Honestly, it would only be right and fair to extend any daily challenges they put up while the servers are going to hell.
I understand the point of a daily challenge is that you have a small window to complete it in, but it's HIGHLY unfair to expect people to throw themselves into guaranteed error screens every match and have a 50/50 chance their challenge counted. It's already a challenge to complete them during a weekday when everything is actually, you know, working.
For example, this is how my "successful" challenge night played out yesterday:
Challenge goes live while I'm at work.
I get off work at 5:30pm.
Get home, changed, and PS4 booted up by 6:00pm.
I got one hour of gametime before having to stop and make dinner for the family. That should be enough to finish, at minimum, two of the matches (if not three) and leave just one more to do after dinner. Easy-peasy, right? Nope. First attempt at a game goes to an endless join game loop, so had to quit and restart THE ENTIRE GAME. Second attempt is successful and greataxe challenge is completed. Third attempt is another endless join game loop, so quit and restart game. Again. Fourth game appears successful, but ends in an error screen that kicks me back to the main menu and when I go back to MP and check my challenges, the axe challenge I have just completed is sitting at zero kills.
I then have to go make dinner and do family time. I have completed ONE challenge in an hour.
Family goes to bed. I resume my attempts at 9:30pm. I normally go to bed at 10:00pm in order to be up for work the next day, so I go in realizing I'm already going to be up late... which wouldn't have been the case had I actually, you know, been able to complete three challenges before dinner like what should've happened under normal circumstances. I re-do the axe challenge, get an error screen post-match, no experience for my Level 1 Legionnaire again, booted back to main game screen. Go back to MP and THANK GOD the challenge registered this time. It did NOT count the Druffalo we killed (I even got the killing blow; not that it matters since it says be in a PARTY that kills a Druffalo), but at this point, I can worry about that a few days from now. The important thing is the weapon challenges ending in a few hours.
Two to go.
Load up Archer, try to join a match, get an endless joining game screen, have to restart entire game and try again. Load into a game the second attempt, get bow done, error screen post-match, back to main game screen, back into MP, it counted. It's now a little after 10:00pm. Okay, this won't be so bad. Load up Level 1 Elementalist to do staff challenge and be done. Join a match, get the 25 kills, game ends in error screen post-match, booted to main game menu, go back to MP. No experience, still Level 1, staff challenge sitting at 4 kills. I sigh. I create a Routine solo just to be done with this so I can go to bed. Bear in mind, I KNOW I'm completing these challenges because I'm actively tracking them - I have the counter going in the top right-hand corner of the screen. I get 25 kills - one of which includes a Druffalo SOLO - and I suicide.
Error screen. Of course, because that is the way of things now, so no staying in the same lobby for more than one match anymore, I guess. Boy, that'll really be fun with friends later. Back to main game menu, go back to MP. Still Level 1 and the staff kills show 20/25. No Druffalo kill registering. 20/25 staff kills. 20/25 STAFF KILLS WHEN I WITNESSED THE TRACKER SAY 25 IN-GAME.
At this point, it is now 10:30pm and I AM LIVID. I start sh*tposting on BSN and banging the devs' ears on Twitter. As I am doing this while I'm at the DAMP screen, THE DRAGON AGE SEVERS ENCOUNTER AN ERROR AND I'M KICKED BACK TO THE MAIN GAME MENU AND UNCONNECTED FROM DA SERVERS. From just sitting there doing NOTHING on the game but looking at my poor, befuddled Rion.
I laugh now because, at this point, what the f*ck else can you do?
Reconnect to servers... after a loooong wait in which I feared they'd never reconnect and my streak of never missing an event challenge would end at 20/25 staff kills and me rage-quitting DAMP for eternity in response. But after forever, I connect. Back to MP. Load up a Routine solo again. Get the remaining 5 staff kills I need... then proceed to kill at least 10 more things. You know, just to be sure, since apparently killing 25 things doesn't mean the game thinks you actually killed 25 things, as my previous solo proved. Suicide. Error screen post-match, back to main game menu. Go back to MP, GLORY HALLELUJAH, CHALLENGE COMPLETE.
It is now 11:00pm, an hour past my usual bedtime, and I have completed the weapon challenges. Only did so because I got so pissed off and stubborn about it. But this was not fun. And this is not fair to ANYONE, BioWare.
Make it right. Fix it. Then, extend the challenges that were affected so that you actually have the full time to complete them with functioning servers.
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