ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »

In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

Are you serious? Way to shaft the pvp players.

Important info:

As you participate in the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration, you can earn Event Tickets for the following activities:

One Event Ticket for the first Sacrament completed each day
Sacraments are unlocked by reaching Dark Brotherhood Rank 2 and completing the quest “A Lesson in Silence”

One Event Ticket for the first Heist completed each day
Heists are unlocked by reaching Thieves Guild Rank 3 and completing the quest “The Long Game”


My advice: don't wait to start your criminal career until the event starts. Get those dailies unlocked now.

ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »

In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

The only event PvPers get and the only one I look forward to gone. Very considerate. Bet Crown Crates and Crown Store items won’t be delayed.

Here’s some ideas

1. Have the golden appear with the jewellery like it does during previous Mid Year events, reduce the cost in AP by 50%

2. Have double Tel Var

3. Give out reward boxes OR double AP so it isn’t as appealing and so there’s not so much of a server overload

4. Have the event in certain campaigns but also have event free ones so people can choose

It is very clear at this point that zenimax has designated PVP as a dead portion of their game, and one that is not profitable enough to invest any resources into. You just cited an article about "EU server performance" as the reason you're cancelling THE ONLY PVP EVENT OF THE ENTIRE YEAR. There is no "ongoing effort to improve performance", you haven't even formulated a plan on how to address it yet because you don't care. After all, the most profitable portions of the playerbase are the cosmetic and housing enthusiasts, right?

This is pathetic. If you were so worried about the BG queue finder not working, THE ONLY PORTION OF THE EVENT THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED ACCORDING TO YOUR CITED SOURCE, you could leave the double AP modifier to cyrodiil and IC only.

*** off zenimax.

Damn, I skipped Midyear Mayhem in January because I was busy and assumed it would be back in July/August.

VaranisArano wrote: »

Midyear Mayhem is a no win situation.

Have it?

Battlegrounds is required for 100% completion of the achievements. BGs are an important part of PVP. Battlegrounds groupfinder is seriously bugged and ZOS knows it. So having the event is a recipe for frustration.

And, let's be honest, the Cyrodiil campaigns don't handle it well, AND you'd be having it while people are still struggling with the odd faction locking that happened this month.

Don't have it?

All the PVPers are annoyed because they don't get their event.


Best solution?
Fix BG groupfinder fast.
Make faction locking clear and work as intended at the end of campaigns.
Then have Midyear Mayhem.

Personally I'm sad that we're skipping Midyear Mayhem because for the most part I've really enjoyed that event in the past (even though I'm not a regular PVPer), but I understand not wanting to have it when such an integral part of it is broken, especially with the player population being as high as it has been over the past ~6 months. If we're seeing issues now, just imagine how amplified they'd be with an event sending all kinds of people who don't usually PVP into PVPland.

I personally happen to really like the Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood event as well, because I like doing heists and sacraments (they're really easy with the right gear and a bit of practice), so for me it's a nice replacement for Midyear Mayhem. At the same time I really hope that they make the needed fixes to the group finder quickly, sort out the faction lock stuff, and hopefully work more on general performance issues, and then give us Midyear Mayhem a bit later in the year when those things are in a better state than they are currently.

This is going to be a disaster with the game's current performance. The entire server is going to crowd Hew's Bane and Gold Coast for 2 weeks, making it virtually impossible for any player to quest in either zone, a lot of which requires being in cities - the source of the lag. You've done nothing to address the server issues so players can expect to spend most of their time in front of a loading screen. Also, telling PvP players that you are going to continue to ignore them for the rest of the YEAR is a pretty stupid move - those players might as well leave now and spend their money elsewhere.

Great PR, ZoS - don't just alienate PvE players with trash performance during their repetitive event, make sure EVERYONE is screwed over, lol.

ZOS routinely shafts the PVP community so canceling the Midyear Mayhem event is not surprising. Performance issues are never addressed. Balance issues are never addressed. Massive skill problems (ala Necro Bash) are never addressed. You simply become numb to it all. It’s the ESO version of Stockholm Syndrome. Or maybe Shornhelm Syndrome? Or the Cropsford Contagion!

Don't get your hopes up, nothing will change, garbage performance is here to stay, if they could fix the server issues they would have done that long time ago.

Why this event though? Out of all the ones you could pick you chose the one nobody likes.

Also wait does this mean y'all will be cancelling the undaunted event too then? Because it tends to rely on the buggy af group finder as well. We all know how great it's behaved previously.

ZOS_SarahHecker wrote: »

In light of our ongoing work to improve game performance and the Activity Finder, we are holding the Midyear Mayhem event until next year to ensure that the player experience is a good one. In its place, we are moving forward the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event, which will run from July 2 to July 15, and will give players the chance to earn the Event Tickets needed to start the Onyx Indrik mount evolution.

Could we get some clarification and communication as to what the process has been and how far along in this process we actually are? Any communication would be great, like any at all...