During those times you posted, most of us in the Americas (NOT just North America) are quite busy. If you extend the event by maybe 2 hours then maybe some of us can play a match or two and take part in the event.

It would be better if the event can run the whole day though.

I wholeheartedly agree. Being in the Midwest, I would completely miss the window, and it's bullshit to ignore your largest player base. Either extend the event, or get rid of it.

I'll pass the info on but cannot guarantee anything.

Good news. After talking it over, we've decided to extend the event by 2 hours. It will now run until midnight GMT. This is, unfortunately, as far as we can extend this event without making demands on our GM team that we are unwilling to make.

We'll look into solutions to extend event hours in the future, especially when we give stuff out. I know that the US West Coast gets screwed over by our operating times when it comes to events, but our options are sadly limited for the moment (but we're working on getting a fix for one of our biggest hurdles toward making them much longer events).

Why does anyone even have to be on to run these events? Surely there has been time invested in automated systems so these can be regular occurrences with minimal oversight?

Good news. After talking it over, we've decided to extend the event by 2 hours. It will now run until midnight GMT. This is, unfortunately, as far as we can extend this event without making demands on our GM team that we are unwilling to make.

We'll look into solutions to extend event hours in the future, especially when we give stuff out. I know that the US West Coast gets screwed over by our operating times when it comes to events, but our options are sadly limited for the moment (but we're working on getting a fix for one of our biggest hurdles toward making them much longer events).

Wow - tears from the Yanks who get the short end of the stick for the first time and cry.

Whenever anyone else complains about TZ inconvenience they just get a mocking from our US friends.

From the rest of the world let me be the first to say - HTFU.

However, because it will require someone staying in the office past 10 PM, I'm not guaranteeing anything.

I have a seemingly random schedule, and this time was actually fine with me. Still, I'm impressed with this decision. If I could give you +10, I would. I may seem like one of the few that actually appreciates the customer service of ccp, but I can assure you there are plenty more in game. they are too quiet on the forums. This place gets overrun by the people that really shouldn't speak.



Case in point.

What I want to know is, why? Why does it require someone to be there? With that being the case you must obviously have instant matches automated; so why can you not automate event matches? How hard is it to write a program to create a set number of matches with a match number check to keep it at that number for how many ever hours desired? I know CCP has the skills to do this otherwise DUST & EVE wouldn't exist in the first place.

Good news. After talking it over, we've decided to extend the event by 2 hours. It will now run until midnight GMT. This is, unfortunately, as far as we can extend this event without making demands on our GM team that we are unwilling to make.

We'll look into solutions to extend event hours in the future, especially when we give stuff out. I know that the US West Coast gets screwed over by our operating times when it comes to events, but our options are sadly limited for the moment (but we're working on getting a fix for one of our biggest hurdles toward making them much longer events).

Wow - tears from the Yanks who get the short end of the stick for the first time and cry.

Whenever anyone else complains about TZ inconvenience they just get a mocking from our US friends.

From the rest of the world let me be the first to say - HTFU.

Listen cuntface, I'll say what I like. You don't get to tell people who can post and who can't.

If CCP are happy for US cry babies to hold their nose and force their head down on it to take it all gagging or no, it's no skin off my arse.

Just proves CCP just chase the money. Don't make US players any better, just more numerous.

Any yes, they are going the extra mile to prop up this miserable abortion of a game.

Listen cuntface, I'll say what I like. You don't get to tell people who can post and who can't.

If CCP are happy for US cry babies to hold their nose and force their head down on it to take it all gagging or no, it's no skin off my arse.

Just proves CCP just chase the money. Don't make US players any better, just more numerous.

Any yes, they are going the extra mile to prop up this miserable abortion of a game.

Good news. After talking it over, we've decided to extend the event by 2 hours. It will now run until midnight GMT. This is, unfortunately, as far as we can extend this event without making demands on our GM team that we are unwilling to make.

We'll look into solutions to extend event hours in the future, especially when we give stuff out. I know that the US West Coast gets screwed over by our operating times when it comes to events, but our options are sadly limited for the moment (but we're working on getting a fix for one of our biggest hurdles toward making them much longer events).

