Guild Wars 2

Josh: You should be very proud, not apologize, for designing such an awesome map & challenge.

Remember that if you as a player like something in game, you don’t really have a reason to go on the forums to express that. You rather just keep on playing. On the other hand, if you don’t like something and get frustrated by it, you do have a reason to go on the forums and say so. That’s why we’re seeing more complaints than praises.

Currently reading reddit, and seeing alot of appreciation for the clocktower, and alot of people are mentioning it as the best part of the holiday.

I would be very happy if you actually kept putting difficult stuff like this into holiday events. Some of us do want alot of difficult and challenging content.

Thanks

Elunarie.9283:

Make it too easy and the more seasoned players find it too easy, and therefore not fun. There’s plenty of accessible content (like the Mad King as you mentioned) for everyone else. Let the vets have their fun with some challenging content.

Then remove the achievement for it. Let the vets have fun with their chest that I honestly could care less about.

Why remove the achievement? To be brutally honest: The clocktower is something me and many others ACHIEVED, so we earned the achievement. If you can’t beat it, then you shouldn’t have the achievement. Not every achievement shoul’d be out there for everybody, since you don’t achieve everything in life.

Hold on.. I need to say something. To keep a discussion going, or in defense of Arenanet or whatever.

Think about it, but complaining at Arenanet because you think the puzzle is too difficult, is like complaining about the instrument maker because you can’t play the guitar, or complain about the casino because you lose in poker, or complain that Erno Rubik made the Rubik’s cube too difficult.. and I can go on. I’m serious, it’s just the same principal.

Arenanet made the puzzle, and they made it difficult so we have a serious challenge. But all they did was put the opportunity out there to beat it. It’s an option, not mandatory. There are loads of content out there and also loads of puzzle’s out there that are a bit easier. If you feel that this one is too difficult, then either keep trying until you make it, or give up and you do something else that you find more entertaining and more on your level of skill.

And people say that “but they made an achievement out of it.. OMFG!” – Well… First of, the clock tower achievement is not needed for the Halloween title, so don’t worry about that. And secondly and most importantly in my opinion: You do not achieve everything in life. Not all of us win the super bowl, or the stanley cup. Not all of us are gonna be a singer like Freddie Mercury or a guitar player like.. well.. <insert your favourite guitar player here>. Not all of us are gonna make the clock tower jumping puzzle. The in game achievement is put there for you to be reminded that you managed to achieve this jumping puzzle during the first halloween event of Guild Wars 2. If you didn’t make it, then all you can do is accept that it was too difficult, and that you didn’t achieve this – no shame in that.

But in my opinion, going on the forums saying “This jumping puzzle suck.. Arenanet suck for making this too difficult” – That’s just kinda ridiculous.

I also got a suggestion. Instead of coming into this thread writing that the puzzle suck, I think it would be most welcome if you made a thread saying “I can’t make this puzzle, somebody please give me a tip or some help”.

I can tell you what I did, and hopefully this will help more people to overcome this challenge. It takes abit of time, so if you’re in a great hurry, then it might not be the best way. – I went to the spot where you have to wait a bit for the tower to blow up. And instead of rushing with the pack, I waited for everybody to get ahead and then I tried to figure out the best way to jump until I learned to beat the start. When I knew how to do the start pretty fast I slowed down when I didn’t know where to go (allow yourself to fail by the green liquid), and I figured it out.. and so on. I think this might be easier than blindly failing at the same part all the time because you can’t figure out where to jump.

It was not the last act.

I want to say thank you aswell! This has been a great, great holiday this far, and I’ve enjoyed it alot!

The mad king cutscene sent chills through me and the mini dungeon was great fun.

Thank you very much Arenanet. I’m looking forward to act 4, and I wish we could celebrate the holidays of all religions, just to get more of these holiday events. =)

mastershke.8145:

I had been praying that the reward might have been one of the skins in soulbound on acquire form, but once again Anet proves that they dont care about us.

Ye indeed. They dont care about us at all by working hard as hell, giving us free events that we can enjoy.

Sorry, but you’re acting like spoiled brat.

Can we get a fix in Arah aswell, to stop these “shard farms”? People kinda have this mentality that the game should be skipped through as fast and easy as possible, and I don’t see why. It should take a long time, and be difficult to get these armor skins.

With the trinity gone, it is made very easy to find a group for a dungeon. The more things that we get that automatizes the game, the less people will communicate and move around in the world, which is exactly what we DON’T want. It’s not that much to ask to waypoint to the dungeon and talk to some guys, or use the /LFG tool.

Xenteko: You shouldn’t call Arenanet lazy, when you seem to be the lazy one =)