Guild Wars 2

Can’t complete achievements for events that no longer exist…. this needs to be fixed.

Best way to do this in my opinion is implementing something similar to guild wars 1 books/EOTN pool. Allowing our characters to relive past events.

This is the same as me saying “I missed the Mad King event and X-mas too, can I go back and get the achievements?” Sorry but the reason these events are a limited time is because they’re part of an EVER CHANGING Living Story.

Galphar.3901:

This is the same as me saying “I missed the Mad King event and X-mas too, can I go back and get the achievements?”

Similar but not exactly, I never actually said anything about going back and getting the achievements. There are many solutions to this though. Other MMO do not have achievements tied to the seasonal events or limited time-frame content, and it is because they understand that it just doesn’t make sense to have achievements for events that are not accessible ever again…or at best maybe in a year from now.

My suggestion would be to remove altogether the achievements tied to the seasonal and/or ‘Ever-Changing’ (but so slowly we lose interest entirely and completely forget there is a deadline) Living Story.

Varylnard.4328:

Best way to do this in my opinion is implementing something similar to guild wars 1 books/EOTN pool. Allowing our characters to relive past events.

So from what I’ve seen from many other posts and in both these replies is that there are a lot of people who DO want to go back and be able to accomplish past achievements as the other reply gives a goods. So that would be a solid solution as well.

Another very simple solution would be to just do a better job with in-game reminders on the deadlines approaching because I know I for one do not pencil anything to do with video games into my calender of list of things I need to do.

There are many solutions, but the fact is that there are many posts on this forum about this subject, and it just makes it plain to see it is a problem which needs to be addressed.

Galphar.3901:

Sorry but the reason these events are a limited time is because they’re part of an EVER CHANGING Living Story.

This just translates to ‘deal with it’ which pretty much acknowledges that this is a problem and does not change the fact that there are now achievements in the list that are impossible to accomplish.

So what is wrong with being able to go back and re-play past content and events when a player feels like it? Maybe just remove the reward factor if you do not complete it by the original date or something. Could sit around and think of many solutions to this, but you would think ANet would take the hint already?

Sorry but that is nonsense.

Pretty much every MMO (UO, WAR, LOTRO, DCUO to name a few) has events that are either one time only or annual affairs, and if you aren’t around when they occur that is either tough luck or you will have to wait until the following year to get the achievements or rewards.

I can understand the frustration of not being able to complete achievements in your log, I have a fair few myself, but the way I see it the achievements and any associated rewards are a way of rewarding loyalty for those players that have been around for a long time.