Does PWI hate European's?

Have you considered joining a east coast server?

Times would be a little more bearable for you.

Nien Beast event times for example on Dreamweaver would be:

4pm EST = 9pm GMT
9pm EST = 2am GMT

I can make the 4pm EST one and sometimes the 9pm EST one if i'm stil up.

Regards.

Yes. I wish I was joking.

Heartstone - Dreamweaver wrote: »

lol and ye its 9pm for u. not 1 am lol. im gmt+1 ( denmark.) 10 and 3am for me. i do both xD lol.

You do both because you've got PWI on the brain!

b:sin

You must understand that it is impossible to set a time for events that will allow everyone to play fairly. As the servers are located in the US, it seems like the most intuitive next step would be to set the times based on the servers.

A nicely put suggestion to occasionally have events set so that Europeans could participate would go much further than a rant, especially since you can hardly say PWI hates Europeans. If I remember correctly, there was once an event set in the morning in the US, which the Europeans were highly happy about timing.

And as Chillum suggested, joining an east coast server is a nice compromise.

Rawrgh - Raging Tide wrote: »

The game is designed for north american audiences.


The servers are located in the U.S


So..... guess what? The times are designed for the north american players.

I shouldn't be talking about another MMORPG but Angels Online has their offices, servers, etc. in China, so their times are GMT+8, but events are geared toward Americans (except their Euro server.)

So many idiots who still think the location of a server governs its time. A little thing called technology allows the server time to be set independant of local time.

BUT

That being said the server time is set to this game's target audience, which in this case is North America. You know that fact before choosing to play the game so need to choose the server best suited to your needs.

With BoI having European a server and PWE buying holdings in Europe, it wouldnt surprise me that in the future PWI have a European server for this and other new games ( FW etc ).

ChaoticEnvy - Heavens Tear wrote: »

So many idiots who still think the location a server governs its time. A little thing called technology allows the server time to be set independant of local time.

So many idiots who don't know how maintaining networks and servers works. Yes, the servers can be set independently, HOWEVER, there are human technicians and the like who take care of those servers. Their schedules are basically based around when and what is happening to those servers.

For example, midnight to 3am server maint would be occurring at that time in the server's time zone, leading to bawwww threads about "they taek us dawn 4 patch wen it is daetime?"

edit in response to the person above me: those are once a week prestige events. Opening them up at staggered times would make the rewards farmable in a day or two and comparably common.

Nakhimov - Lost City wrote: »

So many idiots who don't know how maintaining networks and servers works. Yes, the servers can be set independently, HOWEVER, there are human technicians and the like who take care of those servers. Their schedules are basically based around when and what is happening to those servers.

For example, midnight to 3am server maint would be occurring at that time in the server's time zone, leading to bawwww threads about "they taek us dawn 4 patch wen it is daetime?"

Actually having a server clock Euro based would benifit those US Technicians more than hinder them. They would be able to do the maint at a sensible time for them ie: 4pm and not wait till midnight. So that arguement doesnt really hold true.

Nakhimov - Lost City wrote: »

Dear PWI user, we here at Perfect World International do not feel hatred or dislike towards Europeans in any form. However, we cannot say the same about Russians.

Thank you,
Perfect World International

Also, hi Aadi. b:bye You graduate yet?

And no, all the servers in a specific time zone go down at the same time. So they would have to preform two server maints.

Getting there, like 2 days of school left or something, then graduation early June. Then Notre Dame next year.

Some GM should just take that statement and make it their signature, really.

Aadi - Lost City wrote: »

Getting there, like 2 days of school left or something, then graduation early June. Then Notre Dame next year.

Some GM should just take that statement and make it their signature, really.

Well congratulations. Any idea what major you're going to be in?

Aadi - Lost City wrote: »

Computer Engineering, and thank you.

Very nice, I'm not surprised though. I assume they're got a solid CE program then?

Aadi - Lost City wrote: »

They've got solid everything, they're ranked like 20th in the country or something like that. I don't know the exact stats because US News and World Report wants 25 dollars for rankings and that's not happening. Plus they offered me a full ride minus 5k in work study and loans per year.

Andddd we're off topic.

This topic was stupid to begin with, I don't feel bad about derailing it b:cute

You're going to have to put up with all the people who love football in excess though. I got lucky and I've never had that problem.

Admante - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I can't imagine how putting a European server in Europe would be difficult. If there's enough interest, there should be servers scattered world wide.

From the amount of Russian (and other languages) in WC, I think there's quite a market in Europe.

Because 1. If you put that server in Europe, you'd have to hire a new staff/get a new building/equipment. Not cost efficient
2. If that server were in the US, they'd also need additional staff.

THERE IS A EUROPEAN VERSION OF PW. THERE WILL NOT BE EUROPEAN SERVERS ADDED TO THE US VERSION OF THE GAME.

In my opinion this is a real problem. I do understand that the game is desingned for players who live in the US, but the problem would be easily solved by adding more event "times" (for example 4 insteads of 2, one every 6 hours) so everybody could participate. I don't know why this would harm anybody as the events aren't providing that much advantage to players that they'd become OP by "doubling" the amount of the events.

Also, for TW.. For me the times are during the night, 3 am or so. I don't even know the times, but I know that they're during midnight. I don't start doing anything in pw after 10pm, I just finish the things I'm doing and then log off, so if a TW starts at 3am, I will not join. My sleeping rythm gets messed up if I start going to bed 4 am during the weekends and during the weeks I'm studying.. b:surrender

Of course not being able to TW leads to the ridiculous and annoying fact, which I just have to accept: None of the big factions would never accept me to join. So I'll stick to the smaller ones, which can be good too (like my current faction), but still.. not even having a chance to get to the best faction of the server is rather sad.. b:sad I don't really see other solutions for this but an Europe-server, but of course you will tell me to go for the crappy PW europe, which is widely populated by people who I can't communicate with. (Read: they can't speak english)

b:bye

Linwiz - Lost City wrote: »

Click here if you want European friendly times on everything, and quit with these threads, servers are in the US therefore server times are set to US Timezones therefore so are events

Quoted to get this through your thick skulls.

One more time. Here's hoping big letters will help.

THIS IS A US GAME AND SERVER TIMES ARE US
ONCE A WEEK EVENTS WILL NOT BE REPEATED
IF YOU WANT EURO SERVERS GO PLAY PW-MS

Now, to address your points individually.

BoI (which I have never played, mind you) has a euro server, but PWI does not and will not in the forseeable future. The techs running the current servers could in theory pick up another server but they should and I'm sure are already working full-time. If they want to run the servers according to load relative to time in Europe they'd need a new staff.

Adding events means more event drops and items. Supply and demand is simple, as supply increases demand decreases. Everyone running around with CoA rings= bad.

TW times are for US players as the server times are US. Deal with it, that will not be changing. Ever.

If you can't speak any other European languages, then stay in PWI. However, you will have to deal with the times or swap to the PW-MS servers.

A US-based game will not pander to european based players specifically. The US players are their priority.