Guild Wars 2

GW2! play with your friends! Downscaling invented so you can play with your friends right from lvl 2 (after the tutorial) – but wait our mini games for this holiday event, yea we’re not going to let you play those with your friends at all.
Also 9 mini pets, with 2 attainable – ok so i took some of your advice (after filtering through the people who think name calling and constructive feedback are the same thing….) I bought some gems I converted some gold to Gems (8000 Gems all up and I got, wait for it…. 3 mini pets and 1 was a duplicate!)
I also got a few weapon skins, that I DID NOT WANT, i do not understand this lottery aspect of holiday events it just puts a negative spin on things as gambling almost always tends to do.
If you still see no problem here then there is no helping you at all

Definetly agree that it needs to be harder, it seems a shame to have someone work so hard on making something like this to be played for 5 minutes per person and then to never be seen again

@ Stormleaf,

How about rather than trying to find holes in my grammar about how i dislike the event would you like to pose a counter argument as to how the event is good?

Btw i have achieved my legendary i have no issues with earning things (although this felt like a gold grind as opposed to anything actually legendary but that is another issue)
I want to be able to PLAY THE GAME for the rewards rather than fork out cash for them (9 mini’s only 2 obtainable without spending money – my biggest issue, especially considering theyre account bound and i can’t even purchase them from other players with in game gold)

@stormleaf.

pets are far less accessible I have all the halween ones for little cost, that was a great implementation of collectors content.
theyve also stated that holiday content will not be identical year to year so those pets may not even exist next year.

As for details on the events.
Bell Choir – I cannot join this with my friends or without other players to play any kind of tune as it puts me with a bunch of random people, so it just ends up sounding like a bunch of random bells. ( I was unaware this was ingame music, as like many other people i play with ingame music off, this was a nice idea but what about xmas carols or something more recognisable?)

SnowBall PvP – Again unable to join with friends and/or guildmates as its a random match up, knockdown achievement requires you to get the Killing blow to count.

@artofwar, feel free to disagree with me but please be constructive about it, i’m placing feedback in the hopes that it may improve the game.

@Luthan, you do make a good point about being able to go and do other content during a holiday event, however why is someone with more time on thier hands not able to grind or farm the content to obtain weapon skins and/or mini’s. There seems to be no incentive to spend more than maybe an hour a day at max on content that obviously isnt developed overnight.
especially if youre a collector (to collect the mini’s alone you would HAVE to spend more than the cost of the entire game – this seems ridiculous)

pretty sure everything i mentioned is current content, with any other information (like only being able to make 2 of the 5 town pets) having been confirmed by a dev post…

My dissapointment is now with the current wintersday content as outlined in OP

I am perplexed as to how the Haloween event could have been so good (except for the item shop ridiculous RNG issues) and Wintersday just leaves me wanting more.

I expected a Haloween style event with things happening all over Tyria and a fix to the RNG item shop issues players complained about during Haloween.

First of all, Great idea with the weapon skins and implementing several ways of obtaining them that makes players who purchase the mystery boxes feel like they actually got something for thier money. BUT then you do to the mini pets during Wintersday exactly what the issue was with the weapon skins at haloween! 4 unique mini pets reliant on extreme RNG from wintersday boxes.

5 Unique Toy’s specific to each city/race… great idea! but why dear god can i only obtain two of them if I play the instance every day for the 5 days? you already have 4 item shop account bound pets exclusive to the item shop.

And finally 3 lackluster events in LA (snowball PVP, Choir, and Jump Puzzle)

Jumping puzzle is a nice idea and entertained me for about 5 minutes before completion – it’s just way too easy.
Snowball PvP feels lackluster and attaining the second achievment (the knockdown one) either seems broken or needs a much much clearer description
The choir guitar hero was a good idea, but it just sounds like random ringing bells to no tune what so ever, the appeal of guitar hero was that you recognised the songs you were playing!

I keep receiving a login server error when trying to login but cant see anywhere here id servers are down or supposed to be up. anyone have any ideas?