Guild Wars 2

So, I’m one of the people who missed the event because I had things to do in real life. I come back, get on my computer, hop on ventrilo and Guild Wars 2 and hear about the precursors that were essentially “handed out” to people who completed the event.

No precursor for me, I guess. I know there was a chance, but that’s better than 0% chance because I couldn’t attend. Most people aren’t going to make excuses for a one-time event when you expect the event weapon skins as a reward or something silly like that, and if you want to see any ending cutscenes or such, 50 people will upload them to Youtube. So what takes precedence? Real life.

There are obvious issues with this:
1. People can, will, and did miss it for the slightest excuses because you can’t really say “I’m not coming to work because Guild Wars 2 is hosting the finale to their one-time event.”

2. People who did miss it can’t repeat it for obvious reasons of allowing precursors to be farmable at that point, since they’re not account-bound or anything.

There are other, and better, ways to execute these things. The best one I can think of is to make the Monthly Achievement rewards have a chance of a precursor. You could have even added an Ancient Karka Slain 1/1 achievement to it.

This addresses every issue involved…
The event can be made to repeat so that anyone who misses it can come back later.
The precursors aren’t farmable because the events are repeatable.
And finally, something I’m sure a handful of people did: Jump between overflows to farm it regardless of it being a one-time event. That would be taken out of the equation because monthly achievement are account-wide and a one-time thing for each month.

That’s my suggestion on how to conduct your events in the future; unless you can think of a better way. Best of luck to you.

The prices for precursors dropped, at least, but it’s still a lot of money. I think I’m going to go cry into my pillow now.

Here is how ANET should handle one time events: Fire the person who suggests it, hire someone who will work on something that everyone can take part in.

This event was the last drop to me. When i left i thought , hey wont be anything major i will hop in later and enjoy the rest.

Well , i was wrong. When i heard of GW1 , i heard good things about Anet.

God … never trust the internet and what it says about companies , that is what i learned.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Here is how ANET should handle one time events: Fire the person who suggests it, hire someone who will work on something that everyone can take part in.

Sad to say, but you are 110% right.

Whoever is organising this stuff has no idea how to treat a global audience.

(And, it would be fair to say, never played GW1 where this stuff wasn’t an issue…!!!)