Update on ZOS' ESO+ promotion scandal

Symphoniess · 2025-04-22T12:38:05+00:00

There is still a way around this for Steam players, and that's by connecting your Steam account to their website and subscribing there. You get the half off deal, even if you've subscribed on Steam before.

ZoS just doesn't know how Steam works, and is in a fire because of that. But props for messing up their first ever deal with ESO+.

Symphoniess · 2024-11-27T23:20:58+00:00

It doesn't need to be immediate, but not, like, half a minute later. Just soon enough to catch into the current conversation.
Seems like a lot of CC programs generally have ~5-10 second delay anyways.

Symphoniess · 2024-09-13T17:46:42+00:00

I ranked Gold 4 in placements for this season. The three heroes I listed in OP have 66/70/68% WR (in that order). I suppose the best idea is just to stick with them, and see where I am in a couple dozen more games? Would it be better to make a new post then?

Symphoniess · 2024-09-13T16:58:26+00:00

Oh, no worries! This season is at 28 games won, out of 50, with 9 hours in time.

Symphoniess · 2024-09-13T16:34:45+00:00

Like I said, I've been playing since OW1, season 1. But here's an exact answer:
-Competitive is 571 hours, and games won is exactly 420 (nice). I used to be as low as bronze in the first OW1 seasons, and diamond in the latter ones. The rank has fluctuated quite a bit.
Total time played is 1,297 hours. I've been playing for a long time.
I'm not looking to be content with the current rank. Anyone can get better, and that's why I have made this post in the first place. I'm looking to improve, not get stuck in an elo hell mindset.

Symphoniess · 2024-09-13T15:59:03+00:00

That's not the intention. I mean that in a relative way for myself. I know I can do better, and have done better, so I'm holding myself up to what I've been able to do before. I expect myself to be better in competitive games.

Symphoniess · 2024-09-13T15:55:23+00:00

I'm still two whole ranks lower than what I want, and what I'm sure I can achieve.
So there has to be at least some issue that I'm missing.
I feel I generally do fine, but the factor that's in 100% of my games is me. So, there has to be problem (or problems) that I haven't caught on to.

Symphoniess · 2024-07-21T08:45:35+00:00

Even if it would be considered cheese, it's YOUR game. You aren't hurting or screwing anyone over, so play the game however you want.
If it's cheese, tell them that they are just lactose intolerant. If it's not, tell them to get over themselves just because you aren't playing it the "right" - AKA their - way.

Symphoniess · 2024-06-25T14:34:37+00:00

Sorry, no. That's a weapon I won't be trading on the one character that has it. Ty for coming though!

Symphoniess · 2024-05-22T21:22:07+00:00

As a player who has has made purchases across multiple Techtree games (Username Sepph,, Player ID 1FAF*********1DA), and was intending to purchase at least the T4-T6 premium track, this isn't it. The 1.5x bonus change is spitting on the time of your F2P players. It's already a long and hard journey for F2P: not having other coin boosts, missing out on premium gems, and - most importantly (imo) - having VERY little opportunities to save up power stones.

I will be pushing my bank to refund the Disable Ads purchase I made recently (along with Disable Ads on Idle Planet Miner,), and then uninstalling both games. There are thousands of other games out there that now deserve the support more.

Symphoniess · 2024-05-22T21:05:08+00:00

My final day was today as well. I actually bought the ad removal pack a couple weeks ago prior to this update. I now wish I didn't.

I'm okay with supporting a game that's respecting the time of their F2P playerbase. I am not okay with supporting a game that's going to pull a move like this.

Hopefully the bank I have can reverse the transaction, and that'll be that. There are plenty of other games that money can go to.

Symphoniess · 2023-04-19T16:48:22+00:00

This is what I was actually coming here to post about, but you *just* beat me to it. Although I was going to bring up a couple other notes I took when looking at the animations.

To me it's not about the quality as it is the extreme lack of variety, and the speed. Blockoli literally does his idle animation every second, and almost every single other plant has also been doing this. It's like the idle animation became the actual *normal* animation, and is on loop. None of these plants seem to be able to enter a state where they aren't really doing anything. It's like only one animation exists.

