Only about 15 Members of the staff actually enter raffles and they're consistently winners.
Even if it is just cruel RNG, it looks suspicious as hell and is an annoying/unprofessional way to run a site.
Considering all the other perks that staff get, they shouldn't even be allowed in raffles. If they keep allowing them, ALL staff winners should add new prizes to the pool, not just the ones they feel like sometimes maybe.
ayrt I totally agree with you, for the record (and the fact they let staff enter at all is bs. I've never had a job online or off that allowed that). It's obviously a special friendship club or something and its annoying that it feels like they're taking "away" stuff from free/peasant players when staff already gets free customs, money, etc....
But there's SO many staff to the number of regular members, it's not all that surprising that their names come up sometimes.
I hear you, if it was a winning staff only once in a while, it wouldn't butt-bother the community so much. The fact that it's all the time is whats annoying/unprofessional.
Was impressed by the flower raffle at least. They showed all the ticket numbers in advance of the drawing and RNGed using live-chat. Even if staff had won, it would have at least felt like a fair drawing.
It's the secretive drawings that look suspicious. Hopefully they've learned and will draw publicly from here on.
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(Anonymous) 2016-07-11 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)Even if it is just cruel RNG, it looks suspicious as hell and is an annoying/unprofessional way to run a site.
Considering all the other perks that staff get, they shouldn't even be allowed in raffles. If they keep allowing them, ALL staff winners should add new prizes to the pool, not just the ones they feel like sometimes maybe.
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(Anonymous) 2016-07-12 07:39 am (UTC)(link)I totally agree with you, for the record (and the fact they let staff enter at all is bs. I've never had a job online or off that allowed that). It's obviously a special friendship club or something and its annoying that it feels like they're taking "away" stuff from free/peasant players when staff already gets free customs, money, etc....
But there's SO many staff to the number of regular members, it's not all that surprising that their names come up sometimes.
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(Anonymous) 2016-07-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)Was impressed by the flower raffle at least. They showed all the ticket numbers in advance of the drawing and RNGed using live-chat. Even if staff had won, it would have at least felt like a fair drawing.
It's the secretive drawings that look suspicious. Hopefully they've learned and will draw publicly from here on.