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We're here to honest express opinions about the game of Tibia. We understand there are only so many ways a player is allowed to "officially" express themselves on the game forums and the promoted/supported fansites ... sometimes there's so much more to say! The TibiaTumblr team is a group of dedicated players who have loved Tibia for a long time. Like you, we rejoice in its successes and despair at its failures. Unfortunately, there's been more despair than rejoicing recently, but that doesn't mean we've lost hope, and neither should you!

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Bet Won! Well ...

... actually nobody on the team bet against me :( I was willing to bet as high as a whole QUARTER that I was right.

Perhaps it really did take a whole week to investigate all those accounts. There's a hell of a lot of players on 77 servers, and to be fair, I'm sure every player who was online during the time the NPC was bugged had to be checked. Then they had to decide on levels of punishment, then they had to do the deed. All well and good (and if you're looking for a few laughs, check out both the Help and Technical forums for players crying about the outcome -- it's as funny as the red & black skulled players demanding resets earlier in the week!)

The punishments were fair, considering the only alternative that could have wiped out all abuse would have been to reset the servers back to the update launch (how long was that bug kept secret, after all?) Did some people get away with it to a certain extent? Probably. There's always that fringe element who skates away unpunished ... think of it like trying to catch every single person who runs a red light or drives through a tollbooth without paying ... it's almost impossible to catch them all!

All in all, justice was served. Just like the bet, though ... it was done at pretty much the end of the day on Friday, leaving players to rage in the forums all weekend. Monday will come, anger will be largely spent, and Cip will go on like nothing happened, neatly avoiding communicating with players -- again.

Nobody's asking for warm & fuzzy here, but a little more communication with players would be nice. Seriously.

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Bugged about "the bug"

Come on … we all know which bug everyone’s waiting to hear about. The NPC Spectulus experience bug that was extensively abused over at least the past weekend; the same bug Cip has “investigated” all week with nary a word to players of what to expect to repair the problem.

Some players clamoured for a reset; others swore they’d quit if the servers were rolled back—citing levels gained, quests completed, vast treasures looted during adventures. Foolish souls, confident of the resets, did crazy things:  throwing out equipment in arenas, gaining red and black skulls “for fun”, certain that the next server save would bring a server reset and the return of their character, items, and experience intact.

That wasn’t the case, and Cip has spent the week “investigating” various bug reports, with very few words to the players who await the verdict of the extensive abuse perpetuated at Spectulus. There were claims of players leveling characters as high as 195 using the bug. Incredible, foolish, abusive, with forums continuing to be filled with outrage and players asking for reassurance.

On July 14, a message appeared regarding bug fixes. However, not a word was mentioned regarding the experience abuse. Cip, why would you not include even a mention of that bug, even to say investigations were ongoing? Here is where you do your players a disservice, treating them with a certain level of disdain. Opening a Community Management department was a step forward, but there needs to be some tweaking in the level of communication with your players, especially after a week of very few “official” words on any board. There were players abusing this bug on every server; honest players were justifiably outraged and deserved some sort of official reassurance that the matter was not forgotten.

Here at TibiaTumblr, we’re making a private wager amongst ourselves. We’re betting if any action is taken at all this week, it will be performed at the end of business on Friday, just before the crew at Tibia Headquarters walks out the door for the weekend, leaving players with nothing but the forums until Monday … good, bad, or indifferent. We’ve seen it before.

At the same time, though, that would be better than dragging it out another weekend. Oh, well … time will tell. Think positive!

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Welcome to Tibiatumblr!

There are fansites galore for the game of Tibia ... fansites in languages the world around, ones just for pictures, even a few to keep players on top of the latest news. They're all awesome. No, really ... they are! We're here to take a different look at the game. With the understanding that there are only so many ways you're allowed to express yourself on the official forums and the promoted/supported fansites, our goal is to function as an Op/Ed feature, both to praise Cipsoft when they get it right (hey, it happens!) and to call them on the carpet when they miss the mark (y'all know what we mean). The TibiaTumblr team is a small group of dedicated players who have loved Tibia for a very long time. Like you, we rejoice in its successes and despair at its failures. Unfortunately, in the past few years, there's been more despair than rejoicing, but that doesn't mean we've lost hope, and neither should you, dear player! Our purpose is to say the things that can't be said anywhere else, for better or worse. We hope you'll come along for the ride, and have your say on the way. It should be interesting!