America isn't the whole world it is but a small part of it. These hours are alot more antisocial and inconvient for other areas of the world, think about others, atleast you can play them in normal waking hours....

America isn't the whole world it is but a small part of it. These hours are alot more antisocial and inconvient for other areas of the world, think about others, atleast you can play them in normal waking hours....

As I understand it the current limitations on battle instantiation mean that a staff member has to sit there and personally load a new battle as each one ends. Obviously this is not ideal and leads to very short events.

I agree that US people should be given a fair crack at these events. If it's not possible to hold the events for 24 consecutive hours they should at least consider holding events over several days with the time bracket shifting daily to accommodate different timezones.

They should also hold future events which offer people an opportunity to get any gear they missed out on, at least if that gear was given out for an event where one or more timezones was clearly disadvantaged.

Lets look at the times for this Friday's event:

14:00 GMT is 9:00 Eastern Time (i.e. Toronto, New York) and 6:00 Pacific (i.e. LA, SanFran, Vancouver)
22:00 GMT is 17:00 Eastern time, and 14:00 Pacific time.

Once again, you guys run an event that pretty much screws any working person in the Americas, preventing them from participating.

Seriously, WTF?!?!?!

And to make matters worse, you're giving something away for participating!


Why not do one of the following:

1 - Make it a 24h event, giving DUST players around the world an equal opportunity to join in?
2 - Keep the same time, but PUT THE EVENT ON SATURDAY..... one day later?

This is the 3rd or 4th event that you've run that has completely been unplayable for Americas-region players. I have a full-time job, and I've actually been buying AUR to keep my boosters fired up. I represent that revenue that you hope to realize through Dust 514.

Why do you keep screwing your Americas audience?

This event doesn't give out heavy suits, so not really targeted at the us audience.

This event doesn't give out heavy suits, so not really targeted at the us audience.

Also, seems like there's enough time for most of the US to get in on the first battles in the morning.

I live in New Zealand. GMT +12, currently on Daylight Savings Time, making us GMT +13.

14:00 GMT is 01:00 here. 1am.

I'm nocturnal, so for me, this is GREAT. For the rest of the country, and Australia at GMT +10, not so much.

Even though this isn't an issue that's hitting me hard, +1 to the OP, and +1 to the explanation of why it was "Americas" and not "America".

I live in New Zealand. GMT +12, currently on Daylight Savings Time, making us GMT +13.

14:00 GMT is 01:00 here. 1am.

I'm nocturnal, so for me, this is GREAT. For the rest of the country, and Australia at GMT +10, not so much.

Even though this isn't an issue that's hitting me hard, +1 to the OP, and +1 to the explanation of why it was "Americas" and not "America".

This event doesn't give out heavy suits, so not really targeted at the us audience.

Also, seems like there's enough time for most of the US to get in on the first battles in the morning.

They can't do a 24 hour event, because they literally have one person continually creating the games in the Mercenary game section. It's not automatic, they need to do it manually. This is the same reason you won't see a live event over the weekend. No one is going to want to come in on a Saturday and spend 5 hours manually creating new games for a spoiled gamer audience. (Read: yourselves.)

I am sure that in the future, once they have a system that can auto-create the battles, we will start to see more flexibility with the schedule, with events either happening over the weekend, or during longer working hours over the course of a weekday. This will also allow us to do things like choose which team we want to support in a Live Event battle, and so on.

WHY AM EVERYTHING NOT FOCUS ON AMERICA
AMERICAAAAAAAAAAA

So, in this modern age that has us playing a console shooter that is linked to a PC space-sandbox, connecting to players all around the world... they have to have a guy manually creating games.

Sort of defeats the purpose of the whole "automated computer thingy" idea, no?

And I am SOOOO SORRY for being a spoiled gamer, looking to participate in content that has ALREADY BEEN CREATED for a game that I've actually put time into (closed) beta testing and spent real money on for Merc Packs and AUR top-ups for skill boosters... content that others in the game will be using and enjoying.

Yeah, that's right: I'm a selfish, entitled, spoiled prick.

