Guild Wars 2

AF(why the hell is the letters f and k together censored?)K in Lion’s Arch for up to two hours for an achievement? How exciting!

Coming soon to the event:

Burn Down the Dragons:

Enjoy hours of amusement while you steal Zhaitan’s sunblock, and dance with delight as he slowly burns while tanning without sufficient protection.

Case Closed:

Immerse yourself with hours of inconclusive questioning and scouring the crime scene for clues! Feel the thrill as you wait a few weeks for the DNA results come back from the Asura crime lab before finally arresting your suspect!

Ceremony and Acrimony:

Get all eight of the ship council to safety by dragging them slowly at 5% of your movement speed! But don’t drag them too quickly, or they might get injured!

Hard Boiled:

Majory is in dire need of a thousand boiled eggs for his potato salad! And his pot can only boil 5 eggs at a time! Only you can stop his barbecue from being a rather mild calamity by heart pounding activities as waiting for the water to boil, waiting for the eggs to boil, and then waiting for the eggs to cool down for you to peel them!

Every Piece Matters:

Find all the missing suspects in the world! It’s time to crack down on crime by catching every single suspicious character in ever zone, all of them! It’s like Where’s Waldo, only Waldo has five hundred clones, and they’re all heavily armed and need at least a fully trained five man team to persuade them to come in quietly!

No More Secrets:

Return to the crime scene, but it has to be at a specific thematic time that only the ANet Dev’s know. Could it be five minutes from now? Or twelve hours? Wait and see!

Been in LA overflow 4 hours now, 2 of those firework events should have happened but nothing yet. No idea when it’s dawn. Gonna try keep character stay online next 12 hours to see if fireworks happen.

Yeah.. how long is this night and day cycle in GW2?. Its now 20:16pm in some overflow and nothing has yet to happen yet, again like 2 hours ago…

jucca.8219:

Been in LA overflow 4 hours now, 2 of those firework events should have happened but nothing yet.

Party hats running low, please send more punch!

I wish there was some way to know when the fireworks would be coming – like a timer until dawn or something. The sky just looks red and hazy, but it’s been like that for the last 20 minutes. Still no achievement.

Glog.4275:

Yeah.. how long is this night and day cycle in GW2?. Its now 20:16pm in some overflow and nothing has yet to happen yet, again like 2 hours ago…

As I posted before, it’s a 70 minute day, 40 minute night and 10 minutes of transition between them. Yeah, not exactly intuitive:(

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Let me explain how this works.

The firework event cycle (them happening every two hours) was started at 9:00 AM PDT. The event itself is tied to the ingame time and will happen at dawn (ingame). So your fireworks might not have happened yet, as it is not dawn ingame.

Apologies for us not communicating this more clearly. But the fireworks will happen every two hours over the course of the weekend, so plenty of time to marvel at them and get the achievement.

It means: the event is starting every 2 hours IF it is dawn on the current (overflow) server?!?!?
If above is correct, it will minimalise the possibilities to got the achivement as there is always an owerflow in LA and it will be a lottery if it is dawn on the current server.

rizzo.1079:

Glog.4275:

Yeah.. how long is this night and day cycle in GW2?. Its now 20:16pm in some overflow and nothing has yet to happen yet, again like 2 hours ago…

As I posted before, it’s a 70 minute day, 40 minute night and 10 minutes of transition between them. Yeah, not exactly intuitive:(

kitten . Screw that, time to afk for 2 hours.

Cheers anet.

2 fireworks

0 achs

C’mon devs, come explain this now.

I think you’ll get logged off for inactivity before you get the achievement. It’s a pity they don’t allow you to just hang around akitten the cities. Especially for events like this.

Thanks for the info.

