Tuesday offers and international players

[Rumbaar]

Can we get a greater lead time on Tuesday or 1 day sales for international players? I come on to find Half-Orc up fro 50% sale. It's now Wednesday and it will be long over for most workers/school players to be able to purchase this on 'Tuesday'.

I wish I had know about this on our actual "Tuesday" so I could have brought it last night on my Tuesday.

We need an out of game ability for players to purchase DDO Store items.

[Gummi]

you can read the upcoming tuesday sales at least one or 2 days before they go live on the ddo site...

[Rumbaar]

Yeah thanks for that, the thread on the Tuesday sales was created: 02-09-2011, 01:43 AM my time. I do not visit the main ddo.com site. I guess it's my mistake to think the forum is a viable source of on time information.

[donfilibuster]

i believe the offer is available for the whole 24 hrs server time so we all have the same advance notice on new sales.
we can just call them wednesday sales, isn't it?

[Rumbaar]

i believe the offer is available for the whole 24 hrs server time so we all have the same advance notice on new sales.
we can just call them wednesday sales, isn't it?

Yes the 'same' 24 hour period. But that period ends at 4PM local time.

[Dulcimerist]

I would love to see the Turbine Tuesday sales announced on Friday.

[Dysmetria]

Yes the 'same' 24 hour period. But that period ends at 4PM local time.

Then it starts the day before at 4pm local time. Every week. If you forgot this week, then that is no ones fault but your own.

[asphodeli]

Can we get a greater lead time on Tuesday or 1 day sales for international players? I come on to find Half-Orc up fro 50% sale. It's now Wednesday and it will be long over for most workers/school players to be able to purchase this on 'Tuesday'.

I wish I had know about this on our actual "Tuesday" so I could have brought it last night on my Tuesday.

We need an out of game ability for players to purchase DDO Store items.

According to my local time (GMT+8), the offer expires tomorrow afternoon at 1pm...so working from Melbourne time, it would seem that the Turbine Tuesday offer starts 4pm on Wed local time and ends Thurs 4pm local time? I agree that the offers should be at least be done 12 hours ahead though (or the last Friday even), sometimes I miss out on Turbine Tuesday offers as well.

[Rumbaar]

How is it rubbish? The notice gets posted at the same time no matter where you live in the world. The sale is the same 24 hour period each week no matter where you live in the world. Where you live has nothing to do with it, time passes just as fast in every corner of the world.

Timezones, you might want to look them up. 9am US eastern time = equals 1 am AUST DST. How is that considered notification at the same time? I'm sure being notified at 1am and then having it expire at 4pm your time would allow for you to access the game in time.

According to my local time (GMT+8), the offer expires tomorrow afternoon at 1pm...so working from Melbourne time, it would seem that the Turbine Tuesday offer starts 4pm on Wed local time and ends Thurs 4pm local time? I agree that the offers should be at least be done 12 hours ahead though (or the last Friday even), sometimes I miss out on Turbine Tuesday offers as well.

You might want to do your math on timezones again. Our region is in the future, not the past. US -5 GMT, AUS +11 GMT.

[mystafyi]

I would be happy if turbine would post the tuesdays sales the day before on the login section. that way anyone that logs in could clic the link before entering the game. Im sure this would help all players, regardless of time zone, take advantage of any upcoming sales. Not everyone logs on every day, and this could entice even casual players to pop in and catch a sale and maybe play an hour or two.
/win for everyone

[Dysmetria]

Timezones, you might want to look them up. 9am US eastern time = equals 1 am AUST DST. How is that considered notification at the same time? I'm sure being notified at 1am and then having it expire at 4pm your time would allow for you to access the game in time.

Again, timezone has nothing to do with it. Plenty of people in every timezone work odd hours, but I seriously doubt any work 24 hours straight.

You were notified 9 weeks ago that the sales would take place every Tuesday. That means that the sale was on at 4pm your time the day before, not 1am a day later. Likewise the web page announcing the sale was up long before 4pm your time the day before as well, I know because I saw it up long before the sale started.

The bottom line is if you forgot to check the webpage to see what was on sale before the sale started then it is your fault. If you forgot to check in game at least once during that entire 24 hour period to see what was on sale it is your fault. You had exactly the same amount of time to take advantage of the sale as everyone else, and it doesn't matter if the sale there started at 4pm or midnight or 7am. You still had an entire day, timezone has nothing to do with it.

[Rumbaar]

Again, timezone has nothing to do with it. Plenty of people in every timezone work odd hours, but I seriously doubt any work 24 hours straight.

You were notified 9 weeks ago that the sales would take place every Tuesday. That means that the sale was on at 4pm your time the day before, not 1am a day later. Likewise the web page announcing the sale was up long before 4pm your time the day before as well, I know because I saw it up long before the sale started.

The bottom line is if you forgot to check the webpage to see what was on sale before the sale started then it is your fault. If you forgot to check in game at least once during that entire 24 hour period to see what was on sale it is your fault. You had exactly the same amount of time to take advantage of the sale as everyone else, and it doesn't matter if the sale there started at 4pm or midnight or 7am. You still had an entire day, timezone has nothing to do with it.

By your logic Turbine should never post another announcement on Tuesdays sales. But more so, why do they post a thread on weekly sales. Everyone knows there is a sale, they should just log in and hope for the best.

I did check the forum for the Tuesday sale thread and it was posted 9am the day of the actual sale [US time], which was 1am Wednesday my time. That's a little early for me to be checking and once I'm at work there is little I can do until I get home.

[Dysmetria]

By your logic Turbine should never post another announcement on Tuesdays sales. But more so, why do they post a thread on weekly sales. Everyone knows there is a sale, they should just log in and hope for the best.

I did check the forum for the Tuesday sale thread and it was posted 9am the day of the actual sale [US time], which was 1am Wednesday my time. That's a little early for me to be checking and once I'm at work there is little I can do until I get home.

Wait, are you talking about forum threads? The ones that link you to the sales pages? The ones that even tell you to bookmark the sales pages and to check them each week for sales?

I'm sorry if you have to rely on a forum post every week to remind you to check the sales pages or ingame for those weekly sales but that still has nothing to do with timezones or international players. It is actually by your logic that they should never post another thread announcing their sales, since apparently people like you are using those threads as a crutch to remind them to check the sales pages, and/or will try to use them as an excuse as to why they missed those sales.

[asphodeli]

Timezones, you might want to look them up. 9am US eastern time = equals 1 am AUST DST. How is that considered notification at the same time? I'm sure being notified at 1am and then having it expire at 4pm your time would allow for you to access the game in time.

You might want to do your math on timezones again. Our region is in the future, not the past. US -5 GMT, AUS +11 GMT.

Gosh you're right, I got confused.