Curse

kazjun · Feb 11, 2008, 01:54 PM // 13:54

Was choppy and reused the events and quests from before. Expected and forgiven. Since the events are pretty fun (go beetles) even with exploits and glitches. But had wanted some things to be different.

Like the hat. Couldn't anet even be bothered making the smallest change? Exact same hat was disappointing. Though, does this mean anet is willing to allow older hats to be given out? I was away at the pumpkin hat event so missed it, maybe I can get it this halloween?

The reward for hunting down ingredients from the far reaches of all creation (and loot scaling does not help getting white collectors stuff) being one lunar token was also pretty lame. Though the drop rate of lunar tokens was also pretty lame (must have killed a couple hundred things and only ever got two tokens to drop) so maybe anet thought that was a rare reward.

The two new mini's were also talked up, but since I only kept the one pig for my hall and gave the rest away to friends/guildies/alliance mates no go for the celestial pig. No worries, is annoying, but I thought I'd at least get a rat. Used up over 500 of my own tokens for fortunes and no rat. Got angry and went and bought tokens off other people. Very stupid. Went through over 400 fortunes and no rat. Frankly, would have been better off just selling my tokens and farming elsewhere and then buying the rat and the pig. And would have had change leftover. So no new mini's for me without buying them.

And the secret reward after farming all those ingredients? Five crates of fire works which will be used up in no time. Gee, what a great gift. I really would have missed this if anet hadn't given it to me.

So overall the event? I could simply not have come and gotten the only two permanent items (the pets) just by buying them, especially since I couldn't get them in the actual event anyway and I already had the hat. That isn't a good thing for an event. So fail. And sure, some will say that anet didn't have to stage this event and I got something rather than nothing, but frankly I'd have rather got my time back and done something else. And saved myself the annoyance to boot.

Neo Nugget · Feb 11, 2008, 02:01 PM // 14:01

I liked it, got my rat on my own without buying it

These Canthan events just have soooo much to do, i really don't have time to do it all

Other than that, nothing I really didn't like about it. But i guess the dragon festival is a week long

Darksun · Feb 11, 2008, 03:25 PM // 15:25

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Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius

Hahahaha!
Damn, it's funny seeing farmer rage!

I like the event. Screw titles, screw minipets, and above all SCREW FARMING!

QFT!

I can't believe people are essentially saying: "boo hoo, you took out my only way to exploit the game!" I mean people are happily admitting how pathetic they are. scary stuff.

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Originally Posted by kazjun

No worries, is annoying, but I thought I'd at least get a rat. Used up over 500 of my own tokens for fortunes and no rat. Got angry and went and bought tokens off other people. Very stupid. Went through over 400 fortunes and no rat.

Seriously? So you went through 700 and no rat!? that totally sucks.. I got 3 rats from 350 Fortunes. man..

stretchs · Feb 11, 2008, 03:41 PM // 15:41

It is a decent event, the lag in Dragon Arena can at times make it unplayable, but still fun. The rewards for the Dragon Arena were pretty weak. 17 in a row streak and had less than 50 tokens for reward that seems a bit off. As for the mini stuff, meh, it is all summed up in the 892374293472938 posts above, opened 300+ fortunes and no rat =[ Such is life.

Eli Rela · Feb 11, 2008, 03:51 PM // 15:51

I got to lvl 2 in Lucky/Unlucky, got rat from fortunes (one out of 150), very disappointed about lack of new hat, pissed off as I gave away about 11 pigs last year...

Ravious · Feb 11, 2008, 04:07 PM // 16:07

I thought it was fun. Pretty much the same, but it is a nice "other" thing to do.

Big_Iron · Feb 11, 2008, 04:17 PM // 16:17

D- for recycled content and same old mask. Plus, I didn't like that it took 5 pigs to get one celestial pig, 2 or 3 should've sufficed. And I didn't like the odds of getting a rat. I went through 200+ fortunes without getting one. And, as always, the lag in towns was terrible. I didn't give it an F because it is still a little fun as long as you don't mind doing the same old thing.

puffzilla · Feb 11, 2008, 04:23 PM // 16:23

I loved this event. It's best the event to get the alliance going and doing stuff together. We ended up farming enough feast items so we could host 2 districts per feast.