Is there a clock that shows what time it is ingame? Not talking server/local time, but rather what time it is in town?

all im saying they better hand out the achievement for this if you dont get it. im sorry they cant stick to a real schedule and have to use this so called game night day schedule. this is one major screw up and next time either post individual schedules for each server if they are going to use in game time or just let them go off on a regular schedule on all servers at the same time. thi(the way they did it) had to be the most idiotic way to do something. if this was my business someone prob get fired for this mess up of this proportions

Wait, so if I understand the position, if the fireworks start at say 6 and you get to Lions arch say 10 minutes before 6 but you land in and overflow that has an hour before dawn you have to wait an hour before the fireworks? If so that doesnt make ANY sense. How are you supposed to know what overflow you’re on and where in the day night cycle you’ll be? You can’t. Even if you jump on LA all weekend you could miss every show due o the fact you could be dumped in a different overflow everytime. I sense gifts to be sent out in the mail shortly…

They have to think they are going to release a paid expansion soon. I know fanboys will probably insta buy it, but people with brain after this bugged event will think if they have anything better to spend their money on. And Bethesda is releasing a game…

Mr Pin.6728:

Wait, so if I understand the position, if the fireworks start at say 6 and you get to Lions arch say 10 minutes before 6 but you land in and overflow that has an hour before dawn you have to wait an hour before the fireworks? If so that doesnt make ANY sense. How are you supposed to know what overflow you’re on and where in the day night cycle you’ll be? You can’t. Even if you jump on LA all weekend you could miss every show due o the fact you could be dumped in a different overflow everytime. I sense gifts to be sent out in the mail shortly…

Bingo. Iv been in a overflow where its been night for a good 30 min now. If night last 40 min i hopefully should be getting it soon (doubt it tho). If not i gues ill lottery my way to next overflow.

Anyone not getting the achievement, did you already get it from the bugged instance where people would get it just by being in the instance? A lot of helms out there already because of that…

It’s only just starting to get dark on the overflow I’m on. If a day is 70 mins I think I’m going to have to hang around for at least another half hour. I wonder what logic the developers used to state that the fireworks would be every 2 hours from 5pm(GMT), but in reality only have them go off when the server reaches it’s dawn. Does it matter if it’s day or night when they fire?

Anyone know how long I can be AFK before I’ll get disconnected?

afk fun. That’s the way to get happy customers. Maybe it’s as rng as the rest of the event.

This is not fun. As the rest of the grind event/s.

Just got it after 40 min night time. It happens 5 min befor ingame dawn.

would appreciate it if some dev could hang up an in-game clock in LA

where are the devs? why dont they answear our question?

Again:

I watched 2 fireworks. No ach. No gift.

Why?

Well, I just got the achievement on Sanctum of Rall non-overflow at 11:56 AM Server Time (2:56 Eastern). So if the fireworks run on a 2 hour cycle, then the next set should be at about 1:56 PM.

Fireworks happened at 11:51 server time in overflow on Rhal server. Got achievement and helms.

And so it happens again in Sfr. Fireworks, my mate who was with me got the ach and i didnt. Why do you hate me anet?

Finally!!!!! I had to wait over an hour and 20 minutes, but eventually I got my achievement. No words can express my relief that it didn’t crash or disconnect while I was waiting.

Seriously? Missed it the first hour because it happened 1 hour 20 minutes AFTER the PDT time, then it’s been off by 20 minutes, but the overflow isn’t running on the same time. So I stay in the overflow hoping it would come up and it doesn’t. RIGHT after it finishes of course I can re-enter LA just to find out it finished again and I’m out of the overflow and I can’t get back. This is a serious waste of time.

yeah what a relief to get the ach from the crappy event XD

Btw. When dragon bash started i got the helm. Now i cant unlock the ach when im actually watching the fireworks. IS THERE A CONNECTION HERE ?

It’ll be interesting to see what Arenanet’s response is to this problem. The whole event has been pretty glitch, so hopefully they’ll at least put out an apology – even if it’s just for the lack of information about timings of the event.

