Devs: What happened to ddo Lottery?

[wemery73]

Devs: What happened to ddo Lottery?

Its been down for weeks

[Elyanna]

Devs: What happened to ddo Lottery?

Its been down for weeks

I believe there is a lottery listed today but you have to have level 20 characters to enter it.

[Krelar]

They do seem to be less frequent (maybe only one a day) recently and some of them are restricted to certain characters (usually lvl 20 or below lvl 5) So maybe your just missing them/not in the right level range.

Another possibility is that MyDDO has decided to break for your characters and that is preventing you from seeing any lotteries.

[wemery73]

They do seem to be less frequent (maybe only one a day) recently and some of them are restricted to certain characters (usually lvl 20 or below lvl 5) So maybe your just missing them/not in the right level range.

Another possibility is that MyDDO has decided to break for your characters and that is preventing you from seeing any lotteries.

ya might be broke i have 31 toons lev 4 to 20

[Racalin]

Hiya

There have been lottery's over the last several days that I have been, though no winners.

[somenewnoob]

I think we need some more tasty test lottos to figure out what is wrong.

[AZgreentea]

I think we need some more tasty test lottos to figure out what is wrong.

I think we do too! I dont think the 1k + (literally, thats how many I won) was enough of a test. Seriously though, the lotteries have been getting thinner since the 5 Yarrs! event was last up. I know they tend to come and go, but I have been rerolling characters and I need more lottery hair dye.

oh! and thanks for the 5 AD's! Fallen Hero's is nearing lvl 55, and we will need them for the new airship.

[Cordovan]

We'll get some new lotteries up in the coming days! Thanks for the feedback.

[wemery73]

We'll get some new lotteries up in the coming days! Thanks for the feedback.

thanks

[Teslana]

We'll get some new lotteries up in the coming days! Thanks for the feedback.

Is there any way of claiming prizes we've won but not received? I was winning lotteries absolutely fine - no probs at all - until the 5 Yarr lottery, which I won... and then the prize was never delivered to me

I've tried bug reporting, but even that is bugged and doesn't work for me now. I don't know the best thing to do - write a snail mail bug report and post it off?

[Phoenix-daBard]

Is there any way of claiming prizes we've won but not received? I was winning lotteries absolutely fine - no probs at all - until the 5 Yarr lottery, which I won... and then the prize was never delivered to me

No chance. That one was seriously bugged. They scheduled multiple lotteries with the same name overlapping and it seemed to have confused myDDO to the point that if you won on at least one character you would have another character declared a winner each day until you ran out of characters.

[Teslana]

No chance. That one was seriously bugged. They scheduled multiple lotteries with the same name overlapping and it seemed to have confused myDDO to the point that if you won on at least one character you would have another character declared a winner each day until you ran out of characters.

Wait, so... in the end, *no one* actually won a prize in the 5 Yarr lottery? lol That's harsh.

Was there an official announcement that it was bugged that I missed? Freebies are nice and everything, but in the grand scheme of the game they're not vital in any way - worse for me was not knowing what was happening and having no way of reporting what I thought was a problem with just my account. To me, admitting things went a little wrong and having a redraw would be a much better way to handle this particular lottery going awry (especially because it was an extra-special, celebratory one!). But, as I say, maybe I just missed the announcement?

It's still good to know it wasn't just me - now I can stop minorly fretting about it. Cheers for that, Phoenix

[Phoenix-daBard]

Was there an official announcement that it was bugged that I missed?

No real announcement but you can read Tolero's comments here: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=303689

Also note that the winning lotteries do not sort in myDDO so you could have a winner buried somewhere in the middle. I wrote a little program to work around that bug.

[rocky0]

We'll get some new lotteries up in the coming days! Thanks for the feedback.

Ummmmm........how about getting MyDDO working so EVERYONE can take part in them or work it so MyDDO isnt used??? Would be nice to be part of it at least once

[BronwynnBane]

I enter almost all of them and I haven't won in a while. Makes me think something is up or my luck is just awful now.

[sirgog]

I enter almost all of them and I haven't won in a while. Makes me think something is up or my luck is just awful now.

I won a few a couple of weeks ago.

[Jiirix]

I enter almost all of them and I haven't won in a while. Makes me think something is up or my luck is just awful now.

Haven't one anything since the test lotto either. And I subscribed to every lottery, I check daily. But not one win on any of my toons. I am on Orien, Sarlona, Thelanis and Canith.

[Setin_Myways]

I have won several lotteries since the ham days. in fact, i won the epic token lottery from earlier this week... just hope this one works, though, because I was all excited about winning the '5 yaaars' lotto and, well, we all know how that went :}

[Geraldicus]

They make a point of saying that players whose characters don't update properly won't be able to win prizes in the lotteries even if My DDO has them listed as having won something. This happened to me a few times. The implication seems to be that it's the players who are at fault rather than kinks in MyDDO. I'm not a programmer so I have no idea how complicated the software is, but it seems to me that making MyDDO function as it's intended should be higher on Turbine's list of things to do. If I'm complaining it's because the lotteries are a really fun and even generous feature in this game and it's a shame it's often spoiled by not working as it's intended to do.

[sandraf9302]

My characters were updating to a point. I have won 2 different lotteries and just won a 3rd. However, the character that won the last lottery doesn't even exist anymore. I deleted it couple of weeks ago.

Sandra