Guild Wars 2

Today I’ve sadly discovered that the moa race in the dragon bash festival in the game is a gambling thing…
Since now I’ve always liked the mini games that the gw2 team come up with, but this?! seriously…gambling on some moas that run in circle without you can do a thing? that’s boring, that’s grinding, without talking about the fact that is gambling and I end up hating it and ignore it just for that.
I asked a lot of people ingame about it and they think the same way.
The Rollerbeetle Race of the Canthan New Year in Guild Wars 1 is great! You can be active that way, than you can costumize your beetle and during the race you can play tricks to stop the other players.
That is really fun to do, you feel that you’re making a difference in it.
So, my suggestion is, please, change the moa race of the dragon bash in something similar to the beetle race of GW1, maybe with a bit of color costumization for the moas, than if you want to keep the gambling part too it’s ok, it could be even more fun to do, think about it!

omg, I loved the Rollerbeetle racing in GW1 – and I thought the moa racing was going to be something similar. I was really annoyed about it being a gambling thing but I can see why they did it. They had to make a large, temporary gold sink to get rid of so much of the gold accumulated this year, so I can understand that. Hopefully they will create a Rollerbeetle racing thing for another festival which would be good.

Yeah I know why they made it this way, so I said that they could keep this gambling side in the moas race but at least add some more active part for the player, I play to have fun not to wait and be bored… I know that there are a lot of other minigames and things to do but I think that all the things that we do ingame must be fun to do and not feel like a waste of time…

Problem(s) I can see with making the races available to actually be the driver in and have betting is, if you make it like that it will be very boring for the drivers, they will have to wait around for betting to occur before a race can start. That means there will be a line for every race, since you would be waiting for the race ahead of you to end. If you are gonna be a race driving participant in a MMO they would have to make a instanced world just for it so hundreds of thousands of races could happen at the same time. Which would be fine but would be too much for people to get in bets on race.

Second if they did make it so we drove and we can bet, since there are so many friends and unscrupulous people in a game like this, it would not take to long before someone tried to rig the results of the races they where in so there friends could get all the money from always being the winner.

I don’t know maybe they could go together but the betting would only happen a very small amount of the races to keep the racers from going off for just waiting 2 minutes for bets to happen. Or they just let bets happen on a number in a race that they pick and does not have the actual player names to bet on. It would just let bets be placed on a race that will be picked as the end of the betting window closes using a numbering of the racers in a certain gate.

And on a side note there has to be a reward for racers as well as the betting community which brings another gold sink to the game, “Entry Fee’s” should there be entry fees or should racers just be let to run over and over for free as long as they think they are having fun, massing large amounts of whatever token system they would use to get enough to get the super deluxe prize item.

I have to agree, when I first heard of it, the first thing in my mind was the Roller Beetle Race from GW1, so yeah I was looking forward to that kind of gameplay. any who, no big, but I do hope the anet team reconsiderthis game mechanic for the future.