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Writer Misses Side Quest Because Game Said "Added To Calendar" And Calendar Said Nothing
The reminder was never sent. The quest died alone, as quests do.
By Luana Save, Role-Playing Desk ·
A games journalist has revealed that she missed a time-limited side quest in a new strategy RPG because she trusted a feature that said it had been "added to calendar". She assumed, like many of us, that this meant a calendar would, at some point, remind her. It had not. Nobody had told the calendar.
The writer described the experience as a quiet tragedy. "I had planned my evening," she said. "Tea. Blanket. Ten minutes of heroics. Then the quest expired, and the game gave me a screen that said it was gone, in the tone of a polite landlord."
Developers explained that "added to calendar" is a promise, not a mechanism. Asked to clarify, a spokesperson said the feature "creates the idea of a reminder", which is a lovely thing to write in a contract and an awful thing to find in an RPG. A philosopher in the room asked if time is real.
Players across the world reported similar disasters. One missed a festival because it was "pinned" to a notification he had muted in 2022. Another believes that all game events are scheduled by a single tired clerk at a corporate office, who sometimes forgets the whole thing for fun.
The game's next patch will reportedly introduce an actual reminder system. The developer promised it would be accurate to the minute, kind in tone and available for a limited time, which is the exact thing that caused this to begin with.
SATIRE / AI-generated. Nothing here happened.
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