Playing yesterday afternoon, going to Drustvar for some WQ, and it was just so dark.
It's depressing.
I don't care if NPC Billy Balls is carrying a torch, because people on the other side of the world are asleep. It's mid afternoon, the sun is out, and I wan't to see daylight where I am.
Can this be a toggle of some kind, where a user has to 'opt-in' and by doing so 'acknowledges that Americans will be carrying torches to see in the middle of the day'. It's not like this isn't how we view you anyway.
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I often play on a nocturnal schedule despite living in the US. If we have the night potion, we really could just add a day potion. Seems like a simple enough solution.
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11/06/2018 03:57 PMPosted by AehlHow do we break this cycle?
We already have, you yourself said there was no threads that need blue attention and it's been proven they are watching.
As for the old thread, let it die, this one is a lot better and a lot more logical discussion, reviving the old one would take all of that away.
11/06/2018 03:09 PMPosted by Takralus11/05/2018 03:33 AMPosted by NarullBlizzard ANZ are reading this (Hi, please don't assassinate me)
/salute
WE HAVE A CM?!
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11/06/2018 09:40 PMPosted by Narull
As for the old thread, let it die, this one is a lot better and a lot more logical discussion, reviving the old one would take all of that away.
Your prescense may have quelled some of the raging passion from that last board. Or the DKs have left so no-one is Blood Boiling anymore. Either way this thread feels a lot more constructive.
11/06/2018 03:09 PMPosted by Takralus11/05/2018 03:33 AMPosted by NarullBlizzard ANZ are reading this (Hi, please don't assassinate me)
/salute
Ah Takralus lives, we can call off the cadaver hounds. Which is good, I think they've been eyeing off Narull's femur for a while
11/06/2018 09:40 PMPosted by Narull11/06/2018 03:57 PMPosted by AehlHow do we break this cycle?
We already have, you yourself said there was no threads that need blue attention and it's been proven they are watching.
As for the old thread, let it die, this one is a lot better and a lot more logical discussion, reviving the old one would take all of that away.
Sorry but Aehl is not the spokesperson for the Oceanic playerbase, and them saying "There are no threads needing blue attention" is one sole subscriber's opinion, and should be taken as such.
Now I am going to come across as crass, obstinate, angry and aggressive, but frankly I couldn't give a toss at this point. For the many years I've played WoW I've been by far on the US servers - Greymane to be specific. As completely stupid as it sounds (at least to anyone with an inkling of IT knowledge), I get better latency more often than not staying on those realms than playing on Nagrand Oceanic.
I'm a shiftworker so am used to looking at night scenes more than day when I play (as I said most of my years have been on Greymane, which means playing their nights), so night/day is not so much of an issue for me personally. I do however know of many, many players that work 9-5 who are sick of always looking at night scenes.
Yet in all my years of play I have NEVER suffered the lag problems I have seen since sharding was introduced. A problem that has been put in the too hard basket by Blizz because it means too much work to fix (or totally dumping sharding). In fact, as proved in other forum posts (across all regions) it took absolute ages for anyone from Blizz to even acknowledge it as a problem.
How much subscriber time was wasted by CM's and green posters saying rubbish like "rename x & y, delete all addons, run repair and smile as the roses grow!" Not everyone who raises a ticket or posts in the forum got their first computer last week, in fact many of us were online before WWW existed lol.
The fact that either CM's or green posters treat us like kids/fob us off is what raises the anger, not having a blue post something honest like "Sorry but you're a minority in the scheme of things, we fix it for you it upsets the majority of our customer base."
Now you might be a really nice person, or you may be protecting your green text (text colour is important to some people I know, makes them feel superior). Frankly I don't care either way - as you have said yourself you are not speaking with any authority, and everything you type is only your opinion.
Blizzard (sorry, Activision) is a business and as such it's sole purpose is to make money. To do so when making decisions they weigh up who it's going to affect the most - US customers (main income source) vs Oceanic customers (nice sideline income source). If Activision feel that a decision is going to negatively impact their main customer base (USA) they are not going down that path.
To summarise and finish:
You state not enough people complain on this forum to make it worthwhile for a blue to post. I state have a look at the numbers of all WoW forums in all regions and divide number of individual posters vs individual subscribers as a percentage. Using maths there has NEVER been a forum post worthwhile of a blue's attention!
Using the same logic the US & Euro forums would be bereft of blue posts, or at the very least be more akin to Oceanic - 1 or 2 blue posts every few years lol. Instead we have Ythisens posting on everything from serious questions to inane commentary on rubbish.
So my very serious question to you is, why the hell would the majority of the Oceanic playerbase waste their time posting in what they see as a dead, silent, ignored forum? A quick and easy search of the forum shows you exactly how bad Blizzard's communication is with their Oceanic playerbase (as you have said, being a green you are NOT representing Blizzard, only your own opinions).
BTW in case you were wondering, Takrulus having a reponse of "/salute" is in no way, shape or form considered to be a constructive blue reply to the many forum posts of subscribers over the years - my 6yo son can give that reply on a keyboard! At least Ythisens uses sentences, gotta give him that much lol.
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Sorry but Aehl is not the spokesperson for the Oceanic playerbase
Never said I was.
Just had to step up and try.
I wish there was an option to at least reverse the display of the day / night cycle.
I logged in at lunchtime as I had a day off, and my god it was a completely different game. Boralus in the sunshine? I didn't know it existed, I thought it was permanently dark.
Seem pretty silly to have Sydney based servers aligned to US time zones. I know that they're load balanced and for DR reasons they are in the same cluster, but even having a mod or an option to inverse the lighting and skybox would make an absolute WORLD of difference.
Can someone at Blizzard raise a sneaky ServiceNow ticket to have this done?
