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Problem: Hit 80 and realise there’s only two zones that provide level 80 content.
Solution:
*Once 80 make level downscaling more challenging. Match mob levels not one or two levels higher.
*Make all zones drop endgame loot and trash consistently not just a few items here and there
*Zone appropriate crafting materials can still be harvested/dropped as they would normally
Sweet now you have your population exploring and enjoying the content from the WHOLE game. While scaling is okay at the moment it needs to provide more incentive and challenge. If these simple changes were implemented the game might just live that much longer and have the lower level zones more populated.
Abysmal disappointment. It could have easily been repeatable yet they played the spoilers card.
Didn’t read the full thread, but am I missing something? The “one time” thing is the BEGINNING of the Act 3, not the full act not even the Finale. One can only surmise it’s something arriving /changing and it’s a one time thing (because “it” doesn’t change/show up constantly). I’d be inclined to assume it has to do with the degrading lion statue to be converted into something.
So unless this beginning of act 3 is the full act, I find the whole complaint mostly irrelevant.
How can it be irrelevant when we don’t know what it entails or what rewards are given?
So what are the complaints? That it only happens once? So? If there’s some reward then there’d be an argument, but for a simple show, that’s much less of an argument because…it can be viewed on youtube afterwards.
Yes we don’t know, so the complaints seem to be from those that believe a) it’s the finale, or b) they get something out of it. but seeing as how it’s the “beginning” of Act 3, it makes little sense to provide something from it.
But you have no idea if they will or not. So thus not irrelevant.
Now I’ll probably get hate for this, but if you remember when you picked the servers there were only “North American Servers” and “European Servers”. I don’t remember “Oceanic Servers” as selections. Considering this, having it at a time on Sunday which can fit for both NA and EU Servers seems decent.
The game was distributed and sold (officially, not as gray imports) in Australia and it defaults to North American servers. No warning on the box that some events may not be conducive to your timezone. Your argument is invalid.
No, it’s not. They officially sold it anywhere they knew it would sell because it would…I don’t know, sell? Money is money. If they know it will sell somewhere, why not?
The concept of there being no servers for your region automatically implies that events may not be suitable for your region. That’s like if I complained that the events for a JP MMO wasn’t suitable for me in America, it’s illogical. The game was set up with American and European servers. If you’re outside of those regions, to expect the events to be catered to you is stupid.
Now I agree that they should be doing events multiple times and their reasoning for not doing it is stupid. However, since they’ve made that decision, expecting the event to cater to Oceanic players instead of the players the servers were meant for (NA, EU), regardless of where the game was sold, is stupid.
No it’s not.
Ok, I feel I need to put in my two cents worth. People who are comparing this to GW1 events fail to take into account that GW1 had two campaigns over which they could spread this, where as GW2 has a single event in a single campaign. Even that being the case, if they were able to spread it across time zones, there’s no way EVERYBODY is still going to make it. I can remember several years in GW1 where it was impossible for me to participate in holiday events simply because I work nights on the east coast, USA. If you can’t make it, you can’t make it, but quit complaining that ANet isn’t trying to take everybody into account, because that’s not the case.
We don’t want everybody to be able to participate because that is impossible. What would be nice however is more options. Make the event repeat 2 more times or at least once. Anet did try to get as many people in as possible thats true but it’s not enough. They are essentially cutting out a whole region SEA its 3am+ on a Monday morning. I feel for those guys who may not even get the chance to wake up and go to sleep for it. Giving people options is never a bad thing.
They’re not favoring a specific country of players, they are simply choosing the time where they have peak amount of players. How is it their fault that it just happens that at 12PM PST that they have the most players on? I bet if the Oceanic players had more player on at any time they would had picked that time instead.
Sure… lol
They could at least repeat the event for those that have commitments or live in different time zones. If the issue was swapped the QQ would be enormous.
Didn’t read the full thread, but am I missing something? The “one time” thing is the BEGINNING of the Act 3, not the full act not even the Finale. One can only surmise it’s something arriving /changing and it’s a one time thing (because “it” doesn’t change/show up constantly). I’d be inclined to assume it has to do with the degrading lion statue to be converted into something.
So unless this beginning of act 3 is the full act, I find the whole complaint mostly irrelevant.