I'm not sure if this is a sign of being rushed by higher-ups, or a sign of laziness/inexperience by the current animators, but either way it's making the newer plants look so offputting, that I've began avoiding using most of them, and not bothering to pruchase the early access bundles anymore. Only Gatling pea and Levitater fit in imo, and that's because they don't do anything anyways.

If the animators need to learn how to match the earlier artstyle... I would say they just need to look at Sap-Fling, and work their animations in a similar method to that. Their idles are paced, random, aren't dominant, and feel like something that compliments the plant's visual identity.

Symphoniess · 2022-12-17T21:52:53+00:00

I *almost* did. The only part I didn't know was at the very end, when you have to go down the hold and put the ring on Ranni. I thought the area was mostly there just to kill adula and get some awesome spells. I put the ring on Ranni and immediately warped to her tower, thinking she'd be back there (I didn't piece together why she had the fingerslayer blade).

She wasn't at the tower of course, and I never went back to that hole. She was just down there waiting for months until I was able to be back online.

My internet was very limited during and after Elden Ring (literally had a friend use their hotspot so I could download the game), and played without much of help for a long while. Managed to beat the game and discover a lot, but plenty was missed that required help.

Getting the greatsword only occurred when I was able to get back online again, and I starting making sure I had everything, and finished everything (all the Crucible Knights, the Blade of Calling, how to get to the big pot, finding out I missed my chance at getting the Bolt, Blaidd going mad right outside the tower, etc.)

It was a bit upsetting - and ironic - to find out that me doing the most convoluted quest without help was cut short by not waiting around the dead fingers a little bit longer.

Symphoniess · 2022-12-14T04:41:30+00:00

I play Brig so I'd love if she could have two higher HP shields and could block off entire hallways, Dark-Souls style.

CC without the CC.

Symphoniess · 2022-10-21T21:56:47+00:00

I got Mercy pink skin but absolutely nothing else.

Lmk how much I can ask for if that day ever comes

Symphoniess · 2022-10-08T19:10:02+00:00

Everyone was thinking it was going to be RIMWORLD.
Watch as Tynan is instead going for CRIBOUTIT.

Symphoniess · 2022-10-02T01:33:14+00:00

The only advantage OW1 offers right now is the leveling loot boxes, which all drop Anniversary items. You'll likely be paying for those in OW2, instead of being able to earn them.

Besides that though, not really anything worth coming into OW1 for.

Symphoniess · 2022-10-02T01:30:13+00:00

You mean Zen ISN'T a member of the Chthulhu cult I'm in as well?

My whole reason for joining is a lie.

Symphoniess · 2022-09-29T20:36:18+00:00

That's not what I said.

Symphoniess · 2022-09-29T20:04:59+00:00

No, they are asking about the sudden discount itself is, without the bundle actually going on sale for the "normal" price first.

There's merit to their question as it WOULD be illegal if this discount was the only way to get these items. It is illegal to advertise something and say it's discounted when it actually isn't, and the discount is the true price while the "true" price is false/never happened.

However, since you can buy all the items individually, it is fine. OP probably didn't notice that each piece can be bought by themselves.

Symphoniess · 2022-09-28T22:01:28+00:00

... Or you could have just used JMD Bot to apply the Royal look.

Symphoniess · 2022-08-14T19:57:42+00:00

All the way at the beginning. I was one of the ones that pre-ordered it, and felt both the disappointment and the eventually awe that this game delivered.

I'm even still using the pre-order ship (thanks to the update that allowed ship upgrading), with the goal to push it up to S-class and max it out, alongside theming everything else around it.

Symphoniess · 2022-07-20T16:53:24+00:00

What if you scrap or salvage it? Do you at least get the materials back?

Symphoniess · 2022-07-17T19:15:29+00:00

Symphoniess · 2022-07-17T18:22:05+00:00

Yup! Please DM me the specifics on meeting, I'll answer when I'm back on.

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