Guild Wars 2

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/halloween-finale-rescheduled/

May I ask why this has happened? The Halloween event no longer features the actual day.

The 31st is a Wednesday — most people will be working during the day, and then dealing with real-life Halloween(giving out treats, taking their kids out, going to a party, etc…). Making it on Sunday allows more people to participate.

Excellent decision on their part, thought that middle of US working day was a very odd time to pick to begin with for event finale.

Why not just extend to the following weekend?

That would be better; more time with the event would be preferred to less time. Gives people more of a chance to enjoy the content they worked so hard on.

I’m glad so I don’t have to wait to see what happens.

I’m glad they moved it to the 28th.

Oceanics still get screwed. The event occurs at 5am on a Monday Morning in Australia.

Not been announced by GW2 team yet in any of the usual spots, so reserving belief until then.

They’ll get everything polished. I have faith

The Shadow of the Mad King page lists phase 3 beginning on the 28th and phase 4 on the 31st.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/events/halloween-2012

If the finale has been moved from the 31st to the 28th, does that mean the acts are scheduled to change at new intervals?

Or does it mean that phase 4 will now begin ‘after’ the whatever the finale is going to be?

^^ That’s the question I want answered.

Logic would denote that if Act 4 has been moved back to the 28th, then Act 3 is is now on the 26th and Act 2 is the 24th.

There was/is an inexplicable 4 day gap between Act 1 and 2.

My guess is that the Act 3 will be on the 28th and will be a finale(Mad King appearance), the Act 4 may be the aftermath of the meeting.

What is worrying me is the fact that it is a one time only event ( why not a repeatable event every 3 hours like in GW1) that is in mid-day Pacific could see large portion of player(Oceania and even Europe if the event is in mid afternoon) unable to attend it.

Anyway I hope my fear will be proved wrong and that we will all be able to enjoy the event.

what u mean Final Event?
is there an event currently going on? beside all the updates and stuff??

So Guild Wars Insider got it wrong. That’s a first.

Mondy of War.8964:

So Guild Wars Insider got it wrong. That’s a first.

more like arena net’s twitter got it wrong, it clearly said the final event would be moved to the 28th

Fingal Hoy.4129:

My guess is that the Act 3 will be on the 28th and will be a finale(Mad King appearance), the Act 4 may be the aftermath of the meeting.

What is worrying me is the fact that it is a one time only event ( why not a repeatable event every 3 hours like in GW1) that is in mid-day Pacific could see large portion of player(Oceania and even Europe if the event is in mid afternoon) unable to attend it.

Anyway I hope my fear will be proved wrong and that we will all be able to enjoy the event.

I would also like to hear a clarification to if this is a one time event. The wording does make it sound that way but I’m truly hoping that’s not the case.

Any news on this?
Also, as been asked a few times before: when I miss an Act (lets say this particular Act 3), because I can’t log in for 3 days, will I be able to finish it when Act 4 hits? Or do I not only miss this ‘final event’ (now sceduled 3 days earlier), but the Halloween chain-quest as well?