SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I think it's a tricky issue because of how... unpredictable... MMO players can be about "special" rewards they've earned and whether it's "fair" to them if other players are subsequently given an easier opportunity to get those same rewards without having had to earn them in the same way.

Mind you, I'd also like to be able to buy the older jubilee cakes that I missed; I'm just sayin'.

What might be a better solution-- for those players who are specifically interested in the older cakes because they look more like "normal" cakes-- would be to add blueprints or whatever for crafting our own cake and pastry furnishings.

I'd be fine with that. Better than fine; I'd almost always prefer to craft an item myself instead of buying it.

That being said, I will continue to judge people who only find value in things if someone else doesn't have them. It just seems so weird; could never be me.

amapola76 wrote: »

Alastrine wrote: »

They had to find a way to offer the cakes to people who actually played the event

Did they, though?

I'll never understand the mindset of a certain type of gamer who can't enjoy an item if someone else somewhere might be enjoying it, too. What possible impact can it have on your life if I have an imaginary cake in an imaginary home where you will certainly never see it?

I understand it when it's a reward for doing something that's actually a fair challenge. But in this case there was no challenge, and the furniture rewards was not assigned fairly. It was given retroactively. So, nobody earned those cake furnishings imo. At least not the ones created before they existed.



And I don't say that as someone who just wants them. Updated pic.

Like genuinely, those mementos were given for existing. You don't even need to run around looking for the ingredients, it was all right there. They really didn't need to be like this. .

It legit irritates me how they retroactively punished players for not doing something they told them was just for exp. It don't sit well with me. And never will. Kind of takes some of the shine off my cakes. I still like them a lot. But, I'd like them a whole lot better if they were fair.

Kiyakotari wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I will never agree that the cakes should only be available for the years participated because there are people WHO did participate who can't buy the old cakes. Not because they didn't do the event, on the contrary, they did do the event.

But because the cakes were added years after the mementos. In fact, the mementos were shown off to work for groups the first year, so not everyone needed to get a cake.

I don't think needing the power to divine the future should be required for a simple cosmetic item.

I fall into this category. I can't get the cakes for 2016 or 2017, not because I wasn't playing, but because I didn't do the cake quest since it wasn't necessary to do it to participate in the event. There were no furnishings back then.

I'm in a similar situation. I started playing in early 2017, but didn't really understand how events worked in ESO until the following year. (And in my defense, ESO events were much more lowkey at that time, and easier to miss.)