From 9% to 21%? LOL

FabresFour · October 16

The event percentage went up really suddenly LOL

tomofhyrule · October 16

There must have been another bug in the counter.

surely not a backend adjustment, nothing like that.

Mathius_Mordred · October 16

I was just going to post, on 23.6% now. 4 hours ago it was at 9% PCEU. If it's going to be this blatantly manipulated then what is the point in having it?

tomofhyrule · October 16

Amy made a post: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/684176/writhing-wall-event-consolidated-messaging-thread#latest

FabresFour · October 16

Noice! It's a great response to feedback, actually

Nestor · October 16

ZOS wants to launch this content on a certain date. I think there are phases to the PreAmble. So, not having done something like this before I am sure there were some adjustments both to stop this from going longer than intended, and to keep the players engaged. Some people like to grind, some want a little grind, some just get to it.

Skorro · October 16

ZOS: "Quick, quick push it to phase 2, maybe they'll stop complaining!" 🤣

Danikat · October 16

We've known since before the event started that they have a schedule they want to stick to. I can't remember the exact date but phase 3 is expected to start sometime in mid-November.

Of course they'll adjust the requirements if there isn't enough progress.

SCP343 · October 16

Scripted

silky_soft · October 16

Wow, so brave. Instead of percent, why didn't they just use a whole number. Say 1000000 since the quest gives +1. Then people could actually see.

Nemesis7884 · October 16

silky_soft wrote: »

Wow, so brave. Instead of percent, why didn't they just use a whole number. Say 1000000 since the quest gives +1. Then people could actually see.

exactly so why do you think lol

TheBardAtTheInn · October 16

They realized it was starting to look like there was zero chance anyone would end up actually unlocking the rest of the content they paid for and panicked lol

frogthroat · October 16

Avran_Sylt · October 16

Huge participation day 1, forcing them to re-evaluate, then a massive falloff once people realized its quite a boring event, once again forcing them to re-evaluate, lol.

PrinceShroob · October 16

To be perfectly and completely fair, any metric for progress is completely arbitrary.

drip_fromtheinkwell · October 16

And now we have even less time for drops.

moderatelyfatman · October 16

Wow, it looks like the devs noticed the Steam charts.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · October 17

Saw this too and went 🤨

One would think having that sort of spike after, say, a Friday night would have looked slightly more natural.

Suffice to say I’m not terribly invested in the progress bar.

Tariq9898 · October 17

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Amy made a post: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/684176/writhing-wall-event-consolidated-messaging-thread#latest

Damn the consoles are actually winning?!?! That’s a pleasant surprise! 😅

Mik195 · October 17

Skorro wrote: »

ZOS: "Quick, quick push it to phase 2, maybe they'll stop complaining!" 🤣

I'm 100% ok with that.

ArchMikem · October 17

Tariq9898 wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Amy made a post: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/684176/writhing-wall-event-consolidated-messaging-thread#latest

Damn the consoles are actually winning?!?! That’s a pleasant surprise! 😅

And looks lik Europe will be getting to East Solstice first.

Aliniel · October 17

This is pure [snip]. Yesterday, I realized there's going to be plenty of time to get all the rewards so I sold various stuff I didn't yet unlock - because it's going to go close to zero by the end of the event. Well, guess what - NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU COMPLETELY CHANGED THE TIMEFRAME. [snip]
[edited for bashing/profanity bypass]

aussie500 · October 17

They realized their bugfest masquerading as a community event was failing, so made it easier to reach the next stage. I paid for the content, they should be paying us to take part in this thing, the paltry rewards offered are no where near enough to put up with this frustration

Yudo · October 17

Next time Manimarco...next time.

UntilValhalla13 · October 17

I feel like most of the events with percentages have been like this. Everyone could stop playing entirely, and we'd magically reach each goal.

Æthërnüm · October 17

tbh we all knew it will be like this. but the most fun part of it:

console players complains that there're almost no people to play with -> PCEU 24%/PSEU 28%

what a joke, whole event is a joke.

licenturion · October 17

Æthërnüm wrote: »

tbh we all knew it will be like this. but the most fun part of it:

console players complains that there're almost no people to play with -> PCEU 24%/PSEU 28%

what a joke, whole event is a joke.

Yeah I was surprised that even Xbox players are ahead last time I looked.

But the complainers that there is no one to play with are usually a handful of PvP people. One can assume that console has an even larger percentage of people doing only PvE, so that makes sense in a way.

Since they work with percentages there is no transparency if the total of ticks are the same between platforms, which probably isn't the case.

Æthërnüm · October 17

licenturion wrote: »

Æthërnüm wrote: »

tbh we all knew it will be like this. but the most fun part of it:

console players complains that there're almost no people to play with -> PCEU 24%/PSEU 28%

what a joke, whole event is a joke.

Yeah I was surprised that even Xbox players are ahead last time I looked.

But the complainers that there is no one to play with are usually a handful of PvP people. One can assume that console has an even larger percentage of people doing only PvE, so that makes sense in a way.

Since they work with percentages there is no transparency if the total of ticks are the same between platforms, which probably isn't the case.

so what's the point of this race and their bets then?
typical ZOS

Sheridan · October 17

Is this a separate progress of the Stage 1, so the first stage will end at 100%? Or is this the overall progress of the event, so Stage 2 begins somewhere at 33% and Stage 3 at 66%?

Æthërnüm · October 17

Sheridan wrote: »

Is this a separate progress of the Stage 1, so the first stage will end at 100%? Or is this the overall progress of the event, so Stage 2 begins somewhere at 33% and Stage 3 at 66%?

it's written "Stage 1 progress"
so each stage will have to go from 0 to 100

Syldras · October 17

Æthërnüm wrote: »

tbh we all knew it will be like this. but the most fun part of it:
console players complains that there're almost no people to play with -> PCEU 24%/PSEU 28%
what a joke, whole event is a joke.

I couldn't care less who "wins", but I'm wondering how the counter works anyway? They said they adjusted everything so the servers have a fair chance - so did they go by how many accounts are registered for each server or what? Then pc would be disadvantaged anyway because there are lots of people who have a second account they never use from that Epic Store giveaway some years ago. Plus I heard there are people who have several extra accounts just to have a guild bank and store things. Doesn't seem to be uncommon that there are lots of (more or less or completely) unused ESO pc accounts.