Guild Wars 2

My suggestion is to not offer any form of reward or specific item that I cannot obtain otherwise without this event. Or, perhaps, extend the days of the event. With this new content you’re limiting availability to your players and not offering content to everyone equally.

After serving in the 110th INF BTN for 6 years and going on 2 deployments I re-upped in the National Guard so that I may go to school. We have drills on select weekends and I’ll be missing on some fun content …and that’s just MY excuse. There are more people who play this game that will also missing content and will never see it. We might not get some free Exos or cool event town clothes.

I don’t want this to be a plea to me, but I want ANet to realize that they’re making content that a lot of their player-base won’t see fully. I never took business classes, but I don’t see that as a good direction to head into if you want people to continue playing. What’s the point if the Devs can just exclude you from seeing content they produce?

In short, extend the available days for the event or offer something for others to do the days before or after the event.

Thanks for reading,

Dean

I couldn’t agree more about making this event longer… However I couldnt agree less about not rewarding specific items for this event.

Events are supposed to be special, and you should be able to take something special away from it.

But Anet, your decision to make this a 3 day event is bizzare I have to agree. I too will miss out on this event! I am not as unfortunate as the OP, I am simply going away this weekend, but I will miss the content entirely as I leave friday night and return Monday morning!

As the OP pointed out, this is just US.. What about all the other people out there who will miss this weekend because of one thing or another they have to do.

3 days is nowhere near enough time for an event to run.

Thanks for reconsidering.

Art.

I do want to note that the ‘remove all rewards entirely’ idea was just that, an idea …though it is pretty extreme.

I’m going to miss this event too. But, I don’t want them to stop having one time events because of it. Sometimes there are things that only happen once — I’ll also miss one of my best friend’s birthday celebrations, but I don’t think I’ll ask them to never have another party simply because I can’t make this one.

It’s also not like the new content is going to go away after three days — it just that the one time event will usher in new content to enjoy for the life of the game.

I’ll use an analogy: I can buy tickets to a concert and enjoy that one time “event” or I can buy a CD and enjoy the content forever. I like both. I do both. But, if an artist schedules a concert on a night I can’t attend I don’t ask that they cancel the rest of the tour.

Guild Wars 2 is entertainment — it isn’t the end of the world if people miss events. But it IS cool to be there and to be a part of it, and I’m sad that I won’t get to make it. I hope someone will record it and post it up so that I can enjoy it even though I won’t be able to participate this time around.

I do agree with Aye, in saying, that it’s not that big of a deal to miss the event as to miss a Birthday, but I do want to state that “..never have another..” analogy is void; due to the comment I made prior, that not to reward the people who will be at the event, with items is a bit extreme.

I also understand that it’s not the end of the world, and I find the condescension to be a bit rude. My point was that why boast new content that will “change Tyria forever” and not have some sort participation for all players.

Hence Pre/Post events would resolve this situation entirely.

This is only A-Nets innovative way of introducing new zones to the game.
Its rather nice to have this than just a client picture update update with a “Lost Shore” tag on it.
Don’t worry guys,m you won’t miss something really important. The new content will be available afterwards too. This wont be like the Mag King’s dungeon of Halloween.