Missed out on 3 tickets AGAIN

JamieAubrey

Event ends on the 15th, then end it at the end of the day, not a random time in the morning ( US Time ) not everyone can get up early to get those tickets

Twice I've been screwed out of tickets due to timezones, not saying I want free tickets but if your going to end an event just do it at the end of the day that way everyone gets a chance to log on

belial5221_ESO

You got 8 hours from 2am EST to 10am EST on the ending day.I just do and save a daily to turn in,and log in ususally at daily reset,or sometimes get up early.Remember,no matter what time they end it,there will always be someone having issue about the time,seeing everyone is in different timezones worldwide.

Nairinhe

At what time exactly is "the end of the day" and are you sure this time is convenient for all the timezones?

DocFrost72

Something for folks to remember; the OP is actually a little right. The last day of the event is an 8 hour window, not a 24 hour window like most other days of the event.

Something to consider, OP, is that the first day also isn't 24 hours. You may have gotten tickets others couldn't get, but can on this last day.

KaGaOri

They should put end of event at least 12 hrs after last reset. Those eight hours just aren't enough. If you have job, you get screwd over on the last day in my time zone, since reset is 8:00 am and event ends at 4:00 pm = most common business hours. Got pretty nice boss, but not nice enough to let me play video game at work .

JamieAubrey

Nairinhe wrote: »

At what time exactly is "the end of the day" and are you sure this time is convenient for all the timezones?

Ideally the end day where the office is based

Hallothiel

End of the day where? UK? France? Russia? USA?

Do you see the problem? Someone, somewhere is going to be unhappy.

Do you manage to get tickets on the first (short) day? Some people can’t. Swings & roundabouts.

tmbrinks

Event is a number of "days" long.

Starts at 10 AM EDT, ends at 10 AM EDT.

It's the same for every. single. event.

You can plan for it.

"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on the account of ZoS"

The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

KaGaOri

tmbrinks wrote: »

Event is a number of "days" long.

Starts at 10 AM EDT, ends at 10 AM EDT.

It's the same for every. single. event.

You can plan for it.

"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on the account of ZoS"

The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

Only way some of us could "plan for it" is not going to work that day . Good for you if all you have to do is get up early.

Donny_Vito

KaGaOri wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

Event is a number of "days" long.

Starts at 10 AM EDT, ends at 10 AM EDT.

It's the same for every. single. event.

You can plan for it.

"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on the account of ZoS"

The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

Only way some of us could "plan for it" is not going to work that day . Good for you if all you have to do is get up early.

It literally works both ways. For people that cannot play after 10 am EST until the next day, they miss out on the first days drop. And then like the OP stated, some people might miss the last days drop due to how it ends.

tmbrinks

KaGaOri wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

Event is a number of "days" long.

Starts at 10 AM EDT, ends at 10 AM EDT.

It's the same for every. single. event.

You can plan for it.

"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on the account of ZoS"

The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

Only way some of us could "plan for it" is not going to work that day . Good for you if all you have to do is get up early.

I'm sorry you're in the one time zone in the world where an 8 hour work day lines up exactly with the 8 hours the event is open.

Still doesn't change that it's a "bonus" day anyways, and not factored into the calculation for how they make the events, how many tickets to give relative to the number of items that are available to you to purchase.

Still doesn't change that when they say the event is live for 12 days... it's up for exactly 12 days. From 10 AM EDT to 10 AM EDT on a later date.

When they initially had the number of tickets that you could earn in an event, they didn't include this "bonus" day. They have since stopped saying the exact number of total tickets in an event because people would get confused since they could get extras on this "bonus" time.

tmbrinks

Could they change it so the split is 12 and 12 (starting and ending events at 2 PM EDT)... sure, but there would still be people upset. Somebody, somewhere, for their specific situation, would still be occupied the whole time. And they'd be more likely to miss BOTH!

Could they change it so that there is no split (events start and end at 2 AM EDT reset time)... sure, now EVERYBODY misses out on the "bonus" day.

This goes with the trend that's been seen in lots of threads on here recently... "Well... if I can't have it, nobody should", which is a pretty selfish view in my opinion.

redlink1979

tmbrinks wrote: »

(...)The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

This is the math but this shouldn't be the math:

1st event's day - 16h long
last event's day - 8h long

Last day for me, and many other players, is a lost day: I'm working from 9am to 5pm...

Events should, ideally, always start and always end at the time daily quests reset. This would give ALL players the same amount of time per day during the whole event duration. No one would lose tickets.

Edit: typo

CaffeinatedMayhem

Those "extra" 3 tickets on first or last day are only counted once. Every event gives at least enough tickets for 1 feather and 1 berry even if you miss 1-2 days. The "extra" are for those who may not be able to play every day, miss first/last etc.

