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Orsinium event advertised to end at 10AM EST. It just ended early in the middle of my run..
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LaucianNailor✭✭✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Perhaps the correct solution to this is maybe on 'your end' you should just start turning things off at the advertised time and not before and so you 'suck up' the 0-30 minutes of extra reward a customer has potential to get rather than the customer having to 'get pi***d' not getting something that you have previously indicated they would.
Makes for happy customers at the end of the day........Mac/PC EU Server
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✭✭✭✭✭LaucianNailor wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Perhaps the correct solution to this is maybe on 'your end' you should just start turning things off at the advertised time and not before and so you 'suck up' the 0-30 minutes of extra reward a customer has potential to get rather than the customer having to 'get pi***d' not getting something that you have previously indicated they would.
Makes for happy customers at the end of the day........
It occurred to me that they have to squeeze this stuff in between Second Breakfast and Elevenses.
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✭✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Wouldn't it be better to start turning everything off at the advertised time and allow the event to go a few minutes over than the reverse which causes posts like this to pop up? What's the thinking?I AM UPDATING MY PRIVACY POLICY
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Tremors✭✭✭Lol can't believe threads like this exist. RIP.Passionfruit GM - PC NA
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ZOS_GinaBrunoCommunity Managernimander99 wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Wouldn't it be better to start turning everything off at the advertised time and allow the event to go a few minutes over than the reverse which causes posts like this to pop up? What's the thinking?
Agreed, it would. There was some miscommunication across different teams, and as mentioned, we'll make sure we're clearer in the future so this doesn't happen again.4 -
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Can we get the notices in-game like the server maintenance notices to give everyone a head's up that 1hr or so remains, then another at 15 minutes and 5? They may have been in-game, I don't know, but it seems like most only found it after they finished their runs and the loot was halved.ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »nimander99 wrote: »ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Wouldn't it be better to start turning everything off at the advertised time and allow the event to go a few minutes over than the reverse which causes posts like this to pop up? What's the thinking?
Agreed, it would. There was some miscommunication across different teams, and as mentioned, we'll make sure we're clearer in the future so this doesn't happen again.2 -
Dev✭✭✭✭RedVyperOfDorne wrote: »Lol can't believe threads like this exist. RIP.
Why shouldn't they?
If they would have said the event ends at 9am pst/12pm est, everyone would have been much happier. If they wanted to be 'done' by 10, then that is what they should have communicated. When you tell someone that a service will be available 'until' a certain time, then as a company, you have made a commitment.
For as bad as the generic customer is, it is the fault of those in management when a company cannot meet their commitment. For whatever reason a player was playing the advertised content, that is their choice. After all the company did tell them that they could do exactly that 'until' a certain time.1 -
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haha like you're so clear about everything else? plsZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.2 -
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✭✭✭Wow, a lot of salt for missing out on about 30 minutes of pretty pixels. You had WEEKS to get in on the double drops and double mats and you are infuriated by it ending 30 minutes before you expected? Jesus
People will complain about anything.
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✭✭ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
Dear me. When coders can't even get the time right it leaves little hope for the future of this game...PC Master Race
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Zaldan✭✭✭✭✭At 11am ZST tomorrow we will be having a minutes silence to commemorate those who did not receive the double drop in their run today.
For those of you not aware, ZST is Zenimax Standard Time, which is basically 30-50 minutes give or take.
kinda reminds me about what my friends refer to as Micro$oft time, 3mins remaining, 2mins remaining, 15mins remaining, 30secs remaining etc
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haha like you're so clear about everything else? plsZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Apologies for this, everyone. With the way things work on the backend for in-game events like this, we began turning this event off around 9:20am EST and hit each platform/megaserver individually until it was completely off by 10:00am. We'll make sure we're much clearer for future articles and events when something will be ending.
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✭✭✭Midori_Oku wrote: »Yeah, it happened to me too. I got a powered restoration staff at the end so I'm sure my other drop would have been trash as well.
