Originally posted by Vorthanion The apologists in this thread act as if it would be a huge chore for Zenimax to rectify such a trivial issue. They could just as easily stall the clock during downtime for those players who have limited time to play during the week so they can participate in the time sensitive content in the game with much less hassle. Common courtesy isn't something that should be lost on a company that focuses on customer service. It's also something that seems to be greatly lacking for many posters on this site.
Common courtesy =/= making the game operate how you think it should rather than how it does. Time sensitive content? What does that even mean? It's one week. One.
I'm just baffled by the level of entitlement these days. I'm sure you think that ZOS changing the way the servers work just for you and a few other people is way up high on their priority list for something that is such a small part of the game it's insignifcant. I mean, why worry about fixing game breaking bugs for hundreds of thousands of others when we can work on changing moon phases for all 7 people who can't wait a week to get what they want?
I'm not trying to be rude btw, I'm just completely unable to follow this from a logical standpoint, and I really would like an insight on to how this negatively affects someone beyond having to wait 7 days to get something they want, which would just make it that much more rewarding, right?
That you would label a topic such as this as entitlement is baffling.
Looks like they misunderstand the meaning of the word.
Originally posted by Vorthanion The apologists in this thread act as if it would be a huge chore for Zenimax to rectify such a trivial issue. They could just as easily stall the clock during downtime for those players who have limited time to play during the week so they can participate in the time sensitive content in the game with much less hassle. Common courtesy isn't something that should be lost on a company that focuses on customer service. It's also something that seems to be greatly lacking for many posters on this site.
Common courtesy =/= making the game operate how you think it should rather than how it does. Time sensitive content? What does that even mean? It's one week. One.
I'm just baffled by the level of entitlement these days. I'm sure you think that ZOS changing the way the servers work just for you and a few other people is way up high on their priority list for something that is such a small part of the game it's insignifcant. I mean, why worry about fixing game breaking bugs for hundreds of thousands of others when we can work on changing moon phases for all 7 people who can't wait a week to get what they want?
I'm not trying to be rude btw, I'm just completely unable to follow this from a logical standpoint, and I really would like an insight on to how this negatively affects someone beyond having to wait 7 days to get something they want, which would just make it that much more rewarding, right?
That you would label a topic such as this as entitlement is baffling.
it's much more selfish than entitlement. The fact that the fix might screw over as many as it helps doesn't matter as long as you're one of the ones it helps right ?
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Many of us are waiting every ingame night now particularly for the moon to turn to New Moon and spawn Bloodfiends to acquire the Vampirism curse. From yesterday night (RL) to this morning (RL) we had a server down. Last night the moon was perceived as a sickle, a thin sickle. This morning / noon the moon is still a sickle, but a sickle in another angle. This logically means it has skipped the New Moon phase on live (while the servers where offline apparently).
No server reset what so ever.
It is simply inacceptable to bring down the servers while the ingame day/night cycles are continuing in a normal fashion - and in this way skipping one important moon phase, such as now did, the New Moon.
We are having now to wait one more week to (maybe if no downtime again) get a chance to become infected again.
I am really disappointed.
Just watch some twilight for the next week and get your fix untill you can actually become edward yourself.
Jeez weez you guys really know how to suck the fun from each game. One week is really nothing. Why moan and groan. I think the MMO community has really changed from when I played EQ in 1999.
Because in a subscription game you are actually paying for that week
Too bloody right never known such a bunch of wingers,I never had this much wingeing in Dark and Light possibly the worst and most badly run Mo ever.
And not to mention Eve online circa 2000 with it's regular server crashes and lagged out flip book gameplay in those days you just grinned and bared it,seems with AAA Mo's or games of todays quality there is always somebody with something to moan about. !
There are other things that also depend on time. If they stopped the time during maintenances there would be instead a thread about how they waste our time if research and horse meal time doesn't progress.
Jeez weez you guys really know how to suck the fun from each game. One week is really nothing. Why moan and groan. I think the MMO community has really changed from when I played EQ in 1999.
