Lunar Festival: "Over already?"
And in Guild Wars 1 it only goes on for 1 week.
I don’t mind it being patched out, I just mind there being nothing to replace it.
Well it was elaboratly explained in the patch notes when it came out and the previous announcement before that when it was gonna end.
Don’t forget the multiple threads asking about the event’s end, which all have gotten replies, you could have checked those.
Oh wait.
I don’t see an end date called out anywhere in the patch notes for January 27, 2015, nor February 10, 2015. Personally, I don’t read the forums that often. I had assumed it was going to be 2 weeks (since most festivals/patches run that timespan) but it would have been nice if it had been called out in the patch notes instead of just on forums.
Also, I’d like to provide the feedback that I appreciate when a festival adds special items to the game, like the food and fireworks added by Lunar New Year. It gives it more flavor. I don’t like when the items only have an effect during a certain time.
For example, I didn’t use all of my food, so I now have inventory taken up by items that I can either use now at partial effect, or keep them for a year.
By contrast, I have been slowly going through my Halloween Oil/Stones/Crystals at my own pace, and I like that much better. I would hope this is taken into consideration in the future.
Also, I appreciate that Magic Find was called out as having an effect on the Lucky Envelopes. It was a very good move to call this out, instead of making the community figure it out on their own.
I also like that Magic Find was useful for this special occasion. I don’t want to have MF have an effect on things like Champ Bags, as this would change my playstyle to one where I never open loot bags unless I have EVERY boost, which would just further clutter my inventory (kind of like how Karma used to be, it wasn’t worth drinking a jug unless you had EVERY boost) but it was nice to know that my MF level was going to something other than looting corpses.
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Well it was elaboratly explained in the patch notes when it came out and the previous announcement before that when it was gonna end.
Don’t forget the multiple threads asking about the event’s end, which all have gotten replies, you could have checked those.
Oh wait.
What an incredibly helpful and constructive reply that was.
1) There’s nothing whatsoever in the patch notes, that I can see, about end date.
2) I have a life beyond GW2, and many better things to do with my time than reading every single thread in the forums. If it was discussed here – so what? I didn’t see it. I strongly doubt I was the only person.
3) I was making a serious point; if you can’t manage a serious answer, I really wouldn’t bother. ANet launched GW2 in China last year; Spring Festival is a big thing, and is still going. I had assumed that the content would continue; I was wrong. But killing the parallel game content for the sake of it is rather like deciding to end Wintersday on December 23rd – not clever (and not culturally aware, either).
Well it was elaboratly explained in the patch notes when it came out and the previous announcement before that when it was gonna end.
Don’t forget the multiple threads asking about the event’s end, which all have gotten replies, you could have checked those.
Oh wait.
What an incredibly helpful and constructive reply that was.
1) There’s nothing whatsoever in the patch notes, that I can see, about end date.
2) I have a life beyond GW2, and many better things to do with my time than reading every single thread in the forums. If it was discussed here – so what? I didn’t see it. I strongly doubt I was the only person.
3) I was making a serious point; if you can’t manage a serious answer, I really wouldn’t bother. ANet launched GW2 in China last year; Spring Festival is a big thing, and is still going. I had assumed that the content would continue; I was wrong. But why on earth kill the parallel game content for the sake of it? It’s like deciding to end Wintersday on December 23rd.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that Bubi was employing sarcasm.
I don’t mind it being patched out, I just mind there being nothing to replace it.
I don’t mind them taking away something special, I just mind not continuing to get special things constantly.
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Well it was elaboratly explained in the patch notes when it came out and the previous announcement before that when it was gonna end.
Don’t forget the multiple threads asking about the event’s end, which all have gotten replies, you could have checked those.
Oh wait.
What an incredibly helpful and constructive reply that was.
1) There’s nothing whatsoever in the patch notes, that I can see, about end date.
2) I have a life beyond GW2, and many better things to do with my time than reading every single thread in the forums. If it was discussed here – so what? I didn’t see it. I strongly doubt I was the only person.
3) I was making a serious point; if you can’t manage a serious answer, I really wouldn’t bother. ANet launched GW2 in China last year; Spring Festival is a big thing, and is still going. I had assumed that the content would continue; I was wrong. But why on earth kill the parallel game content for the sake of it? It’s like deciding to end Wintersday on December 23rd.I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that Bubi was employing sarcasm.
I now understand why people put “/sarcasm” at the end of their posts. I thought the “Oh wait” would kinda give it away, but it seems it didn’t. Ah well. I need to be more clear next time.
Is it me or does the search bar not work? I type in “lunar” and there are zero results. Just saw the sticky.
Anyways, I’m really irritated that they ended this suddenly with no warning. More irritated about that than the fact I had to do loathsome pvp (dragonball) to get a laurel. Anyways, more to the point, I had dozens of lucky envelopes waiting for the last day so I could pile on the boosters and burn through them. Just wanted to get a good gauge on the drop rate. Instead I had to use them today with a good 40% missing (~255% instead of ~295% with lunar buffs).
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Well it was elaboratly explained in the patch notes when it came out and the previous announcement before that when it was gonna end.
Don’t forget the multiple threads asking about the event’s end, which all have gotten replies, you could have checked those.
Oh wait.
What an incredibly helpful and constructive reply that was.
1) There’s nothing whatsoever in the patch notes, that I can see, about end date.
2) I have a life beyond GW2, and many better things to do with my time than reading every single thread in the forums. If it was discussed here – so what? I didn’t see it. I strongly doubt I was the only person.
3) I was making a serious point; if you can’t manage a serious answer, I really wouldn’t bother. ANet launched GW2 in China last year; Spring Festival is a big thing, and is still going. I had assumed that the content would continue; I was wrong. But killing the parallel game content for the sake of it is rather like deciding to end Wintersday on December 23rd – not clever (and not culturally aware, either).
I agree with you. I seriously do not see any end date mentioned in the official news, and I do not aware of the end date is on this Tuesday. I figured out the hard way only after I log in.
I remember the thread in which people asked for an end date, but I don’t remember reading that there was an official answer to the question. It doesn’t really affect me since I ignored the Dragonball game for the most part, but I know people were trying to finish achievements for it.