Guild Wars 2

I’m just posting to say that I was there for the entire event, but missed the boss, because of connection issues with my school and couldn’t loot chest or claim rewards. This is very frustrating given that the event took 3 hours. Many people have the same feeling that they have now wasted 3 hours with no reward or recognition of the fact that they were there for the event

You guys are SERIOUSLY about to lose a player here, if i dont get to compete in this event, is absolute bullkitten to get dc’d on my guardian, and not be able to do it. You need to give us all a FAIR CHANCE, or does anet not believe in that?

me too i fought so hard for over 2 hours and died near the end of the event… and bugged couldnt ress at wp and no one couldnt ress me =( lost 3 hours of my life… and too big reward for a one time event… not fair!!!!!! i’m starting to get rlly frustrated with gw2… not saying about losing fotm progress after dc too -.-

Many of us has been disconnected in the final phase. I think after all this time spent on slaying Ancient Karka, we should get some rewards. I had DC 3 times – after first I was on my overflow so ok, after second DC I was on overflow when Karka was about to die so I helped finish that scumbag, but “le wild DC” happend and when I reloged – I was on overflow with already dead Karka, with of course no reward. As a proof of my participation in event I uploaded a screenshot, which can be seen below.

Please tell me dear ANet: will you left us dissappointed? Will you left us full of rage because we “wasted” 2-3 hours to get nothing?
We will wait for your response, and we will see.

I’m in the same boat as everyone.
Past the ‘loose rocks’ pushing back king karka and i re spawned to run back. Only to load for 10 minutes and nothing.

Just frustrating

Tend not to “do” these kind of forum posts but the disconnection at the very end (maybe 20 seconds!) was a bit ridiculous – so adding my name to a long list of players who missed their well deserved rewards!

Black Regent.5897:

Reward nothing. I didn’t even get to see the end of the event because the lag dragged it to a halt at the second reinforcements wave. The first phase on Friday was lagged to hell. The second phase LA piece bugged out. The intermediate quest progression bugged out. Might as well just give everyone everything after this cluster**** considering almost NOTHING worked right.

I actually agree, they should just hand out “Sorry we messed up” baggies for this event.

SuPeRNova.1086:

I think pretty much everything was said about how irritating, nerve wrecking , frustrating and poorly designed this event was. As for my personal experience of this event… it just ruined the game for me. Spending 2 1/2 hours fightning with lootless giant crabs, I get disconnected after waypointing back when I died at the uncovering the explosives part of the event. Spent the next 45 minutes trying to log back in… and when I finnaly made it… event was over. Thanks for ruinning this game for me.

I had the same problem. I can’t explain how pissed I am to spend like 2 hours, and I get lagged out of the game. I log back in, and the event is over. So I missed out on the treasure, and everything at the finale.

I had the issue too… disconnected, and could only log back in after the end of the event.
I wish i could get the 20 slot bag, at least…

I wil be patiances and see what wil happen… kitten dc

I got a legendary out of the chest!

Oh no wait a minute, I got zipp because Anet decided to disconnect me right before the we kill the ancient karka.

I spent 2h 30 in this event, I had highs and lows in it, I had fun in it but most of all I was dissapointed when I did not get anything to show for it towards my guildies for all my work.

I sincerely hope we get some kind of compensation, or I might just return to another MMORPG.

same here! after 2 hour killing every moving thing, the game was disconnected and you already know the rest…

Unfortunately I didn’t see this thread until now. It seems many of you probably could have gotten your chest if you got back into your original overflow. What it seems like happened to many people was that they DC’d in the last event then when they came back they assumed the event was over and they missed the chest, but this probably isn’t what happened to you.

What actually happened was that when you logged back in you got placed into an overflow where the event was already done because it had a lower population. The event was most likely still going in the overflow you got disconnected from. If you were in a group when you DC’d you could have right clicked on a party members name to rejoin the correct overflow and get your reward. Or if you knew someone who was in the same overflow as you they could have invited you and then you could have done the same thing.

It seems the majority of you missed the chest because you went to the wrong overflow, not because of just DC’ing.

Disconnected many times throughout whole event. I got next to none of the quest rewards (exp,karma, money). I did not get the final loot from the ancient. I spent hours doing it and got nothing but an ‘inappropriate amount of exp for the time spent’. When all is said and done this whole weekend event gets a big fat “F”.

Happened to me, too – got DC’d right before the end, wasn’t able to log back in for 2 minutes, and when I finally was able to log back in the event was completed and people were bragging about what they got from the chest that I missed because of the DC >.>

Same here. I have dc after 2 hours on event, I can’t login back and event was end. I lost chance to win precursor and other good stuff. I’m angry now!!

Same here – spent a long time in the event chasing the big nasty toward its final demise, we were making progress – disconnected.

