Guild Wars 2

Cyberkaki, try relogging. I had this bug earlier and logging out and back in seemed to fix it (at least, I did get in when I tried a second time after relogging).

Varying difficulty levels with scaled rewards would be perfect for me, and I’m sure for most people posting here, too.

As for achievements being self-imposed, that may be true, but everyone has a different goal when playing games. It can be very frustrating when achievements are one of yours and you can’t get one, just like it would be if, say, getting every recipe was a goal but you couldn’t get all the seasonal recipes for whatever reason.

at long last

Norn/Engineer, no buffs. Latency 300-370ms really screwed me over. Rewarding yes, fun not at all.

Sparda.9750:

ehy men.. i could finish the tower 1/5 times.. but it never drops me nothing more than trick bag.. possible??

After you finish it once with a character you’ll only get bags from the chest at the end, if memory serves.

I second Raehvyn’s suggestion of avoiding getting mad/frustrated. Take a break if you’re mad or just can’t concentrate. I promise you’ll jump better after a break (well, I promise I did, at least).

One basic tip is to try and lower the number of jumps you make as much as possible. Jumps take a split second longer than walking. The less jumping the better.

OP’s suggestions are good but keep in mind that if your latency is bad (like mine is, 370ms when I finally managed this puzzle) there are two crucial spots – one is the small square platform, like OP says, and the other is the drop onto the platform with a chest. If you’re lagging chances are the mist will have taken over or will be starting to take over when you drop – be quick getting up and hop onto the next platform asap. If you’re slow enough, the platforms next to the one with the chest will have spawned by the time you’re able to drop – fall on those instead if so.

It probably takes more practice (and patience) than if your connection’s fast. It took me 12 hours to reach the top the first time. It’s a lot of time, and you may be better than me and get there before then – but if you don’t have that time and you can’t make it, don’t feel too discouraged. I know how frustrating it is (I made lots of frustrated forum posts about it).

I’ve been talking about black screen crashes in other threads but after seeing this one I have to say – my FPS is now 17 or so when it was 35-40 before. Whatever they did in yesterday’s patch, my video card doesn’t like it. I’m pretty sure it’s the video driver causing the black screens, too – monitor goes dark well before the computer shuts down.

Edit: Lowered settings to minimum (I only had textures and cloth/water animation on high), FPS is 28, still lower than before.

I got network errors maybe twice, but I got five black screens today alone. Updated video drivers, didn’t do much.

The game itself’s been crashing nonstop for me (and causing my entire computer to shut down and restart). Five times today and counting, twice during Mad King fight, once right after I was done when the reward was appearing on the screen (I checked my inventory before the crash, didn’t get the items).

Game ran fine with no crashes until today.

My entire system crashed while fighting stuff in there. Though that’s the fourth crash for me today – entire game seems unstable after last patch for me.

I’d experienced maybe one crash like this before, but today my game’s crashed three times already – I lose signal to the monitor and then the system crashes completely (suggests a graphic driver problem) and restarts. When I first made an account I got an alert that my driver version was known to cause crashes and I updated it then. Now I’m getting crashes every 10 minutes or so, and I’m unsure why.

Graphics card is a GeForce GT220, I am well above minimum reqs otherwise. System is Windows 7 64 bit. I was using version 306.23 of the driver for the card until today. I went to check and a new version was released in October 10 (306.97) so I’ll be updating to that now. If I continue to experience crashes I’ll post here.

Edit: Didn’t help, system crashed in the middle of the Halloween event.

MrMT.4061:

As for those who suggest that because some people are disabled, there should be no activities which challenge the fully-abled – really? Do you really mean this? Should we ban the Olympics also? I am delighted that the disabled enjoy GW2. I will happily do WvW and conquer worlds with anyone, anytime. But the suggestion that the game should offer no challenge beyond what the disabled can master is perverse. The same goes for those with bad internet connections, and difficult family lives.

I myself have been one of the people talking about disabled players, but I’m an advocate of letting people choose the difficulty level, not ban the challenge for able players. As for the Olympics, the Paralympics Games exist for the disabled to compete on equal footing. One does not demerit the other, they coexist, so adding a lower difficulty mode – while keeping the current difficulty level for those who want it – wouldn’t really change the game for able players in any way.

