Guild Wars 2

Additional point about limited or one off events it very much depends on their number.
This Karka one is the first such event so those who missed it are a little disappointed.
If however this became a fairly frequent part of the game say every month or 2 months then players will not panic so much at missing one.

Under those circumstances if you truly want them to be one off events then you need to rotate through the time zones.

That seems only fair.

For a game that’s sold worldwide to have an event that only a few time zones could reasonably join in the finale is plain wrong.
To prevent anyone farming these events you make it either a one off per account or per character if your feeling generous.
ie in the final event message you would get a key to the final chest.
Players could then farm the event but only open the chest once so no silly numbers of exotics.
You could then spread the load of the final event over a 24 hour period allowing all time zones a fair chance of getting in at a suitable time.
Pacific it was 12 noon UK was 8pm so far so good.
India a 1 am start then as you go east through China Japan to say Australia your starting around 4 5 or 6 am.
So what an Aussie to do wake at 6 play the event then head off for work.
Sry its not on and your only going to hurt sales in these areas.
I am convinced your Programmers are doing a top notch job with this game but someone has a few strange ideas.
Like introducing friends to the game on the same weekend as a major event.
So all the instability and bugged quests probably just turned them right off the game.

Defend Lions Arch frantic but good 8
Mini quests bugged so I never finished but they were fixed so 6
Final Quest very long but good reinforcements part almost crashed my system 9
1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁹
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁷
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ⁸
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ⁹
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – ³
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ⁷
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹⁰
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁷
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – ⁷

So far those 2 examples I quoted are the only 2 I had a problem with.

Wounded animal and you cannot heal it so have to kill it triggering the event.
Its to contrived just screams trap.
Why cannot I heal it I have heals, sry too obvious.

Capturing young Doylaks and you usually have to slaughter the adult ones to do it.
Maybe I just don’t want to do that but its the only way to complete that heart.
Other hearts have multiple options that one is capture and protect captured calves only.
Im just one of those annoying players that likes to role play their character.

Now I know zero about programming but I would have thought it not impossible or even that challenging to have the game flag a players account for unusual appearences of gold.
When players buy gold I presume they don’t buy 5 gold or 3 or 27 silver they buy a largish set amount.
Checking the gold sellers websites would presumably show how they are selling the gold.
So when that exact amount suddenly appears in a players account its pretty certain he bought gold.
There is no way it could appear there from playing the game and if it came about through the trading post then again it would be seen.

That leaves 2 options bought from a gold seller therefore banned permanently.
Bought off another player using some none approved game transfer ie the mail system.
If the player claims this is how it was done he must prove it and identify the person he bought it off, otherwise again they are banned.

Blob: I see nothing wrong with banning every player that buys any gold however small.
Gold selling is bad for the game and should be stopped.
Its also evident that gold sellers in a country outside the reach of the company means they cannot stop the bots.
So you remove the customers, from the game as fast as you possibly can.
100% of perma banned players cannot reoffend.

I know its my choice but I find some of the events at odds with my character.

In snowden Drifts there is a wounded Moa and I know its part of an event.
Wouldn’t it be good if players could choose a path even if it prevented doing that event.

I would prefer my Sylvari to have the option to heal the moa rather than kill it or leave it.

Similar problem with an adjacent area capturing Doylak Calves, don’t want to do it but its the only way to complete the map.

For future game additions can we perhaps have an ethical choice, giving players choice, in this case greed vs ethics is always good.

Keep up the good work awesome game with few negatives I can think of.