Logged in, rejoined my overflow server, played for ten minutes – disconnected
Logged in again, rejoined the same overflow server after multiple tries, played for five minutes – disconnected

Eventually, it stopped letting me rejoin the same overflow server, and it wasn’t long after that I was informed by my party that the creature was dead. And then they started linking their loot. And I was sad.

I guess it’s not that big of a deal. This weekend’s events turned out disappointing as a whole – I guess this was a fitting end to the buggy events of the weekend.

Disconnected from the event 6 times. Three times trying to help the demolition team and than another 3 against the ancient Karka. So. I have missed out even though I participated. Lame.

give us another chance to claim rewards, and pls, this time I don’t wanna dc ^^

Very Dissepointed ANet:

Was in from start 21.00 our time. Ancient Karka down to approx 1/8 life left and like 9/12 gas things fixed. Get kicked out. Get back in, end up in overflow where they not gotten even past the other phase, manage to get to same overflow again with my step-son in same group. Kicked out again and then couldn’t even log in again with 2 different error messages as I try.
Either the usual
“Campus Firewall” blablabla but also some message that
“Transaction in progress. Please wait a few minutes and try again.”

Been on it for hour after hour but then I wasnt able to be there to complete event at the end and nothing wrong with my internet as i stayed on skype as well as logged in on fb to post. sigh

Couldn’t even get on Forum to post until now. Log-in server just wouldn’t work. Could surf on forum and read but not log-in to post just getting error messages. Not been able to log back into game or Forum for 1+ hr after i got kicked off.

Wonderful ANet Thanks Alot for a great weekend…NOT…with bug after bug.

Total rubbish to spend all that time and not be there to see end clip or get rewards.

My computer sure did work all along and so did my internet as i could do everything else but not log-into game or log-into forum.

Noone should have to do this again. Some of us are adults and have real lives and can’t plan our entire lives around a game.

We have alreday done it for along time, bbasiaclly to the end but couldn’t get reward as we couldn’t get back in at the very end (after being kicked out) due to ANet log-in servers. Im not going to do all this again. This is a disgrace.

We should all get the same chance as everyone else that didnt get kciked off to the same rewards as we worked for it. This has just ruined my mood to play this game or take part in any such event again. A game is supposed to be fun. This is not fun.

Im not alone as 1000+ post on the GW2 facebook from people with pretty much the same issue (can only imagine how many more that havent written on their facebook or use forums or gave up as they couldn’t log in to even post here).

If You don’t trust me or take my word, I have printscreens from all the way on the beach fighting those Karka and a Champion in camp, then printscreens along the way with few gaps where I didnt bother to take any screens. Then also at the end before getting kicked as we have at least 4/12 exploded gas things then I didnt take any more pics beforfe I d/c. I also have screenshots of not being able to log back into game or forum with error meassages until now.

I’ll be happy to mail those to ANet if required.

Black Regent.5897:

And I just want to point something out: this is one of those scenarios, at least for me, where I don’t care so much about the loot I missed. What I want to see is a clear explanation from ANET about what went wrong from this event start to finish and a VERY clear explanation of VERY SPECIFIC steps that are planned in the future to prevent this sort of complete disaster.

The loot is a one time thing. After this event, I’m so incredibly disappointed that I question whether or not this is a one-time screw up or if we can expect this kind of crap in the future. Because if this is how ANET is going to run this game, I really see no particular reason to keep playing it. If it’s going to be this frustrating, I can find other things to do with my time.

This is also my most pressing issue with what happened this weekend. MMO players need to be able to trust the mechanics underlaying their game works and that they are reliable. It is the most basic foundation we need for justifying the time we invest in the game.

I made it too the end (took 3 hours i might add) we killed the ancient kraka, threw him too a fiery death and i Dc… Get back in after about 15 min and the chest is gone. Can’t really say im happy with this event. It is good too see you guys are paying attention too our problems though. I like this game despite some off it’s flaws but this really was no fun at all.

I was online, then I DCd at the part where you try to get the ancient karka back to its nest. I tried to log on but I couldnt get back on. When I finally managed to get back on like 2hrs later, the event was over

@ZudetGambeous.

I think you will find that anet logging server went down as well,so many of us missed out that way.
Disconnected then could not log in for 40 mins or so,by then event was over.

I too was completing this event, mind you for the 2 hours that it took the overflow to complete, and I received disconnection problems as well. This is extremely aggravating considering the situation. Two hours of work for nothing, if there is anything you (anet) can do please consider all of the other people in this thread.

This also happened to me, we killed the ancient kraka and the cut scene started I got dced during the cut scene and I couldn’t log back in.
Oh and my in game sound died during the event which kinda sucked…

I also got DCed after about 2:30 hours into the event, halfway through the part where you need to make those nests explode. Now I would understand if Anet wouldn’t be able to give us a “new” chest, but I’d be more than happy with a 20 slot bag and/or that triforge pendant which seemed to be a standard loot from reading some comments in the loot thread (unsure wether or not they are standard). I don’t even know if it’s possible to see who disconnected when, or if those people actually did get involved in the event, so yeah. Fingers crossed.

