Guild Wars 2

Hello, my idea is simple, why not letting the event repeat for 24 hours long so everyone across the globe can participate instead 2/3or less.
Chest for people who didn’t do it and no chest for people that allready did it.
Maybe there will be people jumping on diffrent accounts but maybe there is a fix for that;)

I agree and especially because I got screwed at the last part and the game just crashed.

no. I’m not doing the event again.

Future events… WHY DON’T THEY DO THIS ALREADY?

Limit it to 1 chest per character.. So what if some people have multi level 80’s, they leveled them up so why should they not be able to take advantage of them? Its not like someone can level a new character to 80 in the time it takes for the event to end.

I don’t know if I even want it repeated. I’d probably just kill crabs again for hours and hours and the game will crash at the end just like it did today. The reward was only the repair bills.

no more world events please, just instance it, i don’t even care if you enter and get put in a random grp of 5, or u can do it with your own party, NEVER AGAIN MAKE A WORLD EVENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t see why providing everyone in the world an equal opportunity to participate is bad, honestly, can’t let an event run a little longer and not JUST on the weekend? Not like this matters, Anet clearly didn’t think this through.

Yeah I know multipule people who have looted the chest 5-7 times, I yet have still not been able to find one because of the terrible server support Anet runs,

Why shouldn’t people be able to get the rewards more than once? Anyone who is prepared to run an alt though the 2+ hours of killing crabs deserves that chest!!
Dempsey I posted this before I saw your post above, I’m sorry if you had the crashing before reward that many of us had, that suck

They quickly need to realise that some of their customers live on the other side of the planet. Some have a job, a family, responsibilities… Missing a major event is one thing, but rewarding a one-time event with items that give huge advantages in parts of the game is simply not done. Grinding 200g to buy a precursor or getting it for free because you were lucky enough to participate is what I call a huge advantage.
Very poor event management and extremely crappy planning.

GW1 had 24 hour events that occurred every 3 hours. I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same with these types of events.

Like I proposed before, Why not just make an asuran npc ‘’showing his latest invention’’ that allows adventurers to go in a portal to the past and allow them to do previous worldly events that they missed on, with this it’ll make sense in the immerssion since asurans create about anything and it’ll give a chance to everyone to do the event they missed on or crashed on.
You could make a cool story about him going to different places all over the world about him and his machine, it’ll be fun and it’ll be fair.

Truly, a game that favors certain people at certain times won’t be seeing much more interest from me. If everyone doesn’t have an equal opportunity then there’s no reason to play.

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

+1 for this thread. I agree with the op and i would like this too.

Completely agree. It hurts no one to give others a chance to experience it, especially with loot like this.

I saw, I think martin?, say that logistics on their end was why it doesn’t repeat, how they set the team to work on this right after the game went live. For that time, I think it did ok, However: why not just wait until they can do something like OP suggested.

Not sure that it is the communication is the problem. It is the event design. Don’t have 3 hour events with the reward at the end when if ANYTHING happens (DC, crash, etc) the player who is there for hours killing crabs gets nothing while presumably some guy who showed up 5 or 10 minutes before the final boss goes down gets a huge sack of loot. That is bad design. If you want an epic event it needs to be broken into a bunch of stages with rewards at each stage. 3 hours is way too long for a single stage.

Agree, but only for that peoples who didnt recieve anything before

Agreed for encore event!

Agree with most comments here. I’ve learned to ignore one time events in the future. I assume Anet went to a lot of effort for this event, but the overall feeling from the forums has been dissapointment. Wasted effor?

As an Oceanic this would be awesome!!!!
A-net, I like you, but my feelings are rapidly changing..

I’d support this for sure. Heck, I just want the bag.

I support this too!

Its awesome ANet started an event while the Oceania Population is Sleeping, and ends it before they reach home from Work or Schools on Monday

Luv ANet… they r so thoughfool…

As someone who missed out, I’d love to see some sort of encore event… I’m just sorta sad since I managed to finally get into an overflow and then got crashed out. Coming from GW1, I don’t really understand why these one-time events can’t be repeated like the event finales. Sucks to miss out like that.