Wildclaw.6073:

I don’t think making things accessible to disabled players make them dull for everyone else if it’s done right

I don’t think that word means what you think it does. Disabled players can access the clock tower puzzle just fine. They may not be able to finish it, but that is a different matter.

Sorry for using the wrong word, English isn’t my first language. The meaning I was going for is making things possible for disabled players to do/complete, like you said.

Edit: I don’t mean the apology sarcastically, by the way! “Accessible” is very similar to a word in my native language but we use it more figuratively in general and it’s a word commonly used to talk about inclusion of disabled people, hence my confusion.

I don’t think making things accessible to disabled players make them dull for everyone else if it’s done right – having two difficulty settings (with less or no rewards on easier difficulty) more than takes care of the problem without really affecting the challenge for those who want one.

That’s a suggestion, though, rather than a demand – it’d just be really cool and inclusive if disabled players were taken into consideration sometimes.

And for those who argue that it’d be insulting to disabled players to have an easier mode – it’s not insulting to disabled athletes to have the Paralympics, and if any disabled athlete is insulted, they can still compete in the Olympics. It’s just more inclusive to have the option.

Cyric.7485:

neon.4863:

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I’d blame it on a terrible ping, good lord man, I don’t know how you manage! In FPS games a ping higher than 130-150 is considered absolutely atrocious, lol.

yesss faith in skills: restored

Haha I’m so used to awful ping that I guess I don’t even consider it anymore. pls2b servers in my country, cry.

I decided to check my latency when connected to GW2: 300ms. I’m in South America. Someone I know who’s in Japan playing on the same server has a latency of 400ms. This may sound like just an excuse to be bad at it – I’m pretty sure plenty of people with that latency managed the puzzle – but it does add a complication factor mostly because this is a speed puzzle that requires precise timing. I got disconnected from the puzzle more than once, I very often fail it while standing on a platform with no visible goo, and that wreckage at the start after the wait on the first cog sometimes takes time to form (I can see it stalling, and it’s not a graphical glitch either – I’ve seen it form at various different speeds between instantly and hanging for up to a second). I also notice some players have the little movie symbol on their heads after we go in and some don’t, which is probably also due to different latency.

Sometimes, “be faster” isn’t an option. We’re relying on internet connections to send signals – if the connection lags or is just slower in general because of your distance to the server, you have a literal speed cap. You could try for hours on end to no avail because you just don’t have the same response time as the others.

So for me it’s a whole set of issues – including slow reflexes, bad latency, bad equipment etc – that make the puzzle impossible without a lot more practice than I’d be able to squeeze in.

For the record, I’m not a casual player. I love JPs, I love challenges, and I was pretty pumped about this JP until I spent 6-8 hours on it unable to progress at all and wondering where my skill had gone.

Or maybe I’m just an unskilled butterfingers, idk. I didn’t use to be one, though. Can I blame that on age? I’ll blame that on age.

They usually comment somewhere on the forums about the update, but yes please! I’d like to know what the latest patch did, for instance, but can’t seem to find it anywhere.

I logged in to suggest this and did a search, this was the first suggestion that came up. +1 to this, please! I never know which item is soulbound to who and I have 8 characters, which means a lot of logging in/out to check.

Hours later, I tried again. I did marginally better, but the wait ticks me off. For me, if there was no wait to get back in, I would have incentive to keep trying. As it is, though, I keep failing simple jumps and being punished for it by having to wait longer to get back in – which just quickly adds to the frustration factor (while not actually doing anything for the difficulty factor).

I also think my mouse may be part of the issue, which is no fault of anyone’s (and perhaps it’s part of the issue for other players, too). I noticed I miss many jumps because I can’t air strafe quickly enough, even with camera turning speed at max – my mouse sticks and the camera won’t turn as much as it needs to. So your mouse’s responsiveness may also be interfering. If I keep holding W and jump I will inevitably fall at some point because of faulty air strafing – and stopping to adjust the camera means the goo catches up with me.

I can say with 100% certainty after trying for 5-6 hours straight, then trying after taking breaks several times, yet only being able to successfully air strafe past the beginning once without needing to stop (yes, just once – every other time the camera got stuck and my jump was way off; the one time I managed I got confused because I’d never gotten that far and fell) that this puzzle is just impossible for me.

Skill isn’t the only thing that gets in the way of completing it.

