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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
Isn't "talking to shareholders first and everyone else second not at all" something like... S.O.P.?
JBNimble
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I waited 4 months for Customer Support to compensate me for missing BG rewards and got.. nothing?
History:
Back in March, on PS/EU weekly battleground rewards weren't send. At first I thought they would just arrive later, but the real reason turned out that the leaderboard just didn't reset.
So rewards weren't handed out at all and all players would just stay on the board and accumulate points in the next week.
And then the next week the same happened, no rewards were sent and the top players were having monster scores that were never observed before on the BG leaderboard.
The week after that, we did get rewards, so I thought that issue was solved. But again a week or two later, the same thing happened.
For the first 2 misses, I created a ticket. Nr:250317-001760
I also wrote on the forum:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674635/bg-leaderboard-rewards-not-sent
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674753/no-bg-leaderboard-rewards-on-ps-eu-second-week-in-a-row
And for the other missed reward later, I created another ticket. Nr. 250418-000884.
With another forum post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/676341/ps-eu-battleground-leaderboard-did-not-reset-again
That second ticket was handled very nicely! The agent said they saw the problem, said they could not send the gear, but did compensate with extra crystals.
All good!
Then I asked her if she could also handle my 1st ticket, but she said this was handled by a different agent, and I still had to wait.
So now for the first ticket, 250317-001760:
3/17. Ticket created. Explained the situation in detail.
3/22. The specialized agent confirmed he was taking care of it.
4/25. I had heard nothing after a month, so I asked if there was progress. No answer.
5/14. The ticket was updated saying it was still in progress and: "After review of the issue faced and the information provided, I wanted to bring to your attention that we are receiving reports of some players experiencing similar issue.". So yes they acknowledged the problem, but I still didn't get any reward and still had to wait.
7/22 The ticket was updated again and the agent states: "as it stands, no extra reward would have been sent out as this character did not meet the requirement."
So 4 months after opening my ticket, where:
- The agents did acknowledge there was an issue
- On another occasion another agent did see the problem and did compensate me.
- After 4 months, they decide I don't meet the requirement?
Could someone please look into this ticket and hopefully not leave me empty handed?
Back in March, on PS/EU weekly battleground rewards weren't send. At first I thought they would just arrive later, but the real reason turned out that the leaderboard just didn't reset.
So rewards weren't handed out at all and all players would just stay on the board and accumulate points in the next week.
And then the next week the same happened, no rewards were sent and the top players were having monster scores that were never observed before on the BG leaderboard.
The week after that, we did get rewards, so I thought that issue was solved. But again a week or two later, the same thing happened.
For the first 2 misses, I created a ticket. Nr:250317-001760
I also wrote on the forum:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674635/bg-leaderboard-rewards-not-sent
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/674753/no-bg-leaderboard-rewards-on-ps-eu-second-week-in-a-row
And for the other missed reward later, I created another ticket. Nr. 250418-000884.
With another forum post:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/676341/ps-eu-battleground-leaderboard-did-not-reset-again
That second ticket was handled very nicely! The agent said they saw the problem, said they could not send the gear, but did compensate with extra crystals.
All good!
Then I asked her if she could also handle my 1st ticket, but she said this was handled by a different agent, and I still had to wait.
So now for the first ticket, 250317-001760:
3/17. Ticket created. Explained the situation in detail.
3/22. The specialized agent confirmed he was taking care of it.
4/25. I had heard nothing after a month, so I asked if there was progress. No answer.
5/14. The ticket was updated saying it was still in progress and: "After review of the issue faced and the information provided, I wanted to bring to your attention that we are receiving reports of some players experiencing similar issue.". So yes they acknowledged the problem, but I still didn't get any reward and still had to wait.
7/22 The ticket was updated again and the agent states: "as it stands, no extra reward would have been sent out as this character did not meet the requirement."
So 4 months after opening my ticket, where:
- The agents did acknowledge there was an issue
- On another occasion another agent did see the problem and did compensate me.
- After 4 months, they decide I don't meet the requirement?
Could someone please look into this ticket and hopefully not leave me empty handed?
xyphrum
1
Re: Please put Savagery back on Shadowy Disguise
I liked the Savagery on Cloak. It's thematic with the guaranteed crit from Cloak and you get an excuse to have invisibility slotted in PvE, which feels cool very on brand for a Nightblade. Right now my NB dps has Cloak slotted. Next update I won't be able to justify it and my Nightblade won't be as fun anymore.
