Group Wintersday Events?
So, this year, none of the Wintersday events, except the Infinirarium. can be done by a party of friends, so… What are we supposed to do? Repeatedly do the Infinirarium? At least the Toypocalypse was fun to do with parties last year.
For a game so built around working together with friends, this seems like a grevious oversight.
The reason you can’t Toypocalypse can’t be done in a party:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-and-Parties/
There is nothing they can do to change it.
The Burninator
So, this year, none of the Wintersday events, except the Infinirarium. can be done by a party of friends, so… What are we supposed to do? Repeatedly do the Infinirarium? At least the Toypocalypse was fun to do with parties last year.
For a game so built around working together with friends, this seems like a grevious oversight.
The reason you can’t Toypocalypse can’t be done in a party:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Toypocalypse-and-Parties/
There is nothing they can do to change it.
There is plenty they can do about it, they just chose not to do it in time for this year. So, again, what are my friends and I supposed to do together for this Wintersday? It was already bad enough you couldn’t do Snowball Mayhem with a friend, now there is nothing but The Infinirarium.
It was explained in the link I provided. Due to PvP and activities the change affected Toypocalypse, something they cannot fix just for Toypocalypse . Read the red posts in the link. You don’t have to like it but that is the way it is.
The Burninator
(edited by JustTrogdor.7892)
It was explained in the link I provided. Due to PvP and activities the change affected Toypocalypse, something they cannot change. Read the red posts in the link. You don’t have to like it but that is the way it is.
Again, you didn’t answer my question: What are groups of friends supposed to do for Wintersday this year?
And, furthermore, what’s wrong with the old party-ing system that still exists in the Infinirarium right now? You can’t tell me there was a fault in the party-based instancing this year because it’s working in the Infinirarium. It looks like Anet wanted to do a Hot-join-esque style PvP queue for the Toypocalypse, but ended up not fully implementing it, and now we’re stuck with a half-way-done group-making system that is inferior to the previous design.
(edited by Toroxus.9256)
It was explained in the link I provided. Due to PvP and activities the change affected Toypocalypse, something they cannot change. Read the red posts in the link. You don’t have to like it but that is the way it is.
Again, you didn’t answer my question: What are groups of friends supposed to do for Wintersday this year?
And, furthermore, what’s wrong with the old party-ing system that still exists in the Infinirarium right now? You can’t tell me there was a fault in the party-based instancing this year because it’s working in the Infinirarium. It looks like Anet wanted to do a Hot-join-esque style PvP queue for the Toypocalypse, but ended up not fully implementing it, and now we’re stuck with a group-making system that is inferior to the previous design.
I answered your post related to Toypocalypse and why you can’t party. As far as what was wrong with the old system, I don’t know. I just know that Anet has stated that it was impossible for them to make a party system work with Toypocalypse.
Maybe you should explain what other Wintersday events you would like to do in a party.
The Burninator
(edited by JustTrogdor.7892)
It was explained in the link I provided. Due to PvP and activities the change affected Toypocalypse, something they cannot change. Read the red posts in the link. You don’t have to like it but that is the way it is.
Again, you didn’t answer my question: What are groups of friends supposed to do for Wintersday this year?
And, furthermore, what’s wrong with the old party-ing system that still exists in the Infinirarium right now? You can’t tell me there was a fault in the party-based instancing this year because it’s working in the Infinirarium. It looks like Anet wanted to do a Hot-join-esque style PvP queue for the Toypocalypse, but ended up not fully implementing it, and now we’re stuck with a group-making system that is inferior to the previous design.
I answered your post related to Toypocalypse and why you can’t party. As far as what was wrong with the old system, I don’t know. I just know that Anet has stated that it was impossible for them to make a party system work with Toypocalypse.
Like I said, seems like Anet was trying to implement a new system, and didn’t finish it. Because the old system is working fine in the Infinirarium. The big mistake was keeping the half-broken system this year for the Toypocalypse, because now there are no group Wintersday events. I can emphasize how enormous of a mistake that was. I had friends who I managed to convince to come back to the game to do Toypocalypse with me since it’s fun and a very engaging fight. Well, instead, they got to learn about how playing with your friends is impossible this Wintersday.
Maybe hot-join Toypocalypse would be a good way to make new friends, and I think the new system, when completed, will be superior to the old, but, since we can’t party, we can’t play with the people we want, so so much for making new friends there. I don’t play games, particularly MMOs, to play alone (or with people in which I might as well be alone), I play with people to make friends and play with friends, and I think ArenaNet forgot about that this year.
Guild Wars 2 is all about working together, having fun together, and making new friends, well, again, let me ask once more:
How am I supposed to do any of that this Wintersday?
Seems like this was a step backwards.
(edited by Toroxus.9256)