Guild Wars 2

Won’t actually quote your entire post for length, Noxicon – you sum it all up quite perfectly.

The general map chat response of “Oh well, who cares if we don’t get rewards, we’re having fun here!” idea can be quite inflammatory when you’re combining it with the frustration players are feeling at playing “waypoint-wars” just to lose money (net negative profit just from wp fees alone…) with no xp and no loot or bonus chest.

When you are stressed, when your guild is stressed, and everyone around is frustrated, is it really a surprise that people are going to jump on the first rainbows-and-unicorns commenter in mapchat? We have an actual expectation of quality. So, of course people lash out.

Edit – formatting didn’t pick up. :/

I also have a job and other commitments, so I won’t even be able to attend most of this event. So I can pretty much already give up before I start, as I will never be able to build up the necessary amount of blooms needed for the rewards. And here with my naive self I was thinking I could actually get more than one of the higher rewards – like the shoulders and a thoughtless potion or something. Well, there goes that fantasy…

A thought on getting the reward for events that we did complete within several days : Most of us did a set of map events and gave up completely and went on to doing what we usually do in the game. I tagged a a few events, got completely bored, and left for dungeons. So if we have to build up the incredibly high amount of blooms which various people here have calculated, I’d never even get there, because I skipped pretty much the entire first day of the events.

So, sure, it’s nice that you want to give people their reward later, but I think most of us won’t really have much of a “reward” incoming. Additionally, if the rewards stay as described here, I certainly know we won’t be taking part, as this is completely out of proportion.

On the one hand you have the new players, who cannot really participate as they can’t even hit anything (much less multiple events) so quickly. They probably don’t even have the gold to hop around the multiple waypoints required to tag the majority of events, much less understand how the train works.

Yet on the other hand, the veterans are also out of luck, as this event is NOT challenging. It’s just a lesser version of Silverwastes event farming, but much too easy (they die in less than a second… come on…) with no reward. I’d really much rather go to the SW, personally. At least there they don’t die in less than a second each.
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I think it’s quite genius how both parties have gotten the short end of the stick with this event..