Guild Wars 2

ObliviousFool.3427:

What sticks out in my mind the most about this holiday event are two things:

A: Shady drug dealer tactics – here have 2 free mini pets but if you want them all buy gem beeeotch (extremely unnecessary and not in the christmas spirit at all) YES I know I don’t HAVE to, but there are already minis I HAVE to buy gems for so they should have left it at that and allowed us to grind the rest.

B: putting 4 ENDLESS TONICS into forge for SMALL chance at getting toymaker is such a horridly wrong thing to do to people at christmas and shows HANDS down that anet does not care about us AT ALL.

There is really no rational defense for these two actions and anyone who tries to defend these two actions is either a total fan boy or works for anet. Sorry but FAIL company ethics and morals.

10 Stacks of Glue and 10 Stacks of Stuffing = 1 endless tonic, 4 frames and a broke player.
The event is just one level of robbery topped by another.

In the end, Anet will see the effects of this in future events.

RNG Boxes in Gem Stores for Events, sales will be down. FACT: Many people spent $50 or more on gems for the RNG boxes alone and got absolutely robbed. Those players will not touch them anymore after being burned that hard.
RNG Event Mystic Forge recipies will be avoided. FACT: Many players threw away countless stacks of glue and stuffing to make the tonics, only to end up broke, without glue or stuffing, and sitting on 5 frames that now have to sit in their inventory and take up space.
Events that promise to give a reward for participating will see less participants. FACT: Many Players who were involved with Tixx each day at his reset, does the jumping puzzle each day at reset, and spent time gift-hunting in pve/pvp walked away in the end with Nothing, (or their choice of 2 mini’s, of an available 9, at best). Some people shot for tonics and now cannot make the mini’s.

Many players were burnt on many levels with this event.

Sure, those who got what they wanted aren’t complaining. Good for you.

I’m not asking for anything FREE. I understand Anet has to make money somehow. But limiting it all to so much RNG and then making sure we couldnt grind out mats, thus forcing us to resort to gemstore to complete the collection is complete bullocks.

If the Golem/Inferarium/Snowman was a package like Halloween, then 700 Gems for that, (2 purchases, 1 to make Foostivooo The Merry) is reasonable. Then we can take the 2 free mini’s and drop another 1050 in gems to get the other three. Perfect. No complaints. That’s still 1800Gems that needs purchased or Gold-Sunk. Probably would have had More buyers at that rate.

As it stands, people put 2000+ Gems into those wintersday boxes and walked away with 1 or less of those mini’s. Then, find out the next day after exhausting all gems on their RNG boxes, that they weren’t giving us the ability to craft the 5 gifts and we would again, be required to open banks and dish out more for Anet.

Message received loud and clear Anet.

Even at 12+hours a day, since Aug. 25th. I have gained and lost gold in many ways. Since August 25th I’ve spent and earned well over 100G. I’ve also spent over 100$ Real Game Money for Gems accross All of their Events in only these few short months. More than any other MMO will ever get out of me. And in the future I do plan on doing and spending more. Do not assume I haven’t put in my fair share of effort. This event was still nothing but absolute face kitten since Everything comes down to RNG except the 2 mini’s we get thei parts from. Yes I did the event everyday. So now my only options for collection is more Gold (now im out, putting my last 23 into this event) or more money (sorry, already did this months gem buys). Thats how its total fail. Like I said, those of you who were able to get lucky with the RNG and get thins. Congratz. Many of us us just have piles of Ugly Socks and Sweaters to show for all our effort. After goldsinking everything trying for the RNG, now I don’t even mave money or gold to make the 2 mini’s who’s parts were givin to me. So stop acting like Anet didn’t do us wrong. There were many things they could have done differently.

Make the Gemstore Mini’s not random, for one, like they were on Halloween.

Increase the droprate for items that aren’t socks/sweaters/hats.

Seriously, I grinded 5 days of dungeons to walk away with nothing. RNG for the FAIL.

What was the point of screwing us on this event, Anet?

The promised Gifts from each location turned out to be a lie.

The possibility of using the leftovers to make tonics will bleed you dry.

The mats required costs a ridiculous amount of gold.

This event proved one thing. Anet cared more about creating a giant Gold Sink and driving up Gems sales, that they care not for the player community and how it affected most of us.

Take a look at the GW2 economy Anet. And the real world economy at that. 90% of the wealth is held by the super rich. Most of us regular players have about 3-10 gold at any given time depending on what we just finished.

1600+ Gems + 23+Gold later and I have absolutely nothing to show for it because of this failure of an event.

Needless to say Anet, you have let us down. All your future events will be weighed out against this one. Seeing as how this was your biggest holiday event of the year, you really blew it Anet. You may not feel it now, but you have set a precedent for what to expect from you in the future.

What a waste. So much for being “for everyone”. You really went back on a lot of promises with this event. Your player community will remember that. You have single-handedly caused players to punch through their monitors at the ridiculous rate you can achieve anything with this Holiday event. With everything being account bound anyways, what a waste.

To the lucky few who was able to afford getting everything they wanted, and had the gold or money to put into gems, honestly, congrats, I envy you highly.

Everyone else, like me, will walk away from this with nothing but disappointment and a severe, deep scar on our hearts for Anet.

You certainly made a statement with this Anet: " The poor (ingame or in real life) are not welcome to enjoy the fruits of your holiday events. "

Is this the message we should expect from Anet for all future events? Should the normal crowd stop participating because we will always have less until we get that 1 lucky precursor drop or spend hours upon hours in your broken dungeons to farm up a few gold. Diminishing Returns makes regular mob-farming impossible after 45-mins to an hour. WTF Anet? Your message is pretty consistant over and over. Bring your wallets or do without.

