Guild Wars 2

Yay! Bonus rank weekend!

For some, this is a great opportunity to make progress toward the awesome rank finishers and whatnot. For others, this is a “total slap in the face” (see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Ready-up-rewards-a-slap-in-the-face).

I personally find this to be cool bonus and for that, I thank ANet.

That, unfortunately, is as far as my positivity goes.

As you guys know, this event was poorly announced. In fact, its not even on the front page of guildwars2.com. Its not on the launcher that shows announcements. Even further, no NPC in game is telling anyone that this event even happened. I’m pretty sure that unless you’ve visited the forums within the past few days, you had no way of knowing other than word of mouth.

Was this event to reward the dedicated PvPers only? Perhaps. Was it to entice more players to come stay in the Heart of the Mists for longer than the 5 seconds it takes to zone in and run into the Lion’s Arch portal? Maybe.

Whatever the reason, I feel that this could have been announced AT LEAST on the launcher. If this is any indication of how much consideration the PvP team or whoever is in charge of putting this event on blast, then I am deeply concerned.

You know… On top of the lack of communication, balance, patching, blah, blah, blah.

What do you guys think?

I think you are someone who think ranks means something other than how much you play. Well, that or the person exploited skyhammer.

So, my opinion, who cares?

I think if you took the time to read the thread you linked you’d realize what you look like.

Hint: It’s nothing to do with the bonus weekend.

That, unfortunately is as far as your point goes

style.6173:

I think you are someone who think ranks means something other than how much you play. Well, that or the person exploited skyhammer.

So, my opinion, who cares?

I actually agree with a few points on OP. This was a great opportunity to get a much bigger PvP crowd since it was a nice boost weekend. I did see a lot more PvP’ers this weekend and much more builds. Though the announcement for it was kind of lowkey. Not even the login screen displayed the Rank Point boost weekend. Hopefully next time they do this they can add it with a nice announcement so we get new blood in the tpvp.

azuzephyr.7280:

I think if you took the time to read the thread you linked you’d realize what you look like.

Hint: It’s nothing to do with the bonus weekend.

That, unfortunately is as far as your point goes

You missed the point entirely. I linked that post because yes, I do understand that the dedicated PvPers would be at a huge loss in terms of monetary value and time spent. Its not fair. If we want to see the PvP community grow, we need to bring in more players. This was the perfect weekend to do so. This post isn’t about what is and isn’t fair.

As far as I’m concerned, the post I linked has little to worry about seeing as very few new players played this weekend.

i dont read this forum that much but i look at guild wars 2 reddit and i read it there after the ready up.

+1 I am all about checking out & attending events. Although I am not big into pvp, I am addicted to achievements and would have been all over this event to get a jump on several of the pvp achievements. I do check the forums from time to time and never did see any post about this event so those who casually check the forums may have missed it as well.

Josh Davis.6015:

I think you’ve raised fair points, tangatalaga. I’ll work with the team to see where we can improve our communication if/when we do the bonus weekends in the future.

Thanks!

Maybe repeat it next weekend… and for the ones who miss it, repeat the repeat

Yea, I really wish I could have known a bit more ahead of time so that I could have adjusted my schedule a bit. =/

yay rank inflation to make R80 bit more reachable.

style.6173:

I think you are someone who think ranks means something other than how much you play.

i think the point he is making is’nt about the reward, but that it was a solely Spvp thing and was advertised nowhere, just kinda thrown in out of the blue.

whereas if it was a pve thing, lets say 30% more gold/karma or something,
it’d be advertised all over the place before hand.

basically showing the amount of “cares” that a pvp event gets compared to a pve one.

atleast thats what i gathered from reading it.
edit: thats just my interpretation, i’m just happy we got something! :-3
(well most people did, i worked all weekend qq!)

Liewec.2896:

style.6173:

I think you are someone who think ranks means something other than how much you play.

i think the point he is making is’nt about the reward, but that it was a solely Spvp thing and was advertised nowhere, just kinda thrown in out of the blue.

whereas if it was a pve thing, lets say 30% more gold/karma or something,
it’d be advertised all over the place before hand.

basically showing the amount of “cares” that a pvp event gets compared to a pve one.

atleast thats what i gathered from reading it.
edit: thats just my interpretation, i’m just happy we got something! :-3
(well most people did, i worked all weekend qq!)

^

Also, my condolences T__T

Considering PvP is about to go through some major changes it seems premature to attempt any efforts at pulling in new players. Keeping the existing ones from leaving at a time like this though is fairly significant. A short notice, spur of the moment bonus to those players playing a game mode that is currently and continually going through transition and growing pains seems to me a pretty apt and generous move on ANet’s part.

i agree it needed more visibility. i learned about it by chance, from unrelated forum topic.