Re: Popcap wants to extend unicorn chomper deadline
I don't mind but i also don't see the point of doing so. Was a year really not long enough?
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- I don't see any harm in extended the deadline. It will eventually just bring more people to GW2. There are a lot of people saying it's not fair, but I just don't understand why. Why do you care? Chompers are easy vanqs, especially the unicorn chomper. I tend to be a completionist, so I can understand that people would be detoured from even buying GW2 if they know they can't fully complete it. Unless the deadline has something to do with sun setting GW1. Which I highly doubt. Give the people what they want. IT SHOWS YOUR LISTENING!
First its going to be extend the deadline, then next is lower the required rank, then next everyone gets it for free. People want the unicorn chomper for no reason. Everyone who has him never plays as him. He is just 45 ranks... Most people will never reach the max rank in pvzgw 2 and yet they still complain about not having a character.
- Hate to be the bad guy but apparently zero has misinformed everyone. Justin wiebe just put out a tweet saying there will be no extension. Apparently that goes for importing any characters from gw1.
Well, don't blame zero. He played the clip from live at popcap which contained the quote I copied above. Here's a link to the official "nope":
- I don't blame zero one bit. My son loves his videos. I'm sure he's not happy about the change at all (I saw the clip). I will say it's a little disheartening that Gary and Owen left, and now things seem to be in a bit of disarray at popcap. And poor Wiebe gets beat up on twitter every day almost. While Gary mainly got praise. Just saying.
The wording of your post seemed to suggest that zero just made it up. He does seem to speculate wildly based on little evidence sometimes. I'm no zero enthusiast, but he was just quoting what popcap said on their live stream. Cheers!
Based on what the team said in the Live From PopCap stream my take away is that the original end date was set due to the server load which is created every time someone performs a character transfer or checked their Ranking between GW2 and GW1- anyone who knows how those sorts of things work knows that servers have a finite amount of resources to spread around to different tasks and when you stretch those resources to too many things everything slows down or starts failing.
It sounds to me that the date was originally set in stone due to some technical reason concerning something happening 'behind the curtain' on the backend and that recently the PopCap team were investing time in trying to figure out a workaround to extend the date probably due to player demand and the number of new players coming into the game to give people a bit more time but if you notice they didn't actually promise that this would happen; for any situation involving technical limitations it's easy to be optimistic while you're looking into it but ultimately it's not always possible and it was probably a mistake to mention the possibility before any extension was actually finalized because now we have situations like this where some people are pointing to the livestream saying "Probably Yes" and now the Twitter post saying "Nope not possible".
I'd just want the Unicorn Chomper unlockable through the second game. Like as a legendary through sticker packs or something. I don't think he should just be given to everyone for free. Just make him unlockable by playing the second game. Like legendary sticker pieces in sticker packs. Sure it'd take luck to unlock him, but that way he's still rare and people who got him through rank 313 in the first game have him right away.
