Long maintenance giving cake a bad taste
Ourorboros
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Thank you zos for extending the Anniversary period to make up for the initial XP problems. But I really should be using that time RIGHT NOW. The delayed maintenance is really cutting into the usefulness of your 'gift'.
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Breton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
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TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)
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✭✭✭✭I mean, they did give us 9 days of free 2xp. Just food for thought (and a terrible pun).2 -
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✭✭DocFrost72 wrote: »I mean, they did give us 9 days of free 2xp. Just food for thought (and a terrible pun).
Just to roll with the cake analogy, the first couple days, the cake was missing icing and candles. Today, they chose to clean the oven, so no cake for anyone. Not a very good bakery.Edited by Ourorboros on April 12, 2016 5:44PMPC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
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✭✭✭✭To stick with the analogy, sure all of that is correct, but it's more like an all you can eat cake buffet at your fingertips for a week. Maybe the first few days it wasn't perfect cake and maybe there was a fingernail in the frosting, but it was a solid amount of diabeetus I just had.0 -
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✭✭✭They gave us something free of their own volition. Whatever their motives were on the side, like stimulating scroll sales, doesn't change that. Be glad for what you got, self-entitlement is never flattering.Edited by Judas Helviaryn on April 12, 2016 4:59PM3 -
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✭✭DocFrost72 wrote: »To stick with the analogy, sure all of that is correct, but it's more like an all you can eat cake buffet at your fingertips for a week. Maybe the first few days it wasn't perfect cake and maybe there was a fingernail in the frosting, but it was a solid amount of diabeetus I just had.
Do you PVP? The cake didn't work there, which is where most of my game goes these days. I call 'cake discrimination'.
PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)2 -
Ourorboros✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Judas Helviaryn wrote: »They gave us something free of their own volition. Whatever their motives were on the side, like stimulating scroll sales, doesn't change that. Be glad for what you got, self-entitlement is never flattering.
Is it 'self-entitlement' if something is freely offered? And regardless, from a PR perspective the problems with the cake are egg on zos face. It doesn't inspire confidence.PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)2 -
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✭✭Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »One of the other threads on the same subject would not work for you?
You guys didn't keep them bumped up enough. I didn't see any on recent threads page that I typically peruse.
PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
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Lord_Wrath✭✭✭✭✭Why are people semi-consciously accepting this as ok business? I mean the whole ordeal is silly but this is a special event that brought back a nice amount of players and im sure a nice fraction of players that work 2nd shift are missing out on the last day of the special event they looked forward to taking advantage of, just like everyone else that gets to play when its back online. Let alone, this is not emergency maintenance. It could have waited untill tomorrow.
Its frustrating, you dont need to have an open mind to understand that. But its nothing to be irate about, nor to be so shallow to call someone else self entitled for being upset about it.1300+ CP | Lørd Wrath | - Sorcerer - Palatine - Grand Master Crafter - 30000 Achievement Points
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✭✭✭The last day was supposed to be a couple days ago. I think people will survive for a few hours. I would bet ZOS probably extends the end time by a few hours to compensate. So to belittle the devs because of a few lost hours of a free 100% xp boost to me is the very definition of entitlement.Edited by jamesharv2005ub17_ESO on April 12, 2016 5:19PM2 -
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✭✭I guess we have to think of zos as being like the government. When you win a million dollars, it really means around 600k, cuz, you know, taxes.
Apparently, same principle applies to zos.Edited by Ourorboros on April 12, 2016 5:25PMPC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)2 -
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✭I could care less about a few hours of bonus XP but have to agree it is just bad PR. Gifts with strings attached don't usually go over well.2 -
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✭✭jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »
It was also supposed to stack with other XP buffs and be available to everyone. It was a single layer cake when it wasn't supposed to be, and anyone in Cyrodiil was SOL. Call a spade a spade.PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)1 -
Lord_Wrath✭✭✭✭✭HOW IRONIC!
God, do people not read anything?1300+ CP | Lørd Wrath | - Sorcerer - Palatine - Grand Master Crafter - 30000 Achievement Points
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✭✭Saltypretzels wrote: »i'm jealous that any of you have the time to even complain about such a thing
If I could have my cake and eat it too, that's what I'd be doing instead of trolling the forums.
PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)1 -
goatlyonesub17_ESO✭✭✭✭You might commission a baker to make you a real Jubilee Cake. Um, I'd call it something other than Jubilee, though. ZOS might have a trademark interest in the name, and its etymology isn't the best.
Edit: I just noticed that there is a 2nd "middle layer," which might, or might not, be the same stuff as the pointed-to middle layer.Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on April 12, 2016 6:49PM"Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
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I think the extended maintenance was unexpected. Gina posted in a thread earlier that it was going to be longer than intended.
I do know the NA servers were getting a bit wacky the last couple of days. There was a quest in Eastmarch that gliched and you had abandon to reset and a NPC at a dolmen you couldn't kill. Health got to 5% and it froze in place but didn't die. The dolmen still finished and it reset but it was lol.
I think all the grinding and lots and lots of people doing the same quests in rapid succession, confused the server or they had a hardware issue. So it probably needed extra maintenance today.Edited by Katahdin on April 12, 2016 6:56PMBeta tester November 20131 -
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The pic looks great, I really love the "flavor sparkles"goatlyonesub17_ESO wrote: »You might commission a baker to make you a real Jubilee Cake. Um, I'd call it something other than Jubilee, though. ZOS might have a trademark interest in the name, and its etymology isn't the best.
Edit: I just noticed that there is a 2nd "middle layer," which might, or might not, be the same stuff as the pointed-to middle layer.
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✭✭✭✭✭Ourorboros wrote: »It was a single layer cake when it wasn't supposed to be, and anyone in Cyrodiil was SOL.
This is not true! The thing is, anything marked as 'momento' will not work in Cyrodiil, and was explained in one of Gina's posts on the subject. Thus, in order to use the cake buff, you had to apply the buff BEFORE going into Cyrodiil... and to reapply it you had to leave, reapply, and return. A pain having to leave and return to apply the buff, yes... but players certainly weren't SOL.CP: 1965 ** ESO+ Gold Road ** ~~ Stamina Arcanist ~~ Magicka Warden ~~ Magicka Templar ~~ ***** Strictly a solo PvE quester *****0 -
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✭✭Ourorboros wrote: »It was a single layer cake when it wasn't supposed to be, and anyone in Cyrodiil was SOL.
This is not true! The thing is, anything marked as 'momento' will not work in Cyrodiil, and was explained in one of Gina's posts on the subject. Thus, in order to use the cake buff, you had to apply the buff BEFORE going into Cyrodiil... and to reapply it you had to leave, reapply, and return. A pain having to leave and return to apply the buff, yes... but players certainly weren't SOL.
Technically, this is true. Kinda like saying a girl who gives and receives oral is a virgin just because there was no penetration. From a practical point, the cake was useless, at least during prime time on a busy server. Imagine leaving every 2 hours for the cake buff, then waiting in queue to get back into Cyrodiil. How much of the cake buff got used while waiting, and what did the map look like on getting back in? Was there still a raid spot available? But hey, technically we had the option to jump through hoops.Edited by Ourorboros on April 12, 2016 10:58PMPC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
TANSTAAFL--->There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.....Robert Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea....Heinlein
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die. "Blade Runner"
ESO: the game you hate to love and love to hate....( >_<) May RNG be with you (*,_,*)1
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