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Phase One will be LONG
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Mik195✭✭✭✭✭tomofhyrule wrote: »scrappy1342 wrote: »There in PC-EU we are at 2.3% progression after 24h of event, so what? It will take around 43 days to do the Phase One?
And we still got TWO phase after that T_TBut as far as I remember they were hyping that event with the argument "you can unlock the update/pass to next phase before the others servers" but somehow it HAD to take a month for sure, a bit contradictory if in the end if they balanced each servers to take the same time for each...Update, in a hour we passed from 2.3% to 3.6% magically lol
they have never given us the actual numbers for any of these community events. and what their progress bar shows never seems to match up with what is -actually- going on in the game. they always fudge the numbers to make sure it lasts long enough and we get the rewards we are "promised." i remember during the skyrim event where we moved the progress bar by digging up antiquities. i had a couple guildmates who were going absolutely BONKERS and spending every waking moment digging up antiquities because they were worried when the event had been running a few days and the bar was not progressing enough. i told them don't stress themselves because no matter what our numbers were, we would magically get the house and other things in the end. and we did. and big surprise, as ppl were doing less digging at the end and getting burned out, it somehow progressed quicker than it had in the beginning.
Various employees repeatedly said they’re not going to fudge the numbers this time…. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a change of plans because of all the complaints.
Can you imagine how incredibly hysterical it would be if one server did just decide to stop doing dailies? Like what would ZOS do if people just stopped grinding and then the bar didn’t progress?
I can’t imagine “well, you don’t get the rest of the content you paid for because your server didn’t grind like mad!” would be a good path forward if they intended to sell anything ever again, but honestly that would be on par with many of the other marketing choices they’ve made this year.
Would be somehow funny
Well, given the number of people who are concerned about the future of Xbox due to Microsoft's recent stupidness, it wouldn't surprise me if many people have just opted out from the boringness.1 -
MoonPile✭✭✭✭✭tomofhyrule wrote: »But as far as I remember they were hyping that event with the argument "you can unlock the update/pass to next phase before the others servers" but somehow it HAD to take a month for sure, a bit contradictory if in the end if they balanced each servers to take the same time for each...
Marketing.
It’s all a black box for a reason.
Really, are we expecting that any given server would not be able to access the content (that they paid for!) in a reasonable time? Or that a server would be able to access the content before it was actually added to the game?
They’re going to pick one server to “win” bragging rights, and then every server will make it to the end within a day or two so nobody gets discouraged. If it were me, I’d finagle it so a console server (probably PSEU) “wins” so that the console players can get something before PC for once.
TBH, in some cases it already feels like we can't access content we paid for. Because it's stuck in boring means-to-an-end RNG systems that have no way to circumvent them (for example). It's truly souring.2