Guild Wars 2

I understand that there was a need for something to reduce the amount of lag that happened yesterday, but this was really really stupid. I, like dozens of other people, sat at the catapult for 30 minutes watching nothing happen. Then, at 12:30, the event changed to say we could go to the new zone. I never even got to SEE the Lion’s Arch event because it never happened. Had I waited around, I would have missed out on the event in the new zone.

It’s probably one of those kitten if you do, kitten if you don’t situations. You can’t postpone the event because then people who have limited time are angry they are stuck waiting around. When you delay the event on overflow servers, the people waiting around get angry. If you stop making things one-time events, the people who aren’t there at the beginning suffer considerably smaller groups when they DO get on to play, and might not even be able to finish it anyway.

I don’t have a solution for you. I was incredibly disappointed that all the hype about the “one time event” for Halloween was a cutscene that most people didn’t even see properly. I was disappointed to learn that yesterday was plagued with lag and problems, even though I didn’t attend, and I was disappointed that even though I was standing in the right place in Lion’s Arch today at noon, I STILL missed the event because of the way it went down.

I’m going to be at work tomorrow for the final event, but I really hope you guys can get it right this time. I’d love to come home and read a forum full of positive comments rather than plagued by negatives.

I participated in the event. Gigantic Zerg followed the NPC’s to the catapult, we took out the Karka, then we waited 10-15 minutes until the message changed saying we could go to Southsun Cove. Absolutely nothing happened with the catapult? Does this mean it was bugged?