Event Duration: An Open Plea for our Sanity

Szamsziel

My opinion
Awr is fine
5 nodes events - a little too long (or increase progression rewards - after hitting max in middle rest is boring grindfest)
Phyrexia events - perfect, I like them.
Oath Gatewatch - I hate mutually exclusive objectives requiring me to replay nodes for progression. 
Ai - my favorite 
Totp - too expensive to play 

Brigby

gogol666 said:

Brigby is there an official position about this thread?
Is there a reason to give us fewer and longer events?
Can we scale down the longest (boft, rto, hod) and add more non coalition content?
If there is always something running there will be always a lot of players playing. Do you remember quick battle?

Scheduling and designing events has always been a unique challenge for the team (and I'd personally argue any team that works on a live game), since different players have different preferences. Some players like a challenge, and others prefer a casual experience. Some players have a very open schedule, and others are booked practically 24/7. 

Based on the most recent Dominaria events added though, it seems like the team has been exploring shorter, but more frequent events.

jtwood

I feel that the addition of a super easy event like AWR opens the door to the possibility of Oktagon adding a competitive label to events, like beginner, intermediate, advanced, etc. Coalitions could even have a similar setting.

That label would allow everyone to enter events with proper expectations. Competitive players wouldn’t be let down by AWR’s ease, and casual players wouldn’t be ambushed by a 5-node event with a billion charges.  

Mainloop25

I would vote for shorter more frequent events. 

rafalele

Mainloop25 said:

I would vote for shorter more frequent events. 

Me too. 3 days playing the same event is too much.

Laeuftbeidir

rafalele said:

Mainloop25 said:

I would vote for shorter more frequent events. 

Me too. 3 days playing the same event is too much.

To me, the first day is great - getting into it, playing the first round, fine-tuning if necessary, second charge.. Great.

The second day I enjoy the fights, getting the better rewards and reaching full progression, still cool.

The third day I'm bored by fighting the same fights, just to stay on top with already solved decks and just waiting for the event to be over to get a bit of tension with the ranking reward.

In individual pve its different. I mostly rush through it, get all rewards I want, then its dead space. I wouldn't mind them running three days if there were always pvp events alongside them. Coalition pve is okay with three days IMO.

Sarahschmara

I will never stop advocating that:

All charges be awarded at the beginning so people can play around their other obligations. 

Boss HP should not be used to determine event end times. 

boopers

I will also never stop advocating that @Sarahschmara

andrewvanmarle

Can we stop having events end on the Monday??
Please? 

gogol666

andrewvanmarle said:

Can we stop having events end on the Monday??
Please? 

Or at least events that do not extend for 3 days, but yes, Monday is usually a tough day for playing