Rising Event

[Rockette]

UGH PLEASE don't let this be the actual reality meme for all upcoming content :<

[Kupenda]

Still nothing on Omega. This is just ridiculous... Spend my whole day sitting in Ul'Dah, the fun is gone.

[Lexi]

Nothing on Exodus. I'm tempted to make an alt on a Japanese Data Center to see if it's up there.

[Rockette]

Remember that time people were server transferring to Japan to get past Raubahn's eternal instance at the start of Stormblood.


I remember.

[Lily_Black]

I have an alt on a JP server and the recruiter was up from 9pm Japan time to 12am Japan time.

[DarthSanguine]

Nothing on Ragnarok...

[HyoMinPark]

I understand, but how come none of them gave an accurate description of what we got ? French localisation said random, English didn't mention randomness at all.
In the end, we have time windows.

It may be localisation, but they both failed to deliver the right message.

That's for sure, i never liked their way of translating. But i can't read Japanese so... can't do much about it.

The Japanese text also had nothing in it to insinuate that the spawn times of the NPC were going to be random. The “exercises occur irregularly” seemed to be referring to the nature of the FATE spawns within the instance.

And, from what I have read, the JP playerbase also stood waiting around wondering when the NPC would spawn—even wondering if they had to do something special to spawn him.

Or just wait another day, because people probably will have figured out the pattern by then, if there is one.

And if there is no pattern?

Regardless, this was a poorly implemented event. More so because the developers could not even be bothered to inform its playerbase that it would set up timeslots for each region to participate, and instead they just let them stand around and wait while saying only “it’s working as intended”. It is absolutely rude to not inform your playerbase that an anticipated event such as The Rising will have a random/limited spawn factor to its content. This was never done before for any other past event.

I have an alt on a JP server and the recruiter was up from 9pm Japan time to 12am Japan time.

Okay, so we have:
—9pm to 12am PST, where the NA servers are located.
—9pm to 12am JST, where the JP servers are located.

Where are the EU servers (time zone-wise) and what was the exact spawn time for him yesterday? Was he up 9pm to 12am during the EU’s server time? Can anyone from EU answer this? I want to write down these times and see if he spawns again at the same time today/tomorrow.

If the windows are consistent, at least we will have the windows for the Recruiter (if they’re consistent—wouldn’t surprise me at this point for it to be entirely random, but I’m hoping that isn’t the case). But this is still incredibly awful design—the NA times are 11pm to 2am my time, 12am to 3am for my best friend, and fairly early hours for people who may be in EU but play on NA data centers. Same for anyone, really, in a different region from their home region’s data center.

[Stormfur]

Surely...surely they've got to be doing server stress tests. I just can't imagine why they'd have a character spawn in when people in NA are sleeping.

[kalahann]

http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../54053949.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../54053949.html


some pictures of the event

[MistakeNot]

I mean if they wanted to bring people together, they did an amazing job.

After all, everybody stands together right now!
What do you mean we‘re all screaming because it‘s stupid?
At least... it‘s an outcry as a community!

Yay!

Yeah, I think this is going to be one of the few cases where nearly the whole player base agrees about something.
Namely that this is a bloody stupid event design, and that the developers did a horrible job designing it.