How can it be irrelevant when we don’t know what it entails or what rewards are given?
As an Aussie I can completely understand Arena Net’s decision on this. I’ll be up at 6am Monday the 29th of October to see it – it’s what we do. We’ve done it ever since… ever. No one has ever catered to Oceanic players; some times we get servers labeled as “Oceanic”, but that’s all it is. It’s just a label. Nothing changes.
I love playing with my Ameribros, anyway. Any Aussie that’s complaining about this needs to take a leaf from Chopper and harden up.
Some of us have to go to work by 6am. The event happening once doesn’t only affect us. Look at all the SEA guys its 3am+ for them. The event needs to repeat.
Think subjectively please.
No matter when they put it, there would have been issues.
I agree that it should have had multiple run times, perhaps 3 times, 8 hours apart, over the day.
With them being set to this one time period, no matter what they did they would have had issues, and if they kept it Wednesday…I have a feeling they would have had a bigger mass of complaints with the coming Hurricane to the East Coast. It’s supposed to hit where I live Tuesday into Wednesday, which would mean that many people in the East Coast would have had no power for the event, thus missing it.
No matter how you do it, you’ll be having issues.
Now I’ll probably get hate for this, but if you remember when you picked the servers there were only “North American Servers” and “European Servers”. I don’t remember “Oceanic Servers” as selections. Considering this, having it at a time on Sunday which can fit for both NA and EU Servers seems decent. Yes, I get that there are Oceanic players, but there’s also Korean players. What about them? The only reason you don’t see them complaining here is because this is an English forum. If they are so set on this “One time event” deal, no matter how you look at it, regardless of when they put it, people will be annoyed.
Yes, I agree that there should have been multiple times, but since they don’t want to do that, there’s absolutely nothing that anyone can do with that limitation to make every single person happy.
The greater majority would of been happy with repeated events. No doubt more people will be upset with a one off event due to commitments/time zone. As to your statement about no Oceanic servers then why sell it to Oceanic players? If you sell a product internationally but only have American/European servers you need to be aware that there will be other time zones partaking in those communities. Those people paid the same amount and should have access to special events and items just as any other player should.
If this was swapped around the American players would be screaming.
The only reason I can think of for it not being repeated is that this event will have permanent effects/changes on the game itself, like something appearing somewhere on the map and staying there after Halloween is over.
Otherwise, there are no reasons for not having it repeating over the course of the day.
That’’s pretty much what I was thinking.
To the people saying it’s just one event – the problem is that it’s not. It’s a precedent, and, in fact, the first precedent that’s been set for holiday events in GW2. What those of us who aren’t lucky enough to have schedules that fit well with ArenaNet’s are now looking at is a scenario in which every single such event is going to occur at a time which we can’t make, because it’s set at a time that’s convenient for a majority we’re not part of and not repeated. That’s a lot of content and possibly rewards that’s potentially being missed over the years, and we paid at least as much for the game as you did (and likely in many cases more). An event can still be special and exclusive if it’s run multiple times over a day – it’s still only available for that day, it’d just be exclusive to people who were there rather than people who happened to be in the right timezone.
The argument about servers is also completely irrelevant because there are no Oceanic servers. If there were some, maybe that would be an option.
One thing at least I’d like to hear is… how long are the events scheduled to go for? Would be nice to at least know whether it would be worthwhile to rock up an hour or two late or whether this is just something to be written off entirely.
Unfortunately I have to agree with this sentiment that it’s setting a precedent that may well be a continued practice for other events.
I’m going to be able to make it because its 5am where I live. Sure its not perfect but I suppose it’s okay. The problem is still there however. Everybody should have access to this event just as they could have in GW1.
If Anet was Australian and scheduled the event to be at 2-5am on a Monday for US players there would be an uproar. As much as you guys say that you would be complacent with their decision you wouldn’t be.
No matter where in the world you live you should have access to this event. Spoilers is not an excuse and really just sounds like a cop out to my ears.
Saturday 2pm PST / Saturday 9pm GMT / Sunday 7am AEST would of allowed everyone to enjoy the event.
That would be amenable, although, making it one-time only is still something that will annoy people, given the nature of real life. ANet should have stuck to the system they used in GW.
I agree and it should have been designed around that to be honest.
Can’t make it? bad luck.
