Discussion: Double XP postponed to August 11-14

I don't think that anyone is owed double xp. It's a bonus you may oy may not be ablt to take advantage of. While it's a shame if you made special plans and can' t change them, it's not worth the vtriol. Certainly no malice was intended.

I have an electric/ice dom as well...he's a bit painful during the lower levels but later on he shines. Team up as much as you can and hang out near arachnos bases so you can get as much xp as possible. Hang in there.

First you give us less than 2 weeks notice that 2xp is coming. A lot of us scrambled to clear some time off work, including me.

Now we get less than 72 hours notice that - woops, there'll be no 2xp.

Devs, is there a way that you can at least give us some further advance on this stuff? My boss is going to start thinking I'm some kind of flake.

Damn. Looks like I am now going to have to restructure by super-busy cognitive schedule so that my brain remembers to help me log into my game account expecting to engage in a double XP weekend of City of Heroes, 2 whole weeks after the previous scheduled appointment of seriously important gaming.

My life is ruined.

Wow, having read all the replies to this thread, I have a few things to say:



Many of us work 40 hours a week at not-crappy jobs that pay just fine. We just happen to work non-traditional hours - where I work is open 24/7/365. *NOBODY* works a 9-5 Mon-Fri schedule. So don't tell us to 'get a better job'. Sorry that my working a job for the past 4 1/2 years where my normal hours encompass almost ALL of 2XP weekend - thus meaning I miss *all* of it unless I take time off of work makes you think I'm some kind of loser because, hey, I'd like to get in on all the fun that I usually miss. Because maybe I'm not the sort who likes to fake sick and call in work when I know that I'll be putting stress on my coworkers. And some of those jobs? They require more time in advance if you want to request leave time.

And for those people going 'durr, well, just play after work' - I work 10 hour days and when I get home at 3AM, not only do I have much less time to play than people who work shorter days, it's kind of hard to find many people on at that hour of the day. Not to mention, someone has to cook dinner, feed the pets, and tend to the other various around-the-house chores that crop up daily. Which'd leave me all of 1/2 hour to play, which is probably just about as long as it takes to get logged in and find a team running a TF, let alone play with them.


So maybe before you all harangue those of us who took time off work, maybe you should consider that not everybody works the same days and hours of the week, and some of us aren't willing to lie to our bosses and call in sick, and for some of us, getting that leave time off maybe isn't so easy as it is for YOU.


And to anyone saying 'well you can just get xp faster in AE' - maybe some of us would rather enjoy the game content instead of just farming our way to 50.



Devs, a lot of this would be avoided if you gave us, say, maybe a month's notice that 2XP is coming instead of 2 weeks.




And for those of you who think you're being clever by saying 'oh yeah, I'm SO SURE they moved it just to ruin your weekend!' - we KNOW that isn't the case. But thanks for the smarm. We're upset that some poor planning went into scheduling the event. Or, sorry, did I miss the notice that no negative feedback is allowed?

yeah..sadly I moved some stuff around too...now I have appointments that friday afternoon AND am having surgery that monday morning, so far..I guess I can just play til 3am EST since they are doing carpal tunnel surgey on my right hand/wrist that monday morning lol. So ill just have to play my heart out thursday through friday til I have to go to my appointments and then when i get back.

Great.. unfortunately it will happen during the time I'm out of town away from my computer, thanks a whole lot....

Wow, talk about a late notice. This totally sucks since I accrue my time off at such a slow rate (6 hrs vac a month) and I've scheduled friday off. I can't bail on it since I setup other things to do with the family.

Lets just see, 7 years of this game, plan a double xp event, and bugs prevent you from doing it on the scheduled date even though you've had weeks to prepare?? This truly sucks since I was excited for it. I guess this teaches me "NEVER" to take a day off for this game!

Ha! All is not lost, at least in my case. I just noticed that the 11th falls on a thursday. I don't leave for my weekend away until the friday. I get a day of DXP!

Well, that's cheered me up a bit.

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[QUOTE=joshdex;3765613]Maybe true- but kind of an odd way to defend wanting to time off work for a video game event.



I just do not understand this....I agree with everything else you said, but can't understand this.

I rarely ask time off of work for anything. NcSoft announced a double XP weekend which I have always loved...so I fought for getting to enjoy some of it....and I succeeded.

For people like you who probably team, team, and team, and use the AE building to team even faster Double XP is no big deal.

For folks like me, who do not team, Double Xp is a BIG deal....and I try to not miss any of it.

To have come sooo close, and have it yanked away due to someone not testing it before giving out a date is....hard to swallow.

Typing out jeers because you can...is that the sort of person you want to be?

Lisa.