Guild Wars 2

Despite the Halloween patch renaming the specific champ bags needed so as to avoid confusion, I still can’t get this collection to unlock, even though I’m specifically opening the right bags (Boxes of Lab Equipment, Thorny Seed Pouches). This is making me not want to open any of the lower tier bags until I’m sure I’ll get credited for them in the collection…

As far as I know, Hero of the People (as well as Fine Wining and Brewmaster) still cannot be unlocked at this time.

I actually have a feeling that Fine Wining and Brewmaster might have been pulled completely because it could have been construed as “promoting alcohol consumption”, which might affect GW2’s rating.

Zaxares.5419:

As far as I know, Hero of the People (as well as Fine Wining and Brewmaster) still cannot be unlocked at this time.

It’s entirely possible that we need a special item to unlock these. Whatever the case, ANet hasn’t, as far as I know, commented directly or indirectly about these.

Zaxares.5419:

I actually have a feeling that Fine Wining and Brewmaster might have been pulled completely because it could have been construed as “promoting alcohol consumption”, which might affect GW2’s rating.

I suspect something else is going on: the game still has an achievement for drinking, a drinking game, and inebriation effects. Presumably, it would also be easier to hide the UI for those two achievements than to disable them — and that would be less frustrating for the community. And finally, wouldn’t they have mentioned that they were updating those achievements soon™?

In other words, it’s certainly possible that they pulled those chieves; I just think there’s a more prosaic reason why it’s not working, e.g. “oh oops, guys — we forgot to add the item that unlocks three achievements into the game — my bad.”

I assume that Hero of the People was pulled when ANet remembered that they killed all champs in low level areas… I collected champ bags for weeks after this collection was revealed in one of the preview videos and never managed to get certain ones.

I ended up opening them all. I don’t expect the Hero collection will return.

I still hope that the wine and beer ones will work one day, they’re fun. Next, maybe one collecting (using!) various keys.