Guild Wars 2

I think making all activities playable would lead to a higher interest in the activities because the content would be able to be enjoyed all the time. They can do this by making it so that there is a highlighted activity each day of the rotation, and then each other activity is available in the meantime though there is no daily specific reward for them.

Since there was no official explanation given, many including myself have come to the conclusion that ArenaNet installed the daily activity rotation the way it is now to avoid player dilution. That is, they do not want to spread the amount of people playing each activity out too thin or else each one would not be enjoyable.

While there is a myriad of issues with that explanation that winds up with it not making a whole lot of sense at all, it’s a much brighter version of my alternative, which is that ArenaNet is using this content as a time gate for various things associated with the activities.

The way they’re currently keeping each activities population artificially alive is by funneling in everyone to one activity per day, including people that do not like them at all. That has a ton of issues itself, but there is more on that problem here.

The primary issue is that those who enjoy any particular activity can only play them for extremely limiting times per week, especially in the case of Keg brawl which is only available once a week or 4 times a month. This goes against the nature of having mini games, which are allegedly a break of pace from the game. They’re supposed to be fun little activities done at your leisure.

I think if they kept the rotation and made it so the certain NPC in Lion’s Arch could direct everyone to the daily activity, but all the normal activity people would still be there, then we would see much higher interest, competition and social involvement in the activities all around.