Guild Wars 2

Act 1: introduction, It’s Halloween get a feel for it maybe work on getting some achievements.
Act 2: More content! yay!
Act 3: EVEN MORE CONTENT! YAY!!!
Act 4: The end, this is when you express your disappointment (if any) for the event, NOT BEFORE.

My point is, wait to see what more there is to come before jumping off the deep end. If you aren’t impressed by the end then go for it, cry all you want about how bad it was, not before. This isn’t WoW or any comparable MMO where they throw everything at you all at once.

Be patient and look before you leap.

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter to me what is added beyond this point unless changes to the existing items accompany the updates. The presence of the type of content they’ve opted for within a festival setting at all is enough to make things unpalatable to me. I’ll stick around to see the new areas and events for the Hell of it, but really, there’s nothing additional they could really add to win me back at this point.

Dark Saviour.9410:

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter to me what is added beyond this point unless changes to the existing items accompany the updates. The presence of the type of content they’ve opted for within a festival setting at all is enough to make things unpalatable to me. I’ll stick around to see the new areas and events for the Hell of it, but really, there’s nothing additional they could really add to win me back at this point.

If your going to be all pessimistic because Anet doesn’t cater to your every beck and whim, then you should probably just stop playing and delete you characters or w/e it is you do when you quit a SUBSCRIPTION-LESS game. They simply won’t do it, Anet is in my opinion one of the best gaming companies out there when it comes to community satisfaction, but just because one tiny thing didn’t go the way you thought it would doesn’t mean their going to “fix” something that isn’t broken. To the point about “winning you back” we have hardly seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the content of this event, Anet tend to put in all the grindy bits of their holiday events first so that everyone can get it out of the way, and then add most of the fun bits of the event. I’m sure whatever they have planned for the mad king, its going to be a real crowd please-er, as i said look before you leap and leave you complaints until AFTER the event.

Dark Saviour.9410:

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter to me what is added beyond this point unless changes to the existing items accompany the updates. The presence of the type of content they’ve opted for within a festival setting at all is enough to make things unpalatable to me. I’ll stick around to see the new areas and events for the Hell of it, but really, there’s nothing additional they could really add to win me back at this point.

I’m guessing you spend $50 on part 1 of 4 of the event and didn’t get what you want. Maybe try some patience next time, and go to a GA meeting.

+1 OP

Thank you for posting a guideline on when to complain. There is a lot of content not available yet, and who knows … maybe they are adding a way (like they have done in GW1 many times) to obtain skins using items from the Halloween Event.

Patience is a virtue.

Tyrick.9867:

I’m guessing you spend $50 on part 1 of 4 of the event and didn’t get what you want. Maybe try some patience next time, and go to a GA meeting.

Err… I’ve spent nothing in the CS, nor did I have any intention to.
Though I’m not exactly fond of a chunk of the new stuff being relegated to the cash shop, I kind of resigned myself to accept that it would be, so I’ve no significant issue there. Whether rare, common, or directly-purchasable, that’s content I wouldn’t have touched anyway.

My biggest qualm really is with the craftable skins. I left about a month ago, shortly after I lost interest in bothering with a Legendary and it was mentioned by a dev that the ‘cool’ exotic skins were all given specific (and generally fairly expensive) MF recipes. So there was no real possibility of getting incidental/short-term ‘fun stuff’ for me and the game wore thin.

Figured the holiday would be a good chance to jump back in with everything being simple and fun to get as you do the events. Only to get hit with another batch of grindy bollocks, even worse than most of what already existed.

Sours the feel of the festival when you hang that kind of crap over it. There was no need to bog anything festival-related down like that, and it kills my drive, as well as my faith in the direction future content will head.

I don’t see how you think it’s all “grindy bollocks” (i’m gonna remember that one). The scavenger hunts takes what…..15-20 mins? And you get an immediate reward. Carving pumpkins, opening doors, mining candy corn…they all can happen as you play the game. Want to dedicate an hour or 2 to the event? Then you’ve got a large chunk of it licked already. But if you want all the ultimate stuff right now and cheap….then that seems a little spoiled. Don’t you think there should be something in the game that requires some actual effort and dedication to acquire?

Seras.5702:

I don’t see how you think it’s all “grindy bollocks” (i’m gonna remember that one). The scavenger hunts takes what…..15-20 mins? And you get an immediate reward. Carving pumpkins, opening doors, mining candy corn…they all can happen as you play the game. Want to dedicate an hour or 2 to the event? Then you’ve got a large chunk of it licked already. But if you want all the ultimate stuff right now and cheap….then that seems a little spoiled. Don’t you think there should be something in the game that requires some actual effort and dedication to acquire?

I figured it was clear I was referring to the craftable skins there, but if not, I apologize for not stressing that.
That said, there was no need to make any of the event items ‘ultimate stuff’. That’s the problem for me; why couldn’t the whole thing just be about fun things you get as you go along? Why force grind into a sodding holiday event?

I have no problem with long-term goals… I do have a problem with the way they are implemented in GW2, as they all require a dedicated effort with no real shot of incidental reward. But even then, if you did want that, it already existed in the game in the form of legendaries and a load of the named exotics. Shoving more of it in here just kills the momentum of the event and screams, ‘Yeah. Don’t even bother.’ to me…

@ Dark Saviour

You can get the devil horns as soon as you log on, the scavenger hunt doesn’t take long and gives a unique backpack skin. So that’s 2 event specific permanent items in under an hour.

@ Dark Saviour

I gotcha now. Yea, I can see how you’d want a short event to just be about fun and instant/soonish gratification. I think, in an effort to please everyone, Anet added things like the 4hr weapon skins for those that don’t want to grind and the harder to acquire permamnent ones for those who do. Cuz you know if everything came fairly easy we’d have an outcry from teh hardcorez. Can’t say I’d be upset if I could have one of the new skins with ease, but then again it’d feel cheap to me if everyone had em. In GW1 having candycane weps year 1 was pretty awesome. A few yrs later they were lackluster cuz everyone had em.