Take a good hard look at the message you have sent to us Anet. Is this the message you meant to send?

Ultimately, what corrective motions are you going to take in order to correct this mistake and give us an ACTUAL reward for participating in your first ever Wintersday event? Or are you seriously going to sit back and be happy with being the Grinch/Scrooge. So much for Holiday spirit. We’ve all been had. “How Anet stole Christmas”.

I could go on, but there is really no need. Anet, your player community has spoken in many ways about this event. I hope you take the time to seriously reflect on the message you sent to us all. Your community will never forget the Christmas that Anet Scrooged us. You can never redo your first Wintersday event. You dropped the ball Anet. Please pick it up and show some love for those of us in your community who are not in positions to put 200Gold into gems, or buy 2000 gems outright.

Honestly. I would expect this kinda of treatment from the United States Government. I would have never expected it from you Anet.

@ Thereon, Do not assume we haven’t already put $30+ into Anet’s Coffer’s for the Wintersday Mystery Boxes for the other 4 special mini’s for the event. Tixx’s 5 mini’s Should be offered free for a grind, since there is already 4 mini’s that are gotten ONLY in the gem store. If others want to spend more money or put a rediculous ammount of gold into gems, that is the player’s choice. Forcing us to use the gem store to finish the collection is where they went wrong. We should be offered a way to grind out more cogs. Simple as that.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

This is not good. Collectors will be very disappointed. You really should make sure a way to grind Mystic Cogs during the 20th-3rd so we can craft all 5 pets. As this thread clearly shows, your community does not like this move. Its setting a precedent that will be hard to live down for future events. Players will begin developing the attitude of “Why bother participating, it is not like I can get all the rewards.”

Don’t learn from this as a past mistake. Don’t make this mistake in the first place.

Thank You!!!!!!!!!!

@ Gaile Gray, any word? Any ETA? Could go knock on their door if they wont respond to email. :-)

Still having issues. I was almost brightened by it. By now we have determined that it is in fact, something on A-nets end.

A-NET – FRACTALS ARE IMPOSSIBLE – EVENTS CANT BE DONE – THESE DISCONNECTS ARE COSTING YOUR LOYAL PLAYER COMMUNITY AND IN TURN YOU. THESE DISCONNECTION ISSUES NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WITH A SOLUTION ON YOUR END THAT SOLVES THIS ISSUE FOR ALL OF US, SINCE ITS BEEN MADE CLEAR THAT WE ALL HAVE THE SAME ISSUE. PUT WINTERSDAY EVENTS ON HOLD UNTIL YOU HAVE THIS ISSUE ADDRESSED. WINTERSDAY WILL BE YOUR BIGGEST MONEY MAKING HOLIDAY EVENT. MAKE SURE THIS IS FIXED WELL BEFORE THEN. (Though a fix 5 days ago would have been better. We understand that you have issues with events and game bugs and also many players who still need their rewards for the Ancient Karka event (us included in that group.) but NONE of us can enjoy anything you guys put in or implement until you correct OUR ISSUE…)…. All I am saying, is: Priorities Anet, Priorities. Lets get things ironed out for all of us. We all thank you for you prompt, undivided attention to this matter. It really shows us how much you care.

@ Deathriot, so far no disconnects, 11:50am pst – 6:00pm pst.
(now going to watch Dexter so I’ll probably get disconnected for afk.
I’ll use my teamviewer to stay connected if i can.)
No dice. After many hours, sadly, I still ended up being kicked and
getting the -Invalid Password- error.
Sorry guys, I tried. Though this did seem to delay the error drastically.
ANet… please…

Its okay, same thing happened with the October event. The solution there was an NPC that still gave out the reward for those who missed it. I imagine this one will be some Consortium or LionGuard NPC that “remembers you from the fight” and wants to “reward you”. Something to that degree. Don’t worry, if you actively participated you should get your rewards.

Still having this issue more and more. So far I have run the GameAdvisor, read that report, nothing really there to see, did GW2.exe -diag, same thing, so this morning I did GW2.exe -repair, and then i ran the client as GW2.exe /clientport 80 for the Ancient Karka Event and I stayed logged in through it. I am currently going to try running the game still until I get kicked again. If you want to try what I did then follow these steps.

If any of you have support tickets out, you can do one [“C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -diag ] and save that text file and upload it to your support tickets if you haven’t been directed to yet. If there is a common facter, ANet can find it with these reports.

This is making Fractals impossible. I certainly hope they don’t have all their resources focusing on lost shores, considering a good portion of us can’t even enjoy the content due to this Invalid Password issue. They need to correct this issue yesterday. Shouldn’t be focusing on new content when players can’t enjoy the existing content. I am sincerely hoping they have it fixed soon. It has been a known issue for some time. This cannot be happening throughout Wintersday. Already losing out on most of the Lost Shores content due to these kicks. Gaile Gray, can’t you get a specialized team together to tackle this issue in the immediate sense?

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Okay, so I scoured and scoured, and I found them all (except Orr, just starting now that I’ve found my missing ones for everything else.). I just found my last place for Maguuma, The Serpentwind, and my Acheivement didn’t change, it stayed 164/165…
Is anyone else having this issue?

-EDIT- Spoke too soon, found Shimmerstone Cave in Sparkfly Fen. Now thats Kryta, Ascalon, Maguuma, and Shiverspeak Explorer Done. Just need Orr.