Writhing Wall Event Progress

sshogrin

I feel like how they did the different servers was jaded to let one server get things done quicker, and other servers were handed a tough hill to climb.
I've worked my tail off on 4 different accounts to be way behind on PC NA.
Xbox EU has been so far ahead this entire time, it's not funny.
I don't know how they did their numbers, but I feel like PCNA was setup to fail.

Orbital78

Microsoft doesn't want Xbox looking bad.

DenverRalphy

Orbital78 wrote: »

Microsoft doesn't want Xbox looking bad.

Is that why PCNA and Xbox NA are lagging behind PSNA?

Razmirra

The page needs to be updated more than a few times a day, or however often it is. PC-NA shows 79% but in-game it is 83% before I logged off for the night. (which was minutes ago)

Aliniel

The entire server competition is one big set up. ZOS set the goals by some unknown criteria which obviously allowed XBOX and PS servers to be ahead of the PC. PC has a lot of inactive players because of the many free game giveaways that were active over the years. Were they included? Were only active player counts included? Who is considered active player? If a person logs in just to see what's going on, is he an active player? If a person never does any Writhing Wall event quest, is he an active player? If he stops doing event quests, is he still an active player? If he only logs in once a week, is he an active player?

With so many unknowns we simply cannot talk of "a race". A race has clearly specified rules presented well ahead of time. Instead, we have no information whatsoever and multiple direct manipulations of the numbers already.

Personally, I do 120 daily quests every day. Yes, 120 (20 characters, 6 crafting dailies each day). In reality, I haven't got the slightest clue what my contribution to the event is. How much is one crafting daily worth? Is the same as other quests? Is it less?

#besteventever

lostineternity

The person who is responsible for faking this progress line made a mistake 2 days ago in the night.
They made one of the servers 100% progress for a minute then reverted it and increased progress on another server.
It looks like a joke atm. They can't be serious.

Vonnegut2506

Are there really people out there that believe these numbers are tied to something tangible?

Orbital78

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

Microsoft doesn't want Xbox looking bad.

Is that why PCNA and Xbox NA are lagging behind PSNA?

Yes, I blame that on the orange clowns. Joking aside it is obvious they gave some servers a "low pop" bonus like in Cyrodiil. Thankfully I wasn't playing it as a competition from the git go. I just want to get into the content eventually. It does just look silly how backwards things are though.

AzuraFan

I don't care about the server competition. I do care about getting access to content I've already paid for.

I appreciate that ZOS is trying something new. Hopefully they'll take all the feedback on board for the next huge event. For example, don't gate content that people have already paid for and want to play, behind an event like this.

colossalvoids

Literally no reason to hold onto the event at this point. Just progress it to stage three and make zone open already instead of nonsensical "fixes" that doesn't fix the main problem - the event itself and content that just sits here waiting for advancements from some dude in an office or (if we're still playing that game) the players who are already sick of it.

daim

It's always been a show! Every single progress bar ever. Sorry to break your immersion

DaveMoeDee

sshogrin wrote: »

I feel like how they did the different servers was jaded to let one server get things done quicker, and other servers were handed a tough hill to climb.
I've worked my tail off on 4 different accounts to be way behind on PC NA.
Xbox EU has been so far ahead this entire time, it's not funny.
I don't know how they did their numbers, but I feel like PCNA was setup to fail.

Meh. They had to come up with an estimate for each server that could be finished. Obviously not everyone will finish at the same time. There is not really any interesting critique for this.

My only issue is that content should not be put behind repetitive grinds. As much as I want to continue to East Solstice, I would rather quit the game than keep grinding the same quests daily. I was naively optimistic about this. But it is so incredibly boring, like pretty much all dailies outside of running harder vet dungeons the first few times they are pledges.