I logged in at lunchtime as I had a day off, and my god it was a completely different game. Boralus in the sunshine? I didn't know it existed, I thought it was permanently dark.
Seem pretty silly to have Sydney based servers aligned to US time zones. I know that they're load balanced and for DR reasons they are in the same cluster, but even having a mod or an option to inverse the lighting and skybox would make an absolute WORLD of difference.
Can someone at Blizzard raise a sneaky ServiceNow ticket to have this done?
Seem pretty silly to have Sydney based servers aligned to US time zones.
Yeah I know.
Now all we can do is wait for a possible fix.
Ah Takralus lives, we can call off the cadaver hounds. Which is good, I think they've been eyeing off Narull's femur for a while
Dont do that, he wont have a leg to stand on.
Literally.
11/07/2018 04:01 AMPosted by Arthuris
Sorry but Aehl is not the spokesperson for the Oceanic playerbase, and them saying "There are no threads needing blue attention" is one sole subscriber's opinion, and should be taken as such.
Never said he was, however I was replying to him hence I quoted him.
11/07/2018 04:01 AMPosted by Arthuris
Yet in all my years of play I have NEVER suffered the lag problems I have seen since sharding was introduced. A problem that has been put in the too hard basket by Blizz because it means too much work to fix (or totally dumping sharding). In fact, as proved in other forum posts (across all regions) it took absolute ages for anyone from Blizz to even acknowledge it as a problem.
How much subscriber time was wasted by CM's and green posters saying rubbish like "rename x & y, delete all addons, run repair and smile as the roses grow!" Not everyone who raises a ticket or posts in the forum got their first computer last week, in fact many of us were online before WWW existed lol.
You seem to be mistaking CMs for Tech Support, the CMs have no control over our servers, sharding, lag issues, routing problems and more, tech support however do, the posts here having issues with lag really don't belong here because tech support don't check this forum regularly, how I or one of the ANZ CMs may pass along a thread here but if you have an issue like this it should be posted in the tech support forums where the people who make these changes and investigate these issues can see it.
Literally if you wanted a CM to reply to your lag issues it would basically be 'Go post here' because tech support/lag/routing/any server issue isn't a CMs job to be posting about.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/1011701/ is the forum you want for your issue mate and you can hate me all you like I don't mind, but that's the facts, nowhere in a CMs job description (and I know I tried) is 'tech support help' or such.
All of that is handled by QA/Tech Support not Community Managers.
To change the appearance on the in-game time of day, we could look into some cosmetic tech that would change the skybox based on the home-serverâs timezone.
I look at the screen in Boralus and I look outside...and here we are two years later, still playing in the dark.
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Sure was nice of Sinnabun to prove my point for me in the Congrats Free Marsy thread.
Here I was hoping that as I'd pointed it out people would be smart enough to not do it.
Sinnabun if you read this, I guarantee to you that if/when Blizzard have an update they will post about it.
This thread is good, keep up the discussion, but as there is clearly no update atm don't think that trying to go off topic in other topic threads will help at all, all it does is make you look bad and discourages blue posts at all.
Here I was hoping that as I'd pointed it out people would be smart enough to not do it.
Sinnabun if you read this, I guarantee to you that if/when Blizzard have an update they will post about it.
This thread is good, keep up the discussion, but as there is clearly no update atm don't think that trying to go off topic in other topic threads will help at all, all it does is make you look bad and discourages blue posts at all.
This thread is good, keep up the discussion, but as there is clearly no update atm don't think that trying to go off topic in other topic threads will help at all, all it does is make you look bad and discourages blue posts at all.
I am content to wait, Narull, thats no problem.
I just hope that we hear something soon.
Your point about it not being an easy fix is well taken.....just that whilst it isnt urgent in the same way a gamebreaking bug can wreck an entire raid, it is in the fact that it has an impact across the board.
I have listened and learned, so that wont be an issue from now on. I wont use the word urgent because it isnt, but IMO I would use the term "a pressing need for attention".
It isnt critical, but at the same time it is a matter that does need to be addressed.
Thats fair, I think.
(It is just depressing as hell sometimes...(((()
I am pleased this carried over. At least we have continuity.
All posts that have been active in the last 2 weeks carried over so no worries there.
O.o seems the new forums go off whichever character you logged off last? hmm
Many of us have things weâd like to change in the game, ranging from the big ticket items down to the cosmetic stuff. For me it would be a matter ofâŠI guess you could call it gaming comfortâŠto be able to experience the game during daytime hours in daylight. It just seems natural to me, and many Oceanic players hardly ever get to experience the game in sunshine. If they come home at say 5pm its already dark in the game. And on weekends they have to rise early to experience this wonderful game in its bright, sunny glory.
If its too much of a techncal issue to change the skybox for Oceanic, I donât see why we couldnt at least have an item provided to us along the lines of the Inky black Potion that we could use if we wanted the dark lifted. If they can do it one way, surely they can do it in reverse.
Please??? ![:gift:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/gift.png?v=6" ":gift:")
Well Im glad to see this thread carried over. Just a shame we still havent heard on anything from Blizzard
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Sinnabun if you read this, I guarantee to you that if/when Blizzard have an update they will post about it.
âŠand in the meantime we are locked ingame to a 17 hour time difference that âcant be fixedâ. Every single time I see that comment on âimmersionâ I sit there and laugh.
I get more âimmersionâ in Fallout 4âŠeven 76 has a day night cycle where you get to see daylight ingame.
Its been two years, Narull, I just wonder how much longer we will have to wait for a fixâŠif we ever see one.
Iâm starting to wonder if you and Sinnabun are the same person but you forget to change toons as you randomly reply to his things and vice versa lol
But to the point, yeah itâs completely possible that it may never be fixed, I dunno Blizzard have never said but itâs something I came to accept years ago.