Incorrect. Mickey D doesn't end Shamrock shake days 3 days earlier than advertised because of poor planning. He plans properly to begin with. That's his whole deal. He counts slices of pickles. Mickey D is the master of pre-planning. Publishing an end time and then ending 3 hours early is not WAI. Ending at published end…
I'm a very long time mmo player. I get it. My "main" mmo has events too. I know how they work. The problem is this: If I had got here and seen the event up, and seen the end date/time, and seen the reward cooldowns, and figured out that I couldn't complete in time, I'd have said "aww, dang, missed it" and then had the…
Oh, and saying "it's always been thus, so must always be thus" isn't productive either. The hope is that a motivated dev sees, considers, fixes. A ltd time event like this may be a super low prio dev resource commitment, but, you know, shoot for the stars. :)
My heart gladdens at all the advice I'm being given to "not ignore" these events until the last minute. Such excellent words and so timely provided. Except I started STO less than a week ago, and couldn't begin the event till level 10 (arbitrary, why?!)... so I started it as soon as was hu-manly possible. I can understand…
my beef isn't with ANY of that. If one doesn't like the game mechanic, one need not participate, or garner the free rewards, or comment about it at all; going afk because everyone else goes afk and it doesn't matter is... silly. How others play the game shouldn't impact how I play the game. My beef is that the event is…