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I already posted the same idea on another thread and I 100% agree with the op. Give us the event again, for those who missed it for any reason.

This will be fair. People which was disconnected, can expirience this event by themself! I was disconnected in the middle, and I dont know that i can get a reward.

AreaNet please hear our voice!

couldnt log on till 4pm Aus time and got in once, killing crabs for a while then crash. get the event repeating so we all get the chance.

I definitely think this would be awesome! I got dc/ed at the second part of reinforcements!
ANET, please!

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

I woke up at 4:00am in local time to participate this one-time epic event, I should had get my reward before working hour, but the game was DC and couldnt login anymore, the login server was crashed. Then i had to go to work.

Repeat this event, please. I just want to get what I deserved.

I’m not really looking forward to repeating a 3 hour event. Rather, just let us kill the boss.

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

Except it’s not a free concert.

I don’t think they even realize how much damage they have done to the game in one weekend. I hope they’re not patting themselves on the back for thinking they just concluded a successful event.

Honestly, I wish I could unsubscribe from a free to play game just so they know they lose players, but they already got the Australian’s money and couldn’t care less. It’s all about the highest concurrency in the US and the need to feel like a special MMO with “EPIC ONE TIME EVENTS~”

It’s kind of disheartening from a game I have been anticipating for years.

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

A concert involves REAL LIVING PEOPLE. NPCS aren’t that! Events are automated! How do people even consciously compare this to real life without comparing every other aspect like automation and actual life?

The fact that i woke up on the weekend in oceanic time just to witness some extremely laggy and dissapointing events bothered me quite a bit. but to find out that on a monday morning i have to work and i miss the event, only to come back on after work and find legendary precursors etc dropped from chest etc made me even madder.

The fact that events are always at perfect times for Americans and never anywhere else.

The fact the events are not even properly set up.

and the fact that someone out there just got a whole tonne of cash for doing squat all and attending the final event only..

I’m losing interest in you Anet and i’m sure alot of the Community are not impressed either.

mnzzz.4570:

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

Except it’s not a free concert.

Except it is a free concert. You paid for the game content that was released on August. You are not paying a monthly subscription. You didn’t even know this event would happen when the game came out.

If we were all paying a monthly then yeah, I’d think it’d be appropriate to help those who had problems with the game. This however is FREE content. Think of it as free DLC that so many other games love to charge you for.

Raighan.9804:

Why shouldn’t people be able to get the rewards more than once? Anyone who is prepared to run an alt though the 2+ hours of killing crabs deserves that chest!!
Dempsey I posted this before I saw your post above, I’m sorry if you had the crashing before reward that many of us had, that suck

It wasn’t even the crashing I work during the day couldn’t do it when it was first active, then after I learn overflows still had it running I try there, found 1 fought for about an hour and 30, got booted for a random GW2 error, then I get into another one fight for another hour or so only to be kicked for a new build..

repeat getting major lag issues in overflow servers, making the game unplayable?
getting a server crash in the middle of the event and not let you get back on your overflow server, thus wasting 2+ hours of your time and start over?
And finally getting to the final stage, only to get a message that a new build has been made and servers will restart?

unless ANET address all the kittening issues,
I DON’T THINK SO.

kingslayer.1342:

It’s all about the highest concurrency in the US

I know they said that but I don’t believe it for a second. Since when is noon prime time? Ever play a game where the longest queues were at noon PST? I can’t say that I have. More like they asked the magic 8 ball if noon was a good time and it said “signs point to yes.”

Samfisher.7942:

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

A concert involves REAL LIVING PEOPLE. NPCS aren’t that! Events are automated! How do people even consciously compare this to real life without comparing every other aspect like automation and actual life?

I think you’re missing the point. They had a scheduled time event that was announced plenty for everyone. I had no questions as what to do. If I did, I just checked the 1 of 900 posts on the internet. It was announced ahead of time so those who wanted to participate can plan around it. If you can’t, then you made your choice. You chose your work, girlfriend/boyfriend, father, son, etc over doing the event that was emphasized to be only 1 time.

