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3rd April 2017

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We would like to give you all an update on Support Tickets. Staff are all working extremely hard to restore the site to normal after the issues we had in February. We all want to recover from this as quickly as possible and move on. We suggested opening a Support ticket for the handful of avatars/pets/items that you are really sad to be missing or can't easily replace. We were hoping that you would be understanding and with the amount you gained from the recovery, you would use to rebuild anything missing. The number of support tickets we have received has been overwhelming. We simply cannot keep answering 500+ tickets a day and they still keep coming quicker than we can answer them! We understand that many players are still missing some items but please remember everyone received back a lot of items that they had previously used or sold. There are many more items on the site at the moment due to this and we strongly urge players to buy items from user shops where ever possible.
Please only send a support ticket for items that are rare or not available for sale on the site.
Many tickets we receive are asking for items players are missing that they had used/traded/sold already. Many are sending in Paypal receipts expecting a refund of items purchased that were used/sold/traded already. Some of these longer tickets are taking several hours each to investigate and deal with, only to be sent several more asking for other stuff. Our time was supposed to help return things you cannot easily replace. As a result of this, we are putting Pet Renames on hold again for this month and our Easter Egg Hunt may need to be cancelled this year if we cannot get these tickets under control.

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I haven't and I don't plan to send in a ST. I may have lost a lot but what I have gotten back has made up for it.

The site crashed. People lost a lot but to my way of thinking that is how life is....ups and then downs...but we still go on doing what we can.

Whatever has been done to make things right is more than I ever expected! Thank you so much!

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You do what you think is best Ian. It's been weird since the crash, but I'm sure everything will be back to normal soon enough. Thank you for all your hard work, it's one of the things I love most about mara is how much time you actually put into making the site better.
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ForCryinOutLoud15
ForCryinOutLoud Merry and Bright
While it is understandable for staff to feel both overwhelmed and frustrated, I'm sorry but taking care of this stuff is your job and if you're overwhelmed, it's time to hire more staff, or dedicate a certain number of staff members to just dealing with the tickets.

The compensation was generous, but because EVERYONE on site got this compensation, many of the items that were once worth a lot are now worth next to nothing, so even to be saying sell the extras to get the MP to buy the remaining things you're missing is easier said than done if what you are missing are expensive items. On top of that, avatars, mission/quest totals, stats of pets etc. being lost absolutely sucks if the response is "do it all again", or "go through your entire account and tell us what we didn't compensate you for".

The tone of this news post was far too snippy and sadly unprofessional imo. I'm SURE staff are getting crazy amounts of support tickets, but I HIGHLY doubt that the vast majority of them are people trying to cheat the site into giving them something they don't deserve, or didn't actually lose.

I've had far too much going on in my life right now to go through my account to see if there is anything expensive, or hard to get that I am missing, but I certainly would be sending in a ticket if I found something like that missing from account and as it wasn't my fault, or ANY users fault that the site crashed and lost so much data, the users shouldn't be punished or chastised for requesting stuff they lost - even if staff think that selling the extras of items now worth hardly anything should be enough to buy back whatever was lost.
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I'm not sure what items I might have lost. I think you were more than generous with the items I received. I WILL NOT be sending a ticket! Even if I realize later that I have lost items that are very rare and no longer available, there is no way I could provide proof. Great Job Staff! Fingers crossed for EEH.
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Can't we have Easter in May?:cry::cry::cry::cry:
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Kuork75
Kuork 2 baddies 1 porsche
I submitted a ticket for missing AU items and was told I had 'used/traded/sold' them. I was quite shocked and unhappy. There were several enchanted plushies I had in my attic for safe keeping that I did not get back. I mistakenly thought I had purchased these outright from AU, so I'm sorry for that (I bought hundreds of AUs in June-July 2016 alone), but all the same I was in possession of items (in my attic) at the time of the crash that I now do not have. So to be lumped in with people who were trying to work the system feels awful, when I'm just trying to get the things I had back.

And I think it's poor timing to release so many new AU with such short time limits when some of us are trying to recoup losses.

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Dough57
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Why cancel the Easter egg hunt?! Not members fault that the cite crashed. :/
Shouldn't take it out on us by taking away something we all enjoy a lot.

But thank you staff for helping and trying to get things back on track. Happy I got replays to my ticket supports.
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Easyrhino75
Easyrhino Quest Payouts are Pathetic
I know I am late to this comment section but its worth getting a point across that Anthoy1977 is right that taking the easy way out because its hard now... is ridiculous. You can cancel the EEH, feel free to... just give us all the prizes and eggs and we will call it even. There are those who would do their best to condemn some of the more vocal but without us... there would be no change. Id like to thank Ian for removing that idiotic 10% penalty on the dukka exchange... long long long overdue. We want whats rightfully ours... nothing more nothing less...
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ExSanguinate18
ExSanguinate Try to run away.
I'm missing some valuable stuff, but a lot of us are. I can hold off on sending in a ticket, and so can others. Give the Staff some time to handle what they have on their plate already.
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