Oh my someone seems to have forgotten all those full chat rooms of irate players waiting for the 8 to 24 hr server downtimes to end, and for any GM to give us a scarp of info about when they would come back up again, it wasn't all roses back then either, and no other MMO to jump into while EQ1 was down.
I wouldn't make a huge deal out of having to wait a week to get the disease, but lost in this thread is a very good point that the OP made: in a game that has mechanics for contracting vampirism or lycanthropy based on the spawn of rare mobs that only spawn at night when the moon is in the correct phase, having the server clock keep ticking while the game is offline for maintenance shouldn't happen.
If the game had no time sensitive events, then no big deal. But here it does matter and the server should come back up without in-game time having elapsed.
I don't blame people for being pissed at missing a time-sensitive event that only happens once a week and even then you're not guaranteed to find the rare spawn or have it bite you before the organized vampire and werewolf guild cartels (I shit you not) who want to sell their bites for exorbitant amounts of gold, kill them.
Whether it's worth getting it or not is irrelevant. The fact is that it's a rare event that got missed by the game clock not coming back where it was after the maintenance.
Originally posted by Vorthanion The apologists in this thread act as if it would be a huge chore for Zenimax to rectify such a trivial issue. They could just as easily stall the clock during downtime for those players who have limited time to play during the week so they can participate in the time sensitive content in the game with much less hassle. Common courtesy isn't something that should be lost on a company that focuses on customer service. It's also something that seems to be greatly lacking for many posters on this site.
Common courtesy =/= making the game operate how you think it should rather than how it does. Time sensitive content? What does that even mean? It's one week. One.
I'm just baffled by the level of entitlement these days. I'm sure you think that ZOS changing the way the servers work just for you and a few other people is way up high on their priority list for something that is such a small part of the game it's insignifcant. I mean, why worry about fixing game breaking bugs for hundreds of thousands of others when we can work on changing moon phases for all 7 people who can't wait a week to get what they want?
I'm not trying to be rude btw, I'm just completely unable to follow this from a logical standpoint, and I really would like an insight on to how this negatively affects someone beyond having to wait 7 days to get something they want, which would just make it that much more rewarding, right?
That you would label a topic such as this as entitlement is baffling.
it's much more selfish than entitlement. The fact that the fix might screw over as many as it helps doesn't matter as long as you're one of the ones it helps right ?
Drivel.
What Iselin brought up is pretty straightforward: server goes down, clock stops. Server comes back up, clock restarts. In other words things continue exactly as they would have if the server had not gone down. No "fix" should be needed.
By your logic simply wanting the server to stay up - you do want that yes - is selfish and entitled.
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I bet that shortly after Hrotha gets to be a vamp, they'll soon be posting a complaint about how difficult it is to be cured.
Why?
Fire.
Looks like they misunderstand the meaning of the word.
it's much more selfish than entitlement. The fact that the fix might screw over as many as it helps doesn't matter as long as you're one of the ones it helps right ?
Vamps are weak to fire? Oh it's good to be a Dunmar Dragon Knight.
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Just watch some twilight for the next week and get your fix untill you can actually become edward yourself.
Too bloody right never known such a bunch of wingers,I never had this much wingeing in Dark and Light possibly the worst and most badly run Mo ever.
And not to mention Eve online circa 2000 with it's regular server crashes and lagged out flip book gameplay in those days you just grinned and bared it,seems with AAA Mo's or games of todays quality there is always somebody with something to moan about. !
First World MMO Problems...
boohoo...
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Oh my someone seems to have forgotten all those full chat rooms of irate players waiting for the 8 to 24 hr server downtimes to end, and for any GM to give us a scarp of info about when they would come back up again, it wasn't all roses back then either, and no other MMO to jump into while EQ1 was down.
Its random anyway, freaking ww spawned around 1 am and 7.30 am.. I hope bloodfiends will soon!
Edit: So they 2 spwaned 2 night after each other (((((((
+1
Drivel.
What Iselin brought up is pretty straightforward: server goes down, clock stops. Server comes back up, clock restarts. In other words things continue exactly as they would have if the server had not gone down. No "fix" should be needed.
By your logic simply wanting the server to stay up - you do want that yes - is selfish and entitled.