Guild Wars 2

Cancel this event, sort it out and roll it out once it’s fixed.

Guildilocks.7239:

Just completed the Brisbane Wildlands invasion, zero rewards received. Many players in map chat complaining of same issue, bug submitted, etc.

Will rewards be retroactively given out once the issue is fixed?

That is the claim. Check the red posts. (Not when the issue is fixed, but eventually)

People need to know how many Blooms they’re supposed to be getting to know if this event is even worth it. Why isn’t anyone commenting on it?

are the people who got rewarded a consistent 5 blooms being given more when the rewards are given to those who didnt get anything or are those who got 5 blooms stuck with that and that’s it .

I had 24 stacks of buff and got 5 + 15 blooms. Is this how it supposed to be?

So, are we sure that we are going to get every blossom we should have if the events would have worked properly? Opposed to get a generic reward to everyone that have participated.

Because this is the difference between keep playing the events or stop wasting my time on then.

Hax.8701:

People need to know how many Blooms they’re supposed to be getting to know if this event is even worth it. Why isn’t anyone commenting on it?

Because it’s bugged and therefore the amount of blossoms you get probably aren’t right either. We can’t know what was intended until it’s fixed c: so give it time.

Dax.7250:

So, are we sure that we are going to get every blossom we should have if the events would have worked properly? Opposed to get a generic reward to everyone that have participated.

Because this is the difference between keep playing the events or stop wasting my time on then.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Mordrem Invasion Update:
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• Those who earned rewards and did not receive them will be given their rewards. This could take several days, so please allow time for this to happen.
  …

So, certain? No. Supposedly? Yeah. In fairness, I am a horrible cynical skeptic.

Xeno Mezphy.3145:

Null Shock.3745:

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Oh and how do they keep track? Same way they keep track of the daily event completion daily, the code tracks how many events you completed on a certain map, as well as the type of event, maybe. . .

Yeah, and there is a bug in the code for this event. That bug is preventing people from getting their rewards. How can you possibly assure me that the bug that is preventing me from getting rewards will not prevent Anet from proving that I was present to receive those rewards?

I get daily event rewards. I’m not getting these. There is a problem somewhere and I have no reason to believe it is after the “mission accomplished” trigger but before the “reward output” trigger. And you definitely lack the frame of reference to assure me otherwise, as you yourself pointed out.

I was just trying to give some examples of what could be wrong, and how they could do something, so maybe people would worry >as much< and just enjoy the game. I could be wrong. I also could be wrong about the hostility I am getting from you. Though that could just be how I read it, but that last really came off that way to me, though I could be reading into it too much. I don’t know. . . We are both in the dark, I just tried to light a match, that’s all. I didn’t want to start a flame war or a debate. I am not feeling well, I think I caught a cold from my brothers kids. So the only thing I want to do now is sleep. . .I can barely think straight. . .So I may not reply until later if a reply is warranted.

[Asking in a friendly manner, to see if we share any common interests.] Do you code at all? Linux user? I code and have two Linux rigs, nothing special. My Laptop runs Debian, and my old desktop runs Gentoo at the moment. I need to boot that thing up, it’s been a while. Though I have been meaning to visit some of the other distros I have worked with to see how much they have changed. I have been thinking about starting a guild of coders, or Linux users. if I do, it would be fun to run dungeons and talk shop. Talk shop? . . .I need a nap.

please expand on how rewards scale and what is the daily bonus, i can’t just farm 2 days blindly

denker.4789:

Hax.8701:

People need to know how many Blooms they’re supposed to be getting to know if this event is even worth it. Why isn’t anyone commenting on it?

Because it’s bugged and therefore the amount of blossoms you get probably aren’t right either. We can’t know what was intended until it’s fixed c: so give it time.

We CAN know it, people who have been involved in making the very system are here in these forums, and we can know it if they tell us. And I know they probably won’t, but they really should in this case because the event is for a limited time, so people who want these rewards may have to play during the time the event is not fixed on faith alone (or worse, the rewards could be bugged throughout the event and they would just be given retroactivelly).

