Posted June 21, 2017
Thanks Razi. I'm not that good with splitting up quotes, but I'll try to answer your questions.
I'm comparing the user experience between the console and PC versions. Agree the differences in technology and platform may mean that the technical implementation of the same user experience would be also different. But from the user experience, I would think that having to follow some peer coordinated sync cycle to have a chance of getting my pawn "rented" counts towards "not working as intended".
I followed Javenpup's initial steps and we both rested in turn after he took my Everlean out for a spin. When I rested, I received no errors and saw the "syncing with server" message and the load bars... It will complete loading and no summary table of my pawn being rented appeared at all. Even though Javen certainly did.
Similarly, there's a pawn Alice that I've used since I started the game with multiple rentals, release, review cycles. But till date Alice still shows up as "unrented" and unreviewed etc.
Seeing only 12 results for the leadershipboard does seem to imply that something has been messed up and a huge part of the GoG community is not enjoying Rift Crystals / Gift / Review aspects of having their pawn rented. Review and ratings is part of every pawn release process... and only 12 players managed to successfully get rated to be ranked.
Cheers!
KopiUncle: I think most of us played DD on the console before. The concept of pawn rental and gifting is pretty simple. My pawn could be hired / released many times in between my hero's resting in an inn, and I'd get the sum of rift crystals across the rental transactions. There was no need to sync resting in inns per transaction. But it isn't happening for many of us on the GoG platform. 
Razikale: I wouldn't necessarily take the console version as the baseline for how the game should work and would rather focus on the specific problems you're having now. The console and PC are two very different platforms and they often present very different issues. I've been trying to pinpoint the problem and ran a few tests lately with at least five different people. Resting at the inn (for both players) did trigger pawn synchronization for us and allowed us to receive gifts. If this is not solving the issue for you please let us know.
KopiUncle: Jayvenpup is the ONLY one on my friend list that has managed to get his pawn rental transaction successfully recognised through his testing of sleep sync-ing between players. I tested briefly with him and did not succeed. Razikale: Can you elaborate on how you did not succeed? Was there an error during synchronization or just nothing happened? Did you wait a bit for the gifts to arrive? Did you both rest at the inn?
KopiUncle: I did a "Top Ranked This Month" search and Jayvenpup topped the list, but of greater interest is that the total number of hits was only 12! I.e. only 12 players in the GoG community managed to successfully complete pawn rental through some weird combination of actions / conditions that is far from simple in the past month! Razikale: I'm not sure if those two issues are connected but I am monitoring the leaderboards nevertheless. As far as I am aware the search shows top 12 results so I wouldn't necessarily say only 12 players successfully completed pawn rentals. We are, of course, still investigating though. 
Jayvenpup: Since my wife and I successfully at one point did the gifting/RC receiving, I've sent both of our updated save files to QA which they will look into that.
Aside from that, I did say I'd try to test more but realised that I'm on autopilot playing now while thinking on the 'how' and 'why' of the issue. I think I need to take a step back and let them handle it now as otherwise I may burn out during play. Yes, please play the game. You've done plentiful, especially sparking this thread to life. Let's see how QA and maybe Capcom follow up on this.
I'm comparing the user experience between the console and PC versions. Agree the differences in technology and platform may mean that the technical implementation of the same user experience would be also different. But from the user experience, I would think that having to follow some peer coordinated sync cycle to have a chance of getting my pawn "rented" counts towards "not working as intended".
I followed Javenpup's initial steps and we both rested in turn after he took my Everlean out for a spin. When I rested, I received no errors and saw the "syncing with server" message and the load bars... It will complete loading and no summary table of my pawn being rented appeared at all. Even though Javen certainly did.
Similarly, there's a pawn Alice that I've used since I started the game with multiple rentals, release, review cycles. But till date Alice still shows up as "unrented" and unreviewed etc.
Seeing only 12 results for the leadershipboard does seem to imply that something has been messed up and a huge part of the GoG community is not enjoying Rift Crystals / Gift / Review aspects of having their pawn rented. Review and ratings is part of every pawn release process... and only 12 players managed to successfully get rated to be ranked.
Cheers!
Aside from that, I did say I'd try to test more but realised that I'm on autopilot playing now while thinking on the 'how' and 'why' of the issue. I think I need to take a step back and let them handle it now as otherwise I may burn out during play.
Post edited June 21, 2017 by KopiUncle
