Guild Wars 2

Nowhere was specified that the questions are to be lore-only. And the questions about the pricing of the halloween items were definitely specific to halloween event.
They didn’t say “we’re not going to answer those questions, because this livestream is about lore”. They didn’t even keep silent about it. They said “there weren’t any more questions from the forum”. In the situation when they knew and acknowledged that there are already communication problems that should be addressed.

It’s really hard to put a positive spin on this.

They didn’t answer all the lore-related questions either, but I don’t see anyone shouting about that.

True, it was not specified that it was lore-only questions, but one could quite easily assume that it would be the case when it was a lore-based live-stream, with people mainly working with story and such.

It was also rather clear that they were given the questions by people off-camera, and thus as far as they knew there WERE no other questions (the long silence close to the end would suggest that they were waiting for more questions) so you can’t really blame them for saying that there weren’t any more questions.

For a game that “claims that no grinding is needed,” there seems to be a lot of that for new things now these days….
If a live stream is needed for anything, it should be about why are new weapons requiring more grind.

When are you will you bring back the old(i.e. good) Halloween weapon skins back?

I would like to ask a design concept question about holiday events. I heard people talking about the level of game-play (hours/week) is expected for players to obtain event rewards and found that it was smarter for me to simply sell all my event items on the trader and not get bogged down with the corn farming.

Some rewards seem to take very little time with casual play and others feel nigh impossible even with large time commitments.
How are the time-requirements determined per reward levels?
Will future rewards have commitment levels that allow casuals to obtain 1 reward while more intense players can obtain multiples?

Secondary question:
Will future events include sufficient storage space for event items?

Why are the short story and the story in-game inconsistent? The short story seems to take place when Mad King Thorn was still mortal and ruling Kryta, yet when the Bloody Prince escapes from the box in the instance, he quickly notes that he’s not in the Mad Realm, implying he knows about his father being there now. Also, when he gets sealed back in the box, he’s apparently just in the Mad Realm instead, when in the short story, the box was just implied to make Edrick go mad inside it, not be a portal to a part of the Underworld.

Also, why do the new Halloween rewards cost so ridiculously much to get? I’m getting the impression that the developers and others working on the Living Story don’t really read the forums at all, or hardly care.

You know that the live-stream was yesterday, right?

lordkrall.7241:

You know that the live-stream was yesterday, right?

Yep, sure did. Does that mean they can’t answer it here? No. I suppose this thread should be closed down now, yes?

I’m curious if Halloween being more or less the same in Tyria and our world is just a gimme for the sake of the player, or if there is a lore there that explains why two seemingly disconnected realities would share the same type of celebration, at the same time of year, with more or less the same traditions? Are Earth and Tyria tied together in some fashion beyond the player?

what happened to the first mad king dungeon ? ;_;