Agreed they act as if they should have priority all the time as if America is larger than the rest of the world...But it is unfair that any nation loses out.

I will say though I am glad they at least extended the hours to give some America players a chance to participate, but there has to be a better way. I hear automation works well

we're working on getting a fix for one of our biggest hurdles toward making them much longer events.

Cleared the thread of silly comments. Please refrain from having a go at each other on the forum. Thanks.

Just to clarify some things here as well.

Deciding on extending the Event has nothing to do with picking any region as favorite or anything like that, it is simply to try to accommodate for the player base if we can (And in this case, as mentioned by CCP Eterne, we can!). You don't ask, you don't get. A bigger window will allow more players to participate. Why not just be happy about it?

And why do we need someone present at CCP during the Event? Well considering the 'Let's all go home and hope the event will run itself fine. If something goes wrong... well who cares?' approach isn't an option here. Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!

I guess some people are just hard to please!

See you in battle!

You should have been happy to have seen this part of CCP Eterne's post then:


This says that, in future (Hopefully more soon than SOONGäó) they'll be able to run events over longer periods of time than they're currently able to manage.

And I have to ask, even as you're complaining about this, you're sounding very reasonable and well-thought-out in your complaints. Have you backed people up who are getting shouted down by other Americans saying "deal with it" when another region is being screwed over? Because you sound like the kind of person who would actually be supportive of that kind of complaint even when it's not you making it.

And if you HAVE been one of the "deal with it" people in the past, has this situation made you feel guilty about that attitude?

Cleared the thread of silly comments. Please refrain from having a go at each other on the forum. Thanks.

Just to clarify some things here as well.

Deciding on extending the Event has nothing to do with picking any region as favorite or anything like that, it is simply to try to accommodate for the player base if we can (And in this case, as mentioned by CCP Eterne, we can!). You don't ask, you don't get. A bigger window will allow more players to participate. Why not just be happy about it?

And why do we need someone present at CCP during the Event? Well considering the 'Let's all go home and hope the event will run itself fine. If something goes wrong... well who cares?' approach isn't an option here. Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!

I guess some people are just hard to please!

See you in battle!

Two hour extension = Basically just a tease. "Yeah, we extended it, but you still won't get home from work in time, so screw you."

And why do we need someone present at CCP during the Event? Well considering the 'Let's all go home and hope the event will run itself fine. If something goes wrong... well who cares?' approach isn't an option here. Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!

I guess some people are just hard to please!

See you in battle!

Cleared the thread of silly comments. Please refrain from having a go at each other on the forum. Thanks.

Just to clarify some things here as well.

Deciding on extending the Event has nothing to do with picking any region as favorite or anything like that, it is simply to try to accommodate for the player base if we can (And in this case, as mentioned by CCP Eterne, we can!). You don't ask, you don't get. A bigger window will allow more players to participate. Why not just be happy about it?

And why do we need someone present at CCP during the Event? Well considering the 'Let's all go home and hope the event will run itself fine. If something goes wrong... well who cares?' approach isn't an option here. Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!

I guess some people are just hard to please!

See you in battle!

And I have to ask, even as you're complaining about this, you're sounding very reasonable and well-thought-out in your complaints. Have you backed people up who are getting shouted down by other Americans saying "deal with it" when another region is being screwed over? Because you sound like the kind of person who would actually be supportive of that kind of complaint even when it's not you making it.

And if you HAVE been one of the "deal with it" people in the past, has this situation made you feel guilty about that attitude?

Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!

I guess some people are just hard to please!

I would like to propose the following for a potential solution. CCP has offices in Iceland, China, and in the USA. This provides a nearly 24 hour coverage of someone within the organization being at work during their normal hours of operation.

Deciding on extending the Event has nothing to do with picking any region as favorite or anything like that, it is simply to try to accommodate for the player base if we can (And in this case, as mentioned by CCP Eterne, we can!). You don't ask, you don't get. A bigger window will allow more players to participate. Why not just be happy about it?

And why do we need someone present at CCP during the Event? Well considering the 'Let's all go home and hope the event will run itself fine. If something goes wrong... well who cares?' approach isn't an option here. Making sure everything goes as planned and you guys enjoy it is!