You realize that powered is the most desirable trait on a resto staff right? Hardly a trash drop.
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Ir0nB34r✭✭✭AlexTech0x wrote: »So, now again... players pay the price. Nothing more to see here.
What price? This event was a bonus, an extra, something gifted and COMPLETELY non-obligation.
Jesus people should learn to be a bit more grateful they got an event at all.
Entitlement, and an over-inflated sense of it. Studios have spent so much time and money treating gamers like little snow flakes that it has all gone to the player's head.
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SublimeSparo✭✭✭✭✭Midori_Oku wrote: »Yeah, it happened to me too. I got a powered restoration staff at the end so I'm sure my other drop would have been trash as well.
You realize that powered is the most desirable trait on a resto staff right? Hardly a trash drop.
precise resto > powered resto
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Kildayen✭✭✭✭✭Bouldercleave wrote: »Wow, a lot of salt for missing out on about 30 minutes of pretty pixels. You had WEEKS to get in on the double drops and double mats and you are infuriated by it ending 30 minutes before you expected? Jesus
People will complain about anything.
30 minutes of pretty pixels? Do you know how many times during the weeks of this promo I tried to get my drop from vMA? Do you know how many times before the event I have tried to get my drop? No, you don't. With the way the RNG works in this game, that last run could have been the weapon I have been trying to get for a long time now.
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"In celebration of Orsinium's anniversary and the increased player activity, we decided to let the Maelstrom double rewards become a permanent feature. Happy hunting! We are proud of the dedication our community shows!"1 -
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✭✭I would have guessed people would be grateful that the event even happened in the first place. I guess I was dead wrong.2 -
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✭✭✭FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »I would have guessed people would be grateful that the event even happened in the first place. I guess I was dead wrong.
50/50.
People are grateful for the resource nodes, but unhappy upon realizing how bad the loot RNG for the sweatiest activity in the game is.0 -
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✭✭I liked that double drops event. I have a grand total of 7 destro staves from it 4 being ice (sharp, infused, defending, nirnhoned) 2 lightning (defending and powered) and only 1 inferno (powered). This was 1 or 2 runs daily. Kinda disappointed but I guess I just won't get that sharpened inferno staff.@ Izaki #PCEU
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Mysteri0n✭✭✭I only did 1 VMA run this whole event I got a Sharpen Inferno staff and Bow I see nothing wrong with the RNGLore Council Conclave of Shadows, Trade Council in Knights Arcanum
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✭✭✭Yeah I beat it by 9:30a and got one item. I was like well that was the last time I'm ever doing that again.2 -
Dev✭✭✭✭People are becoming so complacent its not funny.
Tell me, if your boss agreed to pay you until 10 am, and then decided to cut payroll at 9:20, you would be OK with this?
I dont care about not getting the two drops / bonus, at least for me its more about the type of company and integrity of the company that i am doing business with.
A company that does not care about its customers or its commitments makes me concerned with their ability to:- store the account data accurately to prevent rollbacks
- secure customer information, including privacy and financial information.
- maintain accurate billing systems, IE: not being double+ charged.
- provide service overall, including new content releases on time
- to release stable code that will not damage my equipment
I dont understand why anyone is treating ZOS like a long time friend, they are not. They are a company, we are the paying customers, there is no friendship or loyalty. It is also important to remember that while Bethesda has a track record for delivering the Elder Scroll content, this is being provided by Zenimax. Zenimax is a company that most of us never even heard of until the release of ESO.
Every time we as a customer base accepts this type of poor treatment, incentivizes the company to cut more of the corners.
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Tremors✭✭✭Haha wow...except, this isn't work, you're not getting paid and the event was actually free. So no deal.Passionfruit GM - PC NA
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✭✭RedVyperOfDorne wrote: »Haha wow...except, this isn't work, you're not getting paid and the event was actually free. So no deal.
See what I mean @dev? Someone who believes in a free lunch.0
