Guild Wars 2

My wife and I are having a great time playing Guild Wars 2. We are both working full time so our play time is limited to a few hours in the evening.

One issue we have run into is the 8PM EST reset time on Daily Achievements. When we get home from work, we have limited time to get these done before the 8PM reset. Trying to do the Daily Achievements after the 8pm reset isn’t always convenient either, because the reset time is right in the middle of our normal playtime.

I know completing dailies is optional, but if the reset time was later in the evening then we wouldn’t feel so “rushed” to log in as soon as we get home. I feel the Daily Achievement reward should be for playing every day, not for playing at a set time.

A “local” reset time of midnight, would be an awesome solution to this issue, and would move the rest window out of prime-time for the East coast.

Thanks for the amazing game you have created – we plan on playing this for a long time

And yet a sizeable portion of gamers play during the night, and would run into the same problems with a midnight reset as you do with an 8PM.
The BEST option would be if it picked a time that you rarely play at to reset, but that would be time-consuming and costly to program.

Or really, let us set a time for it to reset.
Make it a week’s wait between changes or whatever, or make it so if you changed it you still have to wait until the original time to pass before it resets (meaning it will always take 24 hours or more to reset) to eliminate abuse.

Agreed. The reset in the middle of the evening, prime playing time, is rather awkward.

Resetting at midnight local time (for wherever your located) makes the most sense. If that’s not possible why not have them reset at midnight seattle time, the same time they do game updates.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

And yet a sizeable portion of gamers play during the night, and would run into the same problems with a midnight reset as you do with an 8PM.
The BEST option would be if it picked a time that you rarely play at to reset, but that would be time-consuming and costly to program.

^This
Make the reset occur during an obscure off peak hour (local time ofc) such as 1-3:00am
That way, we’ll appease the majority of players.

However, some people will no doubt have abnormal shifts during the night and day, and this might be their prime time, but you cannot please everyone.

I thought the reset is happening 12mn PST. If it is 8pm EST then it’s 4pm PST correct? (I don’t live in the US if that isn’t obvious :p )

Hmm… so that mean it resets on our end 8am ACT (Asean Common Time)

Well, the sad thing here is that, you guys are not the only customers of Guild Wars 2. If they changes the reset to favor you, all of us are going to request the same thing.

So to be safe, better not change it, lest they receive tons and tons of tickets requesting that it happen 12mn their local time.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Or really, let us set a time for it to reset.
Make it a week’s wait between changes or whatever, or make it so if you changed it you still have to wait until the original time to pass before it resets (meaning it will always take 24 hours or more to reset) to eliminate abuse.

^ This. Manual choice = please everyone. While it will cause a slight little increase in server load, it’s really nothing that can’t be managed by a single database.

As European the reset is for me in the middle of the night…

What I am asking for is a “local” reset time that is not in prime-time. I understand that some people play at odd hours, but most people will play in the evening hours. A reset anywhere between midnight and 4AM local, seems fair. An 8PM reset is not a good time.

Or set the reset something like 18 hours after the last completion. This was i’s not possible to make more than one completion per day, but completing it can be as long as we want.

But off peak hour for a server is the best time, I think.

Surely it evens out after the first day?
e.g. you start playing at 7pm, 1 hour towards daily – then reset – then play until 9pm, 1 hour into the next daily.
When you log on tomorrow, you will already have one hour of that daily done, meaning by 8pm you have your 2 hours of daily done.

So it all evens out right?

Drol.8423:

Surely it evens out after the first day?
e.g. you start playing at 7pm, 1 hour towards daily – then reset – then play until 9pm, 1 hour into the next daily.
When you log on tomorrow, you will already have one hour of that daily done, meaning by 8pm you have your 2 hours of daily done.

So it all evens out right?

This is the issue. To finish today’s daily, that I may have started yesterday, I HAVE to log in well before 8PM to finish them. My point is I don’t want the game setting my play time. My brother lives in the UK, his reset is in the middle of the night, so it does not effect his play time at all.

I thought I should point out that this would require code to determine the clients location, pick the best time, then use that time. Doing it server side saves them lots of extra calculations and in terms of it being an mmo… doing more work is generally what can impact servers. (I’m not saying it is impossible though!) Simply, work. There are bigger fish to fry, but I’m sure they’ll address this eventually.

