Its not ARENANETs problem you cant read to by honest.
They advertised this will be ONE-TIME event many times for a long time. And One-time means that it happens only once. So what are you pissed about?
All you are angry about is that you didnt get your epics or precursors. Well that happens when you miss something big.
You cant blame anyone else, but yourself.
And really, dont try something like: ‘’I was in work, I had ore important real life m things to do, etc’’ …
Oh right. I’ll blame myself because the event occurs when I am sleeping like a normal person would (4 am Monday on my time) because I have to go to work at 6 am to earn money to pay my bills.
Yes, definitely sounds like my fault because I have a job.
One-time events should be avoided as much as possible or if there are, loots and items should not be that much – just to be fair to others who cannot play not because they want to, but because they really can’t.
And no, I am not angry I did not get Precursors or the 20 slot bag or Exotics – I am disappointed. Instead of having a .01% chance to get them, I have 0% chance. It makes a ton of difference for casuals like us.
I agree with knives.6345.
Guild Wars 2 is a “Worldwide” game, and timezones of all countries varies (morning on one and night on the other), and having deprived of a chance to “even experience” (let forget about the loots) a One-Time Event is horrible experience for a player, especially if the only reason is the he/she lives in a different country.
Not all people, especially the responsible/with-lives ones, has the time to play almost 24 hours just to make sure that he/she can participate on that so called one-time event. ArenaNet could not expect people to, skip their work or classes or some emergencies because of a one-time event of a Game. if ArenaNet thinks of it that way, then ArenaNet proves that Games really destroys peoples ability to have their own lives and be responsible.
Having a one-time event for different timezones is just mainly, having a one-time event for GMT+, and one-time event for GMT- (other MMO Games do this, to give chance to all), its a 12hrs gap, casual players will surely experience it once, so it’s still a One-Time Event for them, and all players from different parts of the planet can have the opportunity to participate. One-time event for the East part of the Planet and a One-time event for the West part of the Planet.
If the player still manages to play across the different timezone to participate again, just make his character get no loot, because he already participated on his timezone (one One-Time Event per Account)
If events will occur like this in the future, it will became biased, and depriving the chance for the players on the other half of the planet.