4th Event and 4th berry for Q3?

The_Saint · September 2019

One week left in Q3 and the 4th berry and event is missing.
When we get it? Maybe start Thursday?
Witches festival should be the next but regular start was end of october last year...

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_SarahHecker
help plz

MajBludd · September 2019

What will you do with your pokemon when you get all those berries?

SydneyGrey · September 2019

I want to know, too. I wish they would announce the events more than just 2 or 3 days in advance.

MajBludd wrote: »

What will you do with your pokemon when you get all those berries?

Use it to fight other pokemons, of course.

rumple9 · September 2019

Maybe summerset event as that was 20th September last year

The_Saint · September 2019

rumple9 wrote: »

Maybe summerset event as that was 20th September last year

oh

i completely forgot that event...

Danikat · September 2019

Considering the short notice they usually give us it's possible there will be another event starting later this week.

Or having to cancel Midyear Mayhem threw their plans off and the 4th Onyx berry event will be the first one of Q4 then they'll have to cram the Pure Snow berry events together.

If it's the second one I just hope they don't put too much stuff in late December as I'm away most of the month and it would be really annoying to get to the end and miss out on the last indrik because their scheduling was off. (Although the Pure Snow indrik is 4th in my personal priority list, so it's not the end of the world if I miss it, just annoying.)

LordLomax · September 2019

Fingers and toes crossed midd year mayhem will be back

Araneae6537 · September 2019

rumple9 wrote: »

Maybe summerset event as that was 20th September last year

Oh, I hope so!

The_Saint · September 2019

ErinM31 wrote: »

rumple9 wrote: »

Maybe summerset event as that was 20th September last year

Oh, I hope so!

I need a new house. Lets start it^^

Sylvermynx · September 2019

I just need to know what it's going to be so I know whether I'll be eventing for tickets or buying them outright for the 4th berry. *sigh*

ProfessorKittyhawk · September 2019

Could be Summerset/Morrowind celebration, Clockwork City celebration, or Undaunted event. I imagine Witches and New Life to be the 2 main events for the white berry, with Murkmire celebration and something else, perhaps one of the previous mentioned events (Undaunted or CWC seems likely).

The_Saint · September 2019

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

Could be Summerset/Morrowind celebration, Clockwork City celebration, or Undaunted event. I imagine Witches and New Life to be the 2 main events for the white berry, with Murkmire celebration and something else, perhaps one of the previous mentioned events (Undaunted or CWC seems likely).

pts notes
Undaunted Celebration
Later this year, we’re planning to host the Undaunted Celebration dungeon event.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6336920/#Comment_6336920

for this event we need the group finder from 5.2

mateosalvaje · September 2019

Why do I feel like they posted an event schedule in the news section a long time ago? Maybe because I just woke up, maybe I'm delusional, maybe they did. 😜

Nairinhe · September 2019

mateosalvaje wrote: »

Why do I feel like they posted an event schedule in the news section a long time ago? Maybe because I just woke up, maybe I'm delusional, maybe they did. 😜

Link or didn't happen

Jolipinator · September 2019

Nairinhe wrote: »

mateosalvaje wrote: »

Why do I feel like they posted an event schedule in the news section a long time ago? Maybe because I just woke up, maybe I'm delusional, maybe they did. 😜

Link or didn't happen

They did for Q4 of 2018. https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/54935

Q1 2019 too. https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55477

kringled_1 · September 2019

Jolipinator wrote: »

Nairinhe wrote: »

mateosalvaje wrote: »

Why do I feel like they posted an event schedule in the news section a long time ago? Maybe because I just woke up, maybe I'm delusional, maybe they did. 😜

Link or didn't happen

They did for Q4 of 2018. https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/54935

Q1 2019 too. https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/55477

Q2 was also just the anniversary event. But Q3 they seem to be just winging it.

rumple9 · September 2019

Aren't people sick of indriks yet ?

The berries and feathers are only bag fillers to get people to sub

NotaDaedraWorshipper · September 2019

rumple9 wrote: »

Aren't people sick of indriks yet ?

The berries and feathers are only bag fillers to get people to sub

But they don't fill your inventory anymore. They go into collections.

