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Thevil King · Feb 18, 2010, 11:42 PM // 23:42

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Originally Posted by Kaleban

Right, because everyone who plays GW has been around for 5 years, and can afford to just let their computers sit idle with the game open.

Or have hundreds of hours of free time to dedicate to playing dodgeball.

This is a game, there doesn't have to be a limit. Why do people assume that we should only get "fun" bits in small little parcels? If people want to play Dragon Arena, why can they only do it a few times a year? The code is in place.

Also, I highly doubt that leaving a character to stand on a pad for 2000 hours is somehow considered "special" or "fun" for ANYONE. At most, its an exercise in frustration and boredom, and because ANet only does it very seldomly, you get hundreds of districts, random crashes and bugs etc. EVERY time the boardwalk is open, the server is constantly giving errors and kicking people.

If GW2 is coming out next year, and assuming that ANet still wants people to buy and play GW, hence injecting new blood into the game, then they have to take into account the fact that new players won't have had as much time to max titles as all the elitist jerks who are for exclusivity.

Leave the Boardwalk open all the time, year round. Leave one of the "dodgeball" games open, year round. And make it accessible to players who may not own Factions. The code is in place, people would enjoy it as a break from monster killing, and the lessened server strain would see less bugs occurring.

Its a win-win situation all around, I have no idea why there's any real resistance to it.

are you srsly telling me, that after 5 yrs, those people who wants their lucky/unlucky and skillz titles into hom, STILL need an all yr