173 replies to this topic

[DeathDealer]

can anyone/CM/GM post a link or anything relevant as to why they are changing the times? I honestly dont remember seeing any out cry to change WoE times except for asking to move WoE TE to a later time Sunday. I would like to understand the reasoning behind alienating many of ur hardcore players and changing WoE times that have been in place since the foundation servers loki/chaos/iris? I mean every merge and most changes have been centered around catering to the original servers right? So why the change after all these years of success? You know if you kill WoE, you kill iRO. Please DO NOT fix it til its broke, cuz its not broken as is, well maybe TE is with its awful early time.

[AeroKrauger]

Can we have WoE1 in Saturday instead of WoE 2, im curious how WoE1 works... thanks!

[Thalxis]

Is there any argument for keeping WoE TE on Sunday but shifted one or two hours later besides some North Americans having to endure the arduous struggle of pulling themselves out of bed before noon on a weekend?  The ones who otherwise have no obligations at that time?  You know, unlike people from East Asia, Oceania, and Australia who would have to stay up very late on a Sunday night in order to attend, the night before whatever Monday morning obligations they may have?

At least I could understand the argument in the past about it being during church time for some, but a one- or two-hour shift doesn't solve that, and if anything increases the problem for some in the Americas.

[meli]

IMO making it even more comfortable for NA at the price of completely excluding 2 regions minimum (no idea about Asia times) doesn't sound like a good change. I mean, maybe you'd get some more people from NA but lose all the population from other regions. Result = same ol crap.

[Necrohealiac]

you'd need to at least figure out how many people are connecting from the various regions to make any sort of educated guess as to how time shifts will impact woe participation.

 

also Asian stats will probably be skewed due to bot farms.

Edited by Necrohealiac, 15 January 2015 - 10:09 AM.

[Akreis]

Throwing in my two cents here, in my opinion, I think the WoE days should be kept the same at least, since a lot of people already have their work/other life schedules set to allow them to have these days off for WoE. TE should definitely be moved to a later time on Sunday though. As for the times for WoE1 and 2, it doesn't really bother me of it's moved an hour later or something.

Edited by Akreis, 15 January 2015 - 10:23 AM.

[Easly]

Why not just put an NPC in-game that takes a survey of what hours are preferred by the players? 1 vote per account and you must be 150 to cast a vote. Realistically this would be the only way to get a good idea of what the players actually want since not everyone uses the forums.

[Necrohealiac]

might need to raise it to like 165 now with the level cap. a 15 level difference puts you at a severe disadvantage in WoE

[Braska]

When can we expect an answer as to if there is going to be a change or not?

[Saranea]

Keep them as they are now.

 

 

Sincerely

[ShoLin]

Why not put the times at 6PST? Everyone would be finished work and dinner.

[Pixvoly]

IMO making it even more comfortable for NA at the price of completely excluding 2 regions minimum (no idea about Asia times) doesn't sound like a good change. I mean, maybe you'd get some more people from NA but lose all the population from other regions. Result = same ol crap.

 

"More comfortable" HUh? There are 5 time zones in North America: Pacific (oh wait warp portal is located in Europe, sorry); Mountian; Central; Eastern and Atlantic time zone (least one mentioned). Should the GMs squeeze out one time zone to appase any and possibly all whiny making threats of losing most of the player base  continent time zones magically? If so, how would they go about it?

[ExDarkrb]

Why not put the times at 6PST? Everyone would be finished work and dinner.

 

perfect timing as i wake up to WoE at 10am (GMT+8) my time hahahaha

[Heisenberg77]

Perfect timing for me. Looking forward for WOE TE if is on Friday..

Edited by Heisenberg77, 18 January 2015 - 02:11 AM.

[ShoLin]

perfect timing as i wake up to WoE at 10am (GMT+8) my time hahahaha

 

What's 1-2 hours if it's at an ridiculous time anyways?

 

To Oda how does 4-5PST work better for people on the west coast? People have jobs you know.

[RecaIIer]

Oda,

 

Just want to Help out, But Very Simple Conclusion

 

 

1. Saturday woe < -----------------------------------------------no Issue to anyone. Problem #1 solved

 

2. Make WoE TE still on Sunday<------------------------------ so no issue, Problem # 2 Solved

 

3. The Real Problem here is the WoE time for Workdays  ( Monday - Friday )  4pm needs to be Adjusted cause ppl are still on work

 

 

No. 3 is the Real Problem Oda

 

[Darius14]

Leave WoE1+WoE2 times alone please. 

[hamster]

BOO! the new time/date changes, BOO!

[Yggdrasil13]

We do't mind staying up till 2am for TE before a work day, but pushing that one or two hour later makes us impossible to join the game...

If you are not changing WoE1 and 2 time, please leave TE time alone too...

[Yugacky]

Let's just keep TE time same as it is now...

I am in PST time zone and have no problem getting up at 7am and play TE from 8pm.

It's a bit early but not impossible, and I have been doing it since TE started.

If we move the time one or two hours later, we lose a lot of Asian/Oceanian players.

That's gonna be more problem.

We needs to compromise.

[Thalxis]

TE is the flavor of WoE with the lowest barrier to entry, the one which ideally would be most attractive to new participants in the WoE scene. If any one WoE's time slot should be chosen to be favorable to the widest global audience, I would think it should be WoE TE, and a weekend time should do that. I agree that leaving it as it is now is better than pushing it a few hours ahead, which alienates a lot of the global audience who is apt to have school or work in a few hours' time after the end of TE.

[WarlockFier]

The current WOE TE time isn't promoting any more guilds to participate, at present attendance is extremely poor in many other guilds as well. So leaving it as it is isn't really helping with the situation.

[Yggdrasil13]

Then it should match the European's need since they are the ones couldn't participate with the old time.

[Necrohealiac]

Euros couldn't participate Sunday 4-5 PM? that seems like a pretty nice time to me.

[meli]

It's comfortable for Europe, could be earlier/later and shouldn't be a problem tbh.

Edited by meli, 22 January 2015 - 06:07 AM.