Summerfall Event - Can we do it?

Alkapton · September 2018

Altaire wrote: »

I think ZoS messed up by not including the PTS. That way ppl that haven't got the summerset expansion could test it out and participate. And a free manor would have been a major incentive to up-grade.

I don't see how that is the case. The ones (like me) who have not yet bought Summerset are not participating. The rewards go only to those who own Summerset. If like me you only play on ESO+ you won't get the rewards so I doubt very much we are contributing in any way.

I think that's the point of this 'promotion'. It forces people like me to buy the DLC, which I will tomorrow. Then I only have to do it on one server cause its already done on one.

For these reasons I think the house is a fairly safe bet. Those who need a couple of weeks to get £13 together will have a couple of weeks from the start to get it together. The achievment itself is so easy to do I can't believe there were many on eso+ who had not already done it. So how does the needle move up the scale? By people completing Pathfinder this week or people on eso+ only buying the dlc? OK. I'm a proffesional cynic.

Sylvermynx · September 2018

NoTimeToWait wrote: »

Casual players should be quite interested in this, because it is probably their only chance of getting any kind of notable house in-game, because they don't spend enough time to earn gold, so they could get manor like this by ingame means and I doubt casuals will spend 100$ on the game they play 10 or less hours a week.

Actually.... In less than three months, I have nearly a million gold. 9 girls, each one does crafting writs. I could buy a notable house eventually - but I don't really like most of them.

The Psijic Villa I really like. I also like Strident Springs (hmm.... may not be "notable", not sure as not in game just now). Really though.... this game is EASY gold compared to some. And btw - I consider myself a casual. Yes, I play for hours every day - but I solo, and putz, and mess around. I have HORRIBLE lag (due to satellite being my only available connection) so things like dungeons and world bosses and dolmens are really not my thing.

Not to mention I already did dungeons, bosses, raids - all that crap - in WoW and RIFT. Not really interested any more.

JJBoomer · September 2018

Nope (Don't be negative)

Nulami wrote: »

Darkmage1337 wrote: »

Event/details/FAQ: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/summerfall

Community Progress:
September 18 - 20% default community- progress meter (pre-event) from players who already had the achievement
September 19 - 20% no increase because the event hadn't officially started yet
September 20 - Day 1 - 35% (+15% for 9/18 and 9/19)
September 21 - Day 2 - 42% (+7% for 9/20)
September 22 - Day 3 - 47% (+5% for 9/21, even when ZOS live-streamed the event on Twitch, on a Friday...)
September 23 - Day 4 - 63% (+16% for 9/22, barely makes up for a poor Saturday turnout)
September 24 - Day 5 - X%
September 25 - Day 6 - X%
September 26 - Day 7 - X%
September 27 - Day 8 - X%
September 28 - Day 9 - X%
Summerfall Event ends on Friday, September 28 at 10:00AM EDT.

It is going to be close.

From the Summerfall faq:

When is the Summerfall Event?
The Summerfall Event begins on Thursday, September 20 at 11:00AM EDT and ends on Friday, September 28 at 10:00AM EDT. Note that the event sale continues on to October 2 and the window to earn the Summerfall Event rewards ends on October 7.

We have longer than September 28 to get the house.

No we don't. The counting for the event stops on the 28th. But the ability to purchase, and log into summerset, becoming eligible to receive the rewards continues until the 7th. But the actual counting towards the house, stops the 28th.

Petoften · September 2018

How long would it take a new player to do this, and is any class best for it?

Glurin · September 2018

Not sure

Petoften wrote: »

How long would it take a new player to do this, and is any class best for it?

Not long. It's literally just moving from one side of the island to another while going near certain spots on the map. The only real hurdle is getting to Artaeum for that last point on the map. You have to do a couple quests to gain access, which should only take like an hour tops. And that estimate is for a brand new player who's still only just beginning to learn how the game works.

Although you could just group with someone who can already go there, go into the party menu, right click their name and click "travel to player" I think it is. That completely bypasses the quest requirement.

HappyLittleTree · September 2018

Petoften wrote: »

How long would it take a new player to do this, and is any class best for it?

max 10 minutes with a map of the locations.

