Guild Wars 2

I wish it wasn’t time gated. Anet tends to have this idea in their heads that people like to be pushed into doing things.

Well people can just stress that Anet should not have two beta maps that overlap with timegated achievements. Other than that, there’s nothing wrong with the timegated achievements as players have had over two months to do Capricorn.

There’s not much reason for these to be timegated at all.

Its just pressuring people to play these maps, for free BETA testing and other reasons beyond whether it’s actually fun to play these maps.

To salvage this situation may I suggest you bringing back Capricorn in Beta-Form one more time?

Make some tweaks, bring it back for a few weeks (without overlapping another beta-map) and everyone can get their achievements.

These last two weeks have not been a great PvP-experience to say the least.

I do agree that these achievements were available for a reasonable time. However, it overlaped with S4…
I was busy with S4 and only now I have time to do the achievements of Capricorn. Unfortunatelly I wont be able to complete them since most of time people choose another map. No reason for it to be time limited.

I’m pretty much convinced that any time limit is part of the challenge. “Please play between 4 am and 5 am to get this achievement” is also a controversial idea for similar reasons. (Though this was for 2 months thus much less impactful)

Either way, to me it feels like having a sale on the gemstore that pressures the player to buy/play whenever the developer wants you to play, rather than playing when you have the time and desire to play that specific content. Its basically glorified advertising.

Where this is predictable like with regular holidays (a time when most people actually have free time) it does miss that point with random map releases.

Depending on how long the timelimited achievement takes anyway. Monthlies could be done in one day back in the day for example, whereas LS1 stuff just didn’t have enough uptime. And for similar reasons that The year of Ascension has some disappointment when you put in so much effort where at the end of the year youre afraid to be left emptyhanded.

Either way, Time limits on achievements definitely needs to be carefully thought through.

Imo its your own fault if you havent finished 25 wins by now. You can do that in two evenings at 50% win rate easily, so your skill level does not matter since you had 3 months of time. Some achievements were only available for 14 days and took more effort than this.

ok in the end, technically it was every players own fault for not finishing
most just had the bad luck of not noticing that these were timelimited

BUT

Anet can learn from this and do the following things right for the future

- Dont overlap 2 time-limited Achievements like these which are competing with each other when people try to complete them both

- please show clearly ingame whenever an Achievement is time-limited and let players know when it will end

Malediktus.3740:

Imo its your own fault if you havent finished 25 wins by now. You can do that in two evenings at 50% win rate easily, so your skill level does not matter since you had 3 months of time. Some achievements were only available for 14 days and took more effort than this.

if you were to get the map every time sure, but when you get it 1 out of every 7 or 8 games… and that 1 time one person on your team afk’s because all they want to do is colliseum, it then becomes impossible to complete when you can only spare a few hours per night

Orangensaft.7139:

ok in the end, technically it was every players own fault for not finishing
most just had the bad luck of not noticing that these were timelimited

BUT

Anet can learn from this and do the following things right for the future

- Dont overlap 2 time-limited Achievements like these which are competing with each other when people try to complete them both

- please show clearly ingame whenever an Achievement is time-limited and let players know when it will end

That’s not bad luck; it’s ignorance.

If you want to know what’s going on with new content, read the update notes. If you can’t be bothered with the update notes, then expect that there may be some things going on that you might not know about.

I’ve probably played Capricorn enough just since Coliseum was released to get the achieve again, and of course that’s with me voting against it every time. This was not a hard achievement to get, especially considering they kept it pinned almost 2 months longer than they said in the update notes. Why are we still whining on the forums?

If you don’t wanna read update notes just poke your head in and read reddit occasionally, they posted like 5-6 reminders that Capri was going to be pulled.

i really like both coliseum and capricorn maps very much. i have played them since 2 weeks but wasnt know about achivements and title though.

Checked my stats yesterday and just 2 left for capri and 2 for coliseum.

I was unable to finish capri achivements due to late realize but i will definitely finish coliseum one.

Personally i think temporary achivement is really good idea, even i missed one of them it wont change my opinion about it.

Thanks to eveyone who provided contribution regarding the creation of those maps.

Got it done. Please leave a timer/ or date reminder in game on the title track too though. Like “ends season x”. As others said, it wasn’t hard to get the capricorn achievements, but I’m sure there are plenty of players who still didn’t know the time constraints of it (believe it or not, not every player is also scanning the forums,reddit,facebook,twitter, update notes,etc for in game info).

When I farmed eternal coliseum achievements about half the time capricorn appeared. So plenty of people vote for it.

well cap achieves are past, we should close this thread. i think we can all agree enough time was lost here

fishball.7204:

If you don’t wanna read update notes just poke your head in and read reddit occasionally, they posted like 5-6 reminders that Capri was going to be pulled.

You can find and read everything somewhere on the Internet, that’s not the point, Anet should put in in the spot where you go in game and where it’s relevant, it would be just there to see for all.. amazing! By the way, they should do that with more stuff. I mean having a forum is nice and all, but do you really play a game to read trough forums everyday, just to be sure you don’t miss out on anything important. It’s just silly, put it in the game where it belongs that way more people will be better informed and will spend more time in the actual game then on a forum.

MisterOiZo.4359:

fishball.7204:

If you don’t wanna read update notes just poke your head in and read reddit occasionally, they posted like 5-6 reminders that Capri was going to be pulled.

You can find and read everything somewhere on the Internet, that’s not the point, Anet should put in in the spot where you go in game and where it’s relevant, it would be just there to see for all.. amazing! By the way, they should do that with more stuff. I mean having a forum is nice and all, but do you really play a game to read trough forums everyday, just to be sure you don’t miss out on anything important. It’s just silly, put it in the game where it belongs that way more people will be better informed and will spend more time in the actual game then on a forum.

Or players can just take a few minutes and read the patch notes so they’ll be more informed. No need to clutter that game more with information that is already easily accessible for a handful of places.

Since this seems to be the thread for discussing these achievements, I will post here. I have been wanting to post about this for awhile now.

I just want to say how utterly obnoxious these time limited achievements are. First that they are time limited, but secondly, that a separate queue was not made so that those that wanted these achievements/to play these maps could not focus solely on these maps. You can’t play them in Ranked or Custom Arenas either. I loathe PVP as it is, and only play because the pvp dailies are easy enough for the daily while giving good PvE rewards. These maps are a breath of fresh air, I prefer them to all previous maps, but the time limited achievements really diminshes my enthusiasm for them.

I really, really, really hope that you do not keep introducing time-limited achievements for each subsequent map you release.

Oops, forgot to finish these. oh well I guess, lol. Too many things to remember to do nowadays.

Sucks having to hope RNG even picks the map so you can actually do the Chivoz.