Guild Wars 2

Seriously! I need to state my displeasure about the event, it unnecessary failed in so many ways and I am definitely not the only one! This is not mentioned to flame ANet, but to point out the problems of this weekend.

First: The whole event was haunted by massive lags and also stuttering for many (same issues with the dragons actually). It is not about my internetconnection – my internet is good enough and many of my guild had the same problems. Enemies plopping out of nowhere, you get damaged of invisible enemies, can’t activate skills, nothing happens anymore and people walking against walls. I had 5 disconnects over the last event and wasn’t able to log in again now. My armor is nearly completely damaged since I could not use my healing skill or could see the enemy attacking. The servers and the engine is not suited for such large scale events at all. Why didn’t you just make it a 20 player instance? Would have worked way better than this crap.

Second: The story behind this is a huge joke, isn’t it? The Consortium is behind it and we know it, now we commit genocide against a race? I don’t understand, what the Karka did to us that we need to overwhelm them like we did… The whole phase 2 and 3 where only slaughtering Karka while massive lag-invasion.

Third: You actually invited people to test out the game on an eventweekend where your servers are not really able to bear with the normal amount of players in some circumstances. Now you let people test the game under those circumstances that they get a bad impression of the game. Not to mention that the NPCs of phase 1 where bugging around a long time as well.

Fourth: I don’t get why you integrate new content when other stuff a) doesn’t work correctly or b) other things are announced to be released after the game release (dx10, guild halls). Yet you integrate gear progression, that was never a characteristic of Guild Wars (more the opposite). This would maybe be reasonable if you would release a complete add on (like Chanta), but for a small content update like this? Sorry, this is shortsighted and disappointing!

Over & out.