Thread: LOTRO Player Feed Fedback.

Originally Posted by GV-Tanith

Hmm, I'll have to give this a try. If nothing else, it'll get my Farmville-playing friends and family members curious.

Plus, finishing deeds and completing quests sounds infinitely more impressive than finding lonely brown cows.



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That's a great idea, Gharet. Also, if possible, it would be cool if the feed could let one's friends now when a "major" accomplishment takes place---downing the Watcher, the Balrog, or that creepy guy on the flying lizard who hangs out in Dol Guldur. Alerts like that might actually make non-LOTRO players curious enough to try the game out for themselves, no?

Better yet - Make it show whenever somebody completes a dungeon by defeating the final boss. That would cover all those and more.

Originally Posted by TheOneRinger

Better yet - Make it show whenever somebody completes a dungeon by defeating the final boss. That would cover all those and more.

Now, this and the raid boss ideas are pretty good ones ... I like the sound of that

Originally Posted by Gharet

Now, this and the raid boss ideas are pretty good ones ... I like the sound of that

Does that mean you gave me rep?

*checks*

Drat.

On a more serious note, it would be some great advertising to the game if these two suggestions were implemented. If you just do the raids, then lots of people won't have those showing up on their profile box, but if you do any group instance everyone should have a fair few.

Is there an issue with the app saying people are playing when they are not? My facebook pags just updated saying I was playing...the problem is...I'm at work and not playing.

Originally Posted by Thalifea

Is there an issue with the app saying people are playing when they are not? My facebook pags just updated saying I was playing...the problem is...I'm at work and not playing.

Did you receive an update correctly the last time you did play? It may have been that due to the bug that is backing up user updates, yours was stuck in queue and only now got posted

Originally Posted by Sapience

Have you tried our new LOTRO Player Feed on Facebook? Have some feedback you'd like to share? Let us know what you think!

I think it's a pretty silly application. All those facebook apps like Mafia wars and farmville and stuff are just spam, annoying people who use facebook just to keep track of friends from other colleges or distant family etc.

This lotro app is silly, and I don't see why my friends need to know what i'm doing in lotro.

My lotro friends: I can talk to them about what i'm doing in-game or on our kinship forums.
For my few RL friends that I play lotro with: I'll talk to them over ventrilo or in person when we're away from game.

Update: We have updated the app in an attempt to fix the issues with sessions ends and feeds not being posted, and duplicate (and seemingly random) play start updated. This involved purging existing data but not subscriptions, so if you are currently logged in your session may be lost. New sessions started after this update should work.

Question. So I've installed the player feed. I'm interested in posting characters level, deed, and all that but I don't want it to keep saying "Ben is now playing LOTRO" and "Ben is finished playing LOTRO." That is just going to piss everyone off on my friends list.

I told it not to originally, but the feed is doing it anyway. I know how to switch what characters have posted info, but not how to turn the other part off. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Could it be made so that the app (widget or status updates) is only visible to other people with the app?

My facebook account is part of my public face to the digital world; I can't have clients and potential employers researching me online and seeing that I just downed a balrog

Honestly, I've stopped checking my Facebook page because I'm so annoyed by everyone's Farmville and Mafia Wars and other ridiculous updates. I'd prefer not to annoy others with info from my Lotro play.

I've enabled the app and straight away noticed a spelling mistake during the app setup process (I can't recall exactly what it was now because I'm at work).

Having now had one play-session since installing it I think I'll be disabling it until it gets a rework because one play-session resulted in three facebook posts.

1. * started playing Lotro
2. * stopped playing Lotro
3. * completed 5 quests and 1 deed

I looked to see if there is a way to enable/disable the login/logout notifications but there's nothing there at the moment, so I can see my friends disabling notifications from this app very quickly if this is the way it's going to be. Even worse is that the 'started playing'/'stopped playing' notifications are not attributed to the Lotro Facebook app and would appear to anyone that I posted them myself.

