Ah yes - I see.
Well we had St Patricks Day - so by rights we should get St George's, St Andrews and St Davids at the very least
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Ah yes - I see.
Well we had St Patricks Day - so by rights we should get St George's, St Andrews and St Davids at the very least
Only reason St Paddy's Day gets included is the American obsession with it, despite the fact only 1 city actually has it as a Public Holiday.
Wait 'til I post up what the Germans got today, allegedly as compensation for a weekend suffering what we have to endure daily, but so wonderfully timed to coincide with the start of their Halloween event.
As promised, here is yesterday's wonderful surprise, The Autumn Storm, the slightly dodgy Google translation but you will get the gist of it.
Now, this claims to be compensation for the lag and login issues over the weekend. I was playing there during this time, and the experience was just the same as what we are expected to endure here every single day. Yes, things were laggy, just read our forum BB, they're laggy here too. Yes, there were some login issues, again read our forum, we have them too. I didn't notice Devs being got out of bed on a Friday night when we suffer the same.
Any non-german player would have seen nothing unusual at all with these issues, sadly this would just appear to be 'standard' for our Settlers experience. Why is it unacceptable there, but largely ignored here?
Now, a cynical view would also wonder about the timing of this latest gift, Halloween just started there today, and these items will come in very, very useful to progress through that.
http://thesettlersonlinewiki.com/upl...utumnstorm.png
In regards of national holidays:
Since us Swedes don't have a server of our own (Please don't get us one), it's most natural to play on English UK as most Swedes (90%+) speak fluent English very early in age and UK is fairly close to us. So, how about including some Swedish holidays eh?
Here's a few:
• The day before lent, Fettisdagen (Fat Tuesday)
• 25th March, Våffeldagen (Waffle Day)
• 30th April, Valborgsmässoafton (Walpurgis Night)
• 6th June, National Day of Sweden
• The Friday on 19th to 25th June, Midsommarafton (Midsummer Eve, the largest holiday in Sweden)
• 4th October, Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon roll's Day)
• 13th December, Lucia (Saint Lucy's Day)
Looking forward to ridiculous amount of free gifts on those days henceforth.
I have read the whole thread and I must say that this comes to NO surprise whatsoever. Day in and day out it has been plain and simple favoritism for the .de servers. The little respect I had for BlueByte, if any, is gone and I chose to vote with my wallet.
No wonder they win every event. I heard from guildies they had losses because of lags too. Give everyone this compensation, lags were all over the place, every server.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanceltare
i dont really know how to react to reading this thread..
weirdest thing is that iam actually not even that suprised :S
holy wow.
2 tier system works, if the bottom tiers don't find out they are at the bottom.
rich get richer, poor stay poor.
thanks BB for letting us all know how we rate in your game. even though we play and pay just the same as your favourite servers.
:O There was lag this weekend??? You mean like having to recall wave after wave of attacks because one or more generals decided to walk in place for a few seconds rather than moving forward with the rest? Or when after the music plays for them, one or more generals don't bother marching out (and therefore cant be recalled) until after a refresh...at which point you hold your breath and hope you can get reloaded into the game and into your adventure in time to recall them before they get intercepted for disasterous results?
Ah well, at least we know how the proceeds of the last gem sale were spent... giving the german players hundreds of gems' worth of free prizes. And like dunthon, I find myself not even a little surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.
Been there. The walking-in-place general is getting more common.
But nothing like how long a refresh takes. The period spent watching the blue background whilst waiting for the terrain to come online is nothing more than epic. And getting worse by the week.
guys like there has been sad already with other things WE/Our server will get something later its almost always like that...
but they get a huge advantage... so gosh... why would the german servers always/almost always win all events -_-
BB_ dont cheat give every server the same on the same date ;)
else people will be pissed off and quit your game maybe
and whats great about thath
Oh, and forgot to add, the day-long 100% gem sale they got on 1st day of event too.
Yet another "care package" arrrived, details here. http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/t...ance-Just-once!
Nice to see a step in the right direction this week, nowhere near parity, but welcoming to think that somebody is finally taking notice?
