Guild Wars 2

So the one time event happened, some people made it to the event and got the chest at the end, some people made it to the event and DC’d at the end and missed the chest, and then the rest just missed the event completely. Here’s how the One Time event should work in the future:

You are eligible for the event ONE time per account.

This solves all the problems. Why? Let’s take a look.

The lag during the event was absolutely insane even if you have a stellar PC. This caused a number of DC’s and basically made the event very lack luster, especially when you’re moving slower than a 90 year old woman using a walker. Now if this event was spread out throughout the day (24 hour period) let’s say scheduled every 2-3 hours (8 – 12 total instances) then just about everyone could participate once per account. That would eliminate virtually all of the problems. A lot of the international players were simply ignored, which I feel bad for.

Would there still be people who missed it? Absolutely, you can’t please everyone. However, there’s a very large number of people who missed out on the event and are unhappy, and unhappy customers will leave.

So, in conclusion, being eligible to participate in a One Time event Once per account yields the following:
- Less Lag
- Less QQ
- Less Unhappy Customers
- Some people will buy multiple accounts (easy $$ in ANets pocket) in order to do more events and collect more loot
- Every time zone has a couple shots to do it

Although the One Time event is an interesting concept it is very foolish to think this past weekend was best way to handle those kinds of events. People don’t like missing out on valuable free stuff, that’s just human nature. Overall the execution of this event was pretty poor, there were so many glaring problems is kind of mind blowing. There are a lot of mistakes ANet can learn from this one, and if this any indication of what the Winter Event will be like they have A LOT of work to do and things to consider that they didn’t before.

Hopefully in the future you implement what I have suggested above or come up with something better.

P.S. I would highly suggest sending out a mass e-mail to all player accounts to fill out a survey for this event. It’s a heck of a lot easier than asking your staff to read thousands of threads.