Also, I don't mind if the app says exactly what deeds I've gained because the information is not very useful in it's existing state (my nice way of saying it's useless).

It would also be nice if there were notifications of receiving a new title, if it's not already there.

Originally Posted by MrBlooper

Question. So I've installed the player feed. I'm interested in posting characters level, deed, and all that but I don't want it to keep saying "Ben is now playing LOTRO" and "Ben is finished playing LOTRO." That is just going to piss everyone off on my friends list.

I told it not to originally, but the feed is doing it anyway. I know how to switch what characters have posted info, but not how to turn the other part off. Any ideas?

Thanks!

What do you mean by "you told it not to"? There currently is no option to disable status updates in particular, just change which events are displayed. The next version will feature a toggle to turn status updates on and off for your account separately from character feeds, but there is no current implementation of that - sorry.

[Edit] In fact, I'm working on an update to the app at this very moment that will add an option to select whether or not to show status updates, completely separate from your alerts (which will remain exactly as they are now). Can't give an ETA (you now how it is), but its my priority at the moment.

Originally Posted by harrisben

Also, I don't mind if the app says exactly what deeds I've gained because the information is not very useful in it's existing state (my nice way of saying it's useless).

This was the original intent and was the way the app used to work. After it was sent to QA however, Facebook deprecated Template Bundles which allowed us to do formatting including newlines, so we had to condense everything into one line. This is why now it serves as a counter for your accomplishments and not the names of each part.

If you ditch the logged on/logged off messages I'll turn it back on. Also, these messages are actually attributed to the Lotro app, but the ring icon is missing so it can be misleading. I'd prefer you got rid of these message entirely though.

Other things I noticed are that the text detailing the number of deeds and quests complete doesn't account for singular occurences, only plural.

Concerning the inability to detail exactly what was earned, I hate to bring them up but perhaps you should ask Blizzard as their Facebook app for WoW has no such limitation.

Originally Posted by harrisben

Concerning the inability to detail exactly what was earned, I hate to bring them up but perhaps you should ask Blizzard as their Facebook app for WoW has no such limitation.

We have the ability to show that information, but displaying each deed and quest as a separate line would be very spammy on a news feed. The WoW armory app uses a similar model with one achievement per feed post, but we wanted to combine all the achievements completed by a character into one.

Ideally I'd like to mix the current feed updates with an app page in Facebook that includes verbose data such as each quest and deed you completed with names, as well as links out to Lorebook references and tooltips. I have to take it one step at a time though ... my eyes are sometimes bigger than my stomach, as they say =p

Awesome You've come far already, looking forward to seeing how far you can take it.

I followed the provided links, did what it asked me to do...yet it updates nothing about any of the things i do in Lotro....it doesn't work anyway. And if it did, can somebody tell me just what it supposed to do?
Well sofar I don't really care for it.

Originally Posted by Chilly

I followed the provided links, did what it asked me to do...yet it updates nothing about any of the things i do in Lotro....it doesn't work anyway. And if it did, can somebody tell me just what it supposed to do?
Well sofar I don't really care for it.

Did you check all the boxes for all your characters?

How does one disable the app?

Originally Posted by JohnAdcox

How does one disable the app?

While logged into Facebook, click on the "Account" drop-down in the upper right and select "Application Settings" - then click the x next to LOTRO Player Feed.

What I'd like to see in an app like this is a framework for displaying my character achievements/stats/gear in a separate tab. There's enough game spam on FB already, no need to add more. In the current form I don't really see myself having much use for this.

You asked for it and now its here! You now have the option of disabling the login/logout status updates from the "Select Your Alerts" page on the Facebook App! The setting is defaulted to enabled but you can change it at any time. Enjoy!

There have also been some reliability improvements, such that some users were having an invalid Facebook session key recorder after adding permissions, or who add the application before logging into the game after signing up and don't have characters associated with their account. Many of these cases should resolve themselves the next time affected users visit their Select Your Alerts page.

