Guild Wars 2

My favorite screenshots from the Lost Shores event:
- Fractals of the Mists
- Lost Shores Necromancer
- Lost Shores Necromancer vs Karka
- Lost Shores time lapse

Some ideas I had for future events:

Phasing would be excellent – its one of the few things some other mmo does really well. For those that aren’t familiar with phasing it allows people to come into an event area, but only see the part of the event that they are Personally on.

Phasing would allow everyone to log in anytime during the weekend event and begin the event from the beginning. Anyone at the same portion of the event would be grouped and together. Other mmo’s use this method and its great because at ANY time during the event dates a player may participate in the event through its entirety.

Or an overflow server that is constantly running the initial event with the cut scenes would seem like another way to experience the event. It could be a special, selectable overflow such as the “Join (player) in (location)” option for grouping with party members.

The event should be experienced by everyone at their leisure. It should have the importance that Personal Story has that was fundamental in the GW2 design.

Nothing in the description of the event mentions that One Time Event means only at that One Time. Its easy to confuse what IS said to mean that this event won’t happen next year AND that you will have 24 hours to experience each sequence. It should specifically say:

“The launching of the event can only be experienced if you are on at 12pm PST while the remainder of the event can be experienced throughout the day” (barring glitches :p).

And

“The finale of the event begins at 12pm PST and ends when the participants have been victorious. It is intended to last several hours and it will only happen ONE time. There will be no second chance to obtain the rewards for being a part of this event.”

I would prefer to experience the event as a Personal Story over missing the event by not logging in at a specific time or experience the lag that concept encourages. If this method is employed again, even MORE people are going to try to be on at that one time causing an even worse experience.

I also would have preferred this event come out in April or whenever it was really ready. I think people would have been happy if you’d just thrown out some banquet tables and food/recipes/gifts and just said, “Happy November! Show your friends around Tyria for the free weekend.”

I’m sympathetic towards ANet and players for this exciting weekend event. ANet wants to share new content that they’ve put time into and players want to enjoy it. On top of that ANet offered a free weekend trial. New players are being introduced with all this going on

The game has only been out a little over 2 months and is on its 2nd event. Its impressive. No game launches without bugs especially mmo’s. We can hope that with more time these events will become streamlined and enjoyable by everyone no matter their location or availability.

The event should be experienced by everyone at their leisure. It should have the importance that Personal Story has that was fundamental in the GW2 design.

Phasing would be excellent – its one of the few things some other mmo does really well. For those that aren’t familiar with phasing it allows people to come into an event area, but only see the part of the event that they are Personally on.

An overflow server that is constantly running the initial event with the cut scenes would seem like another way to experience the event. It could be a special selectable overflow such as the “Join (x.player) in (x.location)” option for grouping with party members.

Nothing in the description of the event mentions that One Time Event means only at that One Time. Its easy to confuse what IS said to mean that this event won’t happen next year AND that you will have 24 hours to experience each sequence. It should specifically say “The launching of the event can only be experienced if you are on at 12pm PST while the remainder of the event can be experienced throughout the day” (barring glitches :p).

I would prefer to experience the event as a Personal Story over missing the event by not logging in at a specific time or experience the lag that that encourages. If this method is employed again, even MORE people are going to try to be on at that one time causing an even worse experience.

I’m sympathetic towards ANet and players for this exciting weekend event. ANet wants to share new content that they’ve put time into and players want to enjoy it. On top of that ANet offered a free weekend trial. New players are being introduced with all this going on :(

The game has only been out a little over 2 months and is on its 2nd event. Its impressive. No game launches without bugs especially mmo’s. We can hope that with more time these events will become streamlined and enjoyable by everyone no matter their location or availability.

I was hoping to enjoy the event when I had time to play on Friday. I was thinking the event would be instanced or phased so that ALL could enjoy it as they do with their Personal Story that was so important to the design of GW2.

I feel I missed out on something that was hyped to be exciting. To me that excitement was being part of the event and not missing out, even if the missing out is a cut scene, and an event that starts things off and there are still other things to do.

From the description, i had not understood that one time event means at that specific hour. Its easy to think one time event means not going to happen next year. Nothing in the announcement stated that if I was not present AT 12PM PST that I would miss an important moment that I would later need to youtube through someone else’s experience.

Events of this importance should be phased, or instanced, or put into a selectable overflow.

Please make the entirety of future events enjoyable to everyone and not a privileged statistic group.