Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is such a blast – for about a day after the servers are reset. During that short period, events are firing everywhere and they’re easy to stumble across. The result is the game world seems so very alive and at its best.

But roughly after a day following a server reset (and sometimes even less), most of the events start to break down. In some zones more events are not working than are. That’s just horrible, and it’s more than a bit depressing. For example, as a player I come across the same NPCs who spends 90% of his virtual existence stuck standing at the same remote locations, broken down mid-event. It’s like a huge eyesore I keep running across and a reminder of how buggy the events are. And because so many events chain off other events, whole sections of the game seem to just shut down whenever this problem occurs somewhere along the line. I look at this stuff and I feel like I’m playing the alpha version of a game, not a finished polished product.

I’ve heard the excuses that the short beta periods didn’t allow for the sort of testing necessary to uncover the types of problems that can occur when these dynamic events trigger over and over again. But a) that was your decision to limit the beta periods to weekend events and b) most of these events aren’t even remaining in a working state for even a day, and the beta weekends were longer than that.

I can not understand how, months after launch, this problem hasn’t been worked out yet. At some point the players can’t help but start to wonder if the entire setup is just doomed to always have these problems.. that you aren’t going to be able to fix them. And the Halloween update is supposed to add more events.. but what good is that if you haven’t fixed the underlying issues that are causing events to quickly break down? Why isn’t resolving this a priority (the kind or priority where solutions happen in days rather than months)? And why aren’t the servers being reset at least once a day to soften the severity of this problem in the mean while?

These dynamic events are the meat of your PvE content. When they aren’t working.. that means your game isn’t working.

Well said. Fully endorse.

I agree strongly with this message.

At some point in the very start of the game the servers got daily restarts (even multiple ones) which didn’t last more than 4-5 minutes and all was reset, and thank god things was working for a short period of time, by now the reports on bugged things must be flowing like river in ANet offices, pile em up and start fixing but in the meanwhile a restart every morning wouldn’t be so bad, and since more and more people hit 80 the need for things to work is more severe!

Please 1 restart per day it’s not that much!

I agree with this. One restart a day would really help minimize the issue with stuck events while it isn’t fixed.

x1000

such a loss of time when farming karma… 2 events barely working because the escorts are broken… this is so annoying

To be fair during beta servers had multiple resets each day and unless I’m mistaken max level was 30, so no Orr testing.

I agree with all the rest you wrote on you post.

yeah I’m with you guys we need resets at least if bugs are still being worked on

Totally agree,BUT
How long will this thread survive lol?

Agreed! Anet, do something!

I fully agree. Cursed Shores, the highest level zone in the game should be a reward to players who have put in the time to aquire the skill, gear, and traits/skills to be able to tackle level 80+ monsters. Instead it is a mishmosh of bugged events and botters. More events are bugged in this area than actually work because many feed off one another. Please fix this Anet. This is too great of a game to be plagued by trails of broken event chains and cheaters.

Agree with daily server resets if that is the reason the game was more stable 1-2 weeks after launch. I say if because it is not clear to me why so many events are broken on a consistent basis now. BTW, I am in IT and have implemented close to a hundred software solutions. I sometimes can tell the source of serious bugs based on behavior or lack thereof. This one stumps me because the events worked in beta and early post-launch.

For those of us that love the events and skillpoint content, this is doubly disappointing. I have taken my lvl 80 out of Orr to enjoy the other zones without zergs and bots. Yesterday, before server reset, I spent time in Gendarran Fields. Most of the events did not work. So the issue is not just in high-level zones. I love that area and Hrathi so I remember the events. I went to those same spots and either the event was blocked or the NPC talk did not trigger a start.

This must be even worse for new players. They have no idea what events should be happening in their zones. They probably think this game is content poor which is not true.

Agree completely to this, but there’s been numerous threads about this and no dev response to a permanent fix or anything. Its very disappointing.

A reply from ANet would be nice…

I agree reset daily. However anet put all the money on Spvp and paid esports for development.
That means Pve and WvW is sent to the back of priority list. The goal is to make gem shop ding and get sponsors for Tourneys. As seen by the complaints about Orr and WvW they havent done much and dont forget about the bots.

I’m wondering why this game doesn’t have the function to reset individual events.

Only if they stop scattering every T6 gathering node with every restart.

All Anet needs to do to reset events in Orr is to have an insanely large Risen horde running across the map to event areas that aren’t being retaken and have this horde just overwhelm players there (not necessarily because they are buffed, but because of the sheer number of them densely packed together Have a couple of giants spawn if a big group of players tries to oppose the horde!)

+1 to this. I always see a broken event or two after every patch. (should be more but I haven’t looked for them much)

Even something like this happens. Didn’t know there were Charr ninjas. (I ran there and see THREE of him dead, which I ress’ed all. Hilarity ensues.)

Agreed. DEs were one of the big draws of the game but too often I keep running across bugged events. The bigger thing that bothers me though is patches breaking events and skill point challenges that were working before.