Oh oh oh, and the Invite Friends tab works again too.

Originally Posted by Gharet

You asked for it and now its here! You now have the option of disabling the login/logout status updates from the "Select Your Alerts" page on the Facebook App! The setting is defaulted to enabled but you can change it at any time. Enjoy!

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

Originally Posted by gildhur

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

Man, I should have waited until tomorrow for the update I guess...

Originally Posted by Gharet

Man, I should have waited until tomorrow for the update I guess...

No, it'll pop up again in a couple hours. I just need to remember to come back here.

Originally Posted by gildhur

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

I got him for ya.

Originally Posted by grimbrowen

I've given my friends so much s**t about their g*d*mn farmville and mafia updates all over my feed there's no way i can subject them to the same.

but I'm just a grumpy old dude, I'm sure it's great for some players.

You can hide those, ya'know.

Originally Posted by Gharet

Man, I should have waited until tomorrow for the update I guess...

no worries...i got you covered

Originally Posted by Gharet

You asked for it and now its here! You now have the option of disabling the login/logout status updates from the "Select Your Alerts" page on the Facebook App! The setting is defaulted to enabled but you can change it at any time. Enjoy!
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And with that little fix and update, I'm now all over this little app! Good to know and thanks for that!

Originally Posted by gildhur

No, it'll pop up again in a couple hours. I just need to remember to come back here.

Told you so! +1

Uh..... since it's not working, can I take your rep back?

Originally Posted by gildhur

Uh..... since it's not working, can I take your rep back?

No...mwuahahaha...

The intermittent updates people have been getting and the successful QA validation after launch makes me think there maybe to 2 copies of the application running right now - the old and the new, and its just a matter of which one happens to grab somebody's events. Unfortunately I won't be able to talk to anybody to see if thats the case until the morning

It appears that the old application wasn't stopped before the new one was deployed, and so they were running side by side. This means that at any given time you had a 50% chance of the right one processing your session.... we are now correctly only running the new one! Sorry about that

Originally Posted by Gharet

It appears that the old application wasn't stopped before the new one was deployed, and so they were running side by side. This means that at any given time you had a 50% chance of the right one processing your session.... we are now correctly only running the new one! Sorry about that

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Gharet again.

Thanks for the quick fix!

I'll be attending PAX with my wife as regular folk this weekend but I'll be periodically swinging by the booth a few times a day each day. So if any of you are around when I show up and want to talk about ideas on what you'd like to see from the app, feel free to ask for me and if I'm there we'll have a chat!

Is anyone else experiencing issues with the player feed? Mine doesn't seem to be working.

Originally Posted by GV-Tanith

Is anyone else experiencing issues with the player feed? Mine doesn't seem to be working.

I can't recall the last time it worked. The Wall on Facebook seems to indicate it stopped working around the 22nd of June?

No more characters update since June 30 .....

my hunter is still shown as 32 though she is 36
my little burg 21 though 22

and so on ...

How about you stop playing around with Facebook, and fix this POS site you've stuck us with? Hmmm? Please? Preatty please, with a giant dollop of "*** were you thinking?" on top?


This is ridiculous.

Considering it been a week, and i have to say the new forum totally are lame. I would guess they don't have the same web page person any more. Whoever decided to come up with this lame excuse for a forums page well, they need to be sent to a different department, as they are not competent enough.

A week and we still have almost the same issues as day one. Web pages that load like your on a 28k modem. White bars at the top. Missing characters. Cant post in some places still. So many issues.

The sad thing is nothing seams to be getting fixed. This should be something they should remember try not to change so much at one time, it will bite you like a snake, and it sure did this time. They honestly have to many fires to put out right now, gosh knows when things are going to get back to normal.

I sure wish they would re-consider the forums and alt least change those back to the prior version until they can get in game issues fixed. At least that would take about 30% of the load of the fixes they would have to worry about.