I know how to complete the puzzle. I know the route, I know where to jump, but I’m still too slow. Some people just can’t do it, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Don’t worry, I’m too slow too – tried for hours and couldn’t get past the same spot with everyone else speeding ahead of me. But the achievement doesn’t count for the title! So there is that, at least.

The only problem I see with the “only those who truly made the effort” mentality is, again (I feel like a parrot) the fact the puzzle is available for a limited amount of time. Which means that some people who truly made an effort won’t make it in time.

Though if the event will repeat next year/the same puzzle will be available again, I have a lot less issues with it. As long as there are more chances to try than just the next four days, I’m content.

Valentine.6529:

Where is this 5% coming from? Link please? I completed the clock tower puzzle 5 times now. I’m use to playing platformer games o3o

http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=7siXDrqWUTUGh-41PqrML8MN6tsaV8wRT8Ii2ztHpR0

Here you go!

ykyk.2740:

neon.4863:

ykyk.2740:

Bringing in disability as an argument to attempt to lower the difficulty of something DESIGNED to be difficult is…silly.

I can’t repeat enough times that I am not in favor of a nerf (not anymore – I originally was but it was out of initial frustration, it was pretty silly of me). The discussion has shifted in this direction, for me, because of the notion that you can just “work on your skill” – which is something that’s not possible for some players due to disabilities (and other reasons) getting in the way, at least not in a limited window of time.

It’s not something people won’t be able to live without, but it stings for some people, and it can’t be too hard to respect that, can it?

All I can say is I’m sorry this has to happen. I completely agree that making it not Halloween-exclusive so people can learn at their own pace is a great suggestion. I respect that people are fighting with certain limitations, and that sometimes it just doesn’t feel fair. My point is simply that it was perhaps never meant to be “fair”, and that using accessibility or “fairness” as an argument to adjust the difficulty is completely missing the point. I hope I do not come off as offensive in bringing this point across.

I don’t think you came off as offensive, no!

I do however think that something designed with unfairness in mind is flawed – your mileage may vary here, but in a multiplayer game you probably want to be inclusive instead of exclusive. If it was designed to be unfair (and it apparently was, with the supposed creator of the map saying he expected 5% completion out of all the players), it could have been done without being this exclusive, too. Reward tiers based on the amount of time you took to complete it, for instance, would have still been “unfair”, but it would also not have locked some players out of the content entirely. It’d still be unfair, just more inclusive.

I understand this is probably how the puzzle was designed, I just don’t agree with how it was designed. I still don’t feel like it should be changed just because I disagree, but I do feel like players should at the very least be allowed to vent their frustrations, if nothing else.

(I also agree with the camera issues – they are issues even during regular gameplay and this seems less like a design choice and more like a flaw in the game itself.)

ykyk.2740:

Bringing in disability as an argument to attempt to lower the difficulty of something DESIGNED to be difficult is…silly.

I can’t repeat enough times that I am not in favor of a nerf (not anymore – I originally was but it was out of initial frustration, it was pretty silly of me). The discussion has shifted in this direction, for me, because of the notion that you can just “work on your skill” – which is something that’s not possible for some players due to disabilities (and other reasons) getting in the way, at least not in a limited window of time.

It’s not something people won’t be able to live without, but it stings for some people, and it can’t be too hard to respect that, can it?

Cyric.7485:

Yeah, I’m pretty sure not every person with a disability is mentally moping and secretly cursing the world for “reminding” them of their disability. Long story, incoming:

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I dated a girl whose right arm stopped growing at the elbow when she was in the womb, so she essentially had to learn to do everything with her left hand… because she didn’t have a right hand. When asked, she would tell me that she didn’t really mind at that stage in her life (late 20s) because she’d gotten used to it long ago. However, she understood that I had questions and she was pleasantly obliged to humor them. What she didn’t like was people making nasty comments or jokes (playful or otherwise) to her, for instance, she went on a blind date once with this guy who left her at the restaurant and told her he was “looking for a whole woman” and that really got to her. Otherwise, she was as happy as anybody else…

All that stuff aside, people need to realize everything isn’t going to be dumbed down to their level of incompetence so they can succeed. Yeah, it’s a game where we all come to have fun. I honestly don’t even understand how you can feel pride in achieving something after it’s been dumbed down especially for you… hell, I’d be insulted. The only thing of worth this thread is providing, which mrsrachelm pointed out surprisingly, is feedback for the dev teams for future updates.

