Guild Wars 2

I mean, it’s bad enough that the raids had to be disabled in the first place, but these things happen I guess so I got over it and moved on. But seriously, randomly re-activating them at ridiculous times for Eu(4am and 2am) is just a real screwover…. Either leave the raids activated with the Ui bugs in place, or keep them deactivated for the weekend as was stated. This just added real insult to injury to the situation of the raids not even being testable for 90% of players.

/rant over.

I’m pretty sure the main reason they were re-enabling and disabling them is because that’s the only way they can actually test whether or not they’re working, due to the fact that the problems that ended up coming about weren’t things they were able to work out on their internal testing servers.

I could be wrong but to be honest if they were temporarily enabling and disabling them without announcing it at all, people would find out and rage hysterically about them not saying anything about it. It is human nature— people are going to be complaining regardless as long as they don’t get what they want.

I think it’s a bad idea to interpret the situation as if they’re trying to offend us, because it’s pretty obvious they’ve been working really hard and just goofed up in many ways. Common sense tells me that they’re probably a whole lot more stressed and upset about the situation than we all are.

That said, I’m also frustrated here with you because this content is literally all that I’m looking forward to in the expansion, everything else is for the most part kind of irrelevant to my interests. I didn’t even get the opportunity to try the raid boss, which really sucks…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still really excited for raiding especially since I didn’t get to test it out this weekend.

I’m mainly just venting some frustration, because I feel like anet actually did make an effort for raids but bugs such as the ones seen this weekend really let them down, time after time.

In any case I really hope there is another chance to test raiding before hot hits or at least that they can iron out all the major issues before launch.

We’re all right there with ya, Luigi. They said they’ll be looking to open up another test period for raiding, so there’s still a chance we’ll get in there soon(ish?):

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Due to the issues we experienced yesterday with the Enhance Squad UI and with further internal discussion, we have made the very difficult decision to keep raids turned off for the remainder of the beta weekend.

We are continuing to investigate the issues and also looking into options that would allow us to get more testing on these features before we release.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.