I suppose it’s not that important an issue that anyone will be fired, but they should definitely think more about how to make the game enjoyable from the players’ point of view.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Let me explain how this works.

The firework event cycle (them happening every two hours) was started at 9:00 AM PDT. The event itself is tied to the ingame time and will happen at dawn (ingame). So your fireworks might not have happened yet, as it is not dawn ingame.

Apologies for us not communicating this more clearly. But the fireworks will happen every two hours over the course of the weekend, so plenty of time to marvel at them and get the achievement.

They don’t make your job easy, do they Martin?

Seems they are happy to troll you along with the rest of us…

I have to agree with others, this is just another sign of horrible game design. A two hour window. Not tied to real time, but to server time, where worlds and overflows are in no sort of sink. No way to check in game time, except to look at the sky to figure out if it’s day or night. Oh, wait, for this event the skies always look the same in Lion’s Arch, a soup of orange-ish haze. At Dawn. Who the hell would hold a fireworks show at dawn? (I’m guessing yet another fail by a programmer, since dusk would have made more sense).

With skies that look the same 24/7, even setting aside how silly it would be to have fireworks at dawn, what’s the point of using a two hour cycle? Why not just have it hourly, so people don’t have to sit around for up to two hours doing nothing, waiting for a show who’s schedule can not be determined any more precisely?

Let me explain how this works

The more you mess up, the less gems you will sell. And a new campaign or expansion, forget about it until this one runs a little smoother

CoffeeMakesMeSmile.8172:

It’ll be interesting to see what Arenanet’s response is to this problem. The whole event has been pretty glitch, so hopefully they’ll at least put out an apology – even if it’s just for the lack of information about timings of the event.

I suppose it’s not that important an issue that anyone will be fired, but they should definitely think more about how to make the game enjoyable from the players’ point of view.

To be honest, the actual bugs haven’t bothered me too much with the event. Sure, moa races were exploitable and needed to be fixed, and minipets had a nice forge upgrade that also needed to be fixed… but those are accidental. It’s easy to forgive the developers that forgot to think of food buffs in Dragon Ball arena (especially since it didn’t take long to fix).

What’s far worse, though, is that someone sat down and said “dawn in game! That’s a perfect time for fireworks!” The design decision is poor. The decision for low health holograms was also poor (though that could have been a bug). Apparently no one pointed out the very obvious problems with having fireworks at dawn in game. I’m no game designer, but even I can see the issues here — as can many many other people who have chimed in to the thread.

I would expect that these kinds of decisions would take some thought, and it’s troubling that the issues were overlooked.

Easy way to tell time day/night:
1. People who use legendary which shine at night
2. People who use AC weapon
Draw your weapon, if its glow, then its night.

Sunset->dusk->night->dawn->sunrise

(yeah its a bit funny, fireworks at dawn ? Lol.)

The fireworks design is also horrible. It is just: ok, its that it ? Ask everyone in Plaza: (more or less their comment) I don’t have any idea; suddenly I get the achievement, no fireworks; where is the fireworks ?

deviller.9135:

Easy way to tell time day/night:
1. People who use legendary which shine at night
2. People who use AC weapon
Draw your weapon, if its glow, then its night.

Sunset->dusk->night->dawn->sunrise

Also Sylvari, they stop glowing at dawn.

i have no words for the crappyness of this event.

Knox.3748:

i have no words for the crappyness of this event.

I have one; Boring!

Standing semi-af…k in LA now for over an hour….ooooh the suspense1!1!! o.O

Wait what ? Another crappy bugged event ? How is that even possible when every last one of the events released by Anet were working perfectly smoothly without even a single issue !

Come on people ! Aren’t you getting upset a little too fast ? I mean… these people are human. Not machines ! If this was, like, the third or fourth time in a row that a buggy event is released, I would understand you. But how can you be so heartless and ruthless

I’m sorry what ? This is indeed the fourth or fifth time it has happened ? What do you say now ? Every single patch released by Anet need at least two more fix before working properly ?

