Guild Wars 2

I did the 3 day mission, jumped all the puzzles, well tbh I was portalled @ pig iron, but anyways I got all the childrens toys and WHAT HAPPENS?

I cannot give ‘m back? I went through all this trouble, and I’m not allowed to give ’m back? I get a winterday tree as thank you, 2 titles and all, But I still have their presents???

Please allow me to give them. If I wanted 6 exotic rare celestial trinkets I would have made them long ago (you cannot) I’d keep ’m, but I feel they should get their stuff back. * And I still feel this way*

(I do not even want anything in return)

(but if Santa and/or Tixx is reading: I’ll put ’m under the tree, maybe you can provide me a Wintersday Skin (account bound?)?)

I think I’m more concerned that a bunch of level 80 kids (because they have the trinkets already) convince you to kill a grawl via food poisoning when they could have easily done all the work themselves.

Logic! Not even once.

At least I got 3 ectos :P

They were rare trinkets, not exotic. But yeah, I just salvaged them for ectos because I’m selfish… hehe.

First we kill a grawl with food poisoning because he stole some ornaments and then we can’t even return the ornaments to the orphans in the end! The food poisoning was bad enough, but the inability to return the ornaments made me feel much worse especially due to the conversation description on the gold ornament.

“We were gonna sell the gold ball for food after Wintersday….”

Did we just murder a grawl and steal food from starving orphans for Wintersday? I’m sure this wasn’t the intended result, but I felt like a completely horrible person after completing this side event. I’m still holding on to the ornaments in hope that maybe we’ll be able to return them, which I know will likely never happen. I always wanted a guilty conscience for the winter holidays. Thanks writers.

yeaah, I was just joking about that with a friend. Not only do we kill the grawl, we also CRUSH the ornaments upon retrieving them. Like with hammers. We sure are a bunch of jerks.

I have to admit I didn’t think about this until someone else pointed it out in another topic, but you’re right it does feel wrong to do all that and then keep the ornaments.

If this was the type of game that lets you play an evil character this would make a perfect evil choice. Agree to help the orphans, kill the grawl, find the ornaments and then keep everything for yourself and leave the orphan children with nothing.

But we’re supposed to be the nice guys here…

Perhaps think of it like this, the boxes you opened to get the ornaments had plenty, you just kept one yourself for the collection, and the whole giving the ornaments back could have been taken care of off screen. Much like how heart events are handled out in the world.

Vas.7306:

Perhaps think of it like this, the boxes you opened to get the ornaments had plenty, you just kept one yourself for the collection, and the whole giving the ornaments back could have been taken care of off screen. Much like how heart events are handled out in the world.

Maybe.

But even so, my human noble, standing there in her ascended armor with her precursor, salvaging something orphan children were going to sell for food still seems mean, even if it was one of many.

Story wise we put a tree up in the house for the kids. I just wish that if anet was going to make special looking Christmas themed accessories that they would make them something we would want to hold on too. After two plus years of this game all 10 of my level 80s are wearing full ascended accessories and the ones play most full ascended armor.

Heh, yeah 80 rares, those won’t last long when the bank space gets short.

Reading this thread I realized that after I got the event finished, me and a couple of friends went in, took the presents from under the Christmas tree then I stood in front of the orphan and salvaged the ornaments. Lol.

salvage the ornaments, sell the ecto, make the donation in divinity reach. They will distribute it to the orphans.

Anet evidently lacks someone there who knows how to connect with the players on an emotional level. They keep dangling ‘ornaments’ in front of us when with just a little more thought and effort they could be offering us interactive stories that offer rewards beyond mere trinkets and baubles.

This one shouldn’t have been about unlocking yet another collection and then going on a scavenger hunt for the pieces. This should have been about the orphans. About helping them. About solving their problem. And the subsequent feeling that our characters had done something good for someone less fortunate, not because of some shiny reward, but because it was the right thing to do, it was a good thing to do, and because it’s Wintersday, gods kitten.

Instead, we got what we got. No one fails to follow through on a promising set up quite like anet.

Just like the beached whales in LA. Yet another missed opportunity.

Is this like that “Thank you letter” from a refugee child we got back in Frost and Flame?

I guess Anet just doesn’t care about the game anymore.

We get a letter from orphans asking for help.
Our help is to kill someone, and then steal presents.
Followed by destroying said presents in front of them.

I laughed way too much for that, its so stupid that I don’t know what to expect from this game anymore.

In before Anet adds a mystic forge recipe where you need these items.