Update on Witches Festival & Achievements for PC

ZOS_GinaBruno

Hi everyone,

After yesterday’s PC maintenance concluded, we ran into an issue where gathering Plunder Skulls for the Witches Festival event was not incrementing your progress toward all Plunder Skull-related achievements including Plunder Skull Enthusiast, Plunder Skull Aficionado, and Plunder Skull Fanatic. While we made an effort to hotfix this today, we found that the fix will instead need to be included in the next PC incremental patch, tentatively scheduled for Monday, October 31.

We understand this greatly impacts your ability to complete these special achievements, which are only available for the duration of the event, and are not able to grant any earned skulls retroactively. Therefore, we’ll be extending the Witches Festival for PC/Mac players by one week so you can complete these achievements, and the event will now end on Tuesday, November 8 at 9:00am ET.

Thanks for your understanding, and enjoy the extended festivities.


Edit: Changed the time from 10am to 9am ET to account for Daylight Savings.

RevenantPulse

That's some good news. Thank you guys for extending the event!

Hopefully the developers will be able to patch the issue soon. Do you guys have a time frame as to when you might have a fix?

Xeroxed

Thanks guys for doing the sensible thing, and for keeping us informed.

Mysteri0n

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

Katahdin

Thank you

SteveCampsOut

RevenantPulse wrote: »

That's some good news. Thank you guys for extending the event!

Hopefully the developers will be able to patch the issue soon. Do you guys have a time frame as to when you might have a fix?

Silly wabbit can't wead? They Said Next Monday the fix will be put in with the weekly patch.

Immortal_Dark410

Yup ty for updating us and Extending the Event so we can finish our Achievements yay!

drakhan2002_ESO

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Now if they would have. extended the crown. Sale another week, was gonna buy a few more crown packs but didn't trust the Internet last week with all the cyber attacks happening

They were denial of service attacks; not information stealing attacks. While there are no absolutes in cyber-security and it's probably wise to be leery of these attacks, there is an extremely high probably that your personal information is not at risk during these attacks.

Grunim

Thank you for the extension.

RevenantPulse

SteveCampsOut wrote: »

RevenantPulse wrote: »

That's some good news. Thank you guys for extending the event!

Hopefully the developers will be able to patch the issue soon. Do you guys have a time frame as to when you might have a fix?

Silly wabbit can't wead? They Said Next Monday the fix will be put in with the weekly patch.

Woops... read too fast. Okay, more like skimmed. lol

Tevalaur

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Soleya

Thank you for extending it. My wife is very happy about that.

Immortal_Dark410

Slayer9292_ESO wrote: »

Thank you for extending it. My wife is very happy about that.

you know what they say right, Happy Wife is a Happy Life!! lol

Epona222

Thank you - it's the correct thing to do, so that those who didn't get the achievement yet, or who wanted it on alts, still get a fair chance.

AyeshaBelladonna

i think your hot fix attempt caused our rolling crash issue.... because right after you posted this is when it happened.

RevenantPulse

AyeshaBelladonna wrote: »

i think your hot fix attempt caused our rolling crash issue.... because right after you posted this is when it happened.

But they haven't patched anything yet.

jrbruhnkeb14_ESO

Oh well, I guess I can kiss these achievements goodbye. I will be on vacation for a week starting Nov 1st, and the game will be broken again for a few days after the next patch.

VinnOmniusVeritas

Thank you. This is the right thing to do by your customers. Glad to say I am a long time customer since beta and a subscriber and will continue to be so. Your commitment to keep your customers happy is not unappreciated.

MyNameIsElias

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Will this effect the duration of the witches festival crown store items too?

dimensional

jrbruhnkeb14_ESO wrote: »

Oh well, I guess I can kiss these achievements goodbye. I will be on vacation for a week starting Nov 1st, and the game will be broken again for a few days after the next patch.

lol

cmetzger93

Yay good news!

MissBizz

@MyNameIsElias My guess would be no. There's nothing stopping us from buying the witches festival crown store stuff, so I don't imagine there's a reason to extend that.

Thanks for letting us know Gina Kinda glad I have more time to attempt getting those masks! Still don't have any yet

The_Protagonist

I am happy to have the xp buff, I got achievement in the first two days, farming dolmens, WBs and Public Dungeons, but after the patch my skull counter went to 99 and the achievement reset.

So I am still very happy with the event extension.

Thank you.

Destyran

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

https://imgur.com/a/zGn2j Sounds like a lie. I have only got about 800

Pangnirtung

Mysteri0n wrote: »

Anyone else. have. gotten over 1k skulls and only 1 mask

Nope. I have two characters that have completed all the Witches Festival quests and have gotten three masks.

I don't have an accurate count as to how many skulls that is but I am guessing that it is around 500.

Shad0wfire99

They miss out on a worthless achievement and get an extra week of double XP?

Rhyagell

It sucks it will be until the 31st, but thank you for extending the event! I've seem to have lost some progress a day or so ago anyways, so this is more than needed.

Shad0wfire99 wrote: »

They miss out on a worthless achievement and get an extra week of double XP?

It isn't worthless to me and many others and not being able to do the event should be handled like this, but dang, what a ridiculous thing to complain about.

UrbanMonk

Well as on one side I'm happy about people getting chance to get the skulls and finish the achievements, on the another note I'm also worried that during the same time with 100% exp boost combined with several other ways to earn even more experience is gonna make new players get CP much faster without skills. And at the end of day we are going to have a huge base of unskilled players with big CP nos.
At least in the Old days every CP you got had to be earned. These days it seems to be like freebies for new players and when it comes down to endgame content, they fail miserably.
I've stopped counting the encounters where players with 350+ CP were no better that a lvl 10 players.
Now I'm not saying that every player with less than capped CP is bad, but fact remains majority is.

That were my 2 cents!!!

UrbanMonk

Rhyagella wrote: »

It sucks it will be until the 31st, but thank you for extending the event! I've seem to have lost some progress a day or so ago anyways, so this is more than needed.

Shad0wfire99 wrote: »

They miss out on a worthless achievement and get an extra week of double XP?

It isn't worthless to me and many others and not being able to do the event should be handled like this, but dang, what a ridiculous thing to complain about.

50 people standing on various bosses / dolmens, using light attacks or just spamming one skill to loot the skulls, doesn't need any skill and thus it does make the achievement worthless for not only me but everyone. It doesn't make you any better player or shows the hard work required to achieve it. There are ways of farming the skulls and people by all means are doing it.
So an achievement which shows how good you are at farming!!! No thanks! It's worthless .

esuttonb16_ESO

Shad0wfire99 wrote: »

They miss out on a worthless achievement and get an extra week of double XP?

Given that I'm pretty much permanently capped with accelerated XP due to not being able to get on for long periods of time, I'm not really going to benefit from the "extra week of double XP".

So don't be bitter that people are going to get a chance to earn a "shiny" that was, through no fault of their own, denied them. If you insist on being bitter, then you will only have yourself to blame for it.

Alucardo

I've already gotten the achievement, but I'm glad to hear you're extending it for the people who haven't. It's little things like this that help me restore faith in you guys.