I think this is an excelent idea…it finaly gives the immersion of a living world…whats the point in events when you can do them over and over again?….This is a good idea and the time is well chosen too….only if i could make it too :/
Its a holiday event with candy corn golems and plastic spiders. Reruning the event is more than just petty immersion in an MMO… its giving other timezones a fair go.
Look at all the Korean European games. They have their games events and times set there timezone. Hmmm who’d of thought that a US company would do the same thing.
We are talking about Guild Wars 2 not other games. It’s predecessor had the events running every 3 hours. Put yourself in our shoes for a few minutes.
What about people buying the game after Halloween is over? Should they also be able to get the special event and items because they brough the game to late? It is basicaly the same thing as not being able to either earn items/titles or attend events ingame.
Just a few thoughs I had in my mind after reading this.
There is a huge difference between people playing NOW and people playing in the future. Your sentiment is irrelevant. The issue is that the even is EARLY in the morning for oceanics (1-3am) on a MONDAY. I can be there during the evening/afternoon but not at 3am on a workday.
Really? You can’t please everyone. ANET is a US company not Asian or European. Get over it.
While I understand your position I cannot disagree more. I’ve paid for this game and I have spent probably $300 dollars in gems over my four 80s. To make the even at 3am on a MONDAY and then claim it wont be repeated due to spoilers is disappointing to say the least; especially alongside the chest nerfs.
“The one major exception is the beginning of Act 3, which is something that I think most people will want to be around to see. The choice of 12:00 PM Pacific Time/19:00 GMT on Sunday was a very informed, calculated decision. It was primarily based on the fact that it’s pretty much the peak of our weekly concurrency, which means it satisfies the highest possible percentage of our users. It also means that it’s the same calendar date whether you’re American or European.
For those of you wondering, having the event at separate times for separate zones is actually one of the worst options. Whatever happens is going to be on livestreams instantly and then on YouTube about five minutes later. At least this way, everyone has a chance to experience it in the game, without having it spoiled by the rapid availability of video on the Internet.”
This statement baffles me. I understand that you don’t want people to be spoiled but even if they are why is it such a huge issue that you are willing to cut out people who wont be able to make it. I find it unacceptable that the only reason I won’t be able to experience it is due to people being spoiled by watching youtube. Even if I saw it on youtube I’d still want to experience it and I can say that the majority of your playerbase would concur with that sentiment.
So I implore you Arenanet please allow the event to run a couple of times AT LEAST. Not wanting spoilers sounds like a cop out.
This event has just been disappointment after disappointment apart from the clocktower.
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Simple question. Does Anet reimburse items purchased?
I bought T3 legs for my Norn Warrior while they looked okay in preview when wearing them the animations make it look silly.
Do what Wildstar is doing for their AOE
Full coloured circles. Red for enemies, Green for Friendlies and Blue for personal AOEs.
Then enable players to turn off or lower others spell effects while keeping the full coloured circles. Having overlaying rings just gets confusing especially when they are white. Bad colour choice imo.
Doesn’t anyone think about color blind players? Red/green color blindness is the most common variety and color blindness in general affects about 9% of the population.
Besides, the solid circles would just overlap. And while I’m sure that it’d be better than the current situation, but it’d also be ugly.
It’s more than easy to make circles that can be colour blind friendly. Also I’m guessing you haven’t seen Wildstars AoE system.
The circles are half transparent so that you can see the ground underneath, they are then highlighted by an opaque light coloured line. This makes is so that it’s easy to see overlapping circles but it gives the player a better understanding of where the damage/support is actually being placed. Instead of a mass of white circles that overlap to make it ridiculously hard to see anything.
This system would be superior if players were able to turn off spell effects for others.
Do what Wildstar is doing for their AOE
Full coloured circles. Red for enemies, Green for Friendlies and Blue for personal AOEs.
Then enable players to turn off or lower others spell effects while keeping the full coloured circles. Having overlaying rings just gets confusing especially when they are white. Bad colour choice imo.
We almost got to 90 percent once doing it one by one. That section is almost impossible now and requires sheer luck. Knee jerk reaction to slow down Exotic acquisition. Yeah sure make it harder but this is just a kick in the face.
Also to get Magg across you all just grab a kit and rush across putting out fires.