Maybe the events will give 5 blooms. Maybe they will give a million blooms. Maybe it will be possible to gain blooms after these events, maybe it’s a practical joke and there was no reward the whole time. Whichever the case is, it doesn’t matter, the reason people should know now is to know whether they are wasting their time or not to plan accordingly, it’s a simple matter of the game respecting your time.

I know some will brush this off, but we are not time wasters, some of us have school, some of us have work, some of us have tests currently at our university (me) and we would like to spend some of our time on the game we like, but we would like some information because our time is really important and we would like to plan things out.

Is it intended that we gain No Karma, and no XP off the events and the mobs?
That makes the no reward even more infuriating to be honest (even if we will gain the rewards retroactively)

Xeno Mezphy.3145:

Dax.7250:

So, are we sure that we are going to get every blossom we should have if the events would have worked properly? Opposed to get a generic reward to everyone that have participated.

Because this is the difference between keep playing the events or stop wasting my time on then.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Mordrem Invasion Update:
…

• Those who earned rewards and did not receive them will be given their rewards. This could take several days, so please allow time for this to happen.
  …

So, certain? No. Supposedly? Yeah. In fairness, I am a horrible cynical skeptic.

uhh.. their punctuation and wording kinda makes it hard to understand, so for those who earned the constant 5 blooms will get more as well ?

Really fudged this one up :/

Edgar Doiron.2804:

Kind of sucks that this event was directed at the new players, probably to show what they can do with events a as live content. And it went live so broken.

That’s what I thought, supposedly aimed at level 18 characters. But then why are we expected to follow the event through 3 different maps? Level 18 characters can hardly be expected to have all the waypoints on one of them unlocked, let alone all three of them. We had made sure our new characters that our guild had started last week to play with a new member had Kessex Hills unlocked, only to find out the event (when it finally started) was taking place in Brisban Wildlands… Another design flaw, if you ask me.

It would be ignorant according to the math to only reward five per every half hour. If we consider that people will play on average for two hours factoring in eight hours of sleep, eight for work, and eight for leisure, and surely some of that will be spent at church, friends, relatives, and shopping, unless of course Anet only wants children to make up the slack for hours on end over the weekend.

We CAN know it, people who have been involved in making the very system are here in these forums, and we can know it if they tell us. And I know they probably won’t, but they really should in this case because the event is for a limited time, so people who want these rewards may have to play during the time the event is not fixed on faith alone (or worse, the rewards could be bugged throughout the event and they would just be given retroactivelly).

Maybe the events will give 5 blooms. Maybe they will give a million blooms. Maybe it will be possible to gain blooms after these events, maybe it’s a practical joke and there was no reward the whole time. Whichever the case is, it doesn’t matter, the reason people should know now is to know whether they are wasting their time or not to plan accordingly, it’s a simple matter of the game respecting your time.

I know some will brush this off, but we are not time wasters, some of us have school, some of us have work, some of us have tests currently at our university (me) and we would like to spend some of our time on the game we like, but we would like some information because our time is really important and we would like to plan things out.

Yea. It’s the end of the world. If it takes a very long time they will probably expand the length of the event. We don’t know that, but for the time being we just have to wait. Maybe those who works on it right now won’t get any sleep because they want to make us happy and then all we do is complain. All I say is, give it time. Correcting a fault in a big game can take a very long time or maybe just a few hours. Who knows? We dont, so better to spend our oxygen on something else c:

Nurgle The Vile One.2138:

uhh.. their punctuation and wording kinda makes it hard to understand, so for those who earned the constant 5 blooms will get more as well ?

And that is why I tend to be so frustrated with Anet’s PR style. I’ve got no more info to offer than they themselves offer.

Are we really surprised? It’s taken some people years to get a legendary, so why would they make this event easy? No they want you to spend all day everyday on this game, grinding it out, to get anywhere. Casual players have no spot in the game, too bad. I spend a TON of time on here, and feel like I get no where. They better change this soon, or people will stop playing and not see the point. Shame cause it IS a good game.

Null Shock.3745:

I was just trying to give some examples of what could be wrong, and how they could do something, so maybe people would worry >as much< and just enjoy the game. I could be wrong. I also could be wrong about the hostility I am getting from you. Though that could just be how I read it, but that last really came off that way to me, though I could be reading into it too much. I don’t know. . . We are both in the dark, I just tried to light a match, that’s all. I didn’t want to start a flame war or a debate. I am not feeling well, I think I caught a cold from my brothers kids. So the only thing I want to do now is sleep. . .I can barely think straight. . .So I may not reply until later if a reply is warranted.