Jade.1236:

I actually agree, they should just hand out “Sorry we messed up” baggies for this event.

With apologies from the Consortium. We never should have poked that crab nest.

In the same boat here. I got disconnected several times… couldnt join my friends in their overflown server as i was sent to different servers every time.

No reward for me after 2h of coping with lag and sudden deaths. :S

I played for like 2 hours and had to leave. I got nothing. Someone I know told me he fought for 30 minutes, then went afk for the rest of the event and came back to loot the chest. Isn’t that nice?

This was such a bad idea. Everyone who could commit to 4 hours at a specific time gets some awesome loot, but everyone else is screwed. That sucks. I have 4 hours, tonight, so why not have the event then when it would be easier for me and screw the people who can’t make it (Sarcasm. Don’t flame.). You see the point?

Plus giving precursors was a really bad idea. If you’re going to drop loot like that and the 20-slot bags, everyone is going to expect a shot at it.

Such a horrendous event. Very, very disappointed.

Ultros.5317:

Jade.1236:

I actually agree, they should just hand out “Sorry we messed up” baggies for this event.

With apologies from the Consortium. We never should have poked that crab nest.

I didn’t even know that piece of the story arc until right before the last bit of the event started because I never got past buggy Noll in the quest line :\

I just wanted to add my feedback to this thread.

I completed all of the stages leading up to the final battle. As the Ancient Karka was going down to the lower levels I had a horrendous lag spike which led to me being swarmed on the ramp by hatchlings and dying. As no-one was around to res me I decided to travel back to the WP, at which point my game froze completely, leaving me stuck on the map and then on the loading screen for ages.

By the time I had ressed at the WP and run back to the cave the Ancient Karka was down and the chest had spawned. I ran up to the chest but was unable to interact with it at all and it quickly despawned.

So no, I didn’t get to take part in the final battle, I missed the cutscene and I missed the loot chest. Admittedly because I didn’t take part in the final part I might not be eligible for the loot but it was due to lag I died and if the game hadn’t frozen I might have made it back in time to take part.

I’ll wait for more info from ANet but at the moment it’s really spoiled the event for me and I thought it definitely had some good ideas in it.

ya frustrating for me too. Glad to see it is being looked into. Maybe we can get a re-run or somethin? Thanks

I spend hours in that unplayable lag-fest to get disconnected shortly before the end, with login issues happening for the best part of an hour, meaning that I couldn’t reconnect and try and join back in, couldn’t get any loot, and had actually made a huge loss trying to do the event – deaths all over the place from extremely overpowered Karka popping in to existence and slaughtering you causing the majority of the loss, alongside waypointing after said death.

I had so much hope for this event and waited with anticipation for it to happen, to only be disappointed at the last hurdle. A recommendation: Don’t do these large world events again, especially on a one-time basis, it just doesn’t seem like your servers are capable and provides us with a, ‘Well why did I even bother?’ feeling. Or if you’re going to attempt it again, provide the loot on a contribution-based basis that mails to you if issues like this one are to happen again.

The event had a good, if not also confusing, start up. I was expecting something like the Mad King Thorn dungeon, which while flawed was at least playable. I’m just really upset with it. And I definitely don’t feel like doing another two-to-three hour run on such a bugged event.

Same here, couldn’t log back in for the final part of the event, sucks

Black Regent.5897:

And I just want to point something out: this is one of those scenarios, at least for me, where I don’t care so much about the loot I missed. What I want to see is a clear explanation from ANET about what went wrong from this event start to finish and a VERY clear explanation of VERY SPECIFIC steps that are planned in the future to prevent this sort of complete disaster.

The loot is a one time thing. After this event, I’m so incredibly disappointed that I question whether or not this is a one-time screw up or if we can expect this kind of crap in the future. Because if this is how ANET is going to run this game, I really see no particular reason to keep playing it. If it’s going to be this frustrating, I can find other things to do with my time.

Yeah I agree with you 100% every letter and every word you said, I would like them to address what exactly went wrong, and how they plan to avoid having this ever happen again.