Diva.4706:

What I am asking for is a “local” reset time that is not in prime-time. I understand that some people play at odd hours, but most people will play in the evening hours. A reset anywhere between midnight and 4AM local, seems fair. An 8PM reset is not a good time.

A better solution is daily achievements simply do not reset, but instead can only be completed once per 24 hours and do not accumulate credit once completed for another 24 hours.

they reset in the time i play, but they get solved on the way. so it’s mostly irrelevant when they reset.

Diva.4706:

Drol.8423:

Surely it evens out after the first day?
e.g. you start playing at 7pm, 1 hour towards daily – then reset – then play until 9pm, 1 hour into the next daily.
When you log on tomorrow, you will already have one hour of that daily done, meaning by 8pm you have your 2 hours of daily done.

So it all evens out right?

This is the issue. To finish today’s daily, that I may have started yesterday, I HAVE to log in well before 8PM to finish them. My point is I don’t want the game setting my play time. My brother lives in the UK, his reset is in the middle of the night, so it does not effect his play time at all.

Well i still don’t understand why you have to alter your play times, if you play for 2 hours, you get those 2 hours regardless of how it is split. If you logged in for 5 mins, logged out for 5 mins, rinse repeat until you had 2 hours play time total, it would be equal to 2 hours in one sitting.
So can you explain why you have to log in early to finish? If what you’re saying is true, then even without a reset you wouldn’t complete your daily with the game time you have normally. By logging in ealry, you are extending your game hours.
If you log in at the same time every day and the reset is the same time every day, it will ultimately even out.
I’ll try to make a sort of diagram thing:
P = 1 hour play, R = Reset.
So, Day 1= P R P
Day 2 = P R P
Day 3 = P R P
String those 3 days together and you get P R P P R P P R P
So you are getting 2 hours between resets to complete your daily. By logging in early you are only showing that you don’t play long enough to do them anyway, so if the reset was changed, you’d end up playing later than you mormally would into the night.

Nkrisc.7408:

Diva.4706:

What I am asking for is a “local” reset time that is not in prime-time. I understand that some people play at odd hours, but most people will play in the evening hours. A reset anywhere between midnight and 4AM local, seems fair. An 8PM reset is not a good time.

A better solution is daily achievements simply do not reset, but instead can only be completed once per 24 hours and do not accumulate credit once completed for another 24 hours.

This would be an easier solution then having it reset according to every persons local time.

-The hardest solution will have the best effect

-The easiest solution may end up repeatedly inconveniencing the same group of players based on their time of play

-The ‘compromise’ solution may inconvenience those that only play a few hours every day

The compromise solution would still be easy to implement, you just have to give dailies a timer of their own. But i dont think it should be a true 24 hour timer. For those people that play for example 2 hours every day at the same time, the 24 hour timer might force them to wait a few minutes for certain things. The wait would come as a result of them doing things a little to fast in some places. One day it might take them 20 minutes to accomplish a task, but the next day it might only take them 15 minutes. And when that happens they have to wait 5 minutes while the timer runs out. To not inconvenience these types of players a daily reset timer of say 20-22 hours might best.

If the reset currently occurs at 8pm EST that’s midnight UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which is the international standard time used for most internet standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

As long as the time reset occurs at the same time every day, then it should have no impact on regular play at all. If it falls somewhere in the middle of your normal play it just means you’ll get the daily rewards earlier in the process, after finishing what you started the day before.

It actually could give you an advantage to have the timer reset half-way through your daily play. If you wish to play every other day (or know you cant log in the next day), you could log in, do enough to get the daily, wait for the reset, do enough to get the next daily, log out.

i would personally just dig a timer(toggle of course) that you can put over the progress bar so you can see at a glance how much time you have to complete/until it resets.

well i thought it was cool how they have it because you could get it twice in one evening of gaming.

This. Very much THIS. Consider me signing this … I rarely EVER get the daily because it resets at 8pm my time …. by the time I get home from work and get around to playing, I will be nearly done with the daily and it resets; usually I only get close if I keep going on “progress” from the night before. It is very frustrating and makes no logical form of sense. Every other MMO the dailies reset at some obscure hour in the morning when nobody really SHOULD be playing anyway, haha. 8pm is smack dab in the middle of prime time _

Edit: the issue is, I don’t always play every night, so my progress from nights before doesn’t “carry over” conveniently, as people suggest it does. That would be fine if I had time to play every day but I do not! haha