But hey, to each their own I suppose. All for camera fixes and player blocking fixes, still against any proposed nerfs.

I didn’t say every person with a disability is doing that. What I am saying is that the lack of consideration for the people who are here, right now, saying they’re not skilled enough, due to a disability or otherwise, is astounding.

Also, people have different opinions. What would be insulting to you could be inclusive to someone else.

I don’t think a nerf should be in order – I think this level of challenge should be available to those who want it. But telling people who aren’t skilled enough to do it (but would like to) to suck it up is unnecessarily harsh. Being more inclusive – which could be done just by making the puzzle available permanently – would not hurt those who are really good at it. It’d just make those who are less good at it able to get it done, too. Eventually.

I was just wondering how much this event has cost you so far in terms of in-game gold and real money for gems?
- Enough for the seasonal skins in the style section of the shop.

Has it been (or will it be) worth it to you?
- Sure, the little I spent was well spent.

What is the one item you really wanted from this event? Did you get it?
- There was nothing in particular! I’d dig having one of each skin and all that, but I’m too low level/broke to even consider it.

What was your favorite part of the event?
- Mining candy corn was strangely relaxing and rewarding to me.

How has this holiday event impacted your willingness to invest in future events/expansions?
- Negatively as far as keys go, negatively as far as time trying to do jumping puzzles go. The first because of the odds being too low and the second because I’m not skilled enough to do it without getting frustrated beyond what should be healthy.

Are you having fun with the event and game in general?
- Quite! My only two gripes were the key and the fact I for some reason just am not fast enough at the Halloween JP. The game in general is a blast and I love it.

What are you dressing up as for Halloween!?
- We don’t have Halloween where I live ):

RenRen.5706:

Wouldn’t toning down the difficulty for the disabled be a slap in the face to them either way? You’re basically saying “Here you go. We made this easier just for you ‘cause you don’t have what it takes.”

There’s a disabled player in the Street Fighter community who plays with his kittening tongue and face and Capcom hasn’t shown any signs of making the game more accessible to him. And he frequents tournaments, where the best of the best play.

There’s a disabled player who plays GW2 PvP with a pen in his mouth and does well. ANet hasn’t catered the game around him either.

If I may say so, what feels like a slap to me is seeing all these comments about how you just need to work on your skill or deal with it.

There are many things a disabled person has to deal with that someone without a disability can’t possibly understand, because they’re things that never need to occur to them. For instance, going up stairs is a simple task if you can walk perfectly, but if you can’t or are in a wheelchair, the level of difficulty is increased tremendously.

So what’s a difficult puzzle for someone without a disability becomes an even more difficult puzzle for someone with one.

Likewise, someone with a disability has to develop skills someone without doesn’t in order to get around their disability – for instance, playing with their tongue and face, or playing with a pen. These extra skills take time to master – longer than the couple of days during which this puzzle is available.

People with a disability are already constantly reminded of their limitations by everyday tasks. It’s harsh when something in a game – which is a thing you do for fun – pokes the wound, so to speak.

I’m not saying we should dumb it down, it’s frustrating but not the end of the world to be unable to do it. But the lack of empathy some people here display is astounding. It couldn’t hurt to at least be more understanding of the fact some people just aren’t as dexterous as others, so this isn’t as fun for them, but they would have liked to be able to do it regardless.

Can’t we all just agree fun is subjective?

It’s fun for some, it’s not fun for others. Some people may care about the achievement, some may not. It’s definitely not fun for someone who is a completionist to not be skilled enough to get the achievement in time for the end of the event, while it’s definitely fun for someone who loves challenges to see a high difficulty jumping puzzle.

I agree gamers need to accept temporary failure, but the main issue here is the fact the puzzle itself is temporary, I think. That means those with a steeper learning curve won’t have enough time to get good enough at it to beat it. The added pressure of the puzzle only being available temporarily adds a lot to the frustration factor.

Sentinel VX.1392:

neon.4863:

Sentinel VX.1392:

I just did it with my 3 characters with each time getting easier.

The point of this achievement is it is challenging to get otherwise it’s not an “Achievement”.

It does not count toward the “Emissary of the Mad King” so you don’t have to do it in order to get the title.

Since this isn’t really about the achievement itself (which I said a few comments back I wouldn’t talk about anymore): that’s not very sound logic. There are plenty of other achievements which aren’t challenging to get and are still listed under achievements.

