Originally Posted by
deadpixel
Hi Lynniefish,
Firstly, I apologize, unreservedly, for my assumptions that you had thought to have bought yourself an easy second place. I should have contacted you on your quiet wall to better understand your move instead of assuming that you had taken advantage of a programming error.
Secondly, I also apologize for my follow-up assumption that you had made a second value pack purchase. The number of points that your LB score jumped by made it look as if such an action had taken place; I should have made checks before jumping to this conclusion.
It is said that one should not follow-up an apology with an excuse, but your accusation of "hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness" deserves a reply.
My posted "remorse" about missing out on the pack was made in jest. Perhaps you might have seen my other thread about "35,000 LB Points Offered in Value Pack?" There were follow up private messages that I made to S8 staff members concerning this issue. No complaints, but requests to have my posts deleted to prevent unhappiness; I am not allowed to repeat what was said here. BTW, my style of writing is always to make light of bad situations; you'll recognize these by the grinning, winking and tongue-out emojis.
Also, my intention wasn't to make you look like a jerk nor parade my "victory" in front of everyone by dragging you naked through the streets of Rome. Had that been the case, I would have included your island name and even screenshots of the "victory." You may also notice that I did not mention my island name nor mine or your placement on the Global Leader Board, hence not revealing your identity. If you had reached out to me concerning my post in a private message, I would have publicly retracted my post, apologized to you and clarified the mistake; something that I always do when I am wrong, and I don't mean deleting my post to hide the mistake.
I made that post about beating you because of a mistaken assumption that a player had exploited a loophole created by an error left by the developers. Unlike your current assumption that I wanted to "bask in all the kudos and back-slapping" for my "heroic job" in showing you up, I made that post to highlight that it was possible, in the LB, to overtake players who buy themselves large numbers of points to leapfrog others; I guess I made the post sound like a boast in my elated state. But if you would recall the last four hours of the LB, I made the takeover with two hours left on the LB clock, barely overtaking you by a few hundred points, then waited for some time for a response to the challenge before using the boosts I'd already started in the dens and nests to push my score up.
Two LBs ago, another player reached out to me on my wall and we synched our scores for a tie. I apologize for failing to do that with you in my frustrated state. This is a lesson for me and I will not fail to make this offer to future opponents on the LB.
Oh, and as to your question about "complaining that they had honored the offer," my answer is "yes." I'd done something like that in other games though I wouldn't call those complaints, more like carefully worded queries.
Once again, I apologize for shaming you. I have learned from this that I should reach out to players, especially in the craziness of DS' LBs. If we meet again in another LB, I won't make the same mistake again.
DP