I’m slowly losing my patience with ArenaNet in Guild Wars 2. This is coming from a GW1 player who owns every ANet product released to date. ANet has done a great job in creating the game, but a horrible job in execution of an MMO. This lost shores event was just the latest in a series of bungled player-releations.
First off, we have new content that’s only accessible for a two hour window on a sunday afternoon. While this is just a game, we are paying customers with a minimum expectation that we can experience what we paid for.
Second, if you could attend the event, you probably experienced horrific lag making the play-quality poor.
Third, ANet decided to offer rewards better than any current in-game reward (dungeon chests, story rewards, map-completion rewards, you name it). If you want to make players mad, schedule an event they cannot attend and then give an awesome reward. (Never mind the overflow-hopping exploit that players used to run a “one-time” event many times)
ANet continues to treat the player base for an MMO in ways I didn’t not really expect from them. I’m losing more than patience… I’m losing respect.
Part of me thinks that someone in ANet was thinking “hey, wanna see something funny? Watch this…”