Guild Wars 2

At least 8 of the events that are supposed to be playing out in the Bloodtide Coast map on the Tarnished Coast server have broken down in some way. They’re no longer functioning, and it’s been this way for about the better part of the week. They worked properly for about a day after the last server reset, but then stopped working, and haven’t worked since. I wish I could say this was unusual, but this is pretty much the norm for most of the zones in this game, isn’t it?

You know, the friends/guildmates of mine that have abandoned the game didn’t do so because they ran out of content at level 80, it was because they ran out of fun things to do on their way to 80. You lost every one of them before they even got to max level because they simply got tired of the bugs and waiting for fixes. And I honestly can’t justify trying to encourage other friends to try out GW2 when core bugs like these have gone unfixed for so long.

I feel like this really shouldn’t be necessary to point out, but dynamic events are the meat of this game while leveling up. And when too many of them break down the leveling process through these zones becomes stale and repetitive quickly. In other words.. this bug = fun killer.

Quite a while back I read a comment indicating the developers were working on the problems that cause events to break down over time, but (for whatever reason) the problem really doesn’t seem to be getting the attention it deserves or we wouldn’t still be playing through zones where events break down repeatedly. Promises are nice, results are better. I don’t know how else to say it at this point.

I honestly never encounter buged events, but bugs are server bound. It might be that the events aren’t fixed at your server. Yes it sucks they didn’t fixed it.

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

I honestly never encounter buged events, but bugs are server bound. It might be that the events aren’t fixed at your server. Yes it sucks they didn’t fixed it.

The reality is you probably have and simply didn’t realize it. You can think of bugged events in two different ways:

1) the ones that break mid-event and are obviously not working (example, an escort NPC that is partway through his route but no longer moves).

2) the ones that just stop triggering because something broke, and thus are never seen until just after a server reset (at which point you see them very often, for about a day).

The latter failure seems to be a lot more common, but you’re also much less likely to notice that they’re missing if you’re not familiar with the events that are normally available in a zone. Momoztli Grounds (Bloodtide Coast), for example, has at least three fun events associated with it. But if you were just passing through that zone for your first time today, you’d never know it because all of them stopped triggering shortly after the last server reset 5(?) days ago. You’d just think that it was a dull heart-task area and move on, none the wiser, to a different part of the zone.