Was the undaunted just a massive con?

drwoody44b14_ESO · November 2019

StabbityDoom wrote: »

I highly doubt that they would take a PR hit like this on purpose.

And yet their parent company owns Fallout 76.....

Jem_Kindheart · November 2019

Honestly from just me alone, this worked to their very great benefit at my expense lol. But found out like we all did the event was getting turned off, had earned my one page, and had planned for the event to last long enough to at least earn a couple (staves & bow) pages or trade with others.

Well, lol, like many did on hearing it was getting turned off, I scrambled to the Impresario to rush buy a couple I really wanted. I'm sure some of you saw the tent, it was a mass of ppl bent over in the Crown store chest buying tickets... An interesting metaphor now that I think of it, bent over buying. Lol

I've played long enough now to have absolutely ZERO faith that the pages will be returning, and they gave zero hint it would be back up.

So to their great benefit, I bought forty bucks worth of tickets for a couple pages, then later bought and sold Crowns to gold to buy a couple more pages from guild traders, making some lucky players 3.4 Million gold richer today.

They got the equivalent of two complete standalone video game costs from me alone yesterday just because I wanted something and had zero faith it would return. This was to their extreme benefit, and some lucky players are waking up much richer from me and all the other ppl able to buy lol. No regrets, idc really, but I'm not going to pretend for one second this did not advantage ZoS and a few players by farrrrrr to the detriment of me and some others.

BalticBlues · November 2019

I also have the feeling ZOS might not be telling the truth of the entire story.
This is because on PS4 EU the event ran great.

The group finder ran nicely for hours,
no matter if I queued with Tank or Healer, I got a group for the 4 Opal dungeons in secs,
and I collected an opal mask almost every time (once it was a opal weapon).

When something was looking strange, it was how easy you could get the Opal things.
First I collected 4 opal things with my Tank, then I started collecting with my Healer...
...to get so many opal things with several toons on one account felt a bit too good to be true to me...

What worried me: These Opal items bring a burden to the engine,
because each Opal item is actually one more Opal light in each scene to handle...
Perhaps ZOS realized that all these new Opal lights carried by players could be too many to handle and pulled the plug...

Jem_Kindheart · November 2019

Lucky! I had time to earn 1 weapon page, and the helm pages are going for upwards of 1M on PC-NA guild stores

Oakenaxe · November 2019

BalticBlues wrote: »

What worried me: These Opal items bring a burden to the engine,
because each Opal item is actually one more Opal light in each scene to handle...
Perhaps ZOS realized that all these new Opal lights carried by players could be too many to handle and pulled the plug...

Yeah, even though I understand that cosmetics are an important source of money for ZOS and most people like it, I personally get bothered with those too flashy. They take away the immersion in the game, it feels like I'm playing WoW (how long will it be until flying motorcycles appear?). I think that's why I'm not really caring much about the event, I think those Opal items are ugly af lol

Edit: not to mention the decrease in performance...

Indoril_Nerevar · November 2019

If they cancel this event, I will officially quit this game and give up hope like the other 100k players. There is way too much sloppy chaos and stupidity going viral on both DEVS and Community Forums, that it's pushed a huge number of players out.

You can not extend The Witches Festival and make people Multi-Millionaires but cancel THIS after like, 16 hours of up time and than, to shut it down inevitably? May I remind you, that some of us were NOT experiencing difficulties.

There are way too many problems as it is. And the community of players are worse than any other MMO: Literally a number one topic.

This game is becoming a huge failure. Players literally can not afford the patience, the time and the delays anymore. We do not need to be reminded of this junk every time we log on, but we are, because too many players are toxic and too much of this game is constantly falling apart.

And that's a perfect recipe for disaster.

It's too repetitive. This isn't even a *** game anymore . .

Jem_Kindheart · November 2019

Yeahh the hear ya there. I try not to let it, but it does bother me somehow ppl made multi-millions in the Witches Festival selling those gold recipes. I know for certain because someone in my guild was bragging about the milions they're making. Now, today, for example, there is a guild trader on PC-NA in Reaper's March with a player who somehowwwww got 10 Opal pages and is selling them 1M each. Yeah. Idk how this happens but.. I try not to care at least.

ZOS_RogerJ · November 2019

Greetings! Given the non-constructive and baiting nature of this thread we've closed it.