They can't do a 24 hour event, because they literally have one person continually creating the games in the Mercenary game section. It's not automatic, they need to do it manually. This is the same reason you won't see a live event over the weekend. No one is going to want to come in on a Saturday and spend 5 hours manually creating new games for a spoiled gamer audience. (Read: yourselves.)

I am sure that in the future, once they have a system that can auto-create the battles, we will start to see more flexibility with the schedule, with events either happening over the weekend, or during longer working hours over the course of a weekday. This will also allow us to do things like choose which team we want to support in a Live Event battle, and so on.

I didn't finish reading because this post made me LOL or was it facepalm. . . IDR. Both sentences show a lack of knowing anything about the Americas or for me specifically the US and the times things get rollin' 'round 'Merica.

Funny.... I remember having exactly the same arguments, when i use to play LOTRO.... but the other way around.

I also remember the Americas, saying to every one else to STFU.

The internet is a funny place........

You'll live. If you work and don't have time for the event you can pay for the suit later. :)

And I'm glad you agree with my opinion of you

As a Canadian, I can happily say "screw the good old US of A"!

And my American brothers and sisters to the south will happily refer me in some contest similar to "America's Hat".

However, if you had managed to read the original post instead of simply enjoying seeing words appear next to your portrait, you would see that I wrote 'Americas".

This includes the USA, Canada (which is better, bigger, and on top), Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and a BUNCH of other countries across TWO CONTINENTS... plus some some islands... some of which are actually OWNED by European nations.

So yeah.... please forgive two continents from wanting to be included in live events. How rude of us!

which is better, bigger, and on top)

I could argue about that.

You could.... but I wouldn't be able to hear you over my universal healthcare, more affordable education, better banking system and lower unemployment rates.

You could.... but I wouldn't be able to hear you over my universal healthcare, more affordable education, better banking system and lower unemployment rates.

Does canada mosty just have mountain time?

Why would Canada have any different time zones that the US does? We're literally RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU!

... but, i guess, if you live a mountainous area, every time is mountain time...

I think people are getting away from the point. The system in place is leaving out a large player base, it doesn't matter who, it matters that it is happening. Making matters worse, several mercenary matches do go on over eight hours. In fact its common. This shouldn't work this way, if you run a game world wide, treat the world equally.

Now am starting to get a sense of what it is like to live in EU and or other parts of the world that see later releases of games, higher prices for games, and unavailable games and items in the Playstation Store...

I too am starting to get annoyed at being shut out from these events just because I live in USA, have a job and don't have to ask my parents for money to spend on AUR...

Is there any reason this event needs hands on oversight from the European offices of CCP? Do they need to individually hand craft each mercenary battle?

It would be really nice if they could just set some up and let them run over a 24 hour time period.

This event doesn't give out heavy suits, so not really targeted at the us audience.

Also, seems like there's enough time for most of the US to get in on the first battles in the morning.

... CCP Eterne has already said as much in another thread, as well as promising that future Live Events will be more inclusive to a global audience.

Yeah, he said this in the first Live Event thread, when people were complaining that the Americas were excluded. That was 3-4 events ago.

Still waiting for some action on this.

The spread of times is basically as much as we are capable of doing now for manpower reasons until we get better tools to run the events.

However, we're aware not everyone WILL be able to participate so we're looking at options to expand the ability of people to get limited time items.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.



This is a quote from here, and was posted earlier today.

America isn't the whole world it is but a small part of it. These hours are alot more antisocial and inconvient for other areas of the world, think about others, atleast you can play them in normal waking hours....

This event doesn't give out heavy suits, so not really targeted at the us audience.

Also, seems like there's enough time for most of the US to get in on the first battles in the morning.

"America isn't the whole world it is but a small part of it."

ehhh

if it wasn't for the US, the rest of the world would be in crappier shape then it is now.

Peace
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if it wasn't for the russians
most of you would be germans.

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fixed that for ya

Wow, listen to this bigot. Americas doesn't mean USA, it's the other half of the world you choose to lump together. Jeeze.

"America isn't the whole world it is but a small part of it."

ehhh

if it wasn't for the US, the rest of the world would be in crappier shape then it is now.

Peace
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