Chill. ZOS has never "guaranteed" you can buy everything at the Impresario with earned tickets, and IMO you shouldn't. You can easily earn the mount, and a few extras. I have 10 tickets currently waiting for the last Mossheart berry the minute the next event starts, and I bought 2 Imperial shrines.

These mounts are essentially loyalty rewards, for those who are playing at the time of the events. You are given plenty of chances to earn them, even without first/last day. I don't even bother to do "last" day tickets most times and I still have extra tickets every event.

caperb

redlink1979 wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

(...)The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

This is the math but this shouldn't be the math:

1st event's day - 16h long
last event's day - 8h long

Last day for me, and many other players, is a lost day: I'm working from 9am to 5pm...

Events should, ideally, always start and always end at the time daily quests reset. This would give ALL players the same amount of time per day during the whole event duration. No one would lose tickets.

Edit: typo

Exactly this. Event days should be 24 hours long. I leave my house at 6 in the morning to go to work (EU) while the last day starts at 8, and I leave work at 16 just when the event ends. It is impossible to get a ticket on the last day.

Reverb

It’s not really a random time of day. Well, it is in the sense that all times are random and that time is a social construct, but I digress.

The event started at 10am Eastern, as all ESO events do. And it ended at 10am Eastern, as all ESO events do. The last day was not a full 24-hrs, and neither was the first, but they are consistent. And also communicated well in advance.

Casul

Easy solution. The first and last days give tickets automatically.

SeaGtGruff

DocFrost72 wrote: »

Something for folks to remember; the OP is actually a little right. The last day of the event is an 8 hour window, not a 24 hour window like most other days of the event.

Something to consider, OP, is that the first day also isn't 24 hours. You may have gotten tickets others couldn't get, but can on this last day.

I agree. (Emphasis added.)

As already pointed out by others, the first day is 16 hours, and the last day is 8 hours, with every day between being 24 hours.

So if we calculate percentages based on the number of hours-- which isn't realistic, but this is just for the sake of illustration-- we could say that people have a 100% chance of earning tickets on a normal day, a 66.6% chance (which is better than 50%) of earning tickets on the first day, but only a 33% chance (less than 50%) of earning tickets on the last day. As I said, this isn't a realistic analysis, and attempts to calculate people's chances globally en masse rather than for individual people, but it's to try to illustrate people's overall chances.

And this is during DST, because during standard time the daily reset occurs at 1 AM EST but the events begin and end at 10 AM EST, so the hours each day would be 15 on the first day and 9 on the last day.

It would be nice, and potentially fairer, if the events were to begin and end 12 hours before and after the daily reset, regardless of DST or standard time, which would mean 1 PM EST or 2 PM EDT, because that would at least give people a 50-50 chance (again, globally speaking) on the first and last days.

I seriously doubt that would ever happen, but it would seem to be the fairest solution which would still let people earn 13 days' worth of tickets during a 12-day event.

On the other hand, having the events begin and end at the same time as the daily reset would limit everyone to 12 days' worth of tickets during a 12-day event, which I don't think would go over well with most people.

Olauron

redlink1979 wrote: »

Events should, ideally, always start and always end at the time daily quests reset. This would give ALL players the same amount of time per day during the whole event duration. No one would lose tickets.

So your solution is to remove the bonus day with bonus tickets for everyone? Really?

Taleof2Cities

tmbrinks wrote: »

Event is a number of "days" long.

Starts at 10 AM EDT, ends at 10 AM EDT.

It's the same for every. single. event.

You can plan for it.

"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on the account of ZoS"

The last day is a "bonus" day anyways.

Here's another insightful for you ..

kargen27

I'm guessing the events start when they do (day and time) to coincide with work hours for ZoS. If something goes wonky best to have people around that can begin unwonking it.

It's just a guess.

Olupajmibanan

If you aren't missing any tickets, what would be your motivation to buy them with crowns?

Timezones are timezones, nothing to do about it. But there is much worse issue and that is earning tickets at 12/12. This event, if you killed Molag Kena with 12/12 tickets, you missed a whole day. You didn't loot anything, 0 tickets, but you can't get back and kill her again after you freed up your ticket space. It's simply gone because daily tickets are tied to drop and not to loot. Daily ticket cooldown should be based on time of looting tickets and not dropping them.

Banana

I missed out on all of them. Imperial city doesn't do it for me

SydneyGrey

BuildMan wrote: »

Easy solution. The first and last days give tickets automatically.

Argh no. If you're sitting on 12 tickets when an event starts, you'll lose a day's worth of tickets before you can turn some in.

Daemons_Bane

Banana wrote: »

I missed out on all of them. Imperial city doesn't do it for me

You KNOW that you just had to do a dungeon run to get them right.? Dungeonfinder, no PvP

Monte_Cristo

Meanwhile, Australians who work often miss out on the first day's tickets.