Oh…. oh. Okay, keep it up then. Nevermind.

3 fireworks. 0 achs.

Care to explain this, devs, please? Some people say that it depends on your position near the plaza. How many cm’s should i be near it devs? Okay you said the dawn but you didnt said the cm’s on the plaza. Please devs, EXPLAIN SOMETHING.

WORST….EVENT….EVER!!!

I watched the fireworks and got the achievement but didn’t get the gift.

The show was amazing!!

First I wait 1 hour in an overflow, then I can goto my own server and I wait 1.5 hour and still nothing happends.

Great job! Why not put a TIMER so ppl don’t waste their time?

Och to who am I talking, you guys fail everytime. GG

Well…no gift/achievement when in overflow, uncertain timing, and event boring as hell. Well done Anet, well done. You once again showed us how well you test the stuff you put online. A round of slow claps…

So when is the actually firework show from now? Ive been in LA for over an hour and people just keep saying its on the next hour. I believe I should have seen it by now, yet I have not.

Are the overflows bugged? I really don;t want to waste time sitting in LA all night…

Looks like we definitely have a case of ‘failure to communicate’ here. sigh

Kind of glad now I was one of the beneficiaries of the glitch where some people got the helms and achievement early… but you shouldn’t have to hope for a glitch for something like this. At the very least, if there are going to be festival events that require being at a particular location at a particular point in the ingame day/night cycle, there should be a way to tell where you are in the cycle that’s a little more precise than ‘day’ or ‘night’.

draxynnic.3719:

Looks like we definitely have a case of ‘failure to communicate’ here. sigh

That’s a first. Haha…oooh sarcasm…

draxynnic.3719:

Looks like we definitely have a case of ‘failure to communicate’ here. sigh

Kind of glad now I was one of the beneficiaries of the glitch where some people got the helms and achievement early… but you shouldn’t have to hope for a glitch for something like this. At the very least, if there are going to be festival events that require being at a particular location at a particular point in the ingame day/night cycle, there should be a way to tell where you are in the cycle that’s a little more precise than ‘day’ or ‘night’.

Its kinda disgusting the way they “communicate” with the people that wasted money on their game.

Just finished in Gandaras LA so i assume it will repeat at 2 AM ingame time

The timing issue is turning into a bit of a mess.

We have people sitting around in Lion’s Arch for an hour or more waiting for the fireworks because they are unsure of when the next dawn is coming – and overflow servers are making the situation even worse.

It’s taking something that should be interesting to watch and turning it into a chore that is causing alot of headaches. At this point, ArenaNet should just come out and say they are giving everyone who logs in this weekend the reward box – and then people can just enjoy the fireworks in peace.

A simple timer counting down to the next firework show would go a long way to fix the first issue (not sure what could be done about overflows).

Just an idea to fix the overflows…have all of the overflows spawn on the same time as the original one at time of usage/entering.

E.g. it is 5:43 PM LA, person gets put in overflow, overflow is linked to LA so it is 5:43 PM in overflow too.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

As we’ve seen a few messages from players saying they didn’t get the achievement even after watching the fireworks, here are some useful information:
1your character needs to be in the following zones in Lion’s Arch: Gate Hub Plaza (around the Asura portals), the Grand Piazza (next to the Dragon holoprojector) or the Mystic Plaza (next to the Mystic Forge)
2 while the fireworks last for about 5 minutes, you need to be present during the finale of the event when the dragon is defeated (and dives into the sea)
3last, make sure you don’t already have the achievement

Hope this helps.

1 and 2, again thanks for the useful info. This shoud be in patch notes, how in the hell are people supposed to know this? Gj on failing to communicate with your players. I was near the plazza, in front of npcs, and i didnt get. Im gonna try the asura gates now…

3. Dont mock your kittening players. Next time you check your GW2 community will have one less player.