Everything has an opportunity cost and you are NOT entitled to anything.

2 DC
1 Client Crash
1 New Build
4 or more(not counting wait time)
1 missed lunch/bit of work

with nothing to show for….

I really agree on this one please ANet oh please repeat phase 3 for even a day… this is so frustrating to Many(thousands) of the people…

I had a 12hr shift at work today so I knew I wasn’t going to be able to participate in the event. Bummed out, yes, but not mad. But when I get home and see that they are re-running it I was excited. I heard about the great drops(one of my guildie’s pulled Zap), and I really wanted a chance at one of them, plus the 20 slot bag wouldve been nice too. So I log, get into overflow and proceeded to DC 3x, then get into another only to have new build flash across my screen. Ya loads of fun. So I am in favor of extending for 1 more day so the people who also had DC issues get a chance at getting chest

I wish mine had crashed..I done the event right from the start and on the last ramp I died to an avalanche of facehuggers. I was hoping the zerg would have to come down the ramp again and rez me, but they took a lava chute instead. So I ended up dead on the ramp while everyone was linking stuffs like dusk in chat. I did get rezzed and down to the zerg, but the chest had disappeared. FML!!!

But it was a good experience and I’m not bitter, I’d do it again

Aleaf.8174:

mnzzz.4570:

Aleaf.8174:

The Deviant One.9278:

Sarmach.1547:

They should have had bracketed times, AND POST THEM, for 24 hours so groups would be able to get filled. I got into some of the latter ones and their were almost too few doing them.

Anet’s biggest problem is a lack of communication during events like this. People NEED time tables so they can schedule and please for love of god post estimated times of completion. The Ancient Karka event took way too long and it ran into IRL schedules. If you can’t give a rough estimate of when an event will be completed then you didn’t test it enough and thus it shouldn’t be put in live servers. Make a program that runs the event with the maximum amount of players before releasing it.

I 100% agree….people need times for the REAL LIVES….and there needs to be MANY events Occurring over and over for the maximum benefit to all players….and 1 TIME time chest deal….you get that thing 1 time your done….let those of us who haven’t gotten it have our chance. During my 1st attempt at noon PST….it was 4pm by the time the next part of the event was starting and I had to leave to do something important….I had no clue i would be sitting in game playing for that long for a in quote “1 hour Event” my RL kicked in and i realized I couldn’t believe i had been at this for 3 hours already…..

VERY frustrating

I’m gonna go with no. Why should Anet schedule events around everyone? If you got tickets to a free concert and you can’t make it because of your schedule, would you complain about not getting to see it?

And I have no idea how fail your group was but the event ended for me by 2:30 PST. And they never said it was a “1 hour Event.” If you actually READ the post, it’s a “Multi Hour Event.” Multi generally means 2+ hours.

And lastly, you made your choice over doing something IRL or playing the game. Everything has an opportunity cost. You made your choice.

Except it’s not a free concert.

Except it is a free concert. You paid for the game content that was released on August. You are not paying a monthly subscription. You didn’t even know this event would happen when the game came out.

If we were all paying a monthly then yeah, I’d think it’d be appropriate to help those who had problems with the game. This however is FREE content. Think of it as free DLC that so many other games love to charge you for.

No, it’s not a free concert. For you maybe, it is.

Some people support this game in ways other than subscriptions. I know I do. That and promoting the game, spreading word, getting others to start playing, etc.

PLEASE let us. This is absolutely ridiculous — some of us HAVE JOBS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

You ran holiday events in GW1 every 3 hours. THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

Yeah if they don’t let us repeat the last phase I know a lot of people who will be very permanently angry; including myself.

I support a re-run of the event.

I’d really like to hear from just ‘one’ person that missed/bugged out on the content and is telling people to not complain, because I have this CRAZY theory that the people telling others it’s ‘no big deal’ are the ones who got the rewards, if it’s no big deal you wouldn’t mind paying for my 20-slot bag then?

Re-Run the event for everyone that missed out, it’s unfair that people get end game content just because others couldn’t join the servers because they were so full.