devcon wrote:Well, this is the stupidist thing they have come up with yet. Is this what the brain trust at Amazon have done to Woot? You can no longer just buy a Big Orphaned Cetacea, you have to play a Jatravartid game? Blahhhh..

I disagree. One time, they had a woot off for just one product - a rechargeable battery for cellphones and games - that they presented a few dozen times.

i am trying, finished level 3 just as it turned to level 4. i am doing this one handed as i had surgery on my dominant hand a week ago! i deserve a special Big o' Cosmos for just trying.

Back to it.

Agree--crappy game, no skill involved, the game either has objects in both lanes and you die, or not. Totally random to get a bag or not. Nothing different than any other Bag o' Crap day. Nothing to reward real wooters. BOO!

pmcizhere wrote:It might just be dumb luck. i had many games with those annoying deaths, but I think if you get more accurate at shooting the crapbags from the snail then you get less obstacles...Or I could be overanalyzing a random draw. I thought I noticed fewer obstacles when not shooting, but then again I think the level's progression slowed to a halt by doing that.

I've gotten every crap delivered and still got blocked in the third level. I restarted and got blocked on the very first obstacles.

Jatravartid and hoopy game, all you do is get walled in by 2 monsters, some good guy must have made this game

okay, 54 million points and level 1? someone must have hacked it.

i assume they would stop people from getting multiple BOCs...

has anyone that got the level 3 bag tried to get the level 4 one?

really hating woot atm

So i got my Big o' Cosmos already at level 3. I beat level 4 and you cant buy another one! Limit is one person no matter what level you get!

I got mine so i can go to sleep now! GOODLOCK TO YOU ALL!

Mildly annoyed that I cleared it back when there was server stuff going, but because of the server issues it didn't register that I'd beaten it back on Level 3.

And for the life of me, the game won't give me a clear path through Level 4 now.

Ah well, I'll leave the BoCs to someone else this time around

http://i.imgur.com/eN53q.png

This Donkey Piss!
I have 1 hand I can use and it has nerve damage.

Couldn't win a game like this even if it was rigged.

My 1 hand is saluting Woot with 1 finger.

Aloha,

Brown Bear

I did it! I won a Big Orphaned Cetacea, a second Big Orphaned Cetacea, a third Big Orphaned Cetacea! Wow! That crappy game is winnable! Happy April Fools Day to bots all over the world!


-- Robot Betty9
-- www.robots-and-androids.com

Big Orphaned Cetacea!
Big Orphaned Cetacea!
Big Orphaned Cetacea!
Big Orphaned Cetacea!
Big Orphaned Cetacea!

FWIW, I finished level 4 with a score of 59,233, and only 5 successful deliveries in a row (without a miss, which wipes you back to zero) on my tote board when I reached the end of the level. Looks sucky compared to the leader board, but it got me a bag!!!! :-)

*Does the happy Big o' Cosmos dance*

I got a bag and you didn't....nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!!!!!

(I cannot BELIEVE I sat here and played that thing for an hour and a half, an now have to get up in 3 hrs to go to work!)

You CAN win this....there are just some impt details you have to pay attention to. I posted my observations in a much longer post earlier, but it didn't go through. I've got to go to bed, but I'm sure all y'all will figure it out, too.

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY TO ALL!!!!

Got my first bag! WOOT!

Spent like 45 minutes trying to even get the game to load (Big o' Cosmos servers, was not pissed), spent half an hour trying to get past level 3.

Finally did, got halfway into level 4 when killed by a cloud/planet double with nowhere to go.

Was exceedingly stoked to be able to buy a Big o' Cosmos as it was still on level 3 except... I got no message besides asking if I wanted to play again.

I opened a different browser, checked, it was still on level 3. I hit play again thinking that'd take me to a buy screen, it loaded level one. Got through level 3, got the same result.

For more than a half hour it remained at level 3. SO ANGRY. So done with this site. Been trying for a Jatravartid Big o' Cosmos for like 3 years. Actually did exactly what was required, in the manner specified, and it just didn't do anything? That was truly rotten. At least buying before a server crashes is random. This was an hour of time spent for nothing, for no reason. HATE.

FINALLY! Got to level 2 the second time around and after all that it finally let me order. Yay Big o' Cosmos is mine and its my 2nd one ever... WOOT!

Bull Shi*, i come on here to buy stuff, not to play games that make it impossible to beat when 2 obstacles show up in the same spot and i have to start over. i have been wanting to win a grab bag forever, and now i cant. Woot you seriously suck.

We, the Hitchhikers...i got up to level 6 and it says that I can't purchase the level 4 bag o' crap because i haven't beaten it yet... O.o

swuster wrote:i assume they would stop people from getting multiple BOCs...

has anyone that got the level 3 bag tried to get the level 4 one?

tried, doesn't work

garyruster wrote:This site has become crap and so is this game. This site is off my list. If you want something at a reasonable price there are a lot better sources. And they don't waste my time with worthless crap.

