This is now a timing race, not a skilling race. Who can log in when the rollback is complete, and who had to go to work, school, etc.
Starting it at noon GMT obviously rewards people that live in certain world-time-zones, that can play. Rolling it back (starting over), and delaying it 4ish hours, shifts the benefit.
Because of everyone's different time zone, and their ability to play at a specific time... It should never have been a race to see who can do it first.
It should have been a race to see who can do it fastest, within a specific time period (ie 168 hours from first login after launch, or 192 hours after launch, whichever comes first). or 1 month, etc.
This would have put everyone world wide, on at least equal starting footage. How much time each person can spend in game, rewards the unemployed (unemployed, retired, sick, injured, etc, anyone that can play 16 hours a day.
Nothing is completely fair, never has been. But a quickest to ___ is more fair than the first person to ___.
26-Sep-2022 18:59:22