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Contact us - response times

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:39 am
by Wolf359
Referring to this:

Ways to contact the StarGateWars_Main Team:


THE FORUM
It is linked on the top of the page. This has most answers, is a great source of information, and is fully moderated.

The forum admins and moderators live here.

Do not use the in-forum message system for important issues. There is no guarantee on a response, and definately no guarantee on the timliness of response to the forum inbox/messaging.
Please show respect for the forum admins and mods, as they are there to help you, and do so on a volunteer basis.
Expect a 2 week response time.


GENERAL SUPPORT

Email support@StarGateWars.com
This is for 95% of the queries that need a direct response. This email is managed by dedicated support folks (separate from the forum moderators&game admins), and the site admin. This team has ever increasing abilities to help you, as their knowledge and tools expand over time.
Expect a 2 day response time if it does not need to be escalated to site admin or game admin; if it does, 1 week.


GAME QUESTIONS, CHEAT REPORTING, BANNED/SUSPENDED ACCOUNT QUERIES, OTHER 'POLICING' ISSUES
Email gameadmin@StarGateWars.com
This mail goes to the 'Game Admin'. This team is different than the Forum mods, different than the support team, and is dedicated to keeping the game rules enforced, searching for cheating, and all other 'game cop' type issues. Ideally, you never need to know this team.


QUERIES REQUIRING THE SITE ADMIN/OWNER
Email admin@StarGateWars.com
Monetary queries, business queries, and issues that could not or have not been resolved satisfactorily via the above options. If you had an issue with a paypal or clickbank payment, an issue you do not believed is resolved via the game admins, or an issue with the forum moderators, game admins, support team, or other issues you feel are necessary to contact the site adminstrator/owner, this is the email to use.
Email not solvable by support or game admin will be forwarded here as well, so please do not send directly here unless it meets the above criteria.
Expect a 1 week response time.


VERY URGENT QUERIES
Email urgent@StarGateWars.com
If multiple emails (over a reasonable time) have gone unanswered, something is really time sensitive, or otherwise REALLY urgent, you can use this email address. Examples would be account hacked; huge bug; site down; etc.
We will aim for a 48 hour response time during the weekdays.


Now - I've never had to use this before, but did so over a month ago when I came back from deployment to find that my account was not on vacation when it should've been (It WAS put into vacation on the day I left, but wasn't in vacation when I returned).

I started at the correct level, and escalated it over time - to the point where we are now 1 month and 9 days down the line without ANY type of response.

So the point is - why bother having response times when they are simply not adhered to and/or ignored?

Either change the times to something realistically manageable, or don't have them at all (but then what would be the point in different levels of email?)

Re: Contact us - response times

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:23 am
by Demonfox
lol all an estimate. Once I have gotten a reply within a 10 hours.

Re: Contact us - response times

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:07 am
by Clarkey
I'd try going to Admin meet, that way you can bring it up direct.

Re: Contact us - response times

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:39 am
by Wolf359
It's not so much what happened to me - it's the fact there's no response after 1 month and 9 days.

@Demonfox - yes, very good, it is an estimate - but since when do estimates of a couple of days run to over a month with nothing? The point is make them realistically manageable estimates - and do not ignore the emails. A response is promised - so a response MUST be delivered.

And I'm not the only one, I'm always getting pms asking if I can speed things up because people have emailed the admins and received no response.

Frankly, it's not good enough!

Re: Contact us - response times

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:30 am
by MEZZANINE
When I messed up my log in a few months back, admin sorted it within 2 days and when I requested an IP exception this week with a friends new account it was done in less than 24 hours. Many thanks to Admin Sue on both occasions.

Both of these were fairly simple requests, I guess ones that need more looking into just take longer but they should at least let you know that the problem has been logged and will be looked at.

What I do find frustrating is that most the bugs and negative feedback on updates posted here on the forum get no attention at all.