Guild Wars 2

Rainfall.4017:

Once again a total lack of respect for the playerbase. People want to prepare to log on. Guilds want to prepare. EU people do no want to wait all night. Disgusting treatment. We need a time. If it’s the same 12:00 pst fine, but tell us that.

Really? a lack of respect? Look: The first events being activated are the events that’ll be active until early January. those won’t change. They’re not even starting the TIMED events until TOMORROW in case things go wrong today.

I’m prepared to log in. my guild is as ready as we can possibly be. After all, we know there are events happening, we’ve set up meeting times in several hours. crafting? we’ll figure that out when the patch hits. None of us are EU, but no matter what time, someone is going to be waiting “all night” or “all day” with the looming deadline of having to go to work (my buddy is having to go to work around 1pst and won’t be back until 12+ hours later.), or to to bed, or school (hey how about all of these people who are in school, or at work right now?) …. there IS no “one time LOG IN NOW OMG” event like the last two events. Log in when you log in. Be happy, Get some sleep and relax. Wintersday will be here when you get back.

Catinka.5476:

They should make a count down timer on the wintersday page or any future event for that matter. Like 10 hours till winters day event starts or something. Would make this a lot easier.

but here’s the problem with that — setting a time sets an expectation. They’ve said previously that this part of the event is preceding the others in case they have troubles. If they suddenly realize while prepping to patch the server that the line of code that is supposed to give all the NPCs Jolly Red Hats interacts badly with this other bit of code over here, and instead displays all NPCs as naked, they might need to spend a few minutes extra patching that up before they can activate the live code.

And if they’ve said a certain time, people will get grumpy when that time hasn’t been met… whereas, if you leave the ‘when’ ambiguous, any delays won’t be seen, and it’ll be a happy surprise when it does happen <3 As long as it’s not too late, anyway.

I’d guess though, they’re probably aiming somewhere around 12PST.