Guild Wars 2

Ok let’s sum up. They:

1) tried to do something epic
2) tried to test a huge event internally so that anyone can’t spoil anything for others
3) added huge chunk of content absolutely free
4) tried to make people feel as they have an impact on the world
5) tried to do something that no one ever did

And for some people it’s only an opportunity to complain about:

1) how it wasn’t what they expected
2) how it was not working at all
3) how it really isn’t free
4) how Arena NET lied to them because it didn’t meet their expectations
5) how it should be more like in other games

And I think they should rather say what I do:

1) It was really epic!
2) Some parts wasn’t working but thank you for not spoiling anything to me
3) It’s free because I don’t have to pay for anything (I just payed for what I get day one and it was worth it)
4) It was so cool to do something so unique
5) I don’t want to play another WoW clone or Call of Duty. I do expect something fresh and new!

I stay 5 hrs for the “One-time event” last Halloween and got a “One-time cinema” as return. So this time I wait this event on youtube, and other got a “One-time Reward” as return. So sad…

I stopped reading at the testing part. Not sure this is the right forum for works of fiction.

yep fully agree with you OP!

I have to agree. This was beyond anything I’ve ever seen tried in a game before and it was absolutely amazing. I’m very saddened that so many players had connection issues, because without those this would have been one of the best experiences in their gaming history like it was for me.

Internal testing failed exceedingly well. Yes I like to be excited about new content but I also like to be excited about working content.

They are trying something never been done before with huge world events, great, I look forward to and support them on this but they need to test this on a large scale from now on, it failed horribly. I am sure the event would have been more fun if players could see what was going on but an instanced version would be going against what they are trying to achieve so it is up to them to start testing content “Correctly” before releasing it.

Unfortunately its a little hard to appreciate large scale anyone can join events like this when they virtually sold the game off the back of it. It was one of the main promises they made before release and I dont remember them telling us about all the bugs about this very core part of the game. And thats before even the Lost Shore which is just one of a long line of events that were uncompletable for a vast amount of people.

I think its a nice idea, one of the reasons I bought the game and also one of the reasons I’m dissappointed. Events should surely be a “drop everything else and work all night till we fix it” kind of thing when its such a core element of the game, no? Instead there are Temple events in Orr that are stuck for weeks or months on some servers with no fix and events like last night. Why build it up and then have this?