Guild Wars 2

When I was at work today, I thought to myself, I would LOVE to go home and relax and play some Guild Wars 2 and finally finish that cool gauntlet that I haven’t had time to do all week. I’m gonna get that Liadri mini for sure today!

So I log on.

Oh, there’s a patch. New content… Right. Okay, no big deal. The gauntlet’s still there. Nothing to worry about. Right?

Hm, a new cutscene and some battles, with a new giggly villain who’s after the queen. Okay, sure, kinda neat. But, back to business… I can still get down to the gauntlet, can’t I?

Nope. Turns out the giggly villain sue is hatching evil schemes down there. Fine. So what do I have to do to get back down to the gauntlet?

Hmmmm. Close five portals. Doesn’t sound too bad. The living story blurb says Scarlet’s minions are attacking Frostgorge. Let’s go there…

Hm, nope. I’m in overflow. What the hell is going on? Fine, I’ll try later.

Later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking Blazeridge Steppes now. Okay! Waypointing there… Nope, overflow again. Fine, I’ll try again LATER. Jeeeeeeez.

Even later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking sparkfly fen. Guess what? OVERFLOW. AAAAAARGH.

I finally dig through the forums and find – buried – a single post from Anet reminding people that you have to get in within the first 10 minutes of every hour. UGH. That would have been nice information to have known inside the game somewhere. But fine.

I pop into the event at the top of the hour… What the…

I have to finish five of these? AND THEY’RE AN HOUR LONG EACH? And they’re mindless grinding with monsters that are not fun to fight??

That’s a minimum of five hours of grinding just so I can get back to playing the content that I want to play. And apparently the “Portal Closer” achievement is just a prerequisite for MORE stuff that I may or may not want to do. With my schedule the way it is, looks like I may not get my liadri mini after all.

I’ve been a critic of the living story for a lot of reasons, but I was actually beginning to enjoy the Queen’s Jubilee. Now we have living story content that directly impedes the completion of other living story content.

All I wanted to do today was fight in the bloody gauntlet.

But no.

Thanks alot.

(EDIT: Yes, I am aware that you can get someone to portal you down. I waited around DR for about half an hour trying to find someone who would take me to no avail.)

yea, i’m not a big fan of all the time-gated content. and overflows? i guess i can see the reasoning behind why it must be within 10mins of the hour.. but why did it have to be this way to start with?

they’re fun events! but the time-gatedness, and especially when it’s only around for a short time (related to achievements, etc and the population actually doing them), maybe not everyone is going to be able to enjoy this patch. well, who knows, it’s only day 1. things may change or shape up or ANet will smooth things out. : ))

just lot of strange decisions based on how players get to access content this whole Queen thing.

PeterThomas.7243:

When I was at work today, I thought to myself, I would LOVE to go home and relax and play some Guild Wars 2 and finally finish that cool gauntlet that I haven’t had time to do all week. I’m gonna get that Liadri mini for sure today!

So I log on.

Oh, there’s a patch. New content… Right. Okay, no big deal. The gauntlet’s still there. Nothing to worry about. Right?

Hm, a new cutscene and some battles, with a new giggly villain who’s after the queen. Okay, sure, kinda neat. But, back to business… I can still get down to the gauntlet, can’t I?

Nope. Turns out the giggly villain sue is hatching evil schemes down there. Fine. So what do I have to do to get back down to the gauntlet?

Hmmmm. Close five portals. Doesn’t sound too bad. The living story blurb says Scarlet’s minions are attacking Frostgorge. Let’s go there…

Hm, nope. I’m in overflow. What the hell is going on? Fine, I’ll try later.

Later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking Blazeridge Steppes now. Okay! Waypointing there… Nope, overflow again. Fine, I’ll try again LATER. Jeeeeeeez.

Even later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking sparkfly fen. Guess what? OVERFLOW. AAAAAARGH.

I finally dig through the forums and find – buried – a single post from Anet reminding people that you have to get in within the first 10 minutes of every hour. UGH. That would have been nice information to have known inside the game somewhere. But fine.

I pop into the event at the top of the hour… What the…

I have to finish five of these? AND THEY’RE AN HOUR LONG EACH? And they’re mindless grinding with monsters that are not fun to fight??

That’s a minimum of five hours of grinding just so I can get back to playing the content that I want to play. And apparently the “Portal Closer” achievement is just a prerequisite for MORE stuff that I may or may not want to do. With my schedule the way it is, looks like I may not get my liadri mini after all.

I’ve been a critic of the living story for a lot of reasons, but I was actually beginning to enjoy the Queen’s Jubilee. Now we have living story content that directly impedes the completion of other living story content.

All I wanted to do today was fight in the bloody gauntlet.

But no.

Thanks alot.

(EDIT: Yes, I am aware that you can get someone to portal you down. I waited around DR for about half an hour trying to find someone who would take me to no avail.)

I think you can get in by jumping off the eagles head too

Zayd Akira.1942:

PeterThomas.7243:

When I was at work today, I thought to myself, I would LOVE to go home and relax and play some Guild Wars 2 and finally finish that cool gauntlet that I haven’t had time to do all week. I’m gonna get that Liadri mini for sure today!

So I log on.

Oh, there’s a patch. New content… Right. Okay, no big deal. The gauntlet’s still there. Nothing to worry about. Right?

Hm, a new cutscene and some battles, with a new giggly villain who’s after the queen. Okay, sure, kinda neat. But, back to business… I can still get down to the gauntlet, can’t I?

Nope. Turns out the giggly villain sue is hatching evil schemes down there. Fine. So what do I have to do to get back down to the gauntlet?

Hmmmm. Close five portals. Doesn’t sound too bad. The living story blurb says Scarlet’s minions are attacking Frostgorge. Let’s go there…

Hm, nope. I’m in overflow. What the hell is going on? Fine, I’ll try later.

Later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking Blazeridge Steppes now. Okay! Waypointing there… Nope, overflow again. Fine, I’ll try again LATER. Jeeeeeeez.

Even later: Scarlet’s minions are attacking sparkfly fen. Guess what? OVERFLOW. AAAAAARGH.

I finally dig through the forums and find – buried – a single post from Anet reminding people that you have to get in within the first 10 minutes of every hour. UGH. That would have been nice information to have known inside the game somewhere. But fine.

I pop into the event at the top of the hour… What the…

I have to finish five of these? AND THEY’RE AN HOUR LONG EACH? And they’re mindless grinding with monsters that are not fun to fight??

That’s a minimum of five hours of grinding just so I can get back to playing the content that I want to play. And apparently the “Portal Closer” achievement is just a prerequisite for MORE stuff that I may or may not want to do. With my schedule the way it is, looks like I may not get my liadri mini after all.

I’ve been a critic of the living story for a lot of reasons, but I was actually beginning to enjoy the Queen’s Jubilee. Now we have living story content that directly impedes the completion of other living story content.

All I wanted to do today was fight in the bloody gauntlet.

But no.

Thanks alot.

(EDIT: Yes, I am aware that you can get someone to portal you down. I waited around DR for about half an hour trying to find someone who would take me to no avail.)

I think you can get in by jumping off the eagles head too

I think you will find that Scarlet has locked the whole thing up tight…If you look down into the hole its closed up with metal type plating that looks like a shutter on a camera lens.