Guild Wars 2

Hey Damolious here,
I was at the time of the event making a video, originally I was aiming for it to be a music video event video showing the highlights of the event to promote Guild Wars 2, Alas instead as I recorded myself and other guild members, the reactions of the event, suppass the that.

One of my guild members last night was Banned from the Forums after first being humiliated after reporting about the event saying it was unacceptable, as many players and myself experienced the lagg fest, impossible to kill NPC’s, dieing over and over and over, and the time wasted on the event only to have it backfire on the players that hold and love the franchise so dearly.

I got off lucky, I managed to find a Overflow server half the way through the video after crashing, which ment I “Could” hit back, alas everyone else wasn’t so lucky, tonns of death and even naked players running around fighting.

Reward after that was to be humiliated, we were given with the task of “Donating” Your own stuff to the repair effort, for tokens. These tokens can by you gear that isn’t at all good. The only thing I can see worth while is Black Lion keys. The armor exotics are worth 1,200 tokens and if 6 Rare Quality pieces of armor get me 290 tokens, I fail to see the point.

I myself as a dedicated and loyal fan of the Guild Wars 2 Franchise feel with this event many players were cheated and there time was wasted. We all turned up to this once in a lifetime event only to die constantly, The reward for turning up not at all being worth it and felt slightly cheated. Guild member of my posted on the forums for example saying about how the event isn’t working, only to have first of all, all his words changed to kitten, then his whole message edited to one paragraph about lagg, then deleted and him banned, for speaking his mind about the event.

Does Arena.Net hope to reward/compensate the true players of the game that spent alot of time getting excited about this event, and give them a apologise/compensation those that took part in the event, and the money and time that got wasted as a result failure?

Video Link at the bottom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpa4fhBm4go

I dont like the evento either (5sec of delay)
But i went and i will go for the lore
:D

Anyone remember the first open world event in rift when they opened the second dungeon? It was about the same as this. A huge disaster. I am thinking this is a very hard thing to pull off.

even if you didn’t play rift, it should’ve been obvious after mad king that doing an even in LA was recipe for disaster.

sure, all these mobs running around spawning other mobs and 10 times the stuff going on compared to MK will SURELY work out…

It was just very frustrating, if they wanted to they could have had the Karka spawn all over different places of lions arch, splitting players up and away from each other. Thus reducing the amount of lagg in one converged area.

Also there was a possibility to make a mini instance where it’d zone 10-20 people into a mini instance to fend off the mobs in lions arch (Kind of like story) and make the mobs a lil weaker. Therefore that also would have helped move the story on.

In hindsight there is alot that could have been done and handled better.
There should reward players for turning up to events like this too. I mean in future people might try and avoid events like this because of there being no benefit to attend them other than a massive armor bill.
Tho the only thing I’d like at this current time is ArenaNet just admitting, yes we messed up this event and we are sorry. Its the Free Weekend, best time to get new players involved. But seeing a event happen like this has from the forum posts I’m seeing, making them want to avoid the game. They’ve gotta do more to entice people to stay. I will be turning up to the other two events, but if nothing happens to reward people and/or its the same thing again today as it was yesterday, I will be seriously annoyed that ArenaNet are not listening to there fanbase, deleting/not answering forum posts is not helping at this current moment in time.

It’s one thing to dream up an exciting event.

It’s quite another to pull it off.

ANet has fine talent for dreaming. They’re still lacking the tools for running big events.

Given the entire meta of WvWvW is about exploiting bugs with rendering and culling, it’s hardly a surprise.

I like how people act like it wouldn’t lag with any other MMO company.

Like all other MMOs are completely blameless.

KjarlSeaspite.9573:

I like how people act like it wouldn’t lag with any other MMO company.

Like all other MMOs are completely blameless.

Then maybe the event system is a bit like the holy trinity and various other aspects of mmo’s that they’ve thrown out the window and should be similarly treated as such

I think their priorities at the moment SEEM TO BE to desperately appease players with fluff content that has to be chopped and subsidized with events held in areas that EVERYONE uses for even non event aspects.

Lions arch, is the universal hangout spot for a lot of players looking for dungeon groups, and adding to the traffic that’s already there AGAIN with a bigger event than MK as mentioned, was just REALLY, REALLY DUMB.

The only question I’d like to ask is if A-net are “dedicated to improving the quality of the game” why repeat a mistake in over-utilizing LA again after the last event of a smaller scale had many players complaining of the lag and how it takes over the game to the point where only the event matters.

As for the dilemma of the posters friend, you’ll have to be more specific with how he framed his feedback and how constructive it was…

Going against forum rules is never ok, but if A-net’s faceless mods are banning and censoring players who are merely voicing concerns and giving negative feedback, then not only will it diminish their player-base and confidence in the games management, but it will lead to another player/staff standoff, a worryingly common problem nowadays with big online games.

Gray.9650:

even if you didn’t play rift, it should’ve been obvious after mad king that doing an even in LA was recipe for disaster.

sure, all these mobs running around spawning other mobs and 10 times the stuff going on compared to MK will SURELY work out…

Hubris is a funny thing.
JK, you know I love you ANet.

But yeah, I’m not sure how they couldn’t have seen this coming. MK was a good example of insane lag and people being kicked, and back then there weren’t even any fighting to worry about.

Hopefully they learned a lot, but the sad thing is, later there’s going to be another kickoff event, and tomorrow is the super hyped, world changing, one time event. And tomorrow is supposed to be a lot more packed than yesterday.
Not that I doubt your abilities, ArenaNet, but I’m preparing for another disaster.

Hellkaiser.6025:

The only question I’d like to ask is if A-net are “dedicated to improving the quality of the game” why repeat a mistake in over-utilizing LA again after the last event of a smaller scale had many players complaining of the lag and how it takes over the game to the point where only the event matters.

Why didn’t they just use the Claw Island instance for this? I know LA is this hub of civilization, and it would suffer most from an attack (story wise), but gameplay wise we were the ones suffering.

Claw Island would have been prime for this sort of thing. It’s built for an attack, and directly in the path of the karka force on its way to LA.

This could have been the place where we were called to investigate the brewing troubles, plus it’s a military fortification. From a gameplay perspective it would have acted as a perfect zone where the players would have been throttled to the prime amount. Not to mention, a karka attack on Claw Island would have been EPIC!

This event was a failure. I HOPE this time will work without 15 SEC delay in Skills, Chat, etc!