Please extend this year's Valentione's Day event?

[TheGrimace]

Like, by atleast a day. My girlfriend and I were waiting until February 14 to actually do the event together. Now, snap to today, and we now have maintenance scheduled in four hours. Beyond that, now instanced servers apparently have borked and people on some servers have been waiting over 100 minutes to actually enter the instance.

Given the Emergency Maintenance and Server Issues, it would be highly appreciated if the event could be extended by atleast one more day.

[Hasrat]

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

[Penthea]

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

And you're going to conveniently forget that the actual day of celebration the event is for is the day before the end of the event? That is a bad move by SE. Valentine's Day should have been in the middle or at the beginning of the event, not right at the end. None of the events should have the actual celebration day at the very end. Especially an event like this in which many couples would want to do the event together on the 14th for obvious reasons. Having it at the end means if something like the instance servers hiccups then the event is ruined for a lot of people.

[Hasrat]

And you're going to conveniently forget that the actual day of celebration the event is for is the day before the end of the event? That is a bad move by SE. Valentine's Day should have been in the middle or at the beginning of the event, not right at the end. None of the events should have the actual celebration day at the very end. Especially an event like this in which many couples would want to do the event together on the 14th for obvious reasons. Having it at the end means if something like the instance servers hiccups then the event is ruined for a lot of people.

Nah, that's just a different point entirely. And one I agree with. Not really sure what their process was on that decision. Shoulda at least had it running through the weekend following the day.

But the greater fact remains that the timing has been known for a long while now, and I choose not to dredge up much sympathy for anyone that thought waiting until the last minute was a good idea. But I'm a heartless bastard.

I mean, sure, it sucks that extra maintenance will be cutting into the event, but things like that are exactly why you don't put something off, eh? If they never make concessions for anything else that gets interrupted by emergency maintenance, I wouldn't hold my breath to see an exception here.

[Penthea]

But the greater fact remains that the timing has been known for a long while now, and I choose not to dredge up much sympathy for anyone that thought waiting until the last minute was a good idea. But I'm a heartless bastard.

You are a bit if you think it's silly for couples to wait until Valentine's Day to do the Valentine's Day event together.

I mean, sure, it sucks that extra maintenance will be cutting into the event, but things like that are exactly why you don't put something off, eh? If they never make concessions for anything else that gets interrupted by emergency maintenance, I wouldn't hold my breath to see an exception here.

I agree that it's unlikely that the event will be extended but I still think it should be if possible given the nature of it, that the main day for it is so poorly timed and how that is no fault of the players. For the event to mess up on the main day of it is a really bad experience for the players. Especially when it's gone the next day and maintenance will be cutting into what little time is left. This is bad planning by SE, not the players.

[KaivaC]

You are a bit if you think it's silly for couples to wait until Valentine's Day to do the Valentine's Day event together.

I think it's a bit silly for a couple to be upset about this instead of using Valentine's Day for doing...anything else other than being on an MMO and putting serious stock into a short Valentine's Day event.

[Dustytome]

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I'll fully admit to procrastinating until the last day to farm up some chocolates and finish the event on alts, but if the schedule says the event is to be up and running, it should be running. People can't reasonably acquire event items at this point with queue times of over an hour and a half for something that was near instant earlier in the day. Yes, there's still time after maintenance, but a lot of people are going to have to forgo sleep for it. I fully expect to not have the event extended, but I would like to request that the items either be added to vendors for whatever event is coming next and/or be added to next years' event before being shipped off to the mogstation warehouse. I'd also request in future that events not end until at least couple days after a holiday.

edit: Seems the queue has gone back to under 5 minutes again. Get your achievements/chocolates before the servers keel over again.

[NekoNova]

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

How dare we have jobs and family that require much of our time.

[TheGrimace]

Shit happens and we were planning to do it today for a certainty, which shouldn't have been a problem since today is literally the day the event is about. It was in our plans.

[Krokov]

The event ends tomorrow morning at 7am Pacific so you still have some time left before ends.