Starlock · September 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I just need to know what it's going to be so I know whether I'll be eventing for tickets or buying them outright for the 4th berry. *sigh*

This here is the reason why events were transformed from good spirited fun celebrations to a classic example of predatory microtransaction schemes. Not to pick on you, but you're being exploited by the design of these. Don't give them the pleasure, much less your money. And for the record, I fell for it too until I recognized exactly what was going on:

Step 1 - introduce a fun, community event with no strings attached to acclimate the community to them
Step 2 - introduce event-based currency that can only be earned by participating in the event; attach limited time rewards to the event that can only be purchased with the event-based currency
Step 3 - offer the limited time currency in the cash shop and cap the amount of event-based currency that can be held to force many players into the cash shop in order to complete collections or bypass deliberately designed grinds (because "convenience")
Step 4 - make future events and their prizes as convoluted and opaque as possible to confuse the buyer and frustrate them into just buying even more of the currency in your cash shop (because "convenience")
Step 5 - profit by the hundreds of thousands of dollars from your masterfully designed racket and laugh as players are mostly oblivious to the fact that you're deliberately exploiting them

SydneyGrey · September 2019

Starlock wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I just need to know what it's going to be so I know whether I'll be eventing for tickets or buying them outright for the 4th berry. *sigh*

This here is the reason why events were transformed from good spirited fun celebrations to a classic example of predatory microtransaction schemes. Not to pick on you, but you're being exploited by the design of these. Don't give them the pleasure, much less your money. And for the record, I fell for it too until I recognized exactly what was going on:

Step 1 - introduce a fun, community event with no strings attached to acclimate the community to them
Step 2 - introduce event-based currency that can only be earned by participating in the event; attach limited time rewards to the event that can only be purchased with the event-based currency
Step 3 - offer the limited time currency in the cash shop and cap the amount of event-based currency that can be held to force many players into the cash shop in order to complete collections or bypass deliberately designed grinds (because "convenience")
Step 4 - make future events and their prizes as convoluted and opaque as possible to confuse the buyer and frustrate them into just buying even more of the currency in your cash shop (because "convenience")
Step 5 - profit by the hundreds of thousands of dollars from your masterfully designed racket and laugh as players are mostly oblivious to the fact that you're deliberately exploiting them

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

rotaugen454 · September 2019

I haven’t bought a single ticket and have everything thus far. I traded my time instead of spending money.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · September 2019

To the OP, I was about to start a new thread on this very topic.... although I think a vote (poll) would be appropriate to select what other readers think will be coming up. The basic quandry is that we should still be getting a 4th event this quarter, which ends on September 30... so I'm expecting something to be announced on Tuesday (24th), for an event starting Thursday, 26 September, and spilling over into October (ending Monday 7th). This would leave plenty of time for a Witches Festival in the second half of October, followed by an Undaunted event in November and the New Life Festival in December, with one other event in between (tbd, but most likely Clockwork City). The Undaunted event can't be done this quarter, because ZoS also said they would not host any further events dependent on the grouping tool/activity finder until that was fixed. This is also why some other events have been shifted around earlier this year, and not scheduled for their usual time of the year.

My best guess for the Q3 final event is a (double drops) celebration event for either Summerset OR Murkmire (or possibly both in one), with Clockwork City in late November/early December.

Mr_Walker · September 2019

Undaunted event will be fun.

Hey, totally unrelated question, is the group finder still stuffed?

Kiyakotari · September 2019

Mr_Walker wrote: »

Undaunted event will be fun.

Hey, totally unrelated question, is the group finder still stuffed?

Yup! And even better, the "port to FG1" way of handling the horror of queuing for a random on, say, your level 46 and ending up in some place like March of Sacrifices when you have half a dozen OTHER randoms you still need to run that day for the event no longer works.

cmvet · September 2019

The_Saint wrote: »

One week left in Q3 and the 4th berry and event is missing.
When we get it? Maybe start Thursday?
Witches festival should be the next but regular start was end of october last year...

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_SarahHecker
help plz

People still going for berries? Guess I lost interest after the second or third event.

