noamineo wrote on Mar 5
th, 2018 at 12:58pm:
See, this is a good example of support going above and beyond. I don't think the reps try nearly as hard anymore, and it makes for a really frustrating experience.
It's outsourced. They don't work for SSG. It's going to be some second hand stuff like support.com
Here's what happens.
Some guy who works from home logs into a centralized website that tracks his tickets for the 100+ games he provides support for. Every little shitty indie game, all those android/ios fly by nights, etc...that all have a support number to handle refunds and whatnot.
Your ticket is up next on his docket. He checks the wiki for how to handle DDO tickets but he's already sighing because he did one yesterday and the back end for DDO is absolute shit. Clash of Saga War Kings Clansville is a piece of shit mobile game but at least they have the same back end interface all shitty mobile games do.
DDO is a 12 year old monstrosity though that requires connecting to it via OpenVPN, then punching in the support password, then connecting to a remote VM and god this job fucking sucks.
Now that he's connected he runs the command the wiki tells him to to pull a list of items that were nuked during your last TR. The script runs for about 5 minutes and comes up with 3 things.
This guy sees 9 year olds claiming they were hacked and lost 10 grand worth of stuff every day. He gives zero fucks that you say you've been playing for 9 years and all your GS was really hard to blah blah blah. The script says you get 3 items, you get 3 fucking items.
He logs into the laggy as fuck back end client that the devs can't even use to remotely reboot the servers let alone do any actual goddamn support work. I mean if you think the client paying customers use is bad, imagine the shitty support back end. Anyones, he restores your 3 items, marks the ticket as complete and moves on to deal with his next ticket for Shooter Kings of Gambling Titty Girls 9.