Guild Wars 2

I just, finally, got the wintersday shoulder skin. It looks nice but really, as many people before me, I say 10 000 drinks is a tad too much from an event where you cannot play any profitable game mode with your friends. Give us a halloween-labyrinth style event for christmas where we could play with our friends and it gives us reasonable amount of rewards for playing (Tixx’s 50 once a day and 25 the rest of the time was ridicilous, you’d do better with bells and jumping…alone… In an MMO you should never come across the question “Do I play with my friends or grind some achivements?”. This question took huge loads of time away from my GW2-friends and my irl-friends too (one being my wife, I’m glad she plays GW2 too so she understands). One thing that annoyed me a bit too was the thought that when I have children (probably I’m still playing GW2 or even GW3 then), I won’t have even half the time I used for this event which will mean I won’t get anything out of events like this because the shoulder skin was really the only thing worth doing achievements for this year.

Halloween was cool and well balanced, you had lots to do and you got something out of it without doing the biggest stuff, but the Wintersday was the worst really. I say this with such passion because I have loved original Guild Wars, loved GW2 even more and HoT is making things still better, let this winter be the worst you’ve done to your community and bring Tixx back next year with something worthwhile to do with your friends. Let GW2 be still the least grindy MMO I’ve played this far and make the 10 000 drinks a nice experience.