Guild Wars 2

For the next year I would like to see some changes in the Snowball Mayehm activity, the long achievement for matches played doesn’t help to make this activity enjoyable and is understable if people go afk when they want to play so many matches and there are people don’t play properly or don’t play to win (ignoring the gift).
Often you are the only one playing to carry or to recover the gift and is very frustrating when you are always 1 versus 2 or versus 3 and noone in your team helps to take care about the gift.

The first suggestion is to reduce the number of matches required to cap the achievement and improve the rewards for the win (3 gifts + 5 gifts if you keep it back the max number of gifts to win imho doesn’t worth the time required for the activity). Otherwise reduce the number of matches (like 30-50) and change them in win (always with an increased reward).

I know the achievement is not mandatory but I’m sure the majority of people will do many matches only for that and there are still people who want to play for fun, maybe just to fight (so you can increase the points for each kill too and give people another way to win) but with a big reward maybe there will be more people playing for the win and play the activity as is intended (“capture the flag” mode).

I don’t think anyone is intentionally playing not to win. As with the non-snowball PvP, there are players who have no idea how the game is scored.

And how is this an achievement related problem? There are 2 achievements. One requires that you win 3 games. The other requires no wins at all, just participation in 30 matches. Winning 3 games is a piece of cake because it is just as likely that the opposing team will have the casual players as it is that your team will.

I can’t comment on the rewards because I have no idea what they are. I have never looked.

To cap the achievement (15 AP) you need 150 matches (every 30 matches you get 3 AP).

Some people don’t know how to play for sure, but some just ignore advices or just think the game is not worth the effort (and I agree with this).

Achievement or not thi activity should be more enjoyable for all, maybe rewarding for killing other people, or more reward for bringing back the gift and maybe clearer instructions.

I agree with this. Also I hate that there is only one winter activity I can do with my friends. Personally I have trouble playing and reading/texting with people at the same time. With my friends we talk over Curse and can plan strategy together but I feel shy/get anxiety with strangers. I wish this activity was more friendly to players like me who want to have fun.

They just need to make it 15 matches to complete the achievement. That cuts it down to 75 matches total which is much more in line with how long the others take.