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Hello Ashes of Community.
I have one concern about this community's moderators Modcast. It's a good thing that our community mods keep up with the community, and communicates with it. Like with the recent Modcast that looks like it's every Wednesday now on.
Now the concern about it. Since the hosts mostly have been from NA, the the stream is usually at good NA time. As a part of this community, I'd like to watch those live and ask some questions when the Q&A time comes. But because of the difference in timezones, the stream usually starts at middle of the night/late evening for most of the EU community. That is really sad since, you know, EU community exists also.
(example of good EU planning, thanks to [Reborn] Auron for this picture)
So, why not to make separate NA and EU Modcasts for those regions? (nobody cares about OZ) Or at least do the stream at weekends for gods sake. We (you) have the manpower to do that, so can you even think about it. I bet Proxy can talk about this game for hours and hours, and some eager EU players would like to join the stream too. So please, make it available for everyone to enjoy, not just NA players.
Regards, the whole EU community.
I have one concern about this community's moderators Modcast. It's a good thing that our community mods keep up with the community, and communicates with it. Like with the recent Modcast that looks like it's every Wednesday now on.
Now the concern about it. Since the hosts mostly have been from NA, the the stream is usually at good NA time. As a part of this community, I'd like to watch those live and ask some questions when the Q&A time comes. But because of the difference in timezones, the stream usually starts at middle of the night/late evening for most of the EU community. That is really sad since, you know, EU community exists also.
(example of good EU planning, thanks to [Reborn] Auron for this picture)
So, why not to make separate NA and EU Modcasts for those regions? (nobody cares about OZ) Or at least do the stream at weekends for gods sake. We (you) have the manpower to do that, so can you even think about it. I bet Proxy can talk about this game for hours and hours, and some eager EU players would like to join the stream too. So please, make it available for everyone to enjoy, not just NA players.
Regards, the whole EU community.
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I never watched one of the Mod Casts for already mentioned reasons. I can barely attend the official live streams since they also usually are in the middle of the night mostly.
This isn't going to be like Kickstarter is it? Where a bunch of people complained that a huge player base from EU was unable to participate so they made the Summer Backer program to accommodate this "huge community" and then something like 1500 people total (not all even EU) of the promised "10,000" participated.
Why change something for a minority at the expense of the majority. How many EU players are actually bothered by the current time?
You're basically saying that the EU Community is not important and shouldn't be bothered about. So technically, we are not part of your welcoming community, which is said.
Obviously, the NA community will be larger since the only advertising was for the NA audience
I can't ever watch the Dev streams because the timing is so early I'm still at work, but you don't see me launching a campaign to change the time. As of right now, the ModCast is the only one late enough that I can watch.
Don't try to put words in my mouth and straw man me.
When Shunex, Bele and I decided to go forth with this new project, it was tough. Why, you ask? Well friends, let me tell you a wonderful tale...
Bele and I are active as the Mods here in Ashes of Creation, usually from 12 PM - 11 PM. Sometimes, we may go even earlier from 8 AM - 11 PM / 12 AM. This is on Eastern Standard Times. Shunex is active between the hours of 12 AM - 12 PM (EST). We have had a hard time to figure out what would be a great time, because let's be honest we could totally set up a great time like 3 PM or 12 PM EST, but what does that mean? That means it is 9 AM for the PST players, and 12 AM for the OCE region, and around 6-9 PM for the EU players.
It is literally impossible. The Ashes of Community is a small project that Bele, Shun and I have started up with the intention of creating this fun little environment. The ModCast itself is a bit difficult to attain to that same construct. The reason for that being is no matter what time we go on, it will affect another region entirely. Now, to answer the original question as to why don't we just have an EU version of the ModCast? Well, for reasons I'd rather not get into, it is pretty difficult to get that set up. With that notion in play, we'd also have to be fair and thus create an OCE ModCast. It just doesn't work well. Remember, the staff for the Ashes of Community project are the above names.
All I can say to perhaps remedy this, is to have some patience and we will be looking for better times to serve all regions. At the moment we are looking at 6 PM EST (Which ends up being 3 PM PST / 6 AM AUSW / 12 AM UTC). One way or another, we're going to end up having a region that misses out. This isn't about which region is better, nor that NA Moderators are doing this on NA times. That was never the intention, we are all on prime times (sometime 16 hours a day!). So give us some time. I'm sure we can come up with something in the next week.
I'd like to officially announce that we are putting our ModCasts on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and other major podcasting platforms for the players to download, stream or hang out with.
In past games that were developed and or published by NA publishers, event times usually were in favor of the NA community and EU players completely unable to attend events at 3 am in the morning.
While we tried to reason with both the community and publisher to "slightly adjust" event times so EU players have a chance to at least attempt 1 or 2 events a month, the usual toxic replies we got were "This is a NA publisher, gtfo EU."
In the heat of the moment, I thought @Karthos' comment was heading in that direction.
I'd also like to apologize to the Mod Team that is working hard to give us a weekly mod cast.
However, this is different. I am following this game from day 1 and so far I didn't miss a thing. I was waiting to listen to the mods on a chill evening, because I know they know more than we do and I'd love to hear what they had to say. But they decided to hold the event on 4:30 AM my time, 3:30 for most of the EU.
EU is not as minor as you think. I'll only tell you that NA couldn't even pull half of the 19.576 KS backers.
About the topic: I get that the mods only have limited time, but there also wasn't a way to ask questions beforehand that might be answered during the stream, like it is the case in the official livestreams.
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