I assume you want every achievement to be easy? yes?

I don’t think so.

You specifically said this achievement wouldn’t be an “Achievement” if it was easy to get.

I specifically said that there are other achievements in the game which are quite easy, and they’re still achievements, so that logic doesn’t make sense.

I didn’t say “every achievement should be easy”. I said “achievements don’t need to be hard to be achievements”. That’s like you telling me that if I say “dogs don’t need to be white to be dogs” I actually said “I don’t want any dogs to be white”.

mrsrachelm.7618:

Stobor.8041:

And i hope people that do end up with disabilities realize that they are not equal with other people..

That says a lot about you right there.

Agreed. What the heck.

TobyTucker.5317:

I haven’t even been able to try this puzzle. Is there some trick to finding those pumpkin doors?

There are many of them in Queensdale, marked on the map by a pumpkin. Go in, then talk to the NPC and say you’re interested in the clock tower.

I don’t have experience developing something this massive, but I can tell you botting is tricky to deal with. Obvious bots are simple to catch and ban, but even then devs more often than not rely on player reports to find them. There are hundreds of thousands of players; filtering out bots is trickier than it seems.

Also, you can ban them, but making new ones is just as easy for the botters themselves. That’s why you keep seeing bots everywhere – they get banned, they just come back again. Even if you block a third party program or flag a specific behavior pattern, bot scripts can just be updated to circumvent it. Ever notice how anti-piracy measures for major games get cracked within hours? It’s very similar – you can get rid of botters quickly; they’ll figure out a way to come back just as quickly.

Sophisticated bots can be hard to catch, too, since their behavior can be very close to that of a legitimate player, and you may well end up banning someone wrongly.

It would be quite helpful to have in-game GMs who can handle bot suspicions immediately as they get reported, I’ll say that much. I’ve reported obvious bots before that were still there after several hours.

Sentinel VX.1392:

I just did it with my 3 characters with each time getting easier.

The point of this achievement is it is challenging to get otherwise it’s not an “Achievement”.

It does not count toward the “Emissary of the Mad King” so you don’t have to do it in order to get the title.

Since this isn’t really about the achievement itself (which I said a few comments back I wouldn’t talk about anymore): that’s not very sound logic. There are plenty of other achievements which aren’t challenging to get and are still listed under achievements.

Okay, last thing I have to say on this subject after trying and failing at this for five hours…

First, I understand the people who prefer that it stays a challenge. I know some things should be challenging. However, I disagree with the “it’s just 10 achievement points” mentality, because some people are collectors and collectors can get really anal about missing things that were available to them.

I myself just wanted the achievement, but I’ve given up on it by now. It’s not as important to me as not stressing myself out. I don’t have a disability as serious as some posters in the forums, but I do have a hormonal issue right now that impairs my response time and memory, which really gets in the way of doing this JP. I’ll live.

The three most frustrating things for me, however, were:

- The wait before going in, especially if you fall early on (and I fell a lot early on).

- The camera zooming all the way in sometimes really affected my ability to tell where I was (and orient myself). I’m not sure what I was doing wrong, tried on two characters with distinct sizes and got the same issue, always right after that first cog where you need to wait.

- When I did manage to make it further in, the mist had engulfed the next platform I was supposed to jump on and I would always fail the exact same jump (one that has you jump down rather than up, but not the chest jump where you plummet down – saw it on YouTube, mind, didn’t actually get there).

Everything else was bearable but the last bit – platforms ahead of me disappearing before the one I was standing on – is what made me give up. I’m too slow to get to them on time, and the ones I’m on not disappearing give me a false sense of there still being time to make it – so it’s very frustrating to finally get past a part that had me fall and then not be able to proceed because the next platform is already gone.

That’s about it. I was initially vocal about wanting it changed but it’s okay, for me at least. I don’t really care about finishing it anymore.

I’d like to note, though, that there’s a comment on YT supposedly by the person who developed the map saying he expected maybe 5% of players to finish the puzzle. That’s an extremely low estimate for something that’s supposed to be a holiday event (which imo should be welcoming and accommodating to everyone who actually has time to participate, not just hardcore or experienced players).

I wouldn’t mind at all or even be complaining if this puzzle was available year round. I am curious, though, will it be available again next Halloween? It would be a little less frustrating if so. Gives people some hope of finishing it even if not now.

