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Your Elvenar Team
The developers seem to have decided long ago that it is better to annoy players 100 times by not releasing any dates for anything rather than to change a date later and face the backlash.
They give about two days warning for everything. We can make all kinds of suppositions about why, but in the end, it's what they normally do. That seems like policy, for good or ill.
I agree. I am a big fan of communication with disclaimer.
Yes. Yesterday afternoon:
That is what the official announcement says.
Assuming they want to. There's no evidence that they wanted the event to start any earlier than it is.
Because regardless of how much people complain about it, their Halloween events have always started close to Halloween. The fact that some players are upset that they don't start early is barely relevant to anything.
Do you happen to have insider information about how many employees of a German company take vacation during one of the biggest celebrations in Germany, potentially leaving them short-handed for a major event? If not, ALL CAPS doesn't make your supposition truer.
I think that, as always, whether they look like they have their stuff together seems to be dependent on whether they do things the way a particular person wants them to. This is their fifth Halloween event, and all of them have started within a spread of a little over a week. This is the earliest they've ever started, so using it as an example that they somehow don't have their stuff together because they didn't start it sooner seems self-centered to me.
Players on the forums consistently seem to think our opinions represent the gospel truth. Elvenar has millions of users, makes millions of Euros a year, and currently has 20 times as many people following it on the English Facebook page than have ever signed up for the forums in it's entire existence. Actual employees post there regularly, and they regularly get 50+ to several hundred comments on posts about the game. Inno has won business awards for the quality of their metrics, and their revenues had 38% growth last year per their parent company's annual report (as I quoted elsewhere on the forums. I think it's hilarious when forum participants claim the developers should do what the players say if they want to make money.
Didn't say everyone. I implied you have no idea whether Octoberfest is relevant to the date of the event or not.
Perhaps you meant to say that, but you didn't.
Perhaps English is not your first language? The construction of that paragraph is 100% talking about the timing of the event.
I do thanks, it's one of the things of which I am most proud.
Of course you are. I'd never resist anyone having or sharing an opinion. I can find people's opinions humourous can't I? When they fly in the face of evidence? What gives the appearance of self-centeredness is arguing that there is something wrong in how the Elvenar team schedules their events, that they don't understand how a Halloween season is supposed to work, and that the right way to do it is the way you think they should. The larger picture is that not only are they not a U.S. company, but they are running their events simultaneously on 50+ different servers multiple languages for multiple cultures. I'm presuming your better understanding of schedules includes research into what's going on in October in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Holland, Poland, Norway, Russia and Sweden (plus the other nine languages they currently serve but isn't a teeny bit self-centered because you know how the Halloween season works?
Yay! Even more humour. I'll I'm happy to match my English comprehension against yours any day of the year. Your written words speak for themselves, as it were. The audience can judge my assessment of what you said vs what you say you said.
I'm guessing my publishers would disagree, in particular if you tried to pass that paragraph off as saying what you claim it says. Actual publishers have paid me actual money to publish my writing in books made of paper. As far as schedules, I've demonstrated here that I have a basic grasp of how Inno schedules their Halloween events, and that I'm prepared to allow my culture's traditions are only a tiny part of the pot. I'm unconvinced that not liking how Inno schedules their events is evidence of a better understanding of schedules.
