It could be they're actually trying to be fair across different platforms.
Fewer daily rewards in February doesn't do anything for 2 out of the 3 platforms ESO can be played on. They are probably going to do the full month of daily rewards in March, meaning 2 out of the 3 platforms are going to miss out on those. Timing of this event celebration means 1/3 of platforms will miss out. As such, each platform is going to miss out on something because of this update instead of 2/3rds of them missing out on everything and the other 1/3 missing nothing.
ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »Aerius_Sygale wrote: »It's only in February for PC. If it is back to a full month of rewards in March, I guess console players are screwed. Good to know...better not be anything crazy at the end of March rewards, like 100,000 Gold or something...
We are planning to have March be a shorter month as well to account for the console release of Update 25.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »It seems some players will literally complain about anything.
January1171 wrote: »It could be they're actually trying to be fair across different platforms.
Fewer daily rewards in February doesn't do anything for 2 out of the 3 platforms ESO can be played on. They are probably going to do the full month of daily rewards in March, meaning 2 out of the 3 platforms are going to miss out on those. Timing of this event celebration means 1/3 of platforms will miss out. As such, each platform is going to miss out on something because of this update instead of 2/3rds of them missing out on everything and the other 1/3 missing nothing.
They've said that they plan to have fewer rewards in March as well.ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »Aerius_Sygale wrote: »It's only in February for PC. If it is back to a full month of rewards in March, I guess console players are screwed. Good to know...better not be anything crazy at the end of March rewards, like 100,000 Gold or something...
We are planning to have March be a shorter month as well to account for the console release of Update 25.
January1171 wrote: »
They've said that they plan to have fewer rewards in March as well.ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »Aerius_Sygale wrote: »It's only in February for PC. If it is back to a full month of rewards in March, I guess console players are screwed. Good to know...better not be anything crazy at the end of March rewards, like 100,000 Gold or something...
We are planning to have March be a shorter month as well to account for the console release of Update 25.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »It seems some players will literally complain about anything.
Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »January1171 wrote: »
They've said that they plan to have fewer rewards in March as well.ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »Aerius_Sygale wrote: »It's only in February for PC. If it is back to a full month of rewards in March, I guess console players are screwed. Good to know...better not be anything crazy at the end of March rewards, like 100,000 Gold or something...
We are planning to have March be a shorter month as well to account for the console release of Update 25.
It could be a permanent trend where there will be less daily rewards. It wouldn't surprise me that some bean counter said the rewards were impacting Crown Store sales so the freebies have to be cut back. Or maybe they just got tired of the forum player base always complaining about free stuff.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »It seems some players will literally complain about anything.
PizzaCat82 wrote: »Is it the principle of the thing? Because I can't see people having both a horrible connection and a horrible game schedule where they'd miss out on some of the rewards for this thing.
January1171 wrote: »PizzaCat82 wrote: »Is it the principle of the thing? Because I can't see people having both a horrible connection and a horrible game schedule where they'd miss out on some of the rewards for this thing.
That's my problem with it. I have a decent connection so I probably won't miss much time, if any, and even if I was missing more I don't need all 39 event tickets for the items I want. But I do think it's problematic that ZOS is changing their position on "we don't want players to miss time-specific content because of this redownload" when it relates to the thing where people are able to spend money to make up for the lost time.
Whether it was intentional, an oversight, or any other reason- it's bad optics. It makes it look like they chose these times specifically for the event in order to increase event ticket sales.
DragonRacer wrote: »January1171 wrote: »PizzaCat82 wrote: »Is it the principle of the thing? Because I can't see people having both a horrible connection and a horrible game schedule where they'd miss out on some of the rewards for this thing.
That's my problem with it. I have a decent connection so I probably won't miss much time, if any, and even if I was missing more I don't need all 39 event tickets for the items I want. But I do think it's problematic that ZOS is changing their position on "we don't want players to miss time-specific content because of this redownload" when it relates to the thing where people are able to spend money to make up for the lost time.
Whether it was intentional, an oversight, or any other reason- it's bad optics. It makes it look like they chose these times specifically for the event in order to increase event ticket sales.
Let's add to that by pointing out the event tickets now "have a chance" to drop from monsters and bosses, as opposed to the guaranteed "drop on first kill of boss" we've had in the past. Because unless that was a typo...
PizzaCat82 wrote: »DragonRacer wrote: »January1171 wrote: »PizzaCat82 wrote: »Is it the principle of the thing? Because I can't see people having both a horrible connection and a horrible game schedule where they'd miss out on some of the rewards for this thing.
That's my problem with it. I have a decent connection so I probably won't miss much time, if any, and even if I was missing more I don't need all 39 event tickets for the items I want. But I do think it's problematic that ZOS is changing their position on "we don't want players to miss time-specific content because of this redownload" when it relates to the thing where people are able to spend money to make up for the lost time.
Whether it was intentional, an oversight, or any other reason- it's bad optics. It makes it look like they chose these times specifically for the event in order to increase event ticket sales.
Let's add to that by pointing out the event tickets now "have a chance" to drop from monsters and bosses, as opposed to the guaranteed "drop on first kill of boss" we've had in the past. Because unless that was a typo...
Tickets are always per day per account, any info otherwise is probably a typo or not specified (The boxes will have a chance to drop, but the tickets wont)
My thoughts: They can't do it tomorrow (due to probably not having things ready to go, QA checks and PSN Updates require heads up) and they either do it when PC players are downloading, Console players are downloading, or right before the April event (Jester's festival)
So they chose the least worst option. I don't think it had anything to do with driving people to buy tickets. I find that 2 berries (20 tickets) leaves enough for one or both special rewards and a few tickets extra.. plus the chance to get those rewards from simply playing the game.
39 is a lot of tickets. They could have made it one or two a day.