So we all gave a way pets last so what get over. The community last year said it was an epic fail because the PIG were worthless in less then a day. I think they did an awesome job at driving the prices back up. GJ.

This was an awesome event for making the economy in the game move around. Easy to get fireworks and to sell off. Easy enough to buy if you had the cash and to work on the title. People were always hording or throwing away the stuff. The towns had tons of people using this theses at last and made the place come alive... I enjoyed people seeing people set off all the item in the districts.

If you think this event was a fail you weren't trying. Stuff to get to buy or use for a title. A new title to work. PVP mini games. 9 rings to work on lucky title. And the feast rocked if you tried to get into it.

puffzilla · Feb 11, 2008, 04:24 PM // 16:24

Oh and with the amount of complaints they get even if they make a new hat I don't blame them for recycling.

Sub Frost · Feb 11, 2008, 04:27 PM // 16:27

Didn't had much time, but did some roller beetle, 1 or 2 dragon arena matches, manage to get a mini celestial on my first 40 fortunes, and got my fireworks+mask.

Overall it was a nice event.

7hir7een · Feb 11, 2008, 04:30 PM // 16:30

For me it was pretty much very meh.

-I missed the lion hat last year, so I was happy to get it this time around

-I couldn't get a rat from an obscene amount of lunar fortunes. For what I opened, most people got 3 or more. I had to pay 20k for one (because I really wanted it), which took away a big chunk of the money I had planned to use for 9 rings

-I would have like to have gotten the celestial warthog (it was cute, and shiny) but didn't have enough money

-The finale gift was disappointing for me. It doesn't have much use for me, and it is a consumable, making it that much worse.

But all in all, it was decent. The finales were good fun even though the end result was slightly disappointing. And I loved the rat parade at the end

Ebony Shadowheart · Feb 11, 2008, 04:36 PM // 16:36

Wow, I guess Anet just shouldn't do events ever, period. It doesn't matter if they bring back one we enjoyed or try doing something entirely new because no one's happy. All you people do is bitch and whine about what's "wrong" with it.

"They took away my xp" "They took away my exploit" "They took away the farmability" "I can't do it because I'm not a high enough level" "Its a reskin" "It doesn't have a good enough reward" "Its based on a minipet"

Is this seriously all you people can see?

Yes, they reused the quests and the hat from last year. I'm bummed about the hat, but I can live with that. People that didn't get one last year can have them now. It's not like you people wear them all the time anyway! Most of us still enjoyed the quests, even though they were repeats. Give Anet a break because they didn't have to give you anything! In all honesty they don't have to do any type of even, yet they do and this is what they get for it.

They gave you a celestial pig if you had enough of the pigs left over from last year. Yes, I'm bummed that it took five (meaning I couldn't get one because I gave mine away), but you don't see me bitching about it! Yes, they gave us a new mini rat and yes it was a LOW possibility (like 1 in 200 chance) of getting it, but they were trying to keep it rare. It's gold after all.

If you don't like minipets, well that's your right, go do whatever you would normally do on a weekend, or you could get the mini and sell it to someone that does want it. It's not like there's nothing else to do. ToA was still packed, missions were still being done and I'm sure people were still PvP'ing.

"Winning" a district gave us money, alcohol, sweets, fireworks, and a chuckle yet all you people do is bitch and bitch some more. Yes, there were things that bummed me out about the event too, but it's not anywhere near as bad as most you are whining about.

Rothaga · Feb 11, 2008, 04:44 PM // 16:44

I had fun with it, only wish I had more time for rollerbeetle racing.

enter_the_zone · Feb 11, 2008, 04:50 PM // 16:50

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Originally Posted by Ebony Shadowheart

In all honesty they don't have to do any type of even, yet they do and this is what they get for it.

GW is an MMO (CORPG, w/e) in a flooded market place. They are trying to get their current users to buy GW2, which is being launched into a flooded marketplace. They don't have to do anything, but they'd be bloody stupid not to, given all the competition in their one, very narrow, marketplace.

