Posted 24 April 2015 - 08:32 AM
Preface: Love the weekly events since you guys dropped IGP, and have been an avid participant every time, playing (and spending lol) more and more consistently than I have since back before the end of beta...
Now, just my two cents, if the intention is to wait until Monday to extend the event, please consider extending it now.
The reasoning behind this is that while I was anxiously waiting to play yet another challenge/event (since there wasn't one last week), in it's current form, I cannot see it has being possible to complete 40 (or 50) points in this three day period (with one day literally being during business hours on a work day), so I may end up not participating much at all past the initial 5, if I don't feel like it is possible.
If the extension is granted for another 3 days on Monday, people that already "gave up" (perhaps prior to the event starting even), will again be in a similar situation, where it'd still be 35 (or 45) points in 3 days, except that they will be on week days.
Had we have known in advance that we had 6 days instead of just 3 to begin with, then this subset of people (including myself) would have likely paced ourselves to 8 or 9 points/day, which is how I generally approach every challenge anyway.
As others, have already mentioned in this thread, we are looking at a minimum of 25 hours in the space of 3 days, which is more than 8 hours a day, probably what most people call a work day, with majority having at least one of these days overlap with an actual work day at their place of employment.
Asking for 50 matches qualified in CW is essentially asking for over 100 matches in other challenges, which in itself is already unprecedented, but compared to some previous challenges, asking for it to be done in less than half the timelimit.
If it was within the realm of possibility, or somewhat close to it, I may have gone "all-in" and pushed the limits as I have in many of the other events you've run in the last year. But, as it stands, the criteria is flat out impossible for the majority of your player base.
Personally, I feel like the scaling is off by a factor of 2, perhaps CW taking double the time was somehow overlooked unintentionally when coming up with the rewards?
There are only a handful of challenges that I have not completed since challenges began in beta, and similarly, those were the ones that I did not feel were "possible" (for myself).
Of course, I realize this is likely related to the cost of the mechs in question, as they are at the top end of the price scale. I believe their intent is to be a incentive to participate in this "important", large scale, epic event, but placing the incentive out of reach, ends up serving as a deterrent for some.
TL;DR: To be frank, I'm not begging for the event to be changed, I can choose whether I play MWO this weekend or not and you've got my money regardless, but I'm just suggesting that if there is some consideration going on at PGI whether to extend the event to accommodate more players, it would probably in the best interests of everyone if this extension was announced sooner rather than later.
$0.02.
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capt hungry, on 24 April 2015 - 07:28 AM, said:
