Guild Wars 2

Disconnect at the end of Lost Shores Event – Read this

We have a team looking into disconnection problems that prevented some people from receiving their event rewards.
We will implement a solution so that people who participated will get their rewards, but this takes work on our end, so it will not happen today.
Keep an eye on our forums and social media channels, we will let you know once we have the solution in place.
Thank you, and we apologize that you were unable to claim your rewards.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this

…ok so, I’m an aussie and was unable to attend the final event at all due to sleep/work. What I read above is that disconnects/bugs that affected the limited audience that could attend the event will be reimbursed their lack of loot from the event … that’s nice. What about everyone who played all weekend but couldn’t make that final event and are now hopping on to browse the forums and finding out that you threw goodness knows how many precursors into the game?

Seriously? I miss a chance at a 150-200g+ item because I had to sleep? My contributions and involvement over the weekend leading up to that point count for nothing?

People are complaining a lot over the RNG. BLC’s from Halloween (I actually bought a heap of keys and got a greatsaw – tyvm random system) and now new consortium chests… I have no problem with this. If I want to gamble, I’ll gamble. If I don’t want to gamble I won’t buy keys or chests … If i want an item out of the chests I’ll gamble or I’ll save up gold and buy since nothing is account-bound… but this? Are you serious? I’m missing a chance at a pre-cursor because you don’t like the time-zone I live in?

If you hadn’t put pre-cursors in in a big way … if people who got them were the same as randomly getting them from a big event in Orr, fine – that’s no different. It certainly doesn’t seem that way though, people claiming their entire chat log was filled with people linking the pre-cursor exotics they got and in some rare cases even 2.
If it had just been rares and exotics, no precursors. Fine. Whatever. I wouldn’t be pissed if I missed an event where everyone was handed a chest that had 20g cash and a few items, or a 30g exotic and some other random loot.

While I’m not hopeful you’ll even read this, let alone action anything (especially considering the mammoth thread on ascended gear) – could you? It would be nice to see something like ‘Hi if you participated in the defense of LA, scavenger hunt, investigation and invasion of the new area we will consider you eligible for a shot at this chest’. I understand there are problems with that kind of solution but I would like SOME kind of solution for forcing me to deal with an even worse kittened economy and the hate of knowing you threw items at people who are awake at the one-time-only period that all this event, and all future events will probably be in.

-Reya

because the diferent time zone right?

maybe next time ANet find another way to make “One Time Event” should be able enjoyed by all active player…

btw, thats why ANet give announce about that “One Time Event”… so you can prepare to login… :p

So when will people come up and demand stuff because they weren’t in the mood to be online or claim compensation because they played Skyrim during the event?

Honestly, I get your point, but still.. what? It’s not like they kept event times a secret or something. I too would prefer to find a solution for different timezones, though.

@ bufko, Well as I said, I see the problem in offering compensation. So admittedly I don’t have a real solution – other than perhaps measuring that I actually attended and played through EVERYTHING ELSE the weekend had to offer.

@ Febrizzio, I was able to get up early and stay up every day of the weekend but quite frankly I’m not going to turn up late for work or take leave so I can attend a finale that I didn’t think would be that important. **edit: because for me the finale was early monday morning, i had to leave for work before the event even started

lol yeh that statement was like omg i was constipating and had to take a crap and missed the event, i want reimbursement! and now!

Darn that ANet for wanting to do something in the middle of their normal working hours anyway.

There are 39 Time Zones fer pete’s sake. You can’t satisfy everyone.

One time events are an assinine thing to do in a game that has players from all over the world on the same servers. If it was just the US , Europe, and the Pacific it’d be less of an issue.

Then agian there are the people like me who live in the ‘proper’ timezones for the event(s) and is unable to attend them due to out of game commitments. Not everyone works 9-5 and for this types of things everyone should get a chance to at least see the bloody thing. I’ve yet to participate and any of them due to this.

If the events are more or less regular events that have more or less regular loot that’s fine. Did everyone notice how the event that gave the unique item for Halloween happened frequently and was even extended due to out of game problems? That’s awesome and that’s how it should be done.

But then we have this Ancient Karka event which has this chest that apparently vomited precursors. It’s not the precursors that’s the problem or my complaint, it’s the very nature of one time events effectively PUNISHING those who are not able to schedule their lives around a video game. We would like to see and participate in this things too you know.

Raf.1078:

Darn that ANet for wanting to do something in the middle of their normal working hours anyway.

There are 39 Time Zones fer pete’s sake. You can’t satisfy everyone.

Wrong. You certainly can. You make your one time event cycle every 3 hours for 24 hours. Then again, I assume you are unemployed by your statements. Nobody’s “normal” working hours are at noon on Sunday unless you play in the NFL.