Worst thing for me right now is the wait to get in.

Technically it does require fast reflexes, or at least fast response time/hand-eye coordination. If you take a second or two longer to rotate the mouse, it costs you the run.

I feel like I’m getting better at figuring out where the perfect jump spot is, but I’m still not fast enough to make it past the start without landing into mist instead of the next platform.

Greyfeld.7104:

neon.4863:

Greyfeld.7104:

neon.4863:

Xenite.7418:

I don’t mind jumping puzzles, but I despise when they push time limits on you. One of my biggest pet peeves in gaming. Such an artificial way to increase difficulty.

Don’t expect much sympathy on the forums though, the standard reply to any criticims from the fanboys seems to be “omg l2p betterz”.

^ all of this

I despise time limits for pretty much everything. I much prefer very difficult jumps that take precision than feeling like I have to hurry. It’s especially bad when you have impaired reflexes (which I do right now).

I’ve been at this puzzle for over an hour and haven’t even progressed past the start. This isn’t fun, it’s just frustrating. I don’t even care about the reward, I just want to complete it.

Also there’s nothing wrong with doing things everyone can get or participate in, particularly as far as achievements you have a limited amount of time to get go.

There are already dozens upon dozens of achievements you can unlock with minimal to no effort.

That doesn’t mean an achievement we only have a limited time frame to obtain should be unattainable by people who, for whatever reason, just aren’t fast and precise enough. It wouldn’t be a problem if the achievement was permanently available (I’d just work on it daily until I got it), but in this case, yeah, I’m miffed.

What about the people who buy the game after the event? What about the people who couldn’t play during the event due to RL issues? Are we just going to hand out achievements to people because they were incapable of performing the required actions during the timeframe the event was available?

The clock tower isn’t required to unlock the holiday achievement, and the reward for completing it isn’t a unique item. It’s basically a standalone puzzle.

So yes, it’s perfectly acceptable for the puzzle to be too difficult for some people to finish.

I find it’s more frustrating to be able to play and to try at something but not be able to get it than it would be if I arrived too late or if I couldn’t play at all. But your mileage may vary.

I can see the point you’re trying to make, even if I disagree. It won’t change the fact that I am miffed that I’m too slow due to health reasons to complete this, even though I can get every other jumping puzzle achievement. I’ll live without the achievement, but I wish it wasn’t because my reflexes aren’t good enough for it right now.

Greyfeld.7104:

neon.4863:

Xenite.7418:

I don’t mind jumping puzzles, but I despise when they push time limits on you. One of my biggest pet peeves in gaming. Such an artificial way to increase difficulty.

Don’t expect much sympathy on the forums though, the standard reply to any criticims from the fanboys seems to be “omg l2p betterz”.

^ all of this

I despise time limits for pretty much everything. I much prefer very difficult jumps that take precision than feeling like I have to hurry. It’s especially bad when you have impaired reflexes (which I do right now).

I’ve been at this puzzle for over an hour and haven’t even progressed past the start. This isn’t fun, it’s just frustrating. I don’t even care about the reward, I just want to complete it.

Also there’s nothing wrong with doing things everyone can get or participate in, particularly as far as achievements you have a limited amount of time to get go.

There are already dozens upon dozens of achievements you can unlock with minimal to no effort.

That doesn’t mean an achievement we only have a limited time frame to obtain should be unattainable by people who, for whatever reason, just aren’t fast and precise enough. It wouldn’t be a problem if the achievement was permanently available (I’d just work on it daily until I got it), but in this case, yeah, I’m miffed.

Xenite.7418:

I don’t mind jumping puzzles, but I despise when they push time limits on you. One of my biggest pet peeves in gaming. Such an artificial way to increase difficulty.

Don’t expect much sympathy on the forums though, the standard reply to any criticims from the fanboys seems to be “omg l2p betterz”.

^ all of this

I despise time limits for pretty much everything. I much prefer very difficult jumps that take precision than feeling like I have to hurry. It’s especially bad when you have impaired reflexes (which I do right now).

I’ve been at this puzzle for over an hour and haven’t even progressed past the start. This isn’t fun, it’s just frustrating. I don’t even care about the reward, I just want to complete it.

Also there’s nothing wrong with doing things everyone can get or participate in, particularly as far as achievements you have a limited amount of time to get go.