[Asking in a friendly manner, to see if we share any common interests.] Do you code at all? Linux user? I code and have two Linux rigs, nothing special. My Laptop runs Debian, and my old desktop runs Gentoo at the moment. I need to boot that thing up, it’s been a while. Though I have been meaning to visit some of the other distros I have worked with to see how much they have changed. I have been thinking about starting a guild of coders, or Linux users. if I do, it would be fun to run dungeons and talk shop. Talk shop? . . .I need a nap.

If I’m expressing any hostility, it’s simply a byproduct of my frustration with the regularity of this issue. This is something that really truly does happen with 90% of the new world events they put out. My 2 day fix estimate is based on previous experience. I am frustrated that Anet can’t manage to stress test a single one of their open world events. This is about this event though, and not about Anet’s event fixing track record, so I’ll just leave it there. I sincerely didn’t mean to come off as hostile, I’m just super frustrated with this event and Anet’s tendency to soft PR with vague info instead of just being direct. Buzzwords just bounce off my head and give me a headache. We’ll probably get our rewards, but Anet has made sure to be just vague enough that if it doesn’t happen they’re still not exactly wrong.

Also, I don’t really want to give any new people the wrong message. While this does happen basically constantly, they do always fix it (if they say they’re going to). I’ve been playing this game for years and already bought HoT. I expect it to launch as a buggy mess and be fully playable within a week. The expansion will stick around though. This will be gone in 5 days.

I’ve never really delved into Linux, mostly because I hate being wrong and will be wrong for a while. Plus my toaster basically works. I’ve done quite a bit of coding in the past but nothing recent enough to be useful and certainly very little coding with a point. All the languages I know are dumb. I shouldn’t put my eggs into baskets full of holes, I guess. And, again, sorry for any misdirected hostility. I’m probably firing broad shots all over and I guess there are bound to be civilian casualties.

And just one more time for the new people, Anet really does get around to fixing these things. This is a good game and you should play it.

Have since the event started here I did all waiting fix, five hours here and did not receive anything you can know if it is worth making event or wait until tomorrow … none of ANET tells us what we must do, and like me too other players would like to know thanks ANET.

So I guess Anet wants us to post the bug reports in here and then they’re posting updates (aka the same info slightly reworded) over here. From that I infer that we’re not gonna get any more red replies in this thread so we should probably stop asking.

We can’t expect ANet to keep us up to date can we? They obviously are understaffed

kanne.8927:

We can’t expect ANet to keep us up to date can we? They obviously are understaffed

They don’t like to post without new information and they won’t have new information until the devs give it and the devs won’t give it until they’ve fixed the bug or it gets worse.

ok now in Kessess Hill I received 5 mordrem blooms….

please fix this.
event 1 = 10 stacks
event 2= 9 stacks

3 runs 39 Stack total = 0 Samples

I hope they fix it soon since we loose farm time every hour.

Wasted 30 min, decided to go do other things.
Now it comes that items will be given.

Maybe it is a good idea to prolong the event for a day, to let those dissatisfied from the beginning still make their rewards?

Is there going to be any addressing or clarification of the way event participation is tracked?

Of the three times I’ve attempted to actively participate the game has crashed part way through two of them, resetting my Invasion Defender stacks. Given the wording of the buff I assume this means my progress is lost. I’ve yet to actually receive a single reward either.

All this combined with not even knowing what the actual rewards are supposed to be is incredibly frustrating.

I don’t know how they are going to keep track of who has done what and how many… Unless they do the three areas and try to figure out all the names and the buffs ect in the area to do the event. Is Anet taking notes from Blizzard? Seems like they are. You should up the drop rate, and whatnot… This is a little sad.

denker.4789:

We CAN know it, people who have been involved in making the very system are here in these forums, and we can know it if they tell us. And I know they probably won’t, but they really should in this case because the event is for a limited time, so people who want these rewards may have to play during the time the event is not fixed on faith alone (or worse, the rewards could be bugged throughout the event and they would just be given retroactivelly).

