One more arkhunters...eat it up and spend some money.Originally Posted by Johnny Gatt
One more arkhunters...eat it up and spend some money.
Well, it's near the end of this event and to be honest, it has been a total and complete disappointment.
1. The major arkfalls are over so fast (since they're all minor arkfalls strung together), they can hardly be considered as exciting or even vaguely challenging. It's more of a challenge trying to give my cat a bath.
2. The minor arkfalls are over so fast there's barely enough time to even port to them.
3. And the last thing, this event has shown clearly that there are issues with the spawn rates for the arkfalls. Not just special event arkfalls. Quite a lot of people went around clearing everything in order to try and force spawn the event arkfall but once cleared, it showed glaringly that for extended periods of time (longest I bothered to check was 22 minutes), nothing appeared on the maps (except for maybe a Bathhouse run up).
I just can't imagine what will happen if people all got together and decided to do this consistently. In fact all your competitors have to do is exactly this. Then when new players come into the game they will have the impression that it's a game with absolutely nothing to do so why bother playing it.
I understand that Trion has to prioritize resources and budget but if you do intend to keep this game going then something has to be done. The sheer lack of care/professionalism that went into this particular event is just too incredible to comprehend.
I've seen the red banner come up for a Major EXL that was just starting, and then it just disappeared in around 2 seconds. I've heard of others seeing the same thing. Happened twice at bloodbath, and once at the Fork. ****s broken.
Saw the same thing twice tonight just outside Muir...one with 10 min on the clock the other with 4
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takes too long for event arkfall to spawn
Well, it's almost 1 am here, and only seen 4 mins worth of action at what might have been a major....?
I'm sure you've heard it already, Trion. You dropped the ball on this one. You dropped a big ol Poo on everyone's expectations for this event. I was actually looking forward to this event, compared to the Halloween Hulker Hell event...
Here's something to consider for next year: Bundle up some cool bundles and lock boxes for everyone to buy and use 90% of the proceeds for EXL. I'm sure many of us don't mind giving to a good cause. And The Extra Life Charity is a pretty good cause.
This year, I was willing to give $75 just so I could get that sublime Challenger....Didn't happen. Why? I'm not tied into the whole Social Media thing. It's just not my thing. Sure, call me a neanderthal if you want to. But when it comes to dealing with some of the world's biggest ******s online (and mind you, I'm not calling everyone this, just the ones that like to push things too far...), I'd rather steer clear. I think having lock boxes and bundles would cut to the chase, without having to chase down a single participant as a rallying point to donate to.
You could start a bundle for $25-50-75-100, and have different things for the community with each of them that will make it worth while.
And if you still want to do the whole social media thing, that's fine.
But whatever you do, you better Go Hard or Go Home. And I would suggest going hard after the unmitigated disaster this event was for the community, because the overall consensus for EXL 2015 was: "This event really sucked!", and that is the 'nice' edit.
I have to ask what you are talking about, I joined Trion's team and raised 200 dollars, and all I had to do was provide my email. And since my email is attached to my Glyph account, I fully expect to receive whatever rewards I may have earned.
I still would have done it without any rewards, Extra Life isn't about me (or you), it's about the kids.
Once I gave up worrying about the Extra Life Arkfalls, I still had a good time in game working on stuff I've been putting off for ever (season 2 incursions) and even managed to make over 40 ego while playing this weekend. Less than 300 ego to go!
According to my spreadsheet I did 12 EXL majors and 5 EXL minors this weekend. I got a few purple EXL drops I like and I made close to 900,000 script before they removed the "dealer".
My thoughts on the EXL ark falls are regardless of the spawn rate problem (and it was a huge problem, I went over 6 hours without seeing one, and my clan was actively finishing all the non-EXL arkfalls that spawned and we shard jumped frequently) was that there wasn't enough mobs and they didn't have enough hitpoints. Also the fact that the major final was just another minor, made it extremely hard to get to the ones we did find in time to even do anything.
Next year they need to improve the amount of mobs that spawn and how many hitpoints they have (for both major and minor), and add a true final (mother-bug was suggested elsewhere) to the majors.
And raise the halo drop to at least a 40% chance.
They do that and people will enjoy the event and we won't have a bunch of pissed off players ranting here in the forum.
Haphae-lad lodash vo Maladin!
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the vendor gave super-junky items with horroble syns anyway, and if you sold stuff to exl vendor,. trion took your money back and made it "correct".... stole over 400k from me
So when did this happen? I was in game around 2 hours ago and my money was the same as it was when I logged out last night.
Haphae-lad lodash vo Maladin!
"Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden
PC EU: Stormraven Warwind
Clan: Red Thugs
Defiance only needs one class "Arkhunter"
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