ZOS, please stop with the "some players" spiel...

Northwold · August 8

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I always read it as being somewhat dismissive of the severity of the problem, especially when a thread comes up and it sounds like everyone is impacted. That’s probably just my frustration when I am affected. As someone pointed out though, there have been times I logged in and played for hours and because I was already logged in, I could continue to play. In that case, everyone who was not currently logged in was affected but those who were already logged in were not. So, it seems accurate, unless the server has gone down completely.

I think this is the nub of the problem. If you are experiencing the issue you may interpret "some" as some sort of passive aggressive trivialising attack, psychologically, when that is not in fact what the word means.

I tried to think of any word that would not be interpreted that way and I can't. "A number", if you're looking for insult, would read the same, "players" (which would read as all players) would be factually untrue, etc.

SilverBride · August 8

"Some players have reported a problem with this and we are investigating" is referring to reports having been received and action being taken, not to how many are having the problem.