Guild Wars 2

Seriously Anet need to make events more fun.

Apart from the first year events, I dont see any reason to do them.
They arent fun, they arent engaging, the rewards are mediocre.

Nothings changed so what is the point? Events used to be more fun in GW1

The trick-or-treat bags sell for a good price, so if you farm the labyrinth for them, you can make a good amount of money.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

I dont see any reason to do them.

OK, so don’t. Not everyone feels the same as you.

Farm and grind, yeah that aint fun for me.

The event was to spend all your gold on ToT bags on the TP, and hope for luck to make back several times more gold

This was my first Halloween in GW2 and it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what Wintersday is like. You want engaging? Try surviving in the labyrinth by yourself for two hours with the horror chasing you all the way. Talk is cheap.

I’ve enjoyed it.

It’s just a change to the theme of the world with a handful of distractions until meta reward then move on, no more/no less, or did you forget they dropped the expac at the same time?

The first year was a beauty, it had the labyrinth, dungeon and clock tower, but it also had a very fun scavenger hunt for an exclusive backpiece. The second year introduced the bloody prince but the dungeon was missing, as was the scavenger hunt. The third year saw a total rehash of the second year with nothing changed except new merchants for cobs. This year is more of the same as last year, however they did at least give us the dungeon back.

If I have forgotten anything then I apologize, but my point was that as the years go by it seems so does that “special” feeling the festivals used to grant. It may just be me seeing things through rose colored glasses, but one thing is for sure we didn’t get our scavenger hunt back this (or any of the three previous) year(s), and the last couple years have just felt like a lazy attempt to “celebrate” for the sake of it.

This year they may have run out of time to do much with the launch of HoT, but I AM REALLY HOPING next year is much more special!

P.S. Would decorating more than just a few small “islands” in L.A. really be that hard to do?

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

This was my first Halloween in GW2 and it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what Wintersday is like. You want engaging? Try surviving in the labyrinth by yourself for two hours with the horror chasing you all the way. Talk is cheap.

Dude, wintersday is insane. Best holiday ever, you’re going to love it!

Tommyknocker.6089:

P.S. Would decorating more than just a few small “islands” in L.A. really be that hard to do?

Township really goes all out for Halloween.

Just sayin’.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

This was my first Halloween in GW2 and it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what Wintersday is like. You want engaging? Try surviving in the labyrinth by yourself for two hours with the horror chasing you all the way. Talk is cheap.

Ditto that.

This was also my first Halloween in GW2 (played/bought the game just before it started) and I had a blast. I loved the decorations in LA, and the atmosphere there in general. I practically lived in the Labyrinth for the whole event, played Mad Kings Says every chance I could, got tons of ToT bags (and several special drops from them), tons of Candy Corn, and just barely managed to get all the things I had wanted (skins, recipes, etc.).

I also had a similar experience to Zoltar MacRoth. I was all alone in the Labyrinth one day (scary!!!!), but decided to stay and see if I could survive alone. Everything was going well for about the first 10 mins, and then the Horror showed up, and for the next hour or so I spent 90% of the time running from it. Lots of expletives, and lots of laughs!! My husband was sitting at his computer, watching over my shoulder the whole time, and just laughing his kitten off.

I’ve been playing MMOs for about 17 years and this was, by far, the best holiday event I’ve experienced. And I didn’t even do the Dungeon, and totally failed at the Clock Tower… after about 10 attempts I decided to spare myself the aggravation (jumping puzzles are my bane).

I’m going to miss the hell out of the Labyrinth (especially the Horror and the Viscount!) and Mad Kings Says (the voice actor for him is fantastic!), but now I’m really, really looking forward to Wintersday, especially since I’ve heard so many good things about it.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

This was my first Halloween in GW2 and it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what Wintersday is like. You want engaging? Try surviving in the labyrinth by yourself for two hours with the horror chasing you all the way. Talk is cheap.

Lol. I zoned into the labyrinth for the first time. Then a guildie messages me and I’m standing somewhere I think is safe to message back. WRONG!!! The Horror came around the corner and promptly killed me before I knew he was there.

First Halloween. Had a decent bit of fun getting all the ToT bags and making a bit of gold. But yeah, they did have much time ‘cus they kept working hard on HoT. Wintersday will probably be better since they don’t have to spend as much time on HoT.