In case anyone wanted to continue denying favouritism... who got the 3x gems happy hour during the balloons event? It only went international after a near-mutiny.
I occasionally play on one of the german servers, and when maintenance decided to hit us a bit early, I went there and woke up my german settlers.
But just when I was about to hit PLAY, I noticed a news about "Offer for gamers from Germany and Austria" and "Offer for gamers from Switzerland".
Of course I was curious, so I went for the first link: http://www.diesiedleronline.de/aktion/dso-halloween-13
My jaw hanging on my chest, I realised BB had done it again: Giving the german speaking players an extra gift, and leaving the rst of us in the closet.
They get 1.000 Gems and a "Zombie" plus a "Frank and Stein". FOR ABSOLUTE FREE!!!
Ok, time for some gaming, and after logging in, I checked my ingame inbox, and what did I find?
Remember when we recieved a mine refill + 1 Exo basket the other day?
Guess what they got on the german servers?
The same items PLUS 1 Love potion PLUS 1 FREE PREMIUM DAY!!!
Seriously, what the heck is BB playing at?
We non-germans are less worth for them? We're lesser gamers? What?!?
I'm guessing the Germans are spending more money on this game compared to the rest of us common folk.
Maybe its time to dig deeper into your wallets?
You must be new to this game...Quote:
Originally Posted by CMHSE
Hi PSYKODK,Quote:
Originally Posted by PSYKODK
This assumption is wrong. This is a payment method that is available in some countries only (France, e.g.), and not all methods are available in all countries. This is not limited to Germany. The insinuation that we do not care about other language versions because of this payment offer for several EU countries is incorrect.
I addressed the Premium Day before, which I will now quote again for you.
Best,Quote:
Hi Benedicter,
Sure-- the reason why DE received these gifts was not at all because of the golem respawn issue. They received them because 1.) their website was completely down for a rather extended period of time and 2.) during their maintenance, due to an error Premium and Adventure times were not extended for DE.
BB_Alpaca
Actually Alpaca, although it appears like this, I've actually done these twice, once on german and once on french, and both times got linked to an English language version of the offers. I got my in game 'goodies' in both circumstances, only snag was an actual failure in the system not linking back to DSO/TSO , so I merely had to provide evidence of a receipt to get my stuff.
Regarding the answer to Benedicter, I would again point out that we routinely have to put up with stuff like this happening, but until last week, nothing has been offered to us since the very first two weeks when the server would go AWOL for several days, and we still did not get the items included that have clearly been targetted at easing the current event, ie: piles of marble, wells and super buffs.
Also, that was not the 1st occasion that extra premium days have been included in gift packages, on Germany I now have 5 1 day items, 4 of which have been gifts.
We have had to endure shocking lag since November 2012, which is really making life miserable, not just regarding blocking, but for officially "supported" functions like the hourglass spinning in the Prov House, Garrisons and Trade Office. All too often to items either being missed, or duplicated later on when the system decides to backtrack later on, and reinsert something we'd already given up upon and repeated.
These feelings are not just limited to these servers, you don't need google translate to guess what this is about: http://forum.thesettlersonline.fr/th...emands-et-nous.....
Similar feelings expressed about the extra gamescom codes too.
Then how about you guys make an "action" like that with a payment that works here? Am sure you do not need us to tell you that... It's becoming outrageous really...Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Alpaca
http://www.diesiedleronline.de/de/ak...o-halloween-13 =
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Translated:
Log in required
In order to use this site you must be logged.
http://forum.thesettlersonline.fr/th...emands-et-nous <--- Works perfectly
Is there something to hide on German forum?
Well I am very very close to quit this game, I have never supported favoritisms in any mode, and this seems to be a very typical one here in this game.
I'd rather play my old CD's of Settlers than waste my time to this where some type of players are "dear" to the upholders, and others are just mere simples player who don't need anything special.
Just keep on doing it and soon you will have just and only German server players here.
And to quote someone who said something about opening up our money pouches, comeone, this is a F2P game, not even worth to spend real cash on, I can name several other online games 100 times more worth P2P.
English only please, the non-english has been removed