Maybe the events will give 5 blooms. Maybe they will give a million blooms. Maybe it will be possible to gain blooms after these events, maybe it’s a practical joke and there was no reward the whole time. Whichever the case is, it doesn’t matter, the reason people should know now is to know whether they are wasting their time or not to plan accordingly, it’s a simple matter of the game respecting your time.

I know some will brush this off, but we are not time wasters, some of us have school, some of us have work, some of us have tests currently at our university (me) and we would like to spend some of our time on the game we like, but we would like some information because our time is really important and we would like to plan things out.

Yea. It’s the end of the world. If it takes a very long time they will probably expand the length of the event. We don’t know that, but for the time being we just have to wait. Maybe those who works on it right now won’t get any sleep because they want to make us happy and then all we do is complain. All I say is, give it time. Correcting a fault in a big game can take a very long time or maybe just a few hours. Who knows? We dont, so better to spend our oxygen on something else c:

I know I’m not contributing anything with this post, but I would have appreciated if you read the post you were responding to. That response would have been valid for many other posts in the thread. What I ask for there isn’t a fix, it’s not even the time of the fix, it’s information on drop rates. The reason is in the post. “They probably will X” also isn’t helping, the reasoning for that is also in the post.

I did a couple of zones and got no reward.

So you want to tell me i should farm blindly, and then hopes that maybe i’ll receive something that will be adequate for what i’ve done…

Well this sounds pretty bad, since the bug is generalized wouldn’t be better to stop the event, fix the bug and restart it later?

Anet devs you really know what the reward system was about. You implemented it, even if it was… well… badly implemented.

So simply just reply us with the proper information about the drops we will be getting. Or else you will have a failed event on your hands. People wont do stuff on a promise, just does not work that way.

As you are probably aware events dont even rewards karma, gold or experience, so what’s there to do?

zonic.5261:

As you are probably aware events dont even rewards karma, gold or experience, so what’s there to do?

I don’t even know if we’ve heard: is this intended, or is it another aspect of this bug? Because I’m really having trouble comprehending an event marketed to new players, that eliminates… every XP reward.

The fact that this event is on blind faith, that we will be rewarded is crap..I think they should have tested this event before letting it lose on the game.
1*Five days is not long enough for any event. people have to work, school, and other things.
2* test..test…test your events before setting it upon the world..take a note from the book of Warcraft..nothing upsets players more then broken content.
3* don’t ask people to do a broken event, on faith alone..they want answers provide them with something..at lest tell them if this is a waist of time or not.
4*four days of guess work, and no payout, and being told wait a few weeks for that reward, they feel they can gives you is not a valid excuse for anything. Stop your event..fix, and then resume the said event. don’t do fives days of crap, and then guess what you should owe people..it’s like hiring a contractor to fix your roof..and telling him..let me guess how much you should earn for a roof, that a lazy kitten built.
and last 5* people have a right to be upset about this..any one who defends this..with if you don’t like don’t do said event..your the reason why game companies are passing out crap games with micro transactions, and pay to test as A rated games. This kind of crap needs to stop..kitten, it’s your right..you pay for the game..At lest I did..I have a right to kitten out an epic sized charr fit..so should you.

In defense of ANet: Some of these people’s claims are just silly. First of all, we have no clue if they tested this or not, nor do we fully understand the issue. Let’s not just jump to the conclusion that they just threw it at us. Second, if they say they can and will retroactively give you rewards, they can and will retroactively give you the rewards. They’re not going to escalate this by taking chances and telling us they’ll make amends they won’t make. They almost certainly figured out the problem ages ago – fixing it is the hard part. Presumably that means they are certain that they have and are able to continue to gather all of the data in regards to which events you did, and what your stacks were. If there’s anything they’re likely to screw up in the process of giving us our rewards, it will be that people who did receive 5 blooms will receive that same 5 blooms again. Let’s just take a chill pill and try to ENJOY the event. I don’t honestly understand why any of you would be playing the game if you can’t just enjoy it and get over the fact your rewards might be a few days late.

