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I would like to share my “horror” story of the Lost Shores event.
[TL;DR – Australians/NZ had an awful timeslot, why not have the event rerun during the day.
Why does the chest despawn so quickly, it’s crushing to be denied looting the chest after such a long and draining event.]
After the Halloween Event I was looking forward to the November event, and with the Fractals dungeon I was really enjoying myself with my guildies (except that Wisp gathering instance, grr). That is until today’s one-time event. Really it was just poorly thought out on multiple levels and left me feeling extremely bitter, disappointed and hollow.
Being in Australia of course the event started at 7am in the morning, I was only aware of the event once I logged in at about 9:30am when everyone was spamming Lion’s Arch with their new loot and precursors. It may be my own fault for not being informed the previous evening, but some blatant forewarning would have been much appreciated. So half my guild and I were already feeling as though we had been slapped in the face, after having previously attended all the one time events, which had never had any loot in them worthy of feeling dejected over.
Then out of pure luck, one of our members happened to get slotted into an overflow with the event still in progress, there was a shining beacon of light for those of us who had missed out! After many attempts of trying to join the same overflow we all fought our way to the boss and defeated it! Unfortunately myself and one of my party members were down, with swarms of karka hatchlings preventing anyone from reviving us. So we ported back to our nearest WP (which was very far away!) and ran back to the chest. I manged to open it, but when my friend arrived to open the chest… oh, wait, what chest? It was GONE???
Really..?
So after the initial heartbreak of missing the event, my friend was left with a big fat nothing. Or rather a big fat pile of crushed hope and resentment towards Arena net. Was it really necessary to have the chest despawn, or at least in such a short span of time? We then tried to look for different overflows where we could try to do the event again so we could get them the chest, to no avail. Suffice to say they were really disheartened and they don’t see much of a reason to continue playing with these poorly designed events with WoW as an alternative.
I appreciate the work and effort put into the events, but I really hope that Arena net will listen to their disappointed players and not make these mistakes again. I enjoy GW2 and I believe it’s fantastic for a subscriptionless MMO, but I stay because of my friends, and if they are leaving I may end up moving on to other games too.