Is there hope for Exilebuddy

[sandoog]

Took you 1 month to learn how to press start?

not pressing start to make it start walking .. each time i press start it gives me msg bot stopped
and as i mentioned before im noob and didnt know what to do. it turn out that i need to put auto walk skill in the action bar but thats as fas as i get then i stoped using the bot

if you can guide me step by step on how to run maps and loot items and keep the bot repeat it over and over i would be grateful to you.

 

[kgbc]

If you guys who paid like $25 or whatever it was for a lifetime key are that upset that you are not getting a refund, you have no business spending your money on such things. You obviously do not have disposable income. Get your lives together. As a developer, I support a monthly subscription. I can't believe you're upset that you paid a few dollars for someone elses months and months of work. I don't want to hear "it's the principal of the matter, they said lifetime!". I don't. Those are immature excuses. Suck it up and pay to make this a better bot, or don't.

 

[Hawker]

Okay, I'm this 40 year old stoner. I am not the smartest guy in the room, or the richest; nor do I pretend to be. I am however a fan of limitless. It being 4/20 I took some stoner NZT. During my experience, I remembered something about game-theory and psych 101. The tactic the buddy management used is often used by politicians .

The first step:
Present the worst case scenario.
I think you can see where I'm going with this.
Step 2:
Without having any intention of shutting it down have the user base begs us to stay on. And as a bonus, lets make them think that it was their idea. People make bad decisions under stress.
Step 3:
Get feedback to appear to make amends and move forward with the base of people think we didn't just play them.
Step 4:
Make Bossland account (the deliverer of the message) disappear and have Hawker deliver the wonderful news. Total good cop/bad cop.
Step 5:
Profit

I know this will probably get deleted but I am convinced this whole thing was orchestrated and they did it beautifully. Thank you for giving us the illusion of being in control of this. Bravo, sorry for not seeing it sooner.

Don't get me wrong I have no doubt they needed the money but a look behind the curtain would probably look like this.

You guys are way smarter than me. I'll give you that.

Its a great theory. Sadly, I was too hasty to close EB but from my point of view one of our best developers was on a loss making project and I wanted to move him to a profitable one. I'm sure you can see that is a reasonable assumption even if I was wrong. The community made very clear that the bot is wanted and we are willing to carry on at least 3 months more. In order to remove all questions of the problem being that the bot isn't good enough, we have hired a second developer for Exilebuddy.

As for being smart, trust me on this, right now no-one thinks that I showed much smarts in this episode.

 

[ihacknewbies]

Nah, that's what I'm saying: from my personal point of view they lost more (reputation/customers/goodwill) from all these shenanigans than they would've lost from just outwright saying what's need to be done and why.

I agree I would have simply figured it into my costs rather than looking for alternatives as I've been happy with buddybots for 5~ years and multiple games.

The way they did it made me find another alternative and now I've invested too much money in said alternative to really switch back to buddybots, at least for this game

 

[Infinite Monkeys]

I am however a fan of limitless. It being 4/20 I took some stoner NZT.

Modafinil and weed? Sounds like a party