Tw Times

Indeed, many of my former friends quit already. The game is just getting boring and a giant waste of time, when your reach 100 and have all your stuff. Why play more classes to 100, if there is still nothing to do? TW is one of the main features why people even play this game. I mean sure, 40 v 40 PvP sounds nice with the new expansion, but why should I bother, they will just make it fitting for their time anyway. I play mostly 7 pm - 10 pm my time. American people sleep this time, one of the reasons why I mostly have European friends, as you do. And we all never go to TW, as we do not want to wake up just to get owned by OP people in a 10 min TW. It is just not worth bothering with, imo. I tried talking to people for long enough, that this system is unfair, but none of the, cared at all. I would love to join one of the good facs, but being forced to support TW SUCKS. I ask for help in a TW fac, no answer. 5 minutes later people are having giant discussions about TW, TW and TW. That is the only thing people think of, but you don't even get rewarded. All you do is waste money.

I believe it's because their license with PW-CN does not allow them to give access to players in regions where other versions of the game are based.

Yeah but I think it's a matter of the licensing contract - someone explained it once a while back but I don't really remember

I'm confused. Aren't the various servers on different times? That is, TW takes place at different times on these different servers?

This seems a lot like a case of wanting catering, even for Americans. Some people have jobs that go through those TW times, after all. The issue here is that you can't please everyone. It's impossible.

Saturday and Sunday in-game already has different times.Been there for some time already,no?
And I thought PW-MS shut down or something.

And don't get me started on why they wouldn't change it.

At the moment there are many European people in PWI. They have good connections and speak and write English well enough to play the game and not stand out in a negative way from other players in this game. Many come from countries such as Germany, Holland, the UK, Sweden, just to name a few. Mostly you don't know they are from outside the US until someone tells you they are in a different timezone or they have to go to bed. Many of these players are in TW factions on my server and they do cash shop to get better gear and to do TW. Not being able to attend TWs is not just a limitation of game content , but also a limitation in the factions you can join or what you can offer to your faction for being a member.

It's a shame that thier investments are not valued equally to the ones of people in the US. While the European players have less game content to enjoy unless they want to wake up at 4.00 or 5.00 am and invest a lot of money in the game for their characters, many of them stay in-game, even at high levels.

This game isn't exactly aimed at North America only. I do remember television advertisements for Perfect World by Perfect World International in my country. So stating this game is for North Americans and Europeans are not part of this deal is rather ackward in this respect.

It would be nice if we get to enjoy the same game content with the same service as other customers. Our money holds the same value and there is a large market. The gaming market mostly consists of players who do have to sleep at night for work, school etc. So, if PWI offers some great content which is not in the reach of it's market, it might as well not be there at all and only serves to frustrate players. Some of these players stay on, but use this content less, while others look for other games to play or other places to play PWI.

Advertising for PWI in these countries is rather a waste of money if you can't offer a product that can compete well and many of the people that would otherwise stay on up to higher levels will drop out around lvl 70 when the available game content for their chars starts to diminish. The players lost because of this, don't leave because of anger or discontent, they leave because they find better games to play and lose interest in PWI. Since people already tried the game for a while and left before they committed themselves to the game, the chance that they will return are virtually nill. It's a permenant loss of marketshare. The only way to get interest back is to launch a new game with another name to get people interested again to have a look, which is exactly what PWI is doing. It would however been wiser to keep as large a part of the market as possible, since not adressing these points means they are setting themselves up to make the same mistake again.

Having servers on different times makes PWI compete with other games on content and will make it possible to compete with some other games which have a primarily local customer base. I can't name other free online MMORPGs (not PWI clones) but there are some good ones available which do not have the number of servers or content to compete well with the P2P versions, but are winning the battle from Perfect World locally, because they have a local playerbase to whom all the content is readily available.

To everyone concerned with the definition of "international" meaning more then 1 country and limiting this to 2 or 3 countries, the minimal requirement does not equal the maximal possibilities. At least PWI doen't seem to think so, which makes sense for a commercial bussiness.
According to their press release http://pwe-inc.com/press/?p=176701 they're not only oriented on North America and it would be nice if the absence of the European version for Perfect World would at least mean there would be some consideration for their European market. Eventhough I don't endorse the multilanguage versions, which would split up the playerbase, I think that joining the playerbase together by making the game content more accesible would be a good step to make the European playerbase a priority. Personally I think the language barrier is not the biggest problem, but more the timezone differences.

http://www.pweurope.eu/

Yeah we need to get the TW times fixed up by allowing more times to choose from because waking up at 5 AM to go to war when you wake up at 6 AM all week long, it's kind of irritating... b:angry
It's not even fair, there are LOTS of european players in PWI...

HarmOwnie - Dreamweaver wrote: »

since they are on friday or saturday so a player participating in TW wont have to get up early the next day anyway to get to work.

Lol where the heck do you live? I have to work every Saturday and every 2nd Sundayb:byeb:bye.

Let's just stop discussing and come to the conclusion that:

1. TW times suck for Europe.

2. It needs change.

3. US players don't give a ****.

4. GMs/Devs don't give a ****.

5. Change will not happen.