This is a downgrade. Major Brutality would work as a replacement, but I think Savagery is preferable. I also don't think Assassination need that major savagery either, considering how popular that skill line is anyway.
This mess wouldn't have happened without multiclassing...
It's funny that subclassing was sold for people wanting to be allowed to play however they want RP wise, with elementalist being like the poster child for the change, and they've actively done everything possible to make elementalist not viable
Re: Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
The_Meathead wrote: »Yeah, performance has been notably worse this time around while MYM has typically been the best periods we experience.
I don't know that it's purely Cyrodiil, though. My Guildies have mentioned things being ''sticky'' in overland content of late, too.
I do know that a single Ball Group or especially two+ at a time are just chewing things up like crazy in Cyrodiil this week, way more than normal. I typically have really good framerate but this week it's been an occasional unplayable slide show when they're doing their Ball-y things during primetime.
For what it is worth - I typically can have stable frames and minimal (almost no) lag when 3 or more ball groups are near me.
Just saying that because the second a ball group gets mentioned everyone gets fixated on that being the "cause" when.. ball groups just show the inefficiences of systems.. they aren't the true "cause".. if that makes sense.
LadyGP
4
Re: Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
Yeah, performance has been notably worse this time around while MYM has typically been the best periods we experience.
I don't know that it's purely Cyrodiil, though. My Guildies have mentioned things being ''sticky'' in overland content of late, too.
I do know that a single Ball Group or especially two+ at a time are just chewing things up like crazy in Cyrodiil this week, way more than normal. I typically have really good framerate but this week it's been an occasional unplayable slide show when they're doing their Ball-y things during primetime.
I don't know that it's purely Cyrodiil, though. My Guildies have mentioned things being ''sticky'' in overland content of late, too.
I do know that a single Ball Group or especially two+ at a time are just chewing things up like crazy in Cyrodiil this week, way more than normal. I typically have really good framerate but this week it's been an occasional unplayable slide show when they're doing their Ball-y things during primetime.
Re: Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
Performance is atrocious. On several occasions now I’ve had the server freeze where I’m running around (invisible) but the entire world is frozen for about a minute or so before I crash.
On top of that, random 999+ lag spikes and fps dropping from 100 to single digits suddenly.
I actually experienced this today.
I don't usually PvP because I don't really like to be biting the dust over and over in <= 2 GCDs, it really is no good for my self-esteem, alas this evening there was another group of equally (under)skilled players around and we had time to kill while low pop popped somewhere else so we decided to do 'the PvP thing' for a bit.
It would have been fun if it wasn't for the (repeated) 999+ spikes that froze everything for 10s+
And it wasn't just a 'me thing' because I didn't 'resync' to a grey screen, I was 'alive' and so was everyone else around me.
Shame really...
EDIT: Sadly I don't have footage but this was in Ashpit, sieging BRK around 6PM BST, in PC/EU.
No 'ball groups' or 'zergs' involved, this was like maybe 20 players total engaging in an 'uncoordinated brawl'.
ApoAlaia
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
dk_dunkirk wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »
As one tech CEO put it, to paraphrase, AI is always available, it never needs to eat or sleep, and it doesn't need benefits.
And that's frankly an alarming mindset for all people because the scale of job loss that this can create if left unregulated and unchecked is unprecedented.
As a 30-year full-stack developer who uses "AI" every day, I don't know what these people are smoking. I have to fight with it to get it to do even simple things most of the time, and half the time it looks right, it's still wrong in subtle ways. I'm good at what I do because I understand the problem domain intimately, and can ask the right questions. Coding the answer is a relatively small part of the solving the problem. And yet I'm worried that I, too, will be made redundant because some middle manager thinks I am replaceable with a Copilot subscription.
This really seems like the way of things: unbridled 'progress' for progress' sake without the safety rails of logic keeping it in check. I know there have already been lawsuits because some HR AI bot has hallucinated some refund or other thing to a disgruntled customer, and then the courts ruled that if the company's putting all their trust in AI to fix things that they are then beholden to promises that the AI makes.