Steinschlag · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

We can and we will, cause its promotion for ZoS. and they want happy player :>

Bam_Bam · September 2018

Nope (Don't be negative)

Xk3koax wrote: »

I hope we do cause that house is sick!

That's why its rigged (probably/allegedly). If you think they gonna give everyone who owns Summerset one of the best houses in the game, for an achievement that most have done in their sleep, then you need to stop sniffing glue.

Khrogo · September 2018

Bam_Bam wrote: »

Xk3koax wrote: »

I hope we do cause that house is sick!

That's why its rigged (probably/allegedly). If you think they gonna give everyone who owns Summerset one of the best houses in the game, for an achievement that most have done in their sleep, then you need to stop sniffing glue.

I seriously doubt that they’re gonna hold out on the house. Why would they? It would be horrible PR. Goodwill is a limited resource. Why squander it by setting your player base up for a fall? It makes no sense. The recent balance changes are hardly popular. Why throw fuel on the fire?

FlyingSwan · September 2018

Khrogo wrote: »

Bam_Bam wrote: »

Xk3koax wrote: »

I hope we do cause that house is sick!

That's why its rigged (probably/allegedly). If you think they gonna give everyone who owns Summerset one of the best houses in the game, for an achievement that most have done in their sleep, then you need to stop sniffing glue.

I seriously doubt that they’re gonna hold out on the house. Why would they? It would be horrible PR. Goodwill is a limited resource. Why squander it by setting your player base up for a fall? It makes no sense. The recent balance changes are hardly popular. Why throw fuel on the fire?

Absolutely. Also, if ZOS did not dish out the house it's essentially saying, "oh, our game is so under-subscribed that we couldn't even complete an event. Don't bother wasting your money on Summerset, no one is playing it, it's a dead zone!", that's commercial suicide.

Whatever the 'real' % score, the event will be marketed as a 100% success as it sounds good and makes good headlines!

Elsterchen · September 2018

Glurin wrote: »

Petoften wrote: »

How long would it take a new player to do this, and is any class best for it?

Not long. It's literally just moving from one side of the island to another while going near certain spots on the map. The only real hurdle is getting to Artaeum for that last point on the map. You have to do a couple quests to gain access, which should only take like an hour tops. And that estimate is for a brand new player who's still only just beginning to learn how the game works.

Although you could just group with someone who can already go there, go into the party menu, right click their name and click "travel to player" I think it is. That completely bypasses the quest requirement.

@Petoften in addition to doing it all by yourself, you can do this achievement together with plenty of ppl offering tours, ports and alike atm.
So, instead of unlocking quests to progress to arteum or walk all the way to all locations, there are ppl offering active help to keep distances short.

If you use what is offered by the community all you need to do is log in, do the intro (if you haven#t done it yet -> eg new char on "other" server (EU or NA) and ask for help in chat... in sum thats 10 mins playtime (maybe more, if you enjoy a talk or such with those guiding you.

)

SteveCampsOut · September 2018

Already pointed out. Nevermind.

maciopa · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

FlyingSwan wrote: »

Also, if ZOS did not dish out the house it's essentially saying, "oh, our game is so under-subscribed that we couldn't even complete an event. Don't bother wasting your money on Summerset, no one is playing it, it's a dead zone!", that's commercial suicide.

I was about to write the same but you were earlier

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I was quite active on both servers for several days encouraging and helping people get that achiev along plenty of other people - and we literally left nobody behind... So all those positively hyped people would get really upset if it turned out that after such a busy weekend we wouldn't earn that reward...

SickDuck · September 2018

Other

I think people who are asking this question do not understand why companies are doing these type of events. It was decided before the event started.

NoTimeToWait · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

Sylvermynx wrote: »

NoTimeToWait wrote: »

Casual players should be quite interested in this, because it is probably their only chance of getting any kind of notable house in-game, because they don't spend enough time to earn gold, so they could get manor like this by ingame means and I doubt casuals will spend 100$ on the game they play 10 or less hours a week.

Actually.... In less than three months, I have nearly a million gold. 9 girls, each one does crafting writs. I could buy a notable house eventually - but I don't really like most of them.

The Psijic Villa I really like. I also like Strident Springs (hmm.... may not be "notable", not sure as not in game just now). Really though.... this game is EASY gold compared to some. And btw - I consider myself a casual. Yes, I play for hours every day - but I solo, and putz, and mess around. I have HORRIBLE lag (due to satellite being my only available connection) so things like dungeons and world bosses and dolmens are really not my thing.

