Guild Wars 2

I need a means to get the word out server-wide of a potential player generated event. Some means of getting the word out to as many people as possible. How, I don’t know. A big billboard in Lion’s Arch? A mass-mailing? A dolyak with signs hanging off him, horns on his head and fireworks shooting out his… hey, what’s that skritt up to… sorry, where was I? Ah yes. The mass dissemination of information. It can be reviewed by you all prior to going out (spam prevention of course) if requested… what do you have available? Anything? Ideas at least?

Sincerely, your favorite mesmer:

Volkon.

How about a post on the forums?

I guess the best way would be getting some partners to guest on other servers to advertise in Lion’s Arch and maybe, at this time, Southsun Cove (since there are probably going to be a few people there) in addition to a post on the forums and maybe some advertising on fan forums.

Unfortunately there is no in game announcement system for guild hosted or player hosted events and most likely never will be one to prevent abuse from gold sellers and spammers the best bet is to post on all the top guild wars 2 sites, and forums about your event.

Do a little zone hopping and shout in map chat. I would suggest:

Southsun
Lion’s Arch
Dragon events and other popular meta events
Eternal Battlegrounds and your server’s Borderland
Queensdale
Wayfarer’s Foothills

Jump on your server’s Teamspeak and let them know about the event and ask them to spread the word.

Post on your server’s unofficial forums

Post on reddit

The official Facebook has a place where you can submit player events to be posted on Facebook

Reddit’s your best bet.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Hey Volkon,

unfortunately we do not have a way to promote events like this in game. What we have done in the past is that we promoted player run events through the forums and our social media channel, and the guild/group of people organising the event spread the word on the world they were running it on.

As others have suggested, creating a forum post about the event is also a good way to get eyeballs on it.

Thanks for the reply Martin. When we get this rolling I may subtly ask (read: throw a temper tantrum) for a facebook mention or something if that’s possible. Much appreciated!

I’m all for more organic, community generated events. I hope Arenanet helps you out.

I think it would mean alot more without dev support if it becomes something big at the end. It’d show the strenght of the community.

I would suggest you try the twitter thing and do an @GuildWars2 and #GuildWars2 that you are doing an event. Most companies including GW2 will re-tweet what you posted and then every who follows them will get the tweet.

Try contacting someone at http://www.guildwars2guru.com/ to post it on their front page.

What about putting it in the news feed on the login launcher window?

Thanks everyone, I’m taking notes!