Guild Wars 2

So, after searching (instead of griping and giving up) I found a solution to missing the event the first time around. I got into an Overflow and dced at driving the Ancient Karka back. No biggie. Found another Overflow (and by God it was back at demolitions) and joined a party to solidify my presence in that OF. About halfway through driving the Ancient Karka back, there was a client-wide crash (no New Build or anything). Upon reconnecting, all events had been erased 2 hours before the day (and phase 3) was fully through.

Now, I was a bit sore only because I really wanted a whack at that Karka for the fun of the event, but my question is this: I know that people who got dced in the event before they could loot are getting compensated at some point, but what about us? The people who searched endlessly for an OF with the event, started it, but couldn’t finish it? I’m not talking about the people who were grinding OFs on alts, but the people looking for one last chance at the event. Are we in the same boat as the people who dced?

I wouldnt bet on it, since the event was supposed to be played within a certain time frame, and the over flows helped people get around that time frame.
Im in the same boat, due to my timezone i didnt have a shot in hell at making it on time for the event, and i used the over flows to try and get in on all the event goodness.
Shame i didnt get in earlier, the maintenance boot hit before we could finish.

They should do something….

Odds they won’t.

I pry won’t try another one of these events as they are time consuming for no reward.

Yeah I pretty much got screwed this event…I really wished it was longer

I would guess it wouldn’t matter what time you did it. They will go based on who participated in the event. Regardless of what server you were on. So if you got in enough hits on stuff to get credit I would expect to get something. Now what will the compensation be is the question. I am not so sure it will be the exact same thing everyone else got (chance at precursor etc).

Well, I can hope. The Overflows that were running the event were brand new, so it’s not like it was completely an exploit. I’m not so sure they will even come up with anything at all. That’s a lot of logs to go through to single out the individuals who participated enough. Guess people like us can only hope for what Grizzle is saying. Sometimes it’s fun to be the minority, other times, not so much.

Got in overflow – got no event at all – got bored = will probably not bother with any future events until ANet gets its act together (maybe 2-3 yrs from now).
Sad that so many people got only a big dose of disappointment and wasted time but this comes to us from the same bunch that can’t fix the bugs in personal story lines for over a month. Why are we surprised?

It won’t be so bad. I’m betting ANet gathered a lot of information about their own system from this event. In a way, this felt a lot like a test. Mass distribution of mail leading to every player and their siblings porting over to Lion’s Arch to participate in a huge event. Even the cutscene from Lion’s Arch to Southsun felt like it was something they were testing out. I just believe that the people who were unable to participate in the end event should still get something if they tried. They were part of the test.

Starving guinea pigs tend to whine a lot, if you haven’t noticed. ;P