Danikat · September 2019

Starlock wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I just need to know what it's going to be so I know whether I'll be eventing for tickets or buying them outright for the 4th berry. *sigh*

This here is the reason why events were transformed from good spirited fun celebrations to a classic example of predatory microtransaction schemes. Not to pick on you, but you're being exploited by the design of these. Don't give them the pleasure, much less your money. And for the record, I fell for it too until I recognized exactly what was going on:

Step 1 - introduce a fun, community event with no strings attached to acclimate the community to them
Step 2 - introduce event-based currency that can only be earned by participating in the event; attach limited time rewards to the event that can only be purchased with the event-based currency
Step 3 - offer the limited time currency in the cash shop and cap the amount of event-based currency that can be held to force many players into the cash shop in order to complete collections or bypass deliberately designed grinds (because "convenience")
Step 4 - make future events and their prizes as convoluted and opaque as possible to confuse the buyer and frustrate them into just buying even more of the currency in your cash shop (because "convenience")
Step 5 - profit by the hundreds of thousands of dollars from your masterfully designed racket and laugh as players are mostly oblivious to the fact that you're deliberately exploiting them

The most obvious flaw with this theory is that events are no more confusing or complicated than they were before they started selling tickets in the crown store. Some players were totally confused by the process right from the first event which gave tickets. (And I suspect the only reason it didn't happen more often before then is that fewer people were doing the events because the only rewards were stuff you could get all year round anyway.)

They seem to have actually addressed one source of confusion by finally settling on tickets resetting at the normal daily reset time instead of a different time...or 20 hours after you last got tickets, or 20 hours after you last did that activity regardless of whether you got tickets from it or somewhere else or...

Although they haven't actually said they're sticking to one system, so players still have to try it out and share their findings to work out what the system is each event, and in theory it could change again. But at least the last few have used the logical approach of "once per day" meaning "once per 24 hour period between daily resets".

Edaphon · September 2019

Kiyakotari wrote: »

Mr_Walker wrote: »

Undaunted event will be fun.

Hey, totally unrelated question, is the group finder still stuffed?

Yup! And even better, the "port to FG1" way of handling the horror of queuing for a random on, say, your level 46 and ending up in some place like March of Sacrifices when you have half a dozen OTHER randoms you still need to run that day for the event no longer works.

It's also no longer necessary. You don't need to complete a random quest anymore, you just need to kill the last boss.

If you want to you can just enter FG 1 solo to get your tickets.

LordLomax · September 2019

I was bored of Indriks after the base one just a reskinned elk. Need a new event plus there have been too many lately 4 a year is enough . Midyear mayhem , witches festival . New life and either undaunted or imperial city /orsinium

Sylvermynx · September 2019

@Starlock - you are of course entitled to your opinion. So however am I, and also I'm perfectly happy to spend RL money on my hobby, which is this game.

I gave the yellow indrik a miss as I thought it ugly. I want the onyx and the white ones. I didn't like any of the Q3 events so far, no telling about the 4th (if there is one even....) so I'm quite enjoying being able to get the tickets another way. I will likely be able to get all the tickets Q4 through events, and I'm very glad ZOS gave me and others with issues getting tickets for whatever reason another option.

I will continue to buy as I see fit, because I'm really having fun in this game. I will also continue to sub for two accounts.

Each to her own.

heaven13 · September 2019

Edaphon wrote: »

Kiyakotari wrote: »

Mr_Walker wrote: »

Undaunted event will be fun.

Hey, totally unrelated question, is the group finder still stuffed?

Yup! And even better, the "port to FG1" way of handling the horror of queuing for a random on, say, your level 46 and ending up in some place like March of Sacrifices when you have half a dozen OTHER randoms you still need to run that day for the event no longer works.

It's also no longer necessary. You don't need to complete a random quest anymore, you just need to kill the last boss.

If you want to you can just enter FG 1 solo to get your tickets.

There's a difference here. For tickets you only needed to kill the final boss of any dungeon meaning soloing Fungal Grotto was fine. If you wanted mysterious boxes that had the extra goodies in them, you had to use dungeon finder for a random.

Asardes · September 2019

Most event activities took 10-15 minutes/day for me and I got pretty much everything that dropped thus far. Witches Festival should be in the 24.10-04.11.19 time frame, so right after Dragonhold launch 21.10.19. There is still a month where they can put that 4th event. Likeliest ones: Murkmire or Summerset anniversary events since they're the only ones that didn't happen this year: IC just finished in early September, Orsinium was in August, we had a repeat of TG and DB one in late June instead of Mayhem with the initial one March, Morrowind was in February.