R1 10th anniversary cloak?

Umi, I understand your point of view, for me the time isn't optimal too. I get up at 4 a.m. and the stream is at 11 p.m. in my time zone.
But this was a special item for the stream.
On the streams you see so many player, that you don't see the rest of the month. Some came for the game and want to see its ongoing. But I think some of them came for special items only.
I remeber the trouble with the LB birthday shield. There were players who try to get as much shields as possible. A day later you find some shields in the vendors.
IMHO this is not the way, that makes items special.
I'm often upset, that I don't get any founder Items, but this is my problem, because I notice the game to late. For sure I wish, I was a gamer of the first hour. But time mashines only exists in SotA not in real life.
Maybe the devs create a cloak for the players, that shows how long they are subcriber. That would show how long you support the game.
@Barugon May you find someone, who sells his cloak for an acceptable prize

 

Similar for me in EU timezone. Livestreams are often not at times I can watch - and not knowing that someone comes up with an unannounced idea during a livestream that involves doing something during that livestream...

If you want to advertise buying COTO´s - sure do. But why do we have a forum in which even players announce contests in advance when the devs don´t use it to announce something like that in advance? Doing something in only one of several possible informationchannels (e.g. discord, livestream, forum, ingamechat) is limiting the audience. Requiring something to be bought in the limited time of a livestream is limiting the number of customers further.

 

Very good question, @ConjurerDragon !

 

I made similar comments about some of the ESO streams where I've missed out on free in game stuff.

What do other game companies do? So far I haven't seen much when it comes to rares. And there are years of rare items I'm unable to get.

But seriously? Games besides ESO, what do they do to solve this? I'm curious if it will work for SOTA...

 

I don't recall seeing anyone asking for the cloak to be offered in the crown store. My point was that I wasn't able to watch the stream live and had no way to know that it was even being offered until I watched the stream the next day, which was too late.

[edit] It's not a huge deal. I just felt like it was a bit unfair to those who couldn't watch the stream live and had no other way to know about it.

 

That is a start.

 

"The Anniversary cloak offer was not planned. This was an ad hoc, off the cuff offer for folks who purchased a 10K COTO pack..."

This is the problem, why there is unplanned / ad hoc offer of an item (that is not available in other ways), which is not properly announced in the website. This is not the right way a game open for public should behave.

Unlike raffle / discount, which other players can achieve the same thing (obtain those things with higher price in game / store for e.g.), so from perspective "what the player could be able to get / enjoy", they can still do it. But if the cloak is not available in any other way, then it makes a difference to the players. Or in other words, players are forced to join the livestream if they want to be able / have the chance to enjoy everything in the game.