Spread the Good News of Pip

DJColdCutz··45 votes·1,607 views

A week ago, I sent in a support ticket calling out a person who I felt had a very offensive summoner name. The last time I sent in a ticket, I got horrible, horrible, horrible, copy-paste service that didn't even try to address my actual ticket. I didn't expect much from this ticket either. But WOW! Complete 180 degrees of a difference, all thanks to one man: Pip.

This guy addressed every single one of my points in his first post. He used some copy-paste stuff where it would appropriately address a concern, and free-styled for other "more complicated" points. Then I replied, and he actually did the same thing a second time! Pip was consistent and thorough, and he was just so completely different from the other two people who handled the previous ticket. I was genuinely happy with the service, and I let him know in the ticket, in the e-mail survey, and in the closed ticket rating.

I don't know if you're out there Pip, but I wanted to publicly thank you for S+ service. As I told you in the ticket that responding to tickets like you did is really valuable and important and that you made a difference (but unfortunately, your just as pleasant colleague Shorty Peewee responded in your place and the ticket closed, so I wanted to say it again).

rito, do whatever you need to do to keep Pip on your support team. Any reds that see this, pass on my praises to him. People I AM SERIOUS! FILL HIS CUBICLE WITH CANDY AND BOOZE AND STRIPPERS. Pip is awesome. Make it happen.

11 Comments

Blitzedlegend11 votes

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BOOZE AND STRIPPERS. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Aeszarck6 votes

I had a great experience with Riot Games Player Support when I sent in a ticket to get Unchained Alistar when I had subscribed to Youtube but had not gotten the skin, despite all my efforts to redeem the skin. The ticket was addressed within a few hours, and I woke up the next day to Alistar and said skin on my account, along with a few encouraging words in the email I was sent back. It felt really great, and I'd like to thank Blackfly for that. Pip sounds like a really good guy too, and I'm glad he made your day. I don't think that Player Support gets as much rep as it should. It's a really important part of Riot.

Auroramancer1 votes

It's great that you had a satisfactory experience with Player Support, but what bothers me, from both your comment and the OP's, is that Player Support puts more effort into requests dealing with skin redemption and inappropriate summoner names than, say, account recovery and player behavior.

I'm not saying one topic is more important than the other (they shouldn't), but it's just bothersome to think about where Player Support's priorities are in terms of detailed responses and actually addressing player concerns in their tickets.

DJColdCutz1 votes

In the experience I talked about, Pip never told me anything about whether or not they punished the player (privacy reasons, blah blah we've heard it all before). He also denied my (joking) request to compensation for the traumatic experience of seeing the summoner name. So my positive experience definitely wasn't a result of being given my own way or anything. It was entirely because Pip took the time to actually respond thoroughly and sincerely.

If I would have gotten a two line copy paste saying "Sorry for your experience. Have a 3 game IP boost." I wouldn't have been as satisfied as I was by Pip.

Auroramancer1 votes

If I would have gotten a two line copy paste saying "Sorry for your experience. Have a 3 game IP boost." I wouldn't have been as satisfied as I was by Pip.

This is what I'm talking about.

In the realm of skin redemption and inappropriate summoner names, copy paste responses are appropriate. In account recovery and player behavior, copy paste response are not appropriate.

Sassmast3r3 votes

By default, any Rioter who doesn't copy paste generic responses deserves an award. I had this happen to me once - Thanks Penguyen, I love you!

Mama Soraka2 votes

A support tech that worked with rito back in like 2009-2010 was so good at his job that when I got other guys I'd just tell them to "Ask Shanks, he's done almost all my tickets" and then the next reply would always be about how Shanks fixed everything for me. He was so great at his job I sent him a picture of an American Flag and an Eagle with the caption "Shanks: A true american hero". There are a lot more requests today than back then, so its great to hear that support is still just as friendly as Shanks was. Hell, I wonder if he's still working with rito?

I found the old ticket where I uploaded my "Thanks Shanks" image so here it is in all its RED WHITE AND BLUE glory: http://i.imgur.com/WsP9IqH.jpg

FostXTV1 votes

Pip is awesome he helped a lot. Added Unchained Alistar and Dread Knight Garen on my acc. Keep up the good job, Pip!

Only Play Darius1 votes

Did the summoner get his account suspended?

DJColdCutz1 votes
  1. The summoner was actually really nice and friendly. It was just an offensive name to me. I said multiple times in the ticket I submitted that I didn't want him to get banned, I would just prefer the name changed.

  2. They're unable to tell me if they punished/required the name change because privacy reasons.

  3. Regardless of the actual outcome, it was a great experience because through his response, Pip showed that he actually took the time to read my ticket completely and took pride in his job, unlike many of his colleagues.

Samus721 votes

You thank the guy but spell his company name wrong?

"You did a good job, Wally." /slap!

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