanted to really do them they would have done them with or without the revamp. (Disclaimer: this is my own opinion. I am not asking people to agree with me. I am just expressing my thoughts like everyone else here. :) )
Since people keep suggesting this, i feel compelled to say, PLEASE DON'T RETIRE MAJOR DRILLS. That is not a bad quest! You have to do more than a couple to be able to judge them. Most times, yes, you get crap (deflated special prizes like the plugs) but fairly regularly, if you're persistent, you get something quite nice. I just got from him a few minutes ago! And it's not like most of them cost a lot of sP. Many are free to do, just take a couple minutes of your time. (Also, i admit, i still need some of the achievements for him, lol.) So let's all go do our MD quests so they don't get retired too, ok?! XD
I'm one of the people who hardly ever did geek quests, except when they were weekend quests, which I thought paid out pretty well.
I'm not angry or overly upset about the quest being retired, but I do feel that part of the problem, the reason there are so many comments complaining about this, is that people were not given any time to digest this or to 'say goodbye' to the quest. People are lacking closure.
I understand not wanting to give a long notice so that everyone on the site would rush to try to complete the achievements thereby inflating prices for quest items etc. But, seriously, even half a days notice so people could do a last quest for lulz and memories would have probably cut a lot of the complaints.
That said, I do appreciate the retirement items being put out, good move. Perhaps you thought the new shiny prizes would be enough to smooth over ruffled feathers? Probably giving at least a days notice would have been a better plan.
lol I think I got the achievements not long after they were released. I always loved to do the Computer Quests. I pretty much had it done how to profit on them.
Let me just say since we're now getting around to just removing quests instead of revamping: Please, remove Carl (I'd say Drills but I'm not too sure on that one). :) In fact, I would have thought of all the quests, those would be the first to be deleted because only like two users did them. I only did them to get the achievements and basically had to hold my nose the entire time. Those, to me, are the worse quests on site.
p.s. Just remove all the quests while you're at it. :P
Seriously, what Speiro said. Y'all usually give us something like 24 hours notice when you're about to end a holiday, and this was a site feature.
if y'all have time to revamp and take away quests all willy nilly i think you would have time to put the nice new search item buttons in with saggi
This is REALLY disappointing and i'm rather upset as well. I loved these quests and I didn't get all of the achievements which bugs the hell out of me. Not to mention I was so close to the next tier. Subeta is getting worse and worse over the years and a lot less fun. I hope they bring back some stuff like this quest eventually. And I also hope they don't retire Drunk Carl anytime soon because i'm quite far away from getting all of the achievements and I don't want to waste my time and SP on something they're just going to take away from us. This site is just getting overall disappointing. It's losing it's fun factor...