It's not like they're hiding the fact that it's worthless crap, they say so up front. It seems like the only one wasting their time is you taking time to complain. Don't let the log out hit you on the way out.

FAIL WOOT

Woot, if you are going to do this kinda thing for all the Big o' Cosmos's from here on out then im never coming back to this website again and I will not tell anyone about your website and I will tell everyone how you rip people off... I just want to buy my dam Big Orphaned Cetacea and eat my chicken wings and watch my free month hulu since i got explorer 9 and i want to practice using my new gmail motion! I dont have time for this Crapshoot!!

reverendjw wrote:i tried, but got a message saying "you already got a Big o' Cosmos. don't hog the crap"...guess there's a few bugs they needed to work out

wish I would have known that HOURS ago, I got in at level 1 and been palying this Jatravartid game for 3 hours.
I got one, i'm happy, going to bed.
Good luck to everyone else who hangs around.

Someone ought kidnap the programmer and force him to drive down a two-lane highway with two oncoming vehicles driving side by side.

Before the servers went down an hour ago made it to level 5...died and there was no option to buy the Big o' Cosmos. Servers went down. Servers came back up. Now it says I haven't gotten that far. How is that for bs. I even have the screen shot to prove it.

tugnutt831 wrote:After trying time and time again, running into the problem with having a moving and a stationary blocker in both lanes, I finally get past level 3 and all the way to the 10th level (630000 points or so)! So a Big o' Cosmos for me

Edit: Top Score baby, woohoo! (perhaps a letter is in my future?....please?)

Please, please tell your name is after Ron Tugnutt

At AMAZON.WOOT everyday is April FOOLS Day... especially when a Bag o' Crap is on the line.

What a great joke. Haha. I played that st00pid asinine game for 2 hours reaching various levels up to level 6 and never once I did get an ability to place an order. Dozens of times I hit spots where one high/one low obstacles made it impossible to proceed too. I've never been able to get a Big o' Cosmos in all my years here because I don't know the slick tricks that the SAME script kiddies who always DO get the Big o' Cosmos know, and when I think I might actually have a chance, you pull this cruel joke on us, those who just once want to get their hands on a Big o' Cosmos.

Hey AMAZON.WOOT ... YOU SUCK! Go back to the old days when REAL bargains on REAL nice items were presented, quit selling junk, and just get rid of the st00pid Bag o' Crap already!

The game isn't buggy - two obstacles impossible to simultaneously avoid is a feature.

Any perceived crappiness is intentional and designed to enhance your crappy experience.

I wouldn't have it any other way. It causes you to question whether the game is itself a hoax the entire time you're playing.

screw that, half hour of getting killed by 2 obstacles at the same time and no way to get around them. forger it, i dont need it that bad...

Before the servers went down an hour ago made it to level 5...died and there was no option to buy the Big o' Cosmos. Servers went down. Servers came back up. Now it says I haven't gotten that far. How is that for bs. I even have the screen shot to prove it.

swuster wrote:i assume they would stop people from getting multiple BOCs...

has anyone that got the level 3 bag tried to get the level 4 one?

Yeah, It tells you already got a Big o' Cosmos.
Made it to lvl 6 Woot!

im more upset that i didn't get a high score mention than i am happy that I got my Big o' Cosmos...

naw, jus playin

but still, 220k and no high score? cmon man

PS woot - let me DJ your next game, please. the puns are good though...

Yes! Finally Won and got my Big o' Cosmos!

I don't know what's more frustrating, that I beat level 3 during the level 3 woot off and didn't get a buy link, or the fact that this game was implemented better 30 years ago when it was called 'Donkey'

So... what?? People that sould have gotten one after completing required level are just Battlefield Earth (2000) out of luck if the game freezes, servers crash, link never shows up, etc... And those that have won just happened to be lucky that everything worked as it should have. And others should just shut up and accept that?? Not cool

pz@woot wrote:okay, 54 million points and level 1? someone must have hacked it.

After I passed lvl 4 it went back to lvl 1 for me

I give up. I started playing when it was on level 2 and I thought it was pretty cool. I even got to level 3 and died...and since I hadn't logged in first got a message saying that "if you had logged in, you could be buying crap right now". ARGH

So played again, passed level 3, go to buy and SOLD OUT.

Now on level 4 I cannot pass. Always getting two things in both lanes at the same time. Just now it was two ground spawns. Really disappointing. I know you have to block the scripters, but I'm just a normal person and would like to buy this as it's fun for us to open it, even if it's like what we usually get (a doll, a bag, and a bucket).

Sorry but this is Sirius GPP... I played up to LVL 4 like 10 times and get to a no win scenario with both lanes blocked!
I'm pissed I even tried so many times!

Going to bed pissed off! Thanks WOOT!

I got one!!! It was so hard but they fixed it. so after that I made it through level 4 and now it starts again at level 1 and when I did crash it said I could get a Big o' Cosmos. Thanks for the fix Woot!

I can't get a bag o crap because the traffic and static items come at the same time making it impossible to pass. I've been to level four 9 times now and the traffic and static items come at the same time. Impossible.