Guild Wars 2

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MuMu.1632:

Maybe we can get an answer to that – what is ANet’s philosophy here? Will the rewards be similar from year to year?

I’m not dev so take from this comment what you will but looking at any MMO and even GW1, if they do have these minis again next year they will also have new ones added to the list so your collection will keep growing without ever letting you catch up.

IMHO that isn’t bad – I want to be able to expand my collection And I am sure I could save up enough gems from holiday to holiday. I just want to know there is a chance of getting all the minis or I won’t bother with collecting at all.

I am a collector as well and I wouldn’t mind the current system if there were ways of getting the minis at a later date – say, they could be available next year or tradeable. Somebody mentioned this already – even if I had to spend a lot of gems/gold I could just save up and it would be fine with me.

If you are a collector you REALLY don’t want to look at empty slots in your collection knowing you won’t EVER get a chance to fill them up.

Maybe we can get an answer to that – what is ANet’s philosophy here? Will the rewards be similar from year to year?

I agree fully – had to fiddle with my camera a little too much to take a good look at the chainsaw skeleton and even then I couldn’t really make out the details. A hard to get miniature like this should stand out more.

I’m writing here in response to a dev post I’ve found on the Halloween events forums:

“The achievements will no longer be completeable after Halloween is turned off. This is similar to the monthly or daily achievements which also cannot be completed after a certain amount of time. I’m not 100% sure on this, but I believe the plan is to replace the achievements in the special event category with a new set of special event achievements whenever the next special event begins. You’ll keep the points and any titles forever, but I don’t think we would leave you with a bunch of achievements that you (or new players) will never be able to complete.”

I wonder if deleting old achievements is a good idea – I’m leaning towards yes as an achievement bar you are never going to fill up could get on my nerves :P But on the other hand, I feel it could make completing those achievements a little pointless.

I’m really hoping for the Master Carver title to come back next year – I was sure the event would last till the 5th since the BLTC items are available untill then, and was left with 15 pumpkins to carve. It would definately be more interesting to see some other event but I believe the “grindy” achievements like pumpkins, opening trick or treat bags or killing halloween monsters should stay the same, as they take a considerable amount of time to complete – it would give a chance to people with less time on their hands to spread the “work” over a longer period of time. Also, I think it would be a nice touch to somehow connect all the Halloween holidays by having recurring themes like this.

It’s a little bit frustrating for a completionist like myself to see all this work I put into filling up achievement bars go to waste because I couldn’t carve the last 15 pumpkins

All of this said, I must add that you did a great job and put a lot of work into the event. You should probably think of making it last a little longer next time to let more people enjoy it fully.