Guild Wars 2

Similar to how the daily / monthly achievements have timers for how long they are available, I would love to see the living story updates in the future include this timer. There is often not a very clear source of the time frame of an event and if there is, it’s generally hard to find.

I don’t reddit, I don’t twitter, I don’t facebook. I would like to be able to tell when these events are going to end and not have to scour the internet to find the information.

So please, copy / paste some source code from the daily / monthly achievement timers and add them in for future living story / event releases so that there’s no question as to when these events end.

This would solve a lot of player questions before they’re even asked as well as prevent a lot of crying when people thought a release would be longer or shorter than it was.

Thanks!

Agree a timer would be sweet

Wow this forum is really dead these days huh? lol 49 views in 14 hours.

Some updates seem to last two weeks, some four weeks. So yes, it would be pretty good.

Traced.3495:

Some updates seem to last two weeks, some four weeks. So yes, it would be pretty good.

Thanks for the feedback, I agree. Since most updates are sort of up in there air for when they end it’d be a nice addition to being able to see when exactly the events end.

Yes ! This is exactly what I need, I never know how long the event lasts and from when to when it runs.

100% agree.

Pixelpumpkins has a the exact same suggestion in the suggestion forums:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Timer-on-living-story-achievement-page/first#post3170398

It would be nice to be able to track the comings and goings of temporary content.

The problem is that LS achievements are available until one update is released and since update time is not fixed they can’t make a proper timer.

Chmod.4391:

The problem is that LS achievements are available until one update is released and since update time is not fixed they can’t make a proper timer.

They don’t need to count down to the second.

All they need to do is have a timer that counts down to either the last daily reset time before the patch day or to the 12:00am on patch day morning. After this timer reaches zero, change the color in the timer to red so that it is understood that it is update day and any time you have left is ‘bonus’ time to complete.

The issue keeps cropping up because the dates are only ever mentioned buried in forum threads when a dev or community person posts them. Never anywhere official. The only date they ever put in the patch notes are for very limited things, like mad king says or the bonfire at the end of flame & frost.

While not my preferred solution, just putting the dates on the release page and in the patch notes would go a long way.

Even if they just displayed the end date in there.