11 stacks and no reward.. and after that 14 stacks and 5 blooms…

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

In defense of ANet: Some of these people’s claims are just silly. First of all, we have no clue if they tested this or not, nor do we fully understand the issue. Let’s not just jump to the conclusion that they just threw it at us. Second, if they say they can and will retroactively give you rewards, they can and will retroactively give you the rewards. They’re not going to escalate this by taking chances and telling us they’ll make amends they won’t make. They almost certainly figured out the problem ages ago – fixing it is the hard part. Presumably that means they are certain that they have and are able to continue to gather all of the data in regards to which events you did, and what your stacks were. If there’s anything they’re likely to screw up in the process of giving us our rewards, it will be that people who did receive 5 blooms will receive that same 5 blooms again. Let’s just take a chill pill and try to ENJOY the event. I don’t honestly understand why any of you would be playing the game if you can’t just enjoy it and get over the fact your rewards might be a few days late.

Yeah thats guildwars2 community mentality they all want the highest rewards right after completing one event you wont change that fact.

That said, when a official post say the rewards are gonna be retroactively given then it will and since the npc will stay longer after the event you all should stop QQ about the fews days delay.

Peoples rage everytimes and dont even understand how codes works, anet dont have a test server, thats why we get beta events and then fix as soon as possible.

They cant simply enjoy the game if they are not getting rewards right away and reading all those dramas is way more annoying than playing a bugged event ( which we know its gonna be fixed pretty soon ).

having patched, I just completed another run of this event.

despite a disconnect which lost me 10 stacks, I persevered, and managed to rack up 7 stacks, with the map achieving 48 events completed

I got nothing.

this fix doesn’t feel so great tbh.

After update, did 16 events then dc’ed. Came back and did 6 more and got no rewards again. :/

Gray.9041:

having patched, I just completed another run of this event.

despite a disconnect which lost me 10 stacks, I persevered, and managed to rack up 7 stacks, with the map achieving 48 events completed

I got nothing.

this fix doesn’t feel so great tbh.

I don’t know, everyone who completed the Brisban Wildlands run I was in got chests that rewarded upwards of 5 for everyone who ran it. But the xp gain and loot drop from the events themselves has still not been resolved.

Also after patch, had 21 stacks, lost some stacks due to dc. I was tagging with a friend.
he got the rewards I didn’t. this is really upsetting.

ShadoDancer.7401:

Gray.9041:

having patched, I just completed another run of this event.

despite a disconnect which lost me 10 stacks, I persevered, and managed to rack up 7 stacks, with the map achieving 48 events completed

I got nothing.

this fix doesn’t feel so great tbh.

I don’t know, everyone who completed the Brisban Wildlands run I was in got chests that rewarded upwards of 5 for everyone who ran it. But the xp gain and loot drop from the events themselves has still not been resolved.

well, I’ve checked and I didn’t get any blooms. many people did, but I saw a number who didn’t.

the issue’s smaller, not gone.

Patched and DCed losing some stacks. Managed to get a stack or two back before the event ended and still no chest with anything.

Did this patch really fix anything?

Played Brisban Wildlands
Map got 44 Events done
i had 29 events done
Reward: 10x blooms (for map i think) and 25 blooms + Chest (for own events)

Game hanged and required to be killed by task manager. Lost about 12 stacks, but gained 2 stacks after logging back in. No rewards were given.

Same as many . post patch, Dc’d again losing the stacks Id built, came back to an empty map as I wasn’t running with anyone, so zero rewards AGAIN.

Will we be able to get the rewards that we lost from dc’ing or are we just playing at the mercy of the servers?

any word if there gonna get an extention of event time i really think this should last for a week atleast

Gray.9041:

ShadoDancer.7401:

Gray.9041:

having patched, I just completed another run of this event.

despite a disconnect which lost me 10 stacks, I persevered, and managed to rack up 7 stacks, with the map achieving 48 events completed

I got nothing.

this fix doesn’t feel so great tbh.

I don’t know, everyone who completed the Brisban Wildlands run I was in got chests that rewarded upwards of 5 for everyone who ran it. But the xp gain and loot drop from the events themselves has still not been resolved.

well, I’ve checked and I didn’t get any blooms. many people did, but I saw a number who didn’t.

the issue’s smaller, not gone.

Yes, as far as I can tell the similarities between those who did not get chest reward were those who DCed after getting a fair amount of stacks.