Please make it smaller groups or solo. I like jumping puzzles and I don’t mind it when they’re frustrating, but when you keep falling because you can’t see where you’re landing, it’s just infuriating instead of fun.

After seeing a dev reply in a topic recommending buying the game from buy.guildwars2.com, I checked the page out of curiosity and got an error. I got my serial from an authorized local reseller (I’m in Brazil and got my serial from Level Up), and I don’t specifically remember if it was because I was unable to buy from the website, but I think that may be the case.

Tested logged in and out, in the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox as well as Internet Explorer 9, to no avail. The “Shop” link works normally, it’s just buy.guildwars2.com (which redirects me to buy.guildwars2.com/en) that returns this error. I have a few Firefox add-ons, but I don’t have any add-ons in other browsers.

Edit: It’s fixed now, thank you!

I checked buy.guildwars2.com out of curiosity (I got my serial key from an authorized reseller in my country) and it redirects me to buy.guildwars2.com/en, which in turn gives an error.

Checked on multiple browsers, too, same error whether logged in or out (I’ll report the error in the correct section shortly if it hasn’t been reported yet). So in my case, at least, I wouldn’t have been able to buy a code from that page…

The achievement people are able to get credit for right now by doing Halloween-related things is Emissary of the Mad King, if memory serves. The Halloween Events Completed one’s probably related to the next parts of the event like zbrkesbr said.

I figure it’s still a bug since they’re able to find/click the suspicious spot and the candy corn is being removed from the bag.

+1, I encounter this very frequently when using a flamethrower. For me it seems to happen the most often when I’m too close to the target, but it does vary.

Solinox.6251:

@Neon.4863, why not? I concider what they did as fraud. kitten for tat.

I don’t agree with how the BLCs/keys were handled, so I fully understand your being upset enough to consider this.

However, reporting a fake theft just to get your money back is something you could face legal consequences for. Ultimately, it’s just not a smart tactic, even if you consider it morally correct. Credit card fraud is a serious issue and while you may screw ANet out of a little money in the process, but the one who’ll be screwed the most in the story is you if the fraud is discovered.

In the end, it’s not worth it. I know people who have done that and were caught.

Solinox.6251:

Im thinking I will just report my CC stolen, get my cash back. I win, they lose. And if they ban me, I will find another MMO. Dime a dozen.

So basically, your response to this is fraud and theft? That’s… nice.

By the way, if you paid through PayPal instead of directly through your CC, you’ll lose your PayPal account. They hate having to deal with CC chargebacks and they will know yours was a fraudulent theft report. And you’ll be out of a PayPal account. Permanently.

The game was only just released, this is just the first event. I’d wait a bit before I call it lacking, personally.

That said I’d have appreciated being able to use the clothes in battle, too, but I bought them knowing they were town clothes, so I’m not bothered, honestly.

BTIGER.3160:

If casinos had forums then it would be full of people complaining how much they lost too.

Oh, no doubt. I don’t feel sorry for people who gamble at casinos, but mostly because you should know your odds of winning are tiny, and you should also know they let you win sometimes to bait you into gambling more in hopes of increasing your winnings.

I’ll be a lot more careful about randomized cash shop items now, though. I admittedly haven’t touched an MMO for longer than a couple of days since Ragnarok Online (well before Ragnarok Online even had a cash shop) so I am pretty out of touch with how they work.

Darknass.1903:

You should have know full well that you were gambling, and thus realized that you had potential to not get any of the unique skins. Look at it this way, the BLC’s still give everything they always have, with an ADDED chance of the Halloween themed items that people might find nice to look at, you paid for a booster, tool, and set of tonics with an extra CHANCE to get the shiny skins.

I’m sure A-Net isn’t as devious as people are accusing them of being, here’s how I see it; “hey how ‘bout we add some awesome skins to the BLC for Halloween so that people that want to take the chance at getting them can show them off, and for all the people that don’t feel like taking a risk, they can just buy them off the TP if they want the skin.”

I actually didn’t buy any keys. I wouldn’t ever pay for keys under normal circumstances, either, so if I had bought keys hoping for skins I would be pretty incensed. I’m thankful I didn’t buy any before I saw this thread, because knowing the odds I will definitely not buy any.

Knowing the odds makes a world of difference. If people had been told the odds beforehand this entire situation could’ve been avoided. Yeah, they’d still be low and some people would still complain, but then they’d at least know what they were getting into beforehand.