You guys had better read this because it's going to be my last post on the subject.
You all seem to have forgotten that we aren't rewarding you for solving captchas for us, we reward you for promoting Neverendless. Part of this involves voting, and if everybody were to vote so it counts that would pretty much be it. As it is there's a lot of people who clearly are only in it for the vote points and don't care about the server - On Top100Arena where you have to vote in order to get points we are ranked 3rd while on XtremeTop100 and MMORPGToplist where you don't neccesarily have to vote for a vote to show up in your account we're 18th and 28th respectively. Not to mention that additional promotion attracts more players to the server and gives you more people to either kill or group with depending on your preference.
The system as it is was designed to encourage people who aren't voting properly to do so, but apparently they (possibly you, depending on who you are) don't care. People such as this are as much a problem for you as they are for us, but it seem you all are too lazy to bother trying to do anything about it. I've had conversations with players who vehemently claim that they can't do anything to help beyond filling out the captchas every day, but I call bulls***t. Unless you stand around in game ever ever talking to anyone, never ever playing in a group and leading a sad little azerothian life then you know people you can talk to and can check they understand how the system works and how to vote properly and why it's in their best interest.
We provide you with as much encouragement as we can, we recently added a note at the top of the site when your vote cooldowns expire, we've built a neat little something else that Ysabel should be announcing sometime over the next day or two, meet us half way and do your part.
Somebody earlier in the thread described getting no vote points this week like a kick in the balls. Personally it feels like a kick in the balls every time i look at things and see just how many people are trying to get vote points without bothering to contribute. We have let you get away with a hell of a lot for the last few years - the vote points for the last 9 months have been more than generous based on our performance, we let you get away for years just pressing a button to get your points, and we are continuing to let you vote on multiple accounts despite the fact that we don't get any benefit from multiple votes from the same IP within 12 hours. Even the entire staff votes as much as they can to try to give you guys a boost in the numbers.
Those of you saying you're not going to vote anymore, you're welcome to do so if you are this selfish, but remember that you're then guaranteed to get absolutely zero points every week, and you're hurting everybody else who's trying to push up the number of votes, it's your choice.
We don't get anything by not giving out lots of vote points every week - it's not like we get to keep out whatever we don't give you, and use it to fill our swimming pool of appropriated vote points. We really want to give you the points, but you guys have to give us something in return. Rewarding you all for us being so far down the page we may as well not be on it would just be encouraging this kind of result and that's the exact opposite of what we're trying to do.
We don't like punishing for poor results either but we've tried 9 months of dangling a carrot, and it seems that you aren't interested in the carrot. We didn't change anything in the reward procedure this week, it's simply a result of being placed so low on two vote sites. Those of you who voted frequently for Top100Arena found yourselves amply rewarded for being in 3rd place (something like 35 points were up for grabs this week for arena top 100 alone). Now if we start ranking higher you will all find that you will be rolling in vote points very soon, it's up to you guys.
I'd also like to note that every time you end up with less points than you deserve, I post inviting people to come up with a better way of doing this that's fair to both sides. As yet, there has been absolutely nothing useful posted (and when I say nothing useful i mean in the context that "give us more free stuff" is not useful). If you have a better way of doing things so that we get our votes and people are rewarded fairly then we're always willing to listen, put in a feedback support ticket. In the meantime the current system is the fairest one to both sides that we could come up with.
The bottom line here is that the system is perfectly simple - when we get the promotion we're rewarding you for, you will get the rewards you deserve.