Anniversary Jubilee and Dungeon Finder

Gnozo · February 2019

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

As most of you know, the recently completed Undaunted Celebration Event in ESO was plagued with Activity Finder issues. We had similar problems last year, but we thought they were resolved - unfortunately this year the demand once again overwhelmed this particular system, especially during prime-time hours. This led to a really frustrating experience for many of you, so we are going to address the situation by making Mysterious Reward Boxes available during the New Life festival, which starts soon.

This is the way it will work: A Mysterious Reward Box will be given as a bonus reward for completing your first New Life daily quest each day, per account. This means that the first New Life Festival daily you complete on your account will grant one New Life Reward Box, one Event Ticket, and one Mysterious Reward Box. This should help grant you the rewards that you couldn't get through the Activity Finder.

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

So, since this Jubilee Events 4 week will be Undaunted Pledges and Trials are you Guys "100% confident" that your group finder works?

@zos_richlambert ?

Colecovision · February 2019

I don't understand. Are they locking the rewards behind groupfinder or pledges? If it's pledges, just make your own group and port in.

eso_lags · February 2019

Gnozo wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

As most of you know, the recently completed Undaunted Celebration Event in ESO was plagued with Activity Finder issues. We had similar problems last year, but we thought they were resolved - unfortunately this year the demand once again overwhelmed this particular system, especially during prime-time hours. This led to a really frustrating experience for many of you, so we are going to address the situation by making Mysterious Reward Boxes available during the New Life festival, which starts soon.

This is the way it will work: A Mysterious Reward Box will be given as a bonus reward for completing your first New Life daily quest each day, per account. This means that the first New Life Festival daily you complete on your account will grant one New Life Reward Box, one Event Ticket, and one Mysterious Reward Box. This should help grant you the rewards that you couldn't get through the Activity Finder.

Additionally, we will not hold another in-game event that requires the Activity Finder until we are 100% confident that the tool can support it. Stay tuned for details on that.

So, since this Jubilee Events 4 week will be Undaunted Pledges and Trials are you Guys "100% confident" that your group finder works?

@zos_richlambert ?

"unfortunately this year the demand once again overwhelmed this particular system, especially during prime-time hours."

No. The demand overwhelms every system. Every single system you have. Almost like there is a problem with the entire system. Any time a ton of players gather in the same zone there is an issue. You can see it any weekday night at nearly any time in vivec, especially on xbox. And especially "during prime time hours".. Come and see, please.

You can see it when you have events that have people group up in mass in certain zones, again cyrodil tends to get hit the hardest. There are always issues.

So no OP I dont think it will be different. Maybe rich will be confident, and maybe it will be alright. The group finder is has been up and down for me. Most of the time it works fine, sometimes it works terrible. But if i have to guess I would say there will be chaos. Any time there are a fair amount of people doing something in this massively multiplayer online world there is usually an issue. But I truly do hope it goes off without many problems.

Gnozo · February 2019

Colecovision wrote: »

I don't understand. Are they locking the rewards behind groupfinder or pledges? If it's pledges, just make your own group and port in.

Pledges, but still. If there arent Any friends/guild members online am i now forces to spam zone chat until i get a full group cause activity finder is a technical mess?

There is a tool to form a group for a dungeon if i cant get enough Guild member/Friends for a full group. And i need a full group for most of the dungeons. So with an Event Like this, it should work like its meant to. No workaround needed.

NoTimeToWait · February 2019

Gnozo wrote: »

Colecovision wrote: »

I don't understand. Are they locking the rewards behind groupfinder or pledges? If it's pledges, just make your own group and port in.

Pledges, but still. If there arent Any friends/guild members online am i now forces to spam zone chat until i get a full group cause activity finder is a technical mess?

There is a tool to form a group for a dungeon if i cant get enough Guild member/Friends for a full group. And i need a full group for most of the dungeons. So with an Event Like this, it should work like its meant to. No workaround needed.

Forced to spam? Don't be a lazy hat, just go to Grahtwood, and in couple of minutes you will get your group. I think, during the event, there would be a lot of people looking for men for their party, so all you have to do is to send "+" in their private channel.

I don't see any posts that bash the lack of group finder for trials. People just go and spam for a few minutes in specific zone (Craglorn) and don't feel too much inconvenienced by that.

While I agree that the last Anniversary on PC EU was a complete disappointment in terms of quality of service, surely, the Dungeon Finder tool is only a part of the problem, and not really the most prominent part

Gnozo · February 2019

NoTimeToWait wrote: »

Gnozo wrote: »

Colecovision wrote: »

I don't understand. Are they locking the rewards behind groupfinder or pledges? If it's pledges, just make your own group and port in.

Pledges, but still. If there arent Any friends/guild members online am i now forces to spam zone chat until i get a full group cause activity finder is a technical mess?

There is a tool to form a group for a dungeon if i cant get enough Guild member/Friends for a full group. And i need a full group for most of the dungeons. So with an Event Like this, it should work like its meant to. No workaround needed.

Forced to spam? Don't be a lazy hat, just go to Grahtwood, and in couple of minutes you will get your group. I think, during the event, there would be a lot of people looking for men for their party, so all you have to do is to send "+" in their private channel.

I don't see any posts that bash the lack of group finder for trials. People just go and spam for a few minutes in specific zone (Craglorn) and don't feel too much inconvenienced by that.

While I agree that the last Anniversary on PC EU was a complete disappointment in terms of quality of service, surely, the Dungeon Finder tool is only a part of the problem, and not really the most prominent part

So i need to do what the activity finder was supposed to replace?

Why should i use a workaround to find my group? How about actually fixing broken things instead of forcing players to workaround brocken features? And these Features are broken for years now!

NoTimeToWait · February 2019

Gnozo wrote: »

So i need to do what the activity finder was supposed to replace?

Why should i use a workaround to find my group? How about actually fixing broken things instead of forcing players to workaround brocken features? And these Features are broken for years now!

I can't be less worried about some "tools" not working when I can't login. I hope we won't have almost a week worth of maintenance (like it was last year) during anniversary only because some tool has stopped working properly.

Heartsworth · April 2019

This is going to be interesting considering it's already broken for me on the EU servers and it's still week 1 (Crafting Writs).

rotaugen454 · April 2019

I bet a lot of people take the pledge, then port to FG1 to solo it.

zaria · April 2019

Colecovision wrote: »

I don't understand. Are they locking the rewards behind groupfinder or pledges? If it's pledges, just make your own group and port in.

You can make your own group and port in. Random dungeon requirement require finder, not pledge.
This is highly recommended. Note that normal pledges also give box and this speed things up a bit.

Still far from all players are in multiple social guilds.
You also has some crap alts you don't want to be seen public with even in an normal

MartiniDaniels · April 2019

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I bet a lot of people take the pledge, then port to FG1 to solo it.

Wut? It won't work that way. Probably only way to get boxes will be pre-made/solo and directly walking into dungeon avoiding GF.