What happened with arena timers?

MagrailothosMagrailothos Member Posts: 6,377 ★★★★★
edited March 2018 in General Discussion
Where did my last hour go grinding for Storm?

I'm a UK player, btw.

Having googled daylight savings time over in the states, that appears to be most of the answer (it would be nice if there were reminders about this, given that this game is played around the world) but why does the 'Summoner Trials' arena still get the full 72 hours, and other arenas just get 71?

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(No, I wasn't going for 3* Storm...)
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  • FallencircusFallencircus Member Posts: 339 ★★★
    But not on all arenas. I thought we would still get 72 hours like we have in the past and not 71. Not many people care about Crystal Cornucopia anyway so you should have reduced the time on that.
  • MagrailothosMagrailothos Member Posts: 6,377 ★★★★★
    Your clocks went forward. Mine didn't.

    Having worked that out before I finished posting, I still thought it was worth putting the question - why are the timers different for the different arenas?

    And as I said, it wouldn't kill Kabam to remind the rest of the world about a clock change that most of us won't see coming because it doesn't ordinarily affect us. This is a worldwide game.
  • Eb0ny-O-M4wEb0ny-O-M4w Member Posts: 14,159 ★★★★★
    Your clock will eventually change sometime. The times in-game just updated earlier
  • DL864DL864 Member Posts: 1,089 ★★★
    will-o-wisp wrote: »
    Your clock will eventually change sometime. The times in-game just updated earlier

    Does the uk practice daylight savings time?
  • FingfangfoomfanesFingfangfoomfanes Member Posts: 1,102 ★★★
    edited March 2018
    I was surprised arena ended an hour early. I was putting last minute points on 5 star arena. I was abrupted at 9.2 Mil. Oh well... another waste of resources.
  • MagrailothosMagrailothos Member Posts: 6,377 ★★★★★
    will-o-wisp wrote: »
    Your clock will eventually change sometime. The times in-game just updated earlier

    Yeah, we moved to daylight saving time two weeks back. Glad you guys finally caught up.
  • Dr_BrownDr_Brown Member Posts: 225 ★
    (im from the US) i dont grind arena but i feel bad for those that do in other countries they all got ripped off. its unfair. not sure why they didn't send a mail before this round of Arena saying "hey everyone the US is changing their clocks for daylight saving time arenas will end an hour early so please plan accordingly." but instead players outside the US got blindsided.
  • GwendolineGwendoline Member Posts: 945 ★★★
    Or they could have put 71 hours on the clock at the start of the arena. When my ingame arena times sayd "22 hours left" I assume I have 22 hours left. I don't expect the time to jump from "10 hours left" to "9 hours left" in the blink of an eye.

    Yes, daylight savings time, sure. But not all events will switch and there's never clarification on this. The whole winter glory store reset and aq reset didn't match because it stayed stuck in summer time. Why? Who knows. The basic and featured arena's where affected but the summoner trials not. Again: why?

    Some clarification and a heads up in the future would be nice. Not all countries even have daylight savings time and there are like 5 different weekends that time "changes" until the whole world is on the same page again. A simple ingame message shouldn't be to much to askfor.
  • Rogue42Rogue42 Member Posts: 1,006 ★★★
    Well, as it has happened, without warning, every time change since the launch of the game, I don’t see how it’s a blindside.
  • Dr_BrownDr_Brown Member Posts: 225 ★
    Rogue42 wrote: »
    Well, as it has happened, without warning, every time change since the launch of the game, I don’t see how it’s a blindside.

    it's because non US players NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO DAY LIGHT SAVING as it doesn't affect them
  • MagrailothosMagrailothos Member Posts: 6,377 ★★★★★
    Rogue42 wrote: »
    Well, as it has happened, without warning, every time change since the launch of the game, I don’t see how it’s a blindside.

    That argument kind of applies to Kabam more than the player base, you know. When something happens twice a year in a different country, it's hard for us to be expecting it.

    The other thing is, this wasn't a passive effect of daily savings time. The arena timers were actively changed to be shorter, as @Gwendoline says. Since that involved human intervention, why couldn't the same human at least have sent an in game message? Why not set it to 71 hours from the beginning?
  • shchong2shchong2 Member Posts: 2,419 ★★★★
    daylight saving changes as expected since Kabam is following PST time zone .... it affected me twice a year as well, for half a year the Arena ends at my 2am, and for the other half of the year the Arena ends at my 1am
  • GwendolineGwendoline Member Posts: 945 ★★★
    Dr_Brown wrote: »
    Rogue42 wrote: »
    Well, as it has happened, without warning, every time change since the launch of the game, I don’t see how it’s a blindside.

    it's because non US players NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO DAY LIGHT SAVING as it doesn't affect them

    Daylight saving times does affect me. For one, my country uses it (2 weeks from now) so I go through the change myself. This affects me. Secondly it affects me ingame. Timing is different. Aq starts at a different time, war does, other people already changed or don’t change time at all making the timing of dropping nodes different. This also affects me.

    I do pay attention to daylight savings time, but not to the daylightsavings of other countries. Do US players pay attention to daylight savings time in other countries? Do they know when the UK changes, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Asian, Australia?
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