Guild Wars 2

Namely the WvW season meta, the meta achievement gives us a key… however, why is there a key at all? The reward chests are only given out to people who complete the meta after all.

So that means someone somewhere set up a distribution system for the chests that checks for the completion of the meta once the season ends already. So why doesn’t that system simply deliver the chest “unlocked” as is when the time comes. I am also assuming that since the rewards are tiered there are variety of chests or the chest is super smart and has the logic to use different loot tables based on users server.

Alternatively why couldn’t the meta achievement reward us the appropriate chest locked and then once the season ends a similar script goes through and changes all those chests to unlocked ones. Why is the key necessary?

To me it seems that the splitting of it into two separate items will only cause grief for customer support due to lost keys and/or chests.

Added to the ascended mats, its just another inv filler so you are closer to buying more bank/inv space.

Probably the same reason they can not adjust the wvw achievement. Must be difficult for A-net to put in something that checks previous achievements or changes achievement already earn. That item will enable everyone with the meta to get the correct rewards at the end. Also you should have already put your wvw key in your bank by now.

Ulion.5476:

Probably the same reason they can not adjust the wvw achievement. Must be difficult for A-net to put in something that checks previous achievements or changes achievement already earn. That item will enable everyone with the meta to get the correct rewards at the end. Also you should have already put your wvw key in your bank by now.

But the key so clearly states the chests are only sent to people who do complete the meta — so they are already checking past achievements.

Also they have done retroactive meta rewards before, the original achievements for SAB (April edition) had a skin retroactively added to it.