Guild Wars 2

The timer starts at 4 days even before I buy the HoT content, for buying some items at the trading post. Then it said 1 day left. Waited a full day, was sitting at the trading post waiting for it to unlock at the exact minute, so excited!

“24 hours til unlock”

Oh.. k then..

Maybe change the timer to not be a day ahead of schedule, and properly read 5 days instead of 4. Waited exactly 4 days like it said and content still had one full day left to unlock, pretty disappointed.

well it was 4days 23hours 59 minutes and 59s.

Easier to just type 4 days and when it tick down to 3 you know you have 4 days left.

Linken.6345:

well it was 4days 23hours 59 minutes and 59s.

Easier to just type 4 days and when it tick down to 3 you know you have 4 days left.

I was going to write the exact same response. However, when the notification window states “24 hours” instead of “1 day”, that is a little more specific and no sense (as “24 hours” can never indicate “00:00:01 hours”).

This is a general issue in the game, and I think that ArenaNet should change their in-game timer to hh:mm:ss to avoid such misunderstandings.

Or they could round up instead of round down. It’s rarely the case that people are unhappy with finding out that they have to wait less time than they thought; it’s nearly always the case that people are annoyed if they have to wait longer.