They made the event more common, which would throw off the yearly distribution of event-related trade bar sources.

Probably more saliently, it stops all the casual players from crying on the forums when they have to do something approximating PvP twice a year, because, truly, God forbid we be happy for other people once in a while.

Ignoring 90% of the game is a choice, and then saying they're discriminating against players is pretty funny.

alternatelder wrote: »

Ignoring 90% of the game is a choice, and then saying they're discriminating against players is pretty funny.

Where did I ever say I ignore 90% of the game? I do everything the game has to offer apart from housing. I also enjoy PvP more than any other part of the game, and looked forward to PvP events because it meant that I could get rewarded with event tickets (now trade bars) for doing what I enjoyed most.

Nice bait though.

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_NickG can we get some clarification on this please? This seems like a PR nightmare of a decision to make without proper clarification/explanation.

PvP has been crying out for MORE rewards for years now to encourage more people to try it out, so removing rewards is just completely backwards decision making. So unless communication is not complete and there are other rewards (such as trade bars within the event boxes per day instead of from the quest rewards) then that needs to be clarified.

I get that not everyone likes PvP, and that is ok, but that is no reason to remove things that lots of people do like from the game or specifically discriminate against those who do like this aspect of the game. So, if you are going to remove trade bars (previously event tickets) from Whitestrakes, then how about also removing them from all the PvE events as well, fair is only fair here.

Also, for those who say the events are more frequent so will throw out the balance and potentially "earn too many tickets", currently MYM events last 2 weeks, so the duration is halved per event is halved, but we are only getting 4 events per year (1 every 3 months), so the total duration of "PvP event" across the entire year is actually remaining the same (4 weeks total).

All I'll say is that the "Pelinal box glow up" @ZOS_Kevin mentioned had better be some insane and brand new rewards we have never seen before and not just more of the same garbage rewards (set pieces not even worth deconstructing + unsellable trash + maybe a style page) with heavy RNG that we have been getting for years now, especially since we will no longer be getting tickets (trade bars) during this event anymore that allowed us to actually buy event items that were unique/rewarding.