Guild Wars 2

So with the trend of one-time events in this game, Im starting to worry. Many of these events are available at times when some of us must attend school or work, or simply arent able to access the content due to time zones (who wants to wake up at 4 AM on a saturday?)

I am content with having “kickoff” events that I will inevitably miss; I can always read up or watch the cutscene later, even if I cannot attend in person. However, I would like to encourage ArenaNet to keep this to kickoff EVENTS, not kickoff REWARDS. The reason is thus: By including kickoff events, you encourage community building and participation. Including rewards, while fun for those who can attend, really hurts those who cannot. The last thing we want is to feel excluded and locked out of "that really cool new dagger skin) because we had to choose between gaming and attending a class for our degree, or using up a sick day at work, or something equally detrimental.

It’s understandable that we cannot please all of the people all the time, but what are your thoughts as a comunity? Should we focus on one-time event rewards? Or should we work to stray away from these, and only offer concrete rewards for repeatable events? What should be the dividing factor? 24h+ events get items? 7-day+ events get items? Or no temporary events get items? Let myself and ArenaNet here your thoughts!

TL;DR;PersonalOpinion: Keep one-time Events; Do not give out limited-edition rewards for these events

No matter when they have an event, someone is going to miss it.

When has anyone missed a one-time reward? So far as I know there hasn’t been any and I’m sure Anet isn’t going to make any.

Here’s an example. The last day for Halloween. You could get a hat reward. if you missed the last day you can still get the hat.

I don’t see them making a one-time reward event anytime soon.

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Here’s an example. The last day for Halloween. You could get a hat reward. if you missed the last day you can still get the hat.

I don’t see them making a one-time reward event anytime soon.

The hat AND the achievement.

I’d like to hope so; Word is though that the increased time frame for the halloween reward was due to the hurricane locking people out of the game (due to widespread power outages).

Arena Net hasn’t said anything either way about one-time rewards, and I’ve learned a long time ago that making assumptions about a game company’s views and policies is a very bad idea.

While it’s true we have had no one-time rewards, we have only had one one-time event so far. We will have more in the middle of the month, and certainly more in the future.

They haven’t done any 1-time rewards yet. Doubt they will.