Guild Wars 2

Hello All…

I must say I am really enjoying GW2 overall. There are some issues with it, bugs, the recent update to armor, ect… However, the overall game and playability of it is very strong and has a bright future ahead of it.

My post is relating to one time and weekend events. I know these are very popular and most everyone enjoys the content, story and game play behind them. The problem is they do not last long enough.

I know most people work days and have weekends off. However, a good portion of any community works shift work, all days of the week with different days off and a good portion of the community works nights as well. This makes it very difficult to get in the game and enjoy these very time limited events.

Now I do understand why they do these sorts of things and tie them into a ‘’free weekend preview’‘, they want to give the previewee’s the biggest bang for their free buck… solid marketing. But we, those of us who work goofy schedules don’t really get to take part in them.

I would just like to see future events such as the Lost Shores one we just had last a bit longer, say a week. That should give everyone, including shift workers, night workers ect the opportunity to at least get in and enjoy a lot of this time limited content.

Like I said, most folks enjoy this kind of stuff. The additional and free content is great for everyone. Just make it last longer.

I’ll shut up now.

Anet has stated that they run these events when they see the most people on, which is typically the weekend. You can’t please everybody, you can only try and please the majority.

Oh, I agree. I have no issues with that train of thought, but why can’t these events be extended a few more days? That’s all I am saying… Start them on the weekends if you want, just run them to the following weekend.

Anet isn’t the only company to do things this way either, this was just a general statement regarding any game’s one time events, I guess.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Anet has stated that they run these events when they see the most people on, which is typically the weekend. You can’t please everybody, you can only try and please the majority.

Except the majority don’t even play during the prime times. they set up when they have the most people on, not when the majority is on. ~20-30% of player base is on during prime times. So they are in fact not getting the majority, they are actually excluding the majority.

Not to mention, extending these event lengths, would pretty much please everyone… It isn’t rocket science… :P

I would personally rather see them developing persistent content than making short events. I dislike feeling like I am required to be online for a video game or I will be missing out on something. I would rather have persistent content I can enjoy on my time.

how hard would it be to create a token to mail to each character that allows a one time access to an instanced version of these events that is accessable over the course of a reasonable period of time, lets say 2 weeks?

It’d still be a one time experience for the player and customers from different time zones and with different daily schedules and responsibilities could still participate.