(May) Public Weekend Event #1

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Chris wrote:

Prizes have now been awarded! They are on new hardcore characters on your accounts. If you want the items in default, kill them.

Is this going to be fixed by open beta? Prizes from a Default race should not be awarded on Hardcore characters. It allows bootstrapping HC without playing HC.

VICTORY!

I experienced a minor issue during the event:

The "XXXXX is the first to clear/kill YYYYY!" notifications dont show up with global chat disabled, causing them to get lost or go unnoticed in the general sea of spam. My teammate and i wasted time in old field caves due to this, only to find upon clear that we werent actually first.

The same issue arose during the recent ladder reset; i missed most of the notifications due to not having global chat enabled while out of town in HC.

A ui option of "always see dev/server messages/notifications" or something to that effect would be appreciated.

That said, fun event overall. Ill be back tomorrow!

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unsane wrote:

Is this going to be fixed by open beta?

Why should something be fixed that's not broken? By placing the rewards on HC characters, GGG offers players a choice of what league the rewards stay in. It would be wholly unfair to place the rewards in Default for people who ONLY play HC. If that was the case, why should those players ever compete in Defult Leagues? It's unfair and makes for an unenjoyable experience. People who play Default ONLY, but play a HC race can have their rewards in either league so why not HC only players?

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FaceLicker wrote:

Why should something be fixed that's not broken? By placing the rewards on HC characters, GGG offers players a choice of what league the rewards stay in. It would be wholly unfair to place the rewards in Default for people who ONLY play HC.

Except if they are playing in a Default race, they don't play "ONLY" HC now do they?

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FaceLicker wrote:

If that was the case, why should those [hc only] players ever compete in Defult Leagues?

They wouldn't, unless they want rewards in Default League, since it's a Default race. It doesn't make any sense to reward prizes in HC for playing in a Default Ladder. All your talk about unfairness, the only unfairness occuring here, is awarding HC prizes in a DEFAULT race.

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FaceLicker wrote:

People who play Default ONLY, but play a HC race can have their rewards in either league so why not HC only players?

That's perfectly fine (but again, this isn't a player that plays Default ONLY, if they are playing a HC race). They earned the rewards in a HC league, so the prizes are awarded on a HC character.

HC feeds Default, and not the other way around. If you die in HC, you go to Default. These Default races are a way to cheat the HC to Default feeding system, by going the other way around.

Don't try and get technical, 'well they don't play this league ONLY then'. An event league is the perfect place for anyone to play to gain prizes. It doesnt matter if someone normally plays HC or Default only for the reglar leagues. They can play HC only and still play in a 3 hour event league that's Default without compromising their HC only stance, in my opinion. It's a short term duration for prizes, and the rewards should be available to the victors no matter which league they choose to play.

It's not exactly cheating the system. These items were NEVER in the regular Default league and so there is no reverse feeding going on. These items were in a completely seperate event league. Also, it's not as if the characterss themselves and their stashes are being transferred from a Default to HC scenario. These things stay in Default, where the ought, but the prizes that were, again, never in the regular leagues should be available for the players in whichever league they choose. The took the time to participate in an event, and their rewards should not be limited by the league, default or hc.

I'm pretty sure that developers in many games create events so that people will play them. Events make people happy. Rewards that don't have restrictions on them, in this case which league, make events much more appealing and thus make the players happier and the devs happier.

Perhaps a philosophical stance, but the way i see it, rewarding great Default play with prizes on HC negatively impacts the HC economy.

Wow, I won something for basically taking part. I'm stoked :)

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unsane wrote:

Perhaps a philosophical stance, but the way i see it, rewarding great Default play with prizes on HC negatively impacts the HC economy.

My opinion on this debate is that once it's open beta, I think things will change so that normal prizes aren't rewarded in hardcore.

In the mean time, this is just beta testing and everyone wants to take part in every race they can, so they just give prizes in hardcore.

just a small question, where are the results for the european server?