Don’t fall for the crap that Staff Bob likes to come out with. He and other staffs love to give template-like apology responses when trying to sweep issues under the carpet, without even actually knowing what they are talking about.
all this mess could have been avoided if I had been more clear in the announcements earlier.
Clearer in announcements? No, they are already clear enough.
From: https://treeofsavior.com/page/news/view.php?n=1585
Due to issues associated with this aspect of the event, Gear Grind Weekends has been temporarily disabled. Please refer to the announcement linked here for more information.
From the linked announcement (https://treeofsavior.com/page/news/view.php?n=1597):
It has come to our attention that there has been a problem with the Weekend transcendence discount caused by the discrepancy between the time settings on the player PC’s and the game’s server clock. We are currently looking into resolving the issue before this weekend
No one misunderstood these announcements, nor find them ambiguous. Now Staff Bob just come here apologising and bullshiting about random things simply because he can, because this is just a reply in a thread, which can easily be swept under the carpet, just like all the countless issues in the past. There’s still no official announcements / updates of any kind on the website. They are very political with their image now on the official website, so much that they don’t even use the crying popolion face image anymore for Extended / Temporary Maintenance announcements.