First of all, Happy Easter to all Zwifters!
But it’s also April 1st, and Zwift traditionally does something zany for April Fool’s Day. 2017 we had big heads, 2016 gave us the old-timey effect, and 2015 we rode big wheels on Jarvis. What about today?
Today we’re playing Paperboy… or at least, a very simplified Zwifty version of Atari’s 1985 classic. We’ve got lo-res bikes and targets to toss newspaper towards. Hit F2 to throw the paper. If you hit the target, you get 50XP. Here’s a video of me missing the target…
That was a bit of fun. Do you get something special if you hit all 8 targets? I got as far as four…
I hit all eight. I got 5000 XP points when I hit the eighth one (or, was it 500 XP points?). I cannot remember.
Call me humorless cause I found this extremely annoying. First of all the bottom bar was constantly popping up so what was I supposed to be throwing newspapers at, the other riders? I only saw a few squirrel signs around and not enough to justify the constant popups. My sub costs me over $200 Cdn a year and I get (pay for!) this childishness. Poor business decision on someones part. May be time start looking at other options.
It is one day per year, you still have all of the power readouts so you are missing out on nothing training wise. Put it in first person view and you won’t see the new bike. the directions are right on the screen.. hit F2 or click paper to throw. #crymeariver
Your entitled to your opinion as am I. And #crymeariver really? Not asking for sympathy here. This is a business after all and to be screwing with customers is good for business how? If I wanted to play 80’s kid games I’d go do that. And I’ll make my decisions with my wallet. I did finish my ride. 60 K’s. But throwing Newspapers? I’m limited on time and was not interested in wasting more time figuring this out and take exception to these silly pranks on paying customers.
Lol, ok. Like you said, we are all entitled to our opinion. My opinion is that you are a humourless whiner.
LolOLo… I said you could call me humorless!
There is nothing to figure out.. Just ride, ignore the rest. in contrast.. I would LIKE to play the game but it keeps logging in on normal mode. Zwift IS a game. if you want straight numbers go stare at your powermeter for 2 hours
And I thought I was the whiniest Jay around here, but you’re on another level. Looking at other options because of an April Fools day event? Not a chance, you’re not going anywhere. We need more seasonal events, not less. Helps fill in the gaps between content features and makes the user base feel like the world isn’t stagnant.
I’m with Jake here. Unsubscribe and save your money then. Go cry on your bike outside.
Why so much anger here at a dude voicing his thoughts? Can’t say I agree with what he said and not going to defend him but he’s not the only one that needs to chill.
I thought it was a great bit of fun. I managed to combine it with racing Andre Greipel on Stage 1 of the Watopia Tour (had missed one Squrrel so had to go climb Epic again) and bagged me enough XP to hit L18. The Whole point for me as to why I pay for Zwift is, IMHO, the gamification if my trainer sessions. Bravo
But did you hit more squirrels than Greipel?
This is the kind of gamification I’d like to see in Zwift. Give us a route and a time limit (similar to ZwiftQuest) and see who can do it quickest.
Not too keen on pressing a button to throw papers though. Be better if you have to hit target watts, cadence, or speed to throw.
Found it annoying too, its not that is a bad idea Zwift just need to give us the choice. It was my first chance to ride the Alpe’ so didn’t really want to do it on the comedy bike. We’re on the most part adults, let us choose where we ride, what we ride and what we look like at the start of zwift. Great add the option of a game for a day, even add more as options with more prizes etc. Just please Zwift treat us as paying customers and let us choose, you would be happy if you ordered a coffee and got something random just because the coffee shop thought it was funny, so why should Zwift be different. If they bothered to create a sensible login and start up with choices rather than people using the zwift preferences add on, they could easily do this sort of thing and everyone would be happy.