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(raincrow) Xfire Forums Admin Member Since: 2004-06-04
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Posted: 2009-07-27 11:53 AM PDT | |
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Hey all, There is an upcoming change (likely with this week's Web update) to the way the game hours work for clans. Clan game hours as they work currently: The clan game hours consist of a total of hours played for that game by each individual clan member from the past, present, and eventually future hours. So for example if you recruit someone that has 1,000 hours of a game when they join your clan suddenly your clan gets a 1,000 hour boost regardless of the fact that those hours were not actually accrued while in that clan. The opposite applies, if a clan member leaves the clan the hours are then subtracted from that clan. This current system creates a lot of fluctuations in clan game hours and is not a very accurate portrait of how active the clan is in said games. How clan game hours will work after the change: Clan game hours will now only accumulate when clan members play games. For example if the same individual with 1,000 hours were to join the clan that clan's game hours will not jump by 1,000 hours. The clan will gain game hours from that member as they actually play games while a part of the clan. If that clan member is no longer a part of the clan at any given time the hours that they accrued for the clan are not taken away from that clan. The good and bad: We feel this change will allow a better experience resulting in more accurate clan game hours. This also opens the door for us to make more improvements around the feature. Better clan stats, possibly clan rankings, and all sorts of cool stuff. An unfortunate side effect of this change is that clan game hours had to be reset. This happened last Wednesday (7/22/2009) so clan game hours have been accruing since then. Don't worry though all of your individual game hours will still be accurate. It was simply not feasible to try and guess at what hours may or may not have been a part of every clan prior to last Wednesday so we opted to start clean slate and make it as accurate as possible going forward. We certainly apologize for the inconvenience but we feel this improvement is well worth it. RC _______________ |
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