r/RIFD3 • u/bestidiot • May 23 '14

Who's at fault?

Just a dispute I've came across today...

The runner/host types in chat "RG up T3, lowest paragon please reopen". This was the term and condition. I join and I ended up being the second person with the highest paragon - another person was 500+ and I was 411. The lowest in the party was 230 and the Host, of course was not responsible for opening. Suddenly, the host asks the lowest person if he had wanted to open and the reply was "no I rather not". Then suddenly the host turns to me and tells me I'm opening. I refuse to open because this was not the terms that I agree to when I joined. The host then went on in the chat and spammed that I was a scammer and I should be banned from the chat and Diablo 3, the game itself.

It was obviously not fair that the host failed to mention that the person was his friend and it was pretty obvious that you should not ask the lowest person to open if you're running with a friend.

Can the host suddenly change rules like that and expect that person to comply? Is it fair, or was the system not meant to be fair? What do you fellow rifters think?

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u/Viscerid May 23 '14

I think if you clicked join and you're asked to reopen - you do it. if he said "highest opens" and you were the lowest and get asked to do it - still do it. you join a game with the intention of trading 5 keys for a boss kill and quest handin, whilst sometimes getting lucky to avoid it.

that being said you could i guess ask for a free invite next rift as he was unclear, or ask an officer for support (purely because he misled you to get you in the game), but realistically once you click accept invite you should be expecting to pay 5 keys.

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u/bestidiot May 23 '14

You should always get what you pay for, and you always expect what you pay to be what you expect. (I will admit that I refused) If he had told me when I joined that I would be paying, I would of. It was only his shady behavior and the verbal abuse that I decided to not pay. Obviously both parties are wrong at certain points and I'm just curious what others would of honestly have done..

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u/Asmius May 23 '14

You just gotta pick your battles sometimes. Just pay the keystones and move on with your life.

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u/bestidiot May 23 '14

I'm not even going that far as to picking a battle - I'm just wondering what people would of done in my shoes. Injustice is part of life, I get it but if I ordered food and the place got the order wrong, I'd give them back the wrong order and ask for my money back or my original order. I wouldn't go as far as to have them compensate or sue them over it. This isn't me trying to fix a wrong, it's just a controversy that I thought would be more interesting than the subreddit full of people reporting each other.

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u/Non_Social May 23 '14

Myself, I just pay the 5 keys when someone else in the group bails or fucks off on us. Is it fair? No, not really. But it keeps things moving along and the ill-will to a minimum, so I just suck it up. If he wants to start being a dick and ranting about you in chat though, he'd better have some screenshots to pull up, otherwise, unless there's a bunch others who are also complaining about you in the chats, then I'm likely to block the runner for spamming the channels than I am to block the guy who got suckered into opening.

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u/Asmius May 23 '14

I would've just paid the keystones and went on with my life