Hello weevils!
As you may know, I recently wrote a post which ranted on the new arrival of a competition that was promoted as a form of return to King Of The Bin only for the competition to end up nothing like it but was rather a completely new contest with a misleading title. In that post, I presented an email that I was going to send to 55Pixels which was going to ask them questions regarding their new competition along with how misleading it is and to my surprise, I got a response the day after I sent the email! Here is the response below:
As you may know, I recently wrote a post which ranted on the new arrival of a competition that was promoted as a form of return to King Of The Bin only for the competition to end up nothing like it but was rather a completely new contest with a misleading title. In that post, I presented an email that I was going to send to 55Pixels which was going to ask them questions regarding their new competition along with how misleading it is and to my surprise, I got a response the day after I sent the email! Here is the response below:
And quite shockingly, I think they responded rather well which is quite a change compared to how they used to patronise you and tell you that certain things were impossible when they weren't.
So, rather than going to ridiculous lengths on trying to tell me how the new competition wouldn't be misleading, they have instead accepted my comment and have apologised which is what I am rather grateful for as well as the fact that they have outright stated that they will share my thoughts with the team without using terms such as 'may', 'might', 'could' etc. They have also answered one of my questions by which they have confirmed a discussion revolving around implementing a leaderboard system like the original King Of The Bin had and although this is great to hear, it's still worth taking this with a pinch of salt since in the past, they have stated that they were discussing a return of the old Kip's Scrapyard arcade to connect to the Kip's Scrapyard in the Time Portal but as things stand, we haven't heard anything else about it since.
Moreover, despite the professional and well structured response I have been given, the parts regarding their vision and attitude towards the competition should not be the attitudes taken when creating a form of reboot of King Of The Bin. For instance, they spoke about it needing to be 'accessible for everyone' even though last time I checked, the original King Of The Bin was completely accessible to everyone as anyone could simply log on with or without membership and could play as many games they wanted from the leaderboard. So why on Earth are they looking into how it could be accessible more when it was already completely accessible?
Finally, they also spoke about how the system works by which they have confirmed that winners are selected through an 'automatic' process and that such 'adjustments' are to be made to make the rewarding fairer which although it is great that the staff aren't involved in selecting winners, I still find that it will be quite difficult to program something that can accurately select winners based on several different scenarios and I think it'd be such a waste of time having to code all of it. I still believe that this competition should work like the original King Of The Bin worked where it was solely based around the skills of achieving several weekly scores on many different games.
On the bright side, I did continue to follow the guidelines of this new competition by which this time, I was picked up by the system as a runner-up:
So, rather than going to ridiculous lengths on trying to tell me how the new competition wouldn't be misleading, they have instead accepted my comment and have apologised which is what I am rather grateful for as well as the fact that they have outright stated that they will share my thoughts with the team without using terms such as 'may', 'might', 'could' etc. They have also answered one of my questions by which they have confirmed a discussion revolving around implementing a leaderboard system like the original King Of The Bin had and although this is great to hear, it's still worth taking this with a pinch of salt since in the past, they have stated that they were discussing a return of the old Kip's Scrapyard arcade to connect to the Kip's Scrapyard in the Time Portal but as things stand, we haven't heard anything else about it since.
Moreover, despite the professional and well structured response I have been given, the parts regarding their vision and attitude towards the competition should not be the attitudes taken when creating a form of reboot of King Of The Bin. For instance, they spoke about it needing to be 'accessible for everyone' even though last time I checked, the original King Of The Bin was completely accessible to everyone as anyone could simply log on with or without membership and could play as many games they wanted from the leaderboard. So why on Earth are they looking into how it could be accessible more when it was already completely accessible?
Finally, they also spoke about how the system works by which they have confirmed that winners are selected through an 'automatic' process and that such 'adjustments' are to be made to make the rewarding fairer which although it is great that the staff aren't involved in selecting winners, I still find that it will be quite difficult to program something that can accurately select winners based on several different scenarios and I think it'd be such a waste of time having to code all of it. I still believe that this competition should work like the original King Of The Bin worked where it was solely based around the skills of achieving several weekly scores on many different games.
On the bright side, I did continue to follow the guidelines of this new competition by which this time, I was picked up by the system as a runner-up:
There were also others such as beano150, Springtrap- and i-artist who were selected this time and I myself know that they had put in an exceptional amount of effort in the game also. The overall winner on the other hand is someone I have never even seen in-game at all and so I am unsure whether or not they even contributed to the Weevil World features enough but feel free to prove me wrong.
So I guess it is good to see that this faulty selection system has delivered better performance this week!
I am hoping that response emails continue to be high-quality in the future since as things stand, the 55Pixels customer service is in quite a crisis and quite frankly, it has been extremely frustrating having to deal with unprofessional emails that have either been automated emails sent via skimming reading over emails sent to them or have been response emails full of patronising content that doesn't even answer the question you asked them.
Could a new dawn be upon us? I shall be back in the new year discussing the January highlights unless of course something extreme occurs between such as a meteor hitting Bin Weevils or the entire game being taken over by hackers or possibly even a revolution where players meet up in real life and manually remove 55Pixels from Bin Weevils. Who knows? But in the meantime...
That's it for this post!