Idk why support ticket exists.

snacrifice··2 votes·693 views

Never get fucking replies from an actual person, it's always automated. (:

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Deep Terror Nami2 votes

They aren't "automated", but they do use canned responses (prewritten) to completely answer common tickets. If you don't think their response was sufficient, just tell them.

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That being said, there are two other points I want to touch on:

  • Automated Responses -- We do have some automated responses, but they are extremely limited in scope. The opening line in the automated response clarifies immediately that it is an automated response, and if you would like a human response, you can simply reply back to the ticket. Otherwise, all of our tickets are handled by a real-life human, which is why these kinds of mistakes do happen.
  • Copy/paste Responses -- There is no way to sugar coat this, so I'll just tell it to you straight: We do use macros in many of our responses. There are two main reasons why we do this:
  • On average, we get thousands of new tickets every single day (in NA alone), not counting the tickets that take multiple responses back and forth that get added on to this. Our goal is to make sure you get a full resolution within 24 hours of you submitting a ticket, and to hit this mark, our agents need to respond quickly. These macros are reviewed constantly to make sure that they resolve the vast majority of issues that you all have, and if it doesn't, we re-write it.
  • When answering tickets, we tend to see the same type of issue or question over and over again. Even if we customized every single response, an agent tends to get very efficient at explaining what the issue is and how to solve it. Over time, the variance between every response gets less as less as we tend to figure out what works and doesn't work and soon you end up with pre-written responses. We can absolutely make a push to ensure every response is unique, but then we encounter a trade-off: More customized response or faster response time? We have surveyed thousands of players about this, and faster response time wins out almost every single time.
JoeVu1 votes

I've let them know before, and I still got a (prewritten) response from another employee. Funny enough, it was the exact same message. LMAO.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

If they feel the answer was sufficient and that you just didn't want to accept it, you'll get the same answer when asking again. You can't bully support into changing their mind over a closed case, which is what I frequently see people thinking they can do when they don't like the response given.

If you need clarification on why they gave the response they did, feel free to post the contents of the ticket here (personal info scrubbed) and I'll try to help. If it indeed looks like player support didn't understand your request we can go from there to remedy the issue.

Sukishoo2 votes

They are NEVER automated. They do however have generic copy past responses for a lot of things, but if you keep sending in more afterwards extending the tickets they actually respond with more. I've had a lot that start with the generic responses but have ended up with actual things that you can tell are well thought out from a person.

JoeVu1 votes

Yup, I don't even get replies period. Awesome system we got going here.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

When have you not received a response? Share the ticket number and I'd be happy to let someone from player support know you need assistance.

JoeVu1 votes

Recently, regarding my account info.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

How recent? It can take a few days for tickets to be answered if there's a large backlog, and account management requests may take longer when they need to verify information from you. You also need to make sure the emails aren't going to your spam folder or to the wrong email, but you can check ticket responses directly from the support site if it wasn't an account recovery ticket.

Destaice1 votes

It's easier to give automated responses to generic tickets

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