All this complaining is non-sense, if anybody didn’t know about the fireworks it was their own fault, everything is posted in advance. If anybody was out of town to do more important things, that was their choice.
So where was the information?
1) Open the game client and put in your password and scroll down to “6.11.13 Release Notes for June 11th – Dragon Bash”
2) Click “Read More”
3) Your browser will open to this page
“https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/june-11-content-release-notes/?utm_source=client”
4) Scroll down to:
Fireworks Event
During the first weekend, between 9am PDT June 14 and 9am PDT June 17th, a grand fireworks show will repeat every two hours. Players who witness the finale will be awarded a container holding three account-bound commemorative dragon helms, one for each armor class in the game.
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Most major events happen during Holiday’s and Holiday weekends and has been that way since I first started playing GW 7yrs ago – this is nothing new, the items and event fun are an “Incentive” for you to come and play the game during these times. If you have something more important to do with your life, then that is your choice. Anet didn’t fail, they went out of their way to make sure there was a page with the information available and gave us the “DIRECT” link to it “DIRECTLY” from the game client.
Every single event there are “ALWAYS” these people that come into town asking about information on the current event. I bet I told 100 people that the fireworks were every odd hour server time. If you want to play an ever-changing MMO, then you need to “READ”.
Just like real life events like a concert/graduation/wedding/funeral/etc and get the information or your going to miss it, and if you do miss it, they are not going to do it again for you. It is “YOUR” responsibility to……
READ THE PATCH NOTES EVERYTIME!!
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