Things will keep going like this until something big happens. I'm talking that some company has their wonderful AI solution make one tiny little hallucination that ends up costing the company billions. Once a company is seeing that cheaping out on labor by trusting a machine bites them in the backside to the extent that no human ever could, then we'll see people come around to AI as a tool instead of AI as a replacement.
Jurassic Park still said it best: "You were so concerned with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think whether you should."
Re: ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?
Masteroshi430 wrote: »From @Masteroshi430
Try this:
If you have lag problems in ESO since a specific windows 11 update (24h2) (especially during loading screens and occasionaly in game), find you processor specs, it's number of cores and number of threads, open your ESO UserSettings.txt file and find these 3 settings:
SET MaxCoresToUse.4
-> here enter the number of cores for your processor multiplied by 3/4 (n*3/4) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumJobThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
It solved the lag problems for me, don't modify if you have no lag.
What cpu was this?
It's maths to do with YOUR CPU specs.
I understand it's situational.
What I'm curious about is which CPU's need this adjustment. Is it AMD or Intel? P vs E core, HT?
I've got an old i9-8th gen on windows 10 not having any problems. Would I have issues with win11h24?
I haven't upgraded yet because 1) have to move to GPT partition and 2) not a win11 fan..
Any CPU can potentially benefit from this. You can even try this with Win 10 and see if you see any "performance" gains.
When Update 46 dropped, I couldn't watch a Twitch stream or YT video without having the stream or video pause or have audio issues. With this adjustment, I have zero issues. My gaming performance, and PC performance is back to what it was before Update 46.
sshogrin
1
Re: Shalks needs an Indicator
I spent +6 hours in IC and Cyro during the current Whitestrake event.
Literally 90% of people are playing: assassination (merciless/surprise), animal companions (deep), storm calling (streak/overload). Previously, each class had one, maybe two, three, builds, which most considered endgame. Now, all classes use the same one, and consider one skill line an extra, unless they're in one of the above. Today, in IC, out of 25 fights I fought, only one didn't use streak
No one can convince me otherwise. Anyone who participates in the event can see what's happening. It looks more like the game has been reduced to a single class.
Don't get me wrong, I've been anticipating this since the meetings with the developers when this sub update was announced – questions about balance ended with "we'll keep an eye on it," which is why it looks the way it does (besides the rapidly declining player count, there are a lot of new negative reviews on steam).
I really like this game, but good luck finding the golden mean now - it's definitely not crossplay, because at the end of this road everyone will come to the same conclusions. I wish for myself and you that the situation will improve, although I am starting to doubt it
Literally 90% of people are playing: assassination (merciless/surprise), animal companions (deep), storm calling (streak/overload). Previously, each class had one, maybe two, three, builds, which most considered endgame. Now, all classes use the same one, and consider one skill line an extra, unless they're in one of the above. Today, in IC, out of 25 fights I fought, only one didn't use streak
No one can convince me otherwise. Anyone who participates in the event can see what's happening. It looks more like the game has been reduced to a single class.
Don't get me wrong, I've been anticipating this since the meetings with the developers when this sub update was announced – questions about balance ended with "we'll keep an eye on it," which is why it looks the way it does (besides the rapidly declining player count, there are a lot of new negative reviews on steam).
I really like this game, but good luck finding the golden mean now - it's definitely not crossplay, because at the end of this road everyone will come to the same conclusions. I wish for myself and you that the situation will improve, although I am starting to doubt it
P0m3k
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Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
IMO on PC NA only one campaign has fun fights. Once queue becomes more than an hour for it, it is time to do something else.
ZOS as someone who actually likes PvP, do not let the low turn out make you think that vengeance is the solution. Vengeance can exist as its own thing, but it is not a proper replacement of the exhilaration of Cyrodiil when it works.
Turnout this bad points to mass dissatisfaction though. Almost no one likes Cyrodiil in it's current state and it shows. You might find a few people that say that this patch is great, but they will soon find themselves among the few people left in Cyrodiil.
I don't think Vengeance as we last saw it is the solution, but I think that a Cyrodiil with pure stat based sets only (that are balanced with each other), higher population caps, lowered barriers to entry, and skills more in line with early ESO (like frags stunning or merciless resolve requiring more management) would be far more successful than the mess we have now.
ESO's 1.0 and 2.0 eras had huge PvP populations for a reason, even with some of the performance issues that existed back then. The current developers should take notes on why that is.
Stamicka
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