Guild Wars 2

Lionaeron.5724:

hahaha you’ve got to be kidding, why the hell would they care about you, i’m not trying to sound rude but why would they go to all that trouble you’ve suggested when they still have tons of bugs waiting to be fixed and the real main factor – have your money stashed in their greedy little hands? Better just harden up like the rest of us and take it on the chin.

Why should they care about us? Because players leaving the game = less potential revenue for ANet. As you pointed out, their main goal is to squeeze more money out of us, and because of their non-subscription business model the only way they can do that is if we keep playing. The purchase price of the game only covered the costs of original development, they need to support maintenance and new content through ongoing gem store purchases. And if the pattern they have started with Halloween and the Lost Shores continues – a combination of bugs and design problems that keep people from participating in these events – before too long people will not only leave the game, but they will start telling their friends to avoid GW2 because ANet can’t release a properly working update.

I’m not demanding or expecting anything. I’m completely prepared to keep playing and just accept that I’ll never see that content. But for some people, ANet is 0 for 2 on major events, and even though the rest of the game is great, some of those people won’t stick around if they keep feeling screwed over by the big events.

I have the same problem. My client has been crashing randomly and frequently ever since taking the Lost Shores update. Most of the time it crashes as soon as I log in. I have run the launcher with the repair command twice and completely reinstalled my client once, to no effect. I have also made sure that all of the latest drivers and Windows updates are installed.
Whatever is causing the crashes seems to be destabilizing the Windows memory management in general, because I have had other programs crash and even gotten blue screen crashes/reboots shortly after having tried to log into GW2, given up due to crashes, and moved on to something else. (If I have not run the GW2 client since starting the computer, everything is stable.)

I think they should do this, not only for everyone who completed at least one of the events, but for everyone who made any attempt to log in during the weekend. I never made it further than Noll because he was bugged, and then for most of the weekend I couldn’t even log in due to client crashes. I missed out almost completely on this once-ever event due solely to ANet’s negligence in releasing broken code, and I would like to be compensated with the event loot at the minimum. It would be great if they could find a way for us to also get to experience the event itself.

Having the event repeat several times over the course of a few days would help accommodate people with busy real life schedules or in different time zones, but there is another group of people who need to be considered. The Lost Shores patch introduced some bugs that made the game unplayable for a lot of people – for me, the client crashes as soon as I log in. Extending the duration of the event won’t help us, because we’re locked out of the game until ANet gets around to fixing the bugs that are causing our crashes.
For the benefit of everyone who misses the scheduled occurrence, I think these one-time events should be available at the player’s convenience, in the style of a personal story mission, acquired from a specific NPC. This version of the event could be framed as a flashback to the actual event, and the NPC could be called a “chronicler” or “historian” or something. As Pochibella suggested, there could be an achievement or a flag on our accounts or characters to indicate when we have completed the event once, and after that either we no longer have access to replay that event or we just don’t get any rewards from replaying it.