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Overall I really enjoy the event, and am sorry to see it blow up this way.
I think there are two main problems with the event which have caused all the drama:
1) The reward system being based on individual event defender stacks encourages people to go around and tag as many events as possible, rather than actually participating in events. I think it would have brought the community together better if the rewards were based on how many successful events the map as a whole completed with each person needing a minimum threshold say 5 stacks, to receive credit. Like the The reward structure from the last Queen’s Jubilee. That way people are encouraged to help defeat as many as possible and see events trough to the end before jumping to the next one.
2) I think most people have gotten used to being able to grind out all possible rewards for every event over the last year (Dry Top, Silverwastes). If I’ve interpreted the reward structure for this event correctly I’d say you wanted to give everyone a chance to earn one or two cool rare rewards that are no longer available, and then a few other things with the leftover tokens. If that’s the case, and it was never intended that everyone be able to grind out all the rewards I think I would have done the rewards like the Festival of the Four Winds, where the meta achievement gave you the one major reward token and you had to decide if you wanted to spend it on the Mini Panda, the Doylak Tonic or a Weapon Skin. I think people would not have been as angry if they knew right from the start that they would have one meta reward token to choose of the “big” rewards to work toward.
Saw this on Reddit – though I’d link it here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3a1q2u/dear_wise_wizards_of_the_arena_net_academy_re/