@ SimianChaos – well said. I honestly didn’t mind missing the finale – which I simply had to miss … then I found out it ‘vomited precursors’. Now I’ve realised I not only missed a chance at something incredibly useful for me but I have to compete against all the players who did get the boost.

This wasn’t like the one-time event of Halloween.

…also at you trolls who clearly didn’t read my post. Thanks for filling this thread with useless crap. /sarcasm

What did you expect to get out of this post? That they are going to reconsider and give you a chance at the reward because life call and you couldnt attend the event. There was no other way to respond to it other than sarcasm XD.

@ tifa. your original post was not sarcasm, it was rude and stupid.

what did i expect to get out of this? 2 things

1) express dissatisfaction with the way the finale was handled for a 1-time event. a considerably-less-significant-reward could be achieved for those who participated without excluding and isolating people who didn’t. precursors and limited skins are a very bad choice for this, especially as this is not like halloween where over a 12-24hour period anyone could attend.

2) express the desire for some kind of compensation at how cheated i feel. i have no idea how this would be achieved. i did participate for everything else – i do feel cheated.

edit: let me clarify a comparison. I would have LOVED to get a ‘the crossing’ from the mad king’s chest when that dungeon was available. really i would, i nearly bought one when i didn’t get one as a drop. I have no issue with the fact that I didn’t get one, none at all – why? I was given ample opportunity to try and simply was not successful or ‘lucky’ enough, I could still buy the skin if I wanted to. I LOVED the halloween stuff overall, dealing with the bugs was no big problem, the content was beautifully spread across 24-48 hour gaps so I could experience everything.
This was not the case with the finale for Lost Shores where the reward was potentially MASSIVE by comparison and so time-limited I had no opportunity to attend, despite doing everything else the event had.

A fellow aussie!

I’ll give you some advice. Get used to it, we’re the timezone that no one cares about.

oh believe me … i know. i’ve been gaming for enough years to know companies don’t give a stuff about giving us oceanic servers up front, if at all as an afterthought … let alone timezone problems.

what pisses me off is that they gave out precursors. ltd edition skins, ok i’ll be annoyed but big deal – BUT PRECURSORS? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

didnt imagine they were going to give precursors, i d/c like five times and all the time was in the part where you were escorting a guard, then when finally didnt d/c in that phase and that part was about to end i d/c again, come back and was put in another overflow server which was way behind so i was like…more time…and stopped trying/doing it

Reya.1895:

oh believe me … i know. i’ve been gaming for enough years to know companies don’t give a stuff about giving us oceanic servers up front, if at all as an afterthought … let alone timezone problems.

what pisses me off is that they gave out precursors. ltd edition skins, ok i’ll be annoyed but big deal – BUT PRECURSORS? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

I feel you, I’m just as pissed as you to be honest.

Rare drops/DR in this game are the worst I’ve experienced. To hear that they ran a one time event handing out so many precursors and exotics at roughly 3-6am our time basically says they’re just like every other company. They don’t give a ….

It started at 4am in the morning for me, and while I could have gotten/stayed up to do it I decided not to because the Halloween “Do Not Miss!” event was a 20 second cutscene and the two previous Lost Shores events were just large amounts of unenjoyable lag in LA for no actual reward. This event turned out to be the single most rewarding thing in the game to-date, however, giving a chance at one of the top valued items in the game with a few gold in exotics guaranteed.

It could have been a repeatable event for a day or so, but that would obviously ruin the “experience” of having everyone lag about at once. All the people who used the forums to get into overflows with the event running were clearly the ones who missed out on the event itself and hoped to partake in it, as opposed to wanting to open the (most rewarding in-game) chest again, and again – as the event itself is what makes people remember it (like all the highly praised previous events)…

@loco and serval – agree
clearly the issue is that all previous one-time events like halloween cinematics and the former LS stuff was ok. it was fun, but if you missed it it wasn’t a big deal … by comparison missing a decent chance at a precursor is a big deal.

… why couldn’t they just track who participated in the event (so people who didn’t play couldn’t claim) and give people access to the chest via another path that meant (a) it was accessible over a 24 hour period instead of 2min @ the end of a 1-time event … and (b) the reward could be really good because people would only be able to get it once, not re-run it every 3 hours.

I totally agree with Reya. Being an aussie myself the main events are generally suited for people on the other side of the earth which generally means we have to stay up which is not a good option if you need to work the next day. their Saturdays and Sundays are generally our Sunday and Monday. >_<

I’m also in oceanic timezone, missed the finale event, saw anet’s message and didn’t even expect to get the reward. but apparently I did. Not sure if it’s a mistake on the script or it was really intended though..

But if it does really intended. big thanks to anet

i didn’t get anything really worthwhile, but i’m happy and i feel it’s fair enough even with 20slot bag and ancient karka shell alone.