Why not tell the entire season plans up front

slidecage

say season runs July 1 to 23 why not list like

Thor PVE july 1 to july 8
Storm PVE july 8 to july 11
Iron man July 11 to july 14

same with PVP. it would be nice to see what was all the planed PVE and PVP for the season at one time. Though i doubt they would ever do it cause they would says it would hurt cover sales

Malcrof

You have to make room for character releases and their subsequent PVP's. They keep launches fairly quiet until they are just about on top of us, releasing the list a month ahead of time defeats that.

Punisher5784

They might not know what the schedule is ahead of time. Sometimes events seem last minute.

TxMoose

I would settle for each week's pvp plans - could be announced in conjunction with the week's boosted list. pve's are so long, you know who the next progression will be. I'd love to know one ahead so if it's an important one I can recharge the batteries for a grindfest. a season is kinda far out, but one pve ahead I don't think is too much to ask for.

Unknown

informing your playerbase is overrated, wouldn't you rather roam the darkness, preparing for every PVP and PVE because you can't relax on any event?

PS: There will be people who say new characters will be revealed this way. So what? Put UNKNOWN PVP or UNKNOWN PVE if its such a big deal.

Hell they can put the event as "?????"

darkmagearcanis

The RNG man, the RNG. Not even the devs know what event will happen. Even they are totally surprised.

AXP_isme

I imagine RNGesus as some sort of smarmy game show host:

"Ooooh, bad luck! Disappointing draw in that token too - you really are unlucky. "

<audience aside> "Perhaps if he tried praying to me every once in a while, or sacrificed some goats*..."



*No goats were harmed in the making of this torturous analogy.

Unknown

If they did that and you saw a bunch of characters you didn't like you might be tempted to take a season off.
There's less excitement in seeing what the next PVP is every few days if you already know.

Linkster79

Simple answer is because nobody actually plans them in advance. A 20 sided die is rolled every 36 hours to decide the next event.

Unknown

daibar wrote:

If they did that and you saw a bunch of characters you didn't like you might be tempted to take a season off.
There's less excitement in seeing what the next PVP is every few days if you already know.

their job is to make us interested for them to get our money. Not seeing the problem.

Unknown

raisinbman wrote:

daibar wrote:

If they did that and you saw a bunch of characters you didn't like you might be tempted to take a season off.
There's less excitement in seeing what the next PVP is every few days if you already know.

their job is to make us interested for them to get our money. Not seeing the problem.

Exactly. Not sure how you're not seeing it; you've been around here long enough. Perhaps that is the problem, where PVP has become routine for you so you don't care as much which PVP comes up. You've already got most of the characters. Are you saying you would be just as excited if the next PVP offered another Scarlet Witch blue as if you've already known that for 2 weeks? Excitement fades, and D3's trying to get people to play consistently every day so that their attention doesn't get drawn in by something else. Bite site morsels of information are a way better way of retention.

Also now I remember why I left the forums for 2 weeks. It's no fun debating whether or not to respond to specious statements in an attempt to prevent people from being mislead, while suffocating discussion about actual topics.

Unknown

daibar wrote:

raisinbman wrote:

daibar wrote:

If they did that and you saw a bunch of characters you didn't like you might be tempted to take a season off.
There's less excitement in seeing what the next PVP is every few days if you already know.

their job is to make us interested for them to get our money. Not seeing the problem.

Exactly. Not sure how you're not seeing it; you've been around here long enough. Perhaps that is the problem, where PVP has become routine for you so you don't care as much which PVP comes up. You've already got most of the characters. Are you saying you would be just as excited if the next PVP offered another Scarlet Witch blue as if you've already known that for 2 weeks? Excitement fades, and D3's trying to get people to play consistently every day so that their attention doesn't get drawn in by something else. Bite site morsels of information are a way better way of retention.

Also now I remember why I left the forums for 2 weeks. It's no fun debating whether or not to respond to specious statements in an attempt to prevent people from being mislead, while suffocating discussion about actual topics.

I guess it doesn't matter to me. In my life, the less surprises the better.

What I mean is if they were to publish their schedule, sure it would be boring, but that's their problem. They should have an exciting schedule with events players will look forward to.

Stax the Foyer

Same reason they have daily rewards.

It gets people logging in regularly, instead of leaving it alone for days or weeks at a time.

TxMoose

Stax the Foyer wrote:

Same reason they have daily rewards.

It gets people logging in regularly, instead of leaving it alone for days or weeks at a time.

if you care anything about the game, ddq is reason enough for daily activity. if nothing else than for the 3500+ iso and couple of tokens.

unless of course you're a pve player that has all the characters covered at level 94. then there's no reason other than you're probably making pve clears regularly.