tonu_revived wrote:
Meh... I feel for ya, but it's best to just act like it never happened. That's what I've learned to do after being robbed of 600K by the hidden tower and losing my first million NP i had just earned then being frozen.
Bah... there I go telling the world about my stories again...
Ah, Tonu, we love your stories!
Time to get out my soapbox: I just lost 99,999 this morning when I went to buy a better than you plushie from someone--money deducted but no plushie. I was so angry that I quit Neopets--for about 5 minutes anyway. I also lost about 200K in nps in an overnight trade similar to yours about 3-4 weeks back. One of my guild members has lost two expensive trades that way and vows not to leave trades overnight anymore.
But like Tonu says, it's best to act like it never happened--or you will go crazy. The way I try to rationalize it is by saying, "Well, it evens out the elephante transmog potion I got 2 days ago for 25 nps" (yes, that did happen).
Both Tonu and I can attest to the fact that this has happened to both of us several times before--as I am sure it has happened to others. And we have stomped around angry, mad as heck--but I can only say that it is the price you pay for playing the game. I have lost about a million just in lost item glitches in the past year--yet, I am still here. So, either the game must be really good and worth losing a periodic item here or there or I must be crazy--or, I'm sure some would say, both!
And, hey, 125K isn't chump change. I just wish Neopets would realize that when we send in our report forms complaining of these glitches. The 99,999 I lost today didn't kill me. I have played long enough and play often enough to know how to make that much again. But when I think about stuff like this, I think about the poor new player who has saved for months to get 100K or the poor player who doesn't play for hours on end (like me)--that amount would wipe them out completely.
And it is unfair. If you are one of the unlucky ones who happened to press the wrong key at the wrong time--in other words, right when the system glitched up, you lose--your item is gone. Other players now have an unfair advantage because they did not lose the same amount of nps as you. TNT talks about how things are done so the game is "fair" (like can only play games 3 times a day or else it isn't fair. Creating duplicate accounts to get freebies gives a person an "unfair" advantage, etc.) Yet, they do absolutely nothing about the way their glitches skew the game.
If they can devote manpower to shifting through the emails about frozen accounts, why can't they devote manpower to researching error messages when the system glitches up and items don't go to the correct places? I mean maybe not for every jelly and piece of dung that is lost, but at least for the "good stuff!" The technology is there for them to capture these error messages, so why can't they spend some of that money they are getting from Mickey D's to fix the problem????
Tested made this fabulous set for me!!! Isn't it great?