This topic is the most braindead thing in this cesspool of forum tears that I’ve read today, and believe me, after the clusterfrog of this Lost Shores event, I thought I’ve seen the worst.
For the people who got DC’ed during the last minutes of the event and never got the chest, I’m very sorry. ANet has already said they will do something about it.
Now, for the other hypocrites on this thread calling out to ban those who spent 6-8 hours of their lives working against an extremely annoying event with their guildmates to re-run these event. For me, the event was very horrible. Between the lag, the bugs, and dying over and over and over again, I did not enjoy it. But guess what? I’m definitely not a rich player. I have less than 10 gold to my name ACROSS all characters. I just wanted the 20 slot bags (which I cannot normally afford), and that took precedence – and I worked for it each and every single time and I CONTRIBUTED to making sure that Ancient Karka stayed dead (and it’s irrelevant but let me just mention that I was physically sick – fever due to tonsillitis – the whole time, and I was literally shivering in cold sweat while doing this event for 8++ hours).
I can’t believe that there are people who would be turning against other people in the community who made it able for those who were not able to do the event initially, and for those who have already done the event to help overflow servers that had the event running but had NO ONE in them to finish the event.
If there’s any one or any thing to blame here, blame it on how the event was designed.
A game exploit implies that you earned some form of reward disproportionate to the effort spent, and none of that happened here.
If you’ve actually done the event from start to finish three times back to back, believe me, even if I had gotten 6 precursors out of it (and just fyi – I got zero precursors and a lot of trash exotics and rares that I just vendored), the reward would be just enough to compensate for the horrible experience.
So what’s the right thing next steps here?
The right thing to do here is for ANet to apologize and appropriately compensate those who WORKED HARD but did not get the reward, for ANet to design future events better, and for people to stop turning on players who helped underpopulated overflow servers finish their event.
My thanks to the rest of the wonderful community who posted threads on which overflow servers were still running.
Now to the rest of the folks complaining about:
1) how RL > game and they did not have the time to do the event
2) how other people spent 6-8 hours of their lives grinding the event to get the bags and accessories
YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE SELFISH. You expect people who have worked hard (REALLY REALLY HARD – I cannot overstate this enough) to get the rewards to be banned simply because you did not think out of the box and wondered “hey, maybe I can do this on my other characters… let me check what the people in the forums are talking about”. You should be rightfully ashamed by trying to bring down others who were justly compensated for the effort they put in.
Btw, I live in Asia. The event started for me at 4AM. I finished at 12:30 in the afternoon. And I’m still sick (much better now though, thanks for asking). So please stop with the excuses. Like in real life, you need to identify windows of opportunities and act on it ASAP, or that window will close. You don’t go, “Omg, please please don’t hire those people who were able to attend the job interview on time because I was not able to go.”
Seriously. Logic check please.
