General Event Discussion

    Quote from Xeon
    Quote from Zenuri

    Again: why should they give you something because you forgot to play the game?

    Because they realize a lot of people are missing one and they don't want to be tight like you and let them suffer.

    Sometimes a little help to some of the community shows that GF care, it can go a long way to good relations. :)

    That has nothing to do with letting them suffer.

    Everybody knew what to do.

    They even helped us with giving us more choclate than needed (compared with running all instances - nobody had to run Stella NM and Prome HM).

    How much should they care and help? Logging into their accounts and run the instances or killing fungies?


    I'm not against constructive critism if there are bugs or events not running as intended, but this time there are no bugs and it was so easy to get the final reward.

    Quote from Xeon
    Quote from Zenuri

    That has nothing to do with letting them suffer.

    Everybody knew what to do.

    Apparently not.

    You could finish the choclate quest 10 times, which means you need 100 sinister choclate.

    20 where free. 42 you got from Lugbug. 38 left by running instances.

    That are less then we thought we should run?! Everybody thought to run Makarna, Prome NM, Stella EM and Stella NM.

    You even didn't have to run Stella NM.

    Please, please stop protecting players who want everything for free for not doing anything.

    Quote from Xeon
    Quote from Darknor

    So what did you do with your sinister chocolates ?

    Turned mine in to the FAT lets bake event shugo, only 3 left.

    If I get 7 more can I exchange for a recipe?

    Oh I'm bad, I turned mine in to a big fat "Lets Bake" npc :)

    Doh of course I should have known what to do.

    ~ Say what you like to me but don't insult my Shugo ~

    So they gave us 10 Hearty Recips AS ANNIVERSARY GIFT and you ppl think they are generous in any way?Adding items for a currently running event, which isnt doable without the additional provided items as anniversary gift AND YOU EVEN THANK THEM. Basically the anniversary gift was 2 15 days items, a rune essence and a 65 types contract. yeaaah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

    no wonder they keep the game running with such low efford. Brainwashed community

    I'm telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.

    Quote from Lms

    So they gave us 10 Hearty Recips AS ANNIVERSARY GIFT and you ppl think they are generous in any way?Adding items for a currently running event, which isnt doable without the additional provided items as anniversary gift AND YOU EVEN THANK THEM. Basically the anniversary gift was 2 15 days items, a rune essence and a 65 types contract. yeaaah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

    no wonder they keep the game running with such low efford. Brainwashed community

    Actually, there should be choco final reward box as anniversary gift. It would be better than time-limited mounts and costumes))

    yey, I accidentally used up 1 Hearty recipe and support refused to restore it... guess it's my fault, but still it leaves bitter taste in my mouth. To make event items that are needed for big reward as consumables... I might not even be alone in this boat

    Player base - we want less RNG and more rewarding gameplay

    Developers - we value your feedback and want to provide you with sense of pride and accomplishment by bringing .... RNG

    Quote from Myriani

    yey, I accidentally used up 1 Hearty recipe and support refused to restore it... guess it's my fault, but still it leaves bitter taste in my mouth. To make event items that are needed for big reward as consumables... I might not even be alone in this boat

    I know someone who accidentally clicked twice :-)

    Quote from Thermo
    Quote from Xeon
    Quote from Thermo

    So no.. giving out a present for someone who didn't do all or wasn't able to do this time is a bad idea.

    Ok whatever, you obviously don't know much about building community relationships especially in a game where just about everything is not fair.

    can you tell me what is not fair?

    As I know you complain much about RNG.

    So then: RNG is pretty much everything about odds. odds are always fair. Just some people don't feel so.

    AION's RNG is not real RNG by any means. If aion had real RNG then it would always be 50/50 on enchanting, 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% per item on 5x item bundle in events and whatever... Instead of 0.0005% on 1 reward, 75% on other and rest split between the medium rewards... Artificial RNG such as this is outrageously garbage.

    A PRNG obeys to a law.

    The basic and standard is uniform law (all output have same rate to occurs).

    But you can apply a retreatment function to modify the output.

    Still a PRNG.

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    Then it´s their own fault for not informing themselves.

    Quote from Zenuri

    Please, please stop protecting players who want everything for free for not doing anything.

    But you did get most of them for doing nothing, because the event was busted from the start.


    Unlike the people managing this game and who had the time to prepare it and test it in advance, players did a quick calculation of the amount needed right when the servers were up. It didn't add up, as you had to run thousands of instances. There was a big confusion and some already gave up on the event, right from the start, as there was no transparency on the whole thing. They said the remaining amount will be obtainable with a second event, through lugbug. That was busted as well and they had to put more through a third event, through the hero trials. Hero trials went untested as well. If you don't have KR stats, you were just one shot.


    I don't have to explain it, as everyone knows it was a mess and they had to gift most of them in order to get just one, although they had to run this through few events to achieve it. For one single try. It's not the fault of the players for not informing themselves, it's the fault of this confusion created right from the start. Then you add the fact that these were not event quest items but clickable things you could waste, and they are in the shop as well, but that's another story.


    I've never played any other game that had to put players through different separate events just to acquire one, just one, rng reward. This is not about free stuff or players being lazy. It's not about the reward itself or its own value either. It's about organization, or the lack of it in this case. At the end of it, voila, you are happy that after all this marathon you got one reward from this promo event. At the end of it you expect me to what, give them a big round of applause?

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    But you are the first one who criticize some facts instead of crying and asking for another free gift.

    Some of your points are absolutely correct:

    • bad information in the beginning
    • cross event rewards
    • usable event currency
    • all this effort for just one and then random generated reward (also some of the rewards are useless as we all got them en mass in previous events)

    HQ boss had mechanics, so difficult for somebody. But it was not needed for choclate event or HQ, so negligible.

    But asking for something for free because they didn't run instances or did quests is something I don't understand

    Quote from Zenuri

    But you are the first one who criticize some facts instead of crying and asking for another free gift.

    I don't know why do you think that. I barely posted this year. I'm not that much interested like before in wasting my time to explain them what they did wrong and explaining them where their incompetence shows. I did reply with normal feedback after the events were over. Strange is, even now when I'm less vocal, they find some of my valid post, with no foul language or anything that others use and get away with it, censor it and ban me for it. They solved serious game problems with silencing players.


    Anyway, I did not ask anything for free. I did not ask for giving me the most valuable stuff. In fact I don't think temporary events should fix the broken game, because if you miss some, you're setting yourself behind others. But we do get events and they want us to play them, and I leave a feedback on them. A lot of the times I get more frustrated with them than without them but I try to leave reasonable feedback. While others choose to see the one free thing they got from it and be happy about it, I choose to see all those points you underlined, no matter if I got, lets say Marchutan from it, as it's not the point. They shouldn't run events in this manner and we told them over and over again. It's not about free stuff, as I'm not even the one asking every day for stuff, but I do want a somewhat balanced game where ingame stuff is obtainable in the game and not through the shop or events.

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.