Guild Wars 2

I know in GW1, the game’s anniversary heralded loads of in game awesomeness, but either I’ve missed the anniversary events, can’t find them, or they aren’t there? o.o

Nope. No anniversary event. No celebration. No fun new quests to do. If it weren’t for the presents emailed out, it would have gone completely unnoticed by the average player.

What they did in Guild Wars 1, largely, was open the Shing Jea Boardwalk made for another event, and decorate a couple of towns, with some fireworks. Much much later on they added the Hound of Balthazar pet…but that was about six years into the game.

I think Guild Wars 2 should have done something like Dragon Bash for the anniversary, since the work is already done. It would be the same sort of thing.

And I definitely liked them dropping cupcakes in the open world. That was sort of fun.

But beyond the birthday cupcakes, there wasn’t anything unique done for the anniversary. They just opened up stuff that was done for the Dragon Festival.

Still cool though.