The only negative points about this event really were the celestial minipigs (and only for punishing those who gave to others. No good deed goes unpunished, GG Anet.) and the new title (pointless grind, yet again).

So really, the only bits that I hated were the new bits. Next year just rerun the original festival, sans minipets please.

playingames · Feb 11, 2008, 04:57 PM // 16:57

overall, i like the event. the celestial rat pet was nice. and the the prize for the final event was pretty kool, thou i did wish they would add like a "flesh" skin rat minipet so we can have 1 celestial rat and 1 regular rat but if that happen i guess they will be again too many regular rat. so, i think the fire crates fits the holidays very well. and as for the celestial pig, i loved it, i am probably one of the ppl that actually like the pig and like what anet did with it. cuz i think i remeber ppl from last year complaining that there were too many/it was too common mini pig on these forums, so i think this was pretty kool solution to it. but again ppl complained about it. but i think it was kool cuz anet could just never do anything amout the pig but instead they, imo, did a very nice reskin of it, thou i like them both equally. but one them i wish they did different is make the mask slighty different than last year, but no biggie cuz is great for ppl who missed out last year. any way that my opinion on the event.

Convulsing Crunchy · Feb 11, 2008, 05:00 PM // 17:00

What was the final gift? I lagged out and I missed the entire Finale...

gremlin · Feb 11, 2008, 05:06 PM // 17:06

As usual the event had its good and bad points.

I did enjoy the roller beetle racing even though I'm no good at it, I would find it more fun to bet on results and watch it than crash and burn trying to race myself.

Disappointed the hat was identicle to last years where a slight variation in style would have been nice to tell 2007 from 2008.

What did annoy me was the minipet givaway, given that I have 14 characters and completed the kamadan mission with 13 of them and all the shing jea missions with 10 and didnt get a rat, I am a little dissapointed.

Not sure what the numbers were but I know I blew 549 of last years fortunes to try to boost my 2 minipigs to the 5 needed for the hand in.
549 fortunes gave me 1 extra piggie + loads of money and fireworks.

A similar number 500+ of this years fortunes gave me no rat pet at all.
So forgive me if I indulge myself with a little whining.

God help anyone with just a couple of characters they would be extremely lucky to get a pet.

Gratz to those who got one or both but please come up with something giving a little better chance to get the pets in the future.

edited Forgot to mention I agree with the "Choppy" comment I experienced that and it continued into todays play

Mordakai · Feb 11, 2008, 05:14 PM // 17:14

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Originally Posted by enter_the_zone

GW is an MMO (CORPG, w/e) in a flooded market place. They are trying to get their current users to buy GW2, which is being launched into a flooded marketplace. They don't have to do anything, but they'd be bloody stupid not to, given all the competition in their one, very narrow, marketplace.

The only negative points about this event really were the celestial minipigs (and only for punishing those who gave to others. No good deed goes unpunished, GG Anet.) and the new title (pointless grind, yet again).

So really, the only bits that I hated were the new bits. Next year just rerun the original festival, sans minipets please.

I haven't played Guild Wars is awhile, in fact, I probably won't play until more information on Guild Wars 2 comes out.

The thing is, the events are pretty easy to put together, and I don't think in the long term they effect sales of GW2.

MagicWarrior · Feb 11, 2008, 05:58 PM // 17:58

Things I liked about the event:
- No more box camping in rollerbeetle racing
- No more token farming through quest-washing
- No more free minis dropping from the sky
- Attracted a large number of players back to the game and made for fun trading

Things I didn't like about the event:
- Only way to get a Celestial Pig was to trade in little piggies (epic fail)

Shakti · Feb 11, 2008, 06:05 PM // 18:05

Personally, hubby and I both had a fabulous time

I enjoyed the hell out of it, blew waaaay too much gold, partied till I fell asleep. I honestly believe no matter what Anet does, people will bitch. Last year people whined pigs were too common, a whine which continued ad nauseum until Friday lol. They can't win here. I try to enjoy a game for the sake of enjoyment. GW is not my life, it's just recreation. I believe in having as much fun in my life as I can possibly cram into whatever time I have. I did this weekend. Complain less, enjoy more. Life's much better that way.