I am so fed up of excuses. Sorry Anet but you know the game is popular why else did you decide to suspend sales sorry but lame excuses and pitiful ’Sorry’s’ don’t cut it anymore. You as a business have to anticipate and prepare for things like this happening and a good business always has a back up. You neither prepared nor had a back up. I too am included in the majority, I was in the event, experienced some lag but let it slide because I anticipated such issues. But just as I opened the chest I got d/c and told my router or firewall was at fault, sorry but these fake messages are very damaging, Suppose a customer isn’t aware that these messages are false and goes out and spends money on a new router or anti virus/firewall software because they think they are at fault. There’s also the issue of the stupid fake wrong password or you are not the holder of this account messages, how in heck can I not be the account holder or have input the correct password when I’m here logged in on the forums??? Sorry but seriously you’re failing. I’m not impressed and I’m saddened that the attitude of the company has dropped dramatically from what it was in GW1. >:(

I didn’t DC but rather fell onto the lower level of the cave when the final battle started. As a corpse that no one could see, I watched the champion karka’s health reach zero after participating in the whole event. So, glitchy terrain was responsible for my missing the chest. Once I respawned, the chest was gone. What a waste.

After playing for almost 3 hours on a different overflow than my guild, I died at the final phase, was disconnected and couldn’t get the reward.

Yeah so I guess Im not alone in this after all, disconnected during the event with no chance of getting back on at all and start hearing about people getting precursors. Shame that you must have known the event was going put a massive strain on your servers and yet came up with nothing to help it.

Starting to feel the hours I put into the event has been a total waste, since I neither got to see the end of the event itself, or get any reward for the time I put into it over the whole weekend (being there from the start of phase 1 until the disconnect on phase 3). Doubt I will bother with future events considering how this 1 turned out.

same thing here sat at a load screen and got kitten from this cluster kitten of an event

me too, 2+ hours wasted

I lost control over movement with my character (a usual precursor to disconnection) so I could no longer continue with the event (it moved on beyond my reach). I tried relogging and it tells me that the login servers are down. I keep trying for about 2 hours afterwards and when I finally do get back in, I get redirected to an overflow server where the event finished ages ago and so I have lost any potential reward from the event. I don’t usually complain but this event left me with nothing but an empty feeling, a feeling of having wasted 3 hours for nothing. Seriously not impressed.

As much excitement, fun, and overall positive expectation came from this event, its heart breaking to see such dismay and negative feedback come from it. I was disconnected twice and unable to claim my rewards as well. However I feel Arena can compensate us in such a way that allows us to enjoy the event for what it was.

Disconnected after falling off into the lava pit at the end of the battle 0__0

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Please read here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this

That doesn’t say anything regina’s post doesn’t say.

And what about the massive lag? The bugged out quests and NPCs before that?

It appears I’m in the same boat as everyone in this thread. I spent over 3 hours fighting mobs and suffering through horrible lag only to get to the final fight and get dc’d. Unable to get back in because ‘overflow was full’. When I finally got back in the chest was gone. Seriously? 3 hour fight, 3 minute chest??? Granted, it’s only a game but geez what an incredible waste of time. What a fail event! Lag, DCs, other people gloating. I know it’s childish but I’m so angry that I don’t want to play anymore. At least not right now. I submitted a ticket, we’ll see what happens. Maybe it’s time to move on to something else?

Not exactly the same problem as other people in this thread, but similar.

I had been participating in today’s event from the start with two of my friends. Due to the sheer amount of people in the overflow I was in I was lagging pretty badly, and there were some culling issues, but we soldiered on despite this and didn’t let the number of deaths we were having faze us.

We were about halfway through the event when the models on my screen would stop moving for around 3 seconds at a time, so I logged out and in and it solved the problem for a while, but later on, towards the end of the phase where you had to kill the reinforcements, it started happening again. Thinking nothing of it, I logged out again, only to find that I couldn’t log back in.

I wasn’t able to log back in until some time had passed after the end of the event on the overflow my friends and I were on, and I was still having terrible lag issues. My friend pointed out to me where the chest should have been, but I couldn’t see anything.

I’m not angry, I’m just … incredibly upset and disappointed. It’s not so much the loot that I was worried about, but just the acknowledgement that I had helped out, and the fact that it was taken from me due to something not within my power just left me feeling gutted.

I don’t think this’ll change how I view the game and I’m not going to stop playing or anything, but some resolution would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I had just finished a long reply to someone in a similar thread saying cheer up, saying I’d at least be happy with a response.

So on that much, thank you ANet. Otherwise let me give you a mini lowdown on my situation, The lag kicked in at about 9:55pm GMT+00 I got disconnected when my Overflow was at around the second reinforcements (we were having some trouble thanks to invisible enemies doing horrendous damage) but thanks, at least in some part to me, we turned it around each time. By the time I get back in, I can walk over to a corpse by the lava with some other unfortunate souls who also missed what was probably a fitting end to a somewhat difficult boss.

To be honest, I’m still annoyed, and overall, since the patch on Thursday, this had been the worst few days I’ve had in GW2; Events, FotM, new additions in sPvP and Southsun all good. Ranger update falling short of expectations; not being able to do FotM because people won’t help a r1, and DC’ing right near the end of what was a difficult battle where I worked my socks off helping so many others, BAD.