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Hello,
I asked the head of the GW2 Design Team about whether we would be making changes and rerunning it, extending it, or repeating it as it currently is designed. At this time, we are not going to extend the event, nor do we have plans at this time to repeat it, either amended or in its current form.
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If you earned blooms during that period but did not receive them or received fewer than the intended amount, they will be sent to you via in-game mail. NPCs will remain in place — particularly in the Priory.
Firstly, thank the Almighty that you are not extending this event or I would probably develop a blood clot from sitting there playing so much… I did learn to do a lot in 30 min break though
. Sadly I slept less during this time, drank less water, ignored my spouse… so sad for a stupid skin.
So, I was a hard core tagger and do feel bad to some degree, though all the work I did was in no means easy. In fact the whole event chain was an intense fight for 30 minutes and yes I stayed to finish off events after I hit my 20.
The loss of blossoms so early in this event was frustrating as I cant rely on arenanet to give me what I deserve. Heck, they don’t even respond with a real answer when I submit a ticket, so how do I expect them to do the right thing? Yes I kept track of EVERYTHING, so I know that I should have no less than 40 blossoms for tagging, 60 blossoms for daily, 3 crashes and one map kick for 60… well you can add that up and see for yourself. Disturbing. So because I have only had 2 tickets out of probably 30 (most of them this weekend) taken care of in the life of me playing this game, I have no faith in how arenanet support works. I was able to get a potion and 2 skins without the supposed blossoms arenanet has promised. How do we plan for what we want to get if we dont know what we will be getting? I grinded the hell out of those events. Oh wait, I thought arenanet doesn’t support grinding?
So to avoid the issue with disconnect etc, I would give the rewards as you go so in the event of disconnect, partial credit is given for the work. After 2 events you get 1/2 a blossom or something that you can trade in for blossoms after you have enough. So like the little experience items that you can turn in to make one tome of knowledge… system in place like that would avoid this whole issue. The stacking reward should be present on your toon if you disconnect and log right back in.
I don’t think everyone should get a set amount of rewards and I like that hard work rewards you with more. I would liked to have gotten karma at least for the events based on participation, so silver vs gold giving scaled amount. For new players they hopefully got experience on the lower level toons, but if not that is not right. I think it is unfair to give those just standing there the same reward just because they were present on the map. I think it will be nice sporting my new skins knowing I worked for it, but my newly acquired tendonitis will mean I will just be standing there and not running around.
I am a team player generally, so I think this design actually didn’t negatively or irreparably impact the community like all the other comments have eluded to. I got on ts or chat with others, partied up like in triple trouble and got REALLY GOOD at calling out the shields and blossom events, we all spammed the cata event in the end but it was about having a system. So in essence, we worked together. It was rough at the beginning, but in the end this morning we did more with less players than we did at the start. I met a lot of new players and guildies in the events and we all WORKED TOGETHER. So the people complaining didn’t really give it a chance. Can you imagine a map with a bunch of taggers? Yes it happened… we had multiple groups rotating through “tagging” events. I had more “community” these last few days in pve than I normally experience… almost resembled the wvw community we have in borlis pass. Seriously, why do I keep coming back… because of the community we have created as gamers.
Overall, I am more disappointed by how arenanet has chosen to deal with all the issues we gamers have identified. It is nice that the “problems” have been acknowledged… but it takes time to repair the damage done by denial. I have 4 emails where the support person flat out denied there was a problem and that I was alone dealing with the problem… maybe it was my computer. I have played way too much in the last year and have only had a total of 3 crashes …. out of 414 days of play. So what would repair what arenanet has done to the community of veteran and new players? OWN EVERYTHING that was wrong about the event, plan a new event, and verbalize it well in writing. We are supposed to be celebrating the length of the game, but you failed to see that is the gaming community that you should be celebrating… WE ARE THE REASON You get to keep drawing beautiful art for the game or coming up with new ideas… YOU DO IT FOR US! That is the truth right there. We the GAMERS are the COMMUNITY that makes the game so much fun… You want the community to keep buying gems and participating and buying the new stuff, then you need to wow us with your ownership. And seriously, I don’t want to hear from some “minion” (no offense as I do like to rune Minion Necro on PVE). I want to hear from the Legendary Boss and make sure to put your message on the login screen so we can all click the link to watch the video.
Side note, arenanet could send blossoms in lieu of this legendary acknowledgment… but that looks like arenanet is trying to appease the mass by covering it up. Just clear the air for the whole community.
And lastly, thank you for attempting to create an event that we could test out and at least get rewards for. In beta there was no rewards and honestly made me stop beta testing when I realized I didn’t get to keep anything including those beta achievements. I do appreciate having events like this and the chance to earn some nice things or bringing back items not in circulation. You made a lot of people happy by choosing to do this, and will continue to do this if this is the path you will take in the future. Variety is the spice of life!
My parting words…. this was my response to a support guy that said there were no problems like crashing/disconnect “You’re kidding, right?” quotation for the bandits I took the line from in pve… totally love it!
commentary is hilarious! But seriously, I don’t know that new race really makes that huge of a difference. It would be fun to see where arenanet would go with it… would have to get a few more character slots to accommodate this. I do like the new profession and CANT WAIT TO PLAY! I was hoping to be a part of beta testing… but alas that is not to be
edited: autocorrect sucks, lol