Missing Double Gold from Play a Friend Quest? You're Going to Get it!
Since the Midsummer event started on Wednesday, players have been completing the "Play a Friend!" quest and not receiving full double gold value when on the receiving end. This was an oversight by Blizzard and has been corrected in a hotfix.
If you missed out on the bonus gold, don't worry, you're going to be credited in-game. Just look out for a popup stating 80 gold has been added to your account from outside the game. It should also be noted that the popup after completing the quest will still tell you that you only get 80 gold, but the correct 160 is credited to your balance.
Quote from KeganbeThe Midsummer Fire Festival is hot, hot, HOT! However, bugs are not, not, not. :(
Recently, we discovered an issue with the Midsummer Fire Festival’s double gold feature not properly granting the friend participating in the “Play a Friend!” Quest double gold. We have rolled out a hotfix for this issue and the Quest is now working properly in all regions. Both the player that has the “Play a Friend!” Quest and the friend they are playing against will receive the Midsummer Fire Festival double gold bonus.
Friends that only received 80 gold from the “Play a Friend!” Quest rather than the intended 160 gold for the Midsummer Fire Festival event will receive their missing 80 gold. A pop-up will appear in-game that will notify the affected players that 80 gold has been added from outside the game.
Please note that the UI will still display that 80 gold has been awarded to the challenged friend, but the awarded gold will correctly be 160 gold. We apologize that we are unable to adjust the UI at this time.
Thank you for your understanding, and enjoy the Midsummer Fire Festivities!
Still not fixed
hi
got scammed on play a friend challenge :/ I will never go first again
I decided to get 10k gold on NA and Asian server, which I don't usually play in since I play in the Europe server, but I didn't get 2x gold ok my hidden quests like completing expert in keeper and quests given at the beginning of the game. Feel Scamazed....
The event is two weeks long.
Still nothing for me...
I'm happy for you.
Weird, I did get credited correctly when I had it on the receiving end a couple of days ago. The thing did say 80, but I noticed it increased my balance by 160.
Cool move, blizz.
Good news, and thanks Blizz for the quick fix... however, I was challenged by a friend with the quest like an hour ago and received only the usual 80 g pop-up by the UI. That is, no "80 gold has been added from outside the game" message.
I even logged out and back in again, but that didn't change anything. Maybe there's some internal delay?
Can anyone who has experienced this tell how soon they received the 80g the second time? Thanks!
This happens when people don't read all text:
In short, Although there is no message saying that you received 160 gold, you get 160 gold instead of 80 in your balance
I just traded the quest, and when I got their quest it said 80g, but I got 160g. When I did my quest, it said 160g, and was 160g. 320g total.
Since I received msg#1 but not msg#2, it seems legitimate to wonder whether the 2nd 80g was added (and when) or not.
Unfortunately, I can't confirm nor disprove receiving 160 g total because it happened to me before reading this article, and also after other people had posted, in other threads, that 80 g only to the receiving end were "normal", even during fire festival, so wasn't paying that much attention to my balance.
But even if I DID receive those 160 g, overall it didn't work as announced in the Blizz blue post by Keganbe, at least in my case.
Does this make me stupid, just for noting this discrepancy? I think not.
But if you and the other who downvoted feel so clever, have it your way.
I just thought this community was better than this.
EDIT: If you go check https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/17616142446 you'll see I'm not the only one experiencing trouble with this fix.
It also says something about how the ui will not changefrom 80 gold but you will get ot
yes i quoted Flux, but the original say almost the same, maybe you don't understand it correctly.
This means that ANY people who do the quest BEFORE blizzard patch it, will see a pop up notifying the user has received 80 gold. but it doesn't say nothing that you will see an extra pop up if you do the quest AFTER the patch.
For those who did the quest after the patch:
This mean that you ONLY see a pop-up telling you got awarded 80 gold, only one, but again, it doesn't say nothing that you wil see 2 pop-ups, it says that your balance got 160 in place of 80. The extra pop-up is ONLY for those who did the quest BEFORE the patch.
But if you think you didn't recieve your 80 gold, and you are elegible, maybe you can submit a support ticket and get an official response: https://us.battle.net/support/en/help
hope ths helps to clarify your confusion.
Greetings :)
Managed to get the friend quest on all 3 servers today, crazy.
Nice got my 80 gold
I was surprised why I got 80g "login" reward today, now I know. Thumps up Blizzard!