Guild Wars 2

Skinned orphans? Man, Zommoros will take anything now wont he!

This has been answered categorically in the wvw thread by a dev. Due to the feedback from the community a very hasty change was made and 2 devs worked over the weekend at short notice to sort this for our benefit.

There was no trolling, no conspiracy.

It’s laughably bad, so much so I don’t believe anet made it.

Somehow addictive tho…..

I’d love to see it permanent, but it the reasons are likely below;

1) rolling it out once a year gives a chance to refresh new related items in the shop
2) keeps the focus on the event over a short period of time. Even the greatest of these events tend to slow down after a few weeks and once a year keeps it from being repetitive. Also, Something like Wintersday not only slows down, but only has short term appeal anyway. It would remove the special feel of the season to carry it through
3) To prevent demands from the community to adding more content to it throughout the year which is probably time consuming
4) To prevent distraction from the main game which they will want to push above all else – that’s what they market.

Having said that, SAB works, it’s fun and I’d be happy to ignore all the above and keep it in for longer if it’s what players want

The community asked for this improvement to drops and ecto gain every day since launch, loudly, often offensively. Anet listened and responded. I sort of know what you mean, but I’d much prefer the way it now is. It’s a little unfair to the devs to start complaining too much about the very things they changed because the community asked them to.