PC/EU Stream woes

mjharper

So first of all, the Twitch stream last night was at 2:30 in the morning where I live, which is just peachy.

As is highly likely at that time, I'm going to be asleep. So I set up my laptop with the Twitch page open, and turn the brightness and sound down. Good so far.

I wake up in the morning to discover that the hotel I'm staying in probably cut my internet connection at midnight because I was leaving today.

So I guess, no mount or boxes for me. Yay.

Meanwhile, console players just had to log into the game and kill a monster to get the rewards. Yay?

Question: Does ZOS have any intention of offering the mount and crates to EU players for whom the Twitch schedule was unduly demanding?

EDIT: I'm not blaming ZOS for my hotel woes, obviously. I am blaming them for setting the stream at a time which massively inconvenienced EU players, when I couldn't realise there was a problem until long after the fact and was thus unable to adapt and find a solution (such as watching on my phone), while at the same time requiring console players to jump through none of these loops.

elvenmad

I stayed up, ended up getting to bed way after 3:30, TBH it wasn't worth it, there was nothing exciting to see, Prob best part of the very very short part on ESO was a cool new Elsweyr video, but that's prob already on YouTube anyways.

The event was more about promoting other games from Bethesda , but again nothing really exciting.

Timing of stream was really bad for EU, same happens from other NA publishers, most time everything biased to their own timeline, even though many of the games have a far higher EU player base than NA.

RE the mount, giveaway the requirement difference between console and PC players was ridiculous and totally not fair at all, quite obviously it was ALL about having as many people as possible with PC access to be logged into twitch for the one reason.... to inflate viewer numbers and nothing more.

TLDR, anyways I stayed up, lost a lot of sleep, saw nothing realy exciting at all and certainly won't be doing it again in the future. As for the reward, not got anything as yet and not info as to whether anyone else as either.

Jolipinator

mjharper wrote: »

Meanwhile, console players just had to log into the game and kill a monster to get the rewards. Yay?

Meanwhile PC players have had Twitch drops for a year. Console players have had 3 or 4 opportunities to get rewards. Yay?

mjharper

Jolipinator wrote: »

mjharper wrote: »

Meanwhile, console players just had to log into the game and kill a monster to get the rewards. Yay?

Meanwhile PC players have had Twitch drops for a year. Console players have had 3 or 4 opportunities to get rewards. Yay?

Because two wrongs make a right?

Epona222

And for NA server, the Zenimax presentation was going on at the exact same time as trader switchover - I (like many GMs) had to be concentrating on the game to deal with that, meanwhile twitch is running in the background and logs me over to offline.

I mean seriously the Bethesda session was like an hour long and it wasn't possible to arrange the ESO presentation at ANY other time during that session rather than showing the video over trader switchover?

MagicalLija

They should have just made it so we don't need to watch the stream, we still have to have it linked but PC players can just kill something as well, sorry it just seems really unfair to us who have education/work we need to go to and we need to stay up till 1:30 am?

Reverb

Zeni/Beth didn’t set the stream at a time to inconvenience EU players, they didn’t set the time at all. This was their annual presentation at the annual E3 Expo in San Diego.

Bethesda was assigned their day/time to present when the organizers put the event schedule together, just like all the other game studios were. Bigger, more well known studios get prime time (PDT which is local time of the event center) in the biggest conference theaters, and the smaller ones get the earlier slots and/or the smaller rooms.

The Bethsoft corporate office then broke up the total presentation time and told each studio/design lead “get your presentation together, you have ___ minutes to talk, and you’re going on right after ____”.

And they probably did dry runs of their speeches over video conference once or twice to make sure everything met with Todd’s approval and that no one went over their allotted time.

This is how industry events work. People need to stop acting personally victimized by it.

mjharper

Reverb wrote: »

Zeni/Beth didn’t set the stream at a time to inconvenience EU players, they didn’t set the time at all. This was their annual presentation at the annual E3 Expo in San Diego.

Bethesda was assigned their day/time to present when the organizers put the event schedule together, just like all the other game studios were. Bigger, more well known studios get prime time (PDT which is local time of the event center) in the biggest conference theaters, and the smaller ones get the earlier slots and/or the smaller rooms.

The Bethsoft corporate office then broke up the total presentation time and told each studio/design lead “get your presentation together, you have ___ minutes to talk, and you’re going on right after ____”.

And they probably did dry runs of their speeches over video conference once or twice to make sure everything met with Todd’s approval and that no one went over their allotted time.

This is how industry events work. People need to stop acting personally victimized by it.

And? So what? What has any of that got to do with the massive inconvenience to PC/EU players compared to everyone else?

SilverPaws

I watched it whole and didn't got anything. Perfect