Not to mention I already did dungeons, bosses, raids - all that crap - in WoW and RIFT. Not really interested any more.

I doubt that having 9 crafters (high level, because doing writs provides decent income only on 50lvl char) to do writs count as being casual. But well...

In any case, having a house like this is nice even just for storage purposes. 350(700) slots to store your furniture is a hell of a lot space

snegurd · September 2018

Other

Hard to tell without knowing the numbers. I wonder why they choose not to disclose how many people are included in the 100%...

Khrogo · September 2018

FlyingSwan wrote: »

Absolutely. Also, if ZOS did not dish out the house it's essentially saying, "oh, our game is so under-subscribed that we couldn't even complete an event. Don't bother wasting your money on Summerset, no one is playing it, it's a dead zone!", that's commercial suicide.

Whatever the 'real' % score, the event will be marketed as a 100% success as it sounds good and makes good headlines!

Can’t argue with your logic. In fact, I couldn’t agree more.

Malcadicta · September 2018

Not sure

Sylvermynx wrote: »

NoTimeToWait wrote: »

Casual players should be quite interested in this, because it is probably their only chance of getting any kind of notable house in-game, because they don't spend enough time to earn gold, so they could get manor like this by ingame means and I doubt casuals will spend 100$ on the game they play 10 or less hours a week.

Actually.... In less than three months, I have nearly a million gold. 9 girls, each one does crafting writs. I could buy a notable house eventually - but I don't really like most of them.

The Psijic Villa I really like. I also like Strident Springs (hmm.... may not be "notable", not sure as not in game just now). Really though.... this game is EASY gold compared to some. And btw - I consider myself a casual. Yes, I play for hours every day - but I solo, and putz, and mess around. I have HORRIBLE lag (due to satellite being my only available connection) so things like dungeons and world bosses and dolmens are really not my thing.

Not to mention I already did dungeons, bosses, raids - all that crap - in WoW and RIFT. Not really interested any more.

That's not really casual in the meaning of most players. Most players don't have 9 chars who all do crafting - quite frankly many people I know have no interest in crafting whatsoever, they just come to eso to kill some stuff, do some dungeons and that's all. That's the majority of players - most of them doesn't care about houses anough to farm money (often people just don't have time to do any farming, I mean that they might just have couple hours a week for playing in general) so a free house is a great incentive.

I'm a casual. I have a couple houses but considering that I don't spend much time on money making activities and don't have eso+ at the moment (oh, crafting without craft bag is pure hell) no way I'm going to get a notable home out of ingame gold. And I generally have a hard limit on how much and in what way I spend money in games so I won't be spending money for cosmetic upgrade (dlc or eso+ are a different story, I'm saying mounts, houses, outfits).

Danikat · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

Alkapton wrote: »

Altaire wrote: »

I think ZoS messed up by not including the PTS. That way ppl that haven't got the summerset expansion could test it out and participate. And a free manor would have been a major incentive to up-grade.

I don't see how that is the case. The ones (like me) who have not yet bought Summerset are not participating. The rewards go only to those who own Summerset. If like me you only play on ESO+ you won't get the rewards so I doubt very much we are contributing in any way.

I think that's the point of this 'promotion'. It forces people like me to buy the DLC, which I will tomorrow. Then I only have to do it on one server cause its already done on one.

For these reasons I think the house is a fairly safe bet. Those who need a couple of weeks to get £13 together will have a couple of weeks from the start to get it together. The achievment itself is so easy to do I can't believe there were many on eso+ who had not already done it. So how does the needle move up the scale? By people completing Pathfinder this week or people on eso+ only buying the dlc? OK. I'm a proffesional cynic.

I'm confused. How can you have done the achievement on one server if you don't own Summerset? There's no way to get to the island to do Pathfinder without buying the DLC.

Izaki · September 2018

The problem is people who don't want to do the event. there are plenty of those in zone chat.

So for anyone feeling altruistic: you can do the achievement on both servers on each platform and get multiple entries! So I did Xbox EU, PC EU and PC NA! There are plenty of people doing "shuttles" and getting people to wayshrines. Its a really great event imo, really brings people together

DanteYoda · September 2018

Not sure

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

DanteYoda wrote: »

Ok i jumped ahead and ruined my content because i felt bad.. hope you are happy.

You guys might get the horse i can't see the house at 47%

Is there a chance to understand this?

Run like a maniac to 10 spots on the map. You don't have to talk to any NPC or fight any major enemies to do so.

I didn't want to even go to summerset before the other content but Zos messed that up so i said what the hell..

jainiadral wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

DanteYoda wrote: »

Ok i jumped ahead and ruined my content because i felt bad.. hope you are happy.

You guys might get the horse i can't see the house at 47%

Is there a chance to understand this?

Run like a maniac to 10 spots on the map. You don't have to talk to any NPC or fight any major enemies to do so.

Eh, as a story-centered player, I totally get it. There was something magical the first time I finished The Queen's Decree and took the portal to Arteum. I stood still for several minutes just taking in the view. There was something magical in it. Taking a taxi to a wayshrine or slamming yourself through the quest just for the sake of achievement hunting loses that element of awesomeness.

Exactly..

@NoTimeToWait
Casual people do not have the time or the patience to fill a house like that so even if we get it, it will be empty forever.. I personally cannot be bothered wasting my time chasing crafting writs and house stuff, and even bother making the stuff..

Its a horrible gold sink and a time waster for what is effectively a waste of time as no one will ever see it or use it.

Just my opinion.

Wizhunter · September 2018

Not sure

If you do the pathfinder solo don't you get anything ?

Wiz

SantieClaws · September 2018

Wizhunter wrote: »

If you do the pathfinder solo don't you get anything ?

Wiz

If you do it solo or not it does not matter. What matters is that as many of us as possible complete it overall - on both EU and NA servers if we can.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

DaveMoeDee · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

DanteYoda wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

DanteYoda wrote: »

Ok i jumped ahead and ruined my content because i felt bad.. hope you are happy.

You guys might get the horse i can't see the house at 47%

Is there a chance to understand this?

Run like a maniac to 10 spots on the map. You don't have to talk to any NPC or fight any major enemies to do so.

I didn't want to even go to summerset before the other content but Zos messed that up so i said what the hell..

jainiadral wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

DanteYoda wrote: »

Ok i jumped ahead and ruined my content because i felt bad.. hope you are happy.

You guys might get the horse i can't see the house at 47%

Is there a chance to understand this?

Run like a maniac to 10 spots on the map. You don't have to talk to any NPC or fight any major enemies to do so.

Eh, as a story-centered player, I totally get it. There was something magical the first time I finished The Queen's Decree and took the portal to Arteum. I stood still for several minutes just taking in the view. There was something magical in it. Taking a taxi to a wayshrine or slamming yourself through the quest just for the sake of achievement hunting loses that element of awesomeness.

Exactly..

@NoTimeToWait
Casual people do not have the time or the patience to fill a house like that so even if we get it, it will be empty forever.. I personally cannot be bothered wasting my time chasing crafting writs and house stuff, and even bother making the stuff..

Its a horrible gold sink and a time waster for what is effectively a waste of time as no one will ever see it or use it.

Just my opinion.

Meh. It is a less cramped place for me to place my storage coffers and furniture I haven't sold yet.

As far as people running through quest areas, this one is nothing compared to doing the Psijic quest lines or even many of the other events that make you go to various zones. Continuity in the game was abandoned by ZOS when One Tamriel became a thing.

VDoom1 · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

If we continue in this pace, like 10% a day. Then we are very likely to reach 100% with less than 40% to go. However as some have stated, today is Monday. No more weekend, so the percentage gain per day is expected to make a decline.

But we shall see, in 19 minutes.

grannas211 · September 2018

Nope (Don't be negative)

76%

Wise_Will · September 2018

Not sure

76% guys!

Highlor3 · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

We are at Fallout 76% now!

VDoom1 · September 2018

Yes! We can do it!

What? It's not even 17.00 yet. Hell yeah!

That is great, brilliant!

^_^

Less than 25% to go!! Oh my word, I am more like how can we not win now.

SantieClaws · September 2018

Perhaps we need to travel to other zones and gently request that any travellers there who own Summerset but have not completed the deed that they might like to do so?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws