Nolphi wrote: »

Wow. In all honesty I first thought it was a joke and I was waiting for the punchline. That amount is much too high and may really send the wrong signal to many players. I understand you want to invest in marketing and entice new players to join but if I were running ZOS and wanted to achieve this goal I would have done something along these lines:

1. $100,000 giveaway. This is already more than enough to make anyone go nuts. The $1M is so high it makes it sound like a hoax...
2. Introduce a player referral program with incentives based on the duration of their sub and spend on the game. This doesn't even have to be cash, crowns will do. Lets budget this at $50K for the development costs of the referral platform. The crown incentives are free for you guys.
3. Spend $500,000 on additional servers and the creation of a PVP Arena. If $500K is not enough then throw more at it! Solve the lag and make your players happy again.
4. Organize and promote PVE, group PVP and small scale PVP tournaments and market and twitch the hell out if it. Pay ESO Masters like Deltia, Sypher, Fengrush, King Richard, Lefty Lucy, Alcast, etc to co-host and participate and pay them for their effort. Budget $350,000.

This has got to be a better way of spending $1M

disagree on so many points.
first i do agree with pricemoney is excesive and beter spend on servers/programmers.
this game was advertised that PvP was LARGE scale, sure lagg needs to be adressed but you guys chose to play the game and don't force it to change it.
this game doesn't need to pay those self preaching guys and it shows you are just like them just looking at a small part of the game and will lead to further destruction of classbalance, PvE and even your so beloved PVP.

a million dollars could eliminate a boat load of bugs.....?

there has to be a census or something in a pc magazine for ratings on how many "players" they have online.....

makes me want to get together with some friends, make a " beta" game with a fabulous cash shop, and see what happens....

thank you for the temporary fix, it now allows me to enter my state but,
lol, its still greyed out in the "Register" box tho ...

"(iv)If entrant is a resident of Canada: correctly answer without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered at a mutually convenient time in person or by telephone."

I know it has to do with canadian laws but that is really messed up. Not only do I suck at math but I would be so nervous being timed with a million dollars on the line that I would probably mess up a basic question.

I would hope they would be nice and make it like 2 + 2

its not letting us register ...

Cernow wrote: »

I'd prefer it if they spent the $1m on bug fixes, but only if I'm not the winner of course

Until the money is awarded, I will be discouraging new players from buying ESO. I don't need the competition.

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

SubtleHate wrote: »

Maybe instead of spending $1,000,000 on a sweepstakes to try to bribe new players in you should spend that money on fixing the game so people will actually want to play.

I'm guessing that they want to get people who haven't played for over a year to log on.

game is in worse shape then a year ago.
less balance
more lagg even in PvE now
and no decent Pve endgame for groups or people who came back a year ago and don't have a sub and probably won't just payup for the DLC

What if..

they released a 4v4 battleground and to kick it all off had a 1 Million Dollar 4v4 Tournament. Think of the attention and amount of players flocking to the game after an announcement like that.

Such a toxic forum.. Complaining about them giving a million bucks..

This thread is so salty. It's a giveaway, people. Enjoy it.

New York is not eligible for the contest???????

Peel_Ya_Cap_517 wrote: »

Such a toxic forum.. Complaining about them giving a million bucks..

But they're not. They're giving a select few countries the chance to win.

NobleNerd wrote: »

Artjuh90 wrote: »

NobleNerd wrote: »

New York is not eligible for the contest???????

about 70 % of the world isn't?

This is about as well put together as their game LOL... can't fix lag and can't setup a website for a contest.

Well, hopefully they get it fixed soon.

it is so sad that i have to agree :'(

Holycannoli wrote: »

NobleNerd wrote: »

New York is not eligible for the contest???????

Yeah that's really weird but there must be some state law prohibiting it or something. Same with Florida and Rhode Island.

nothing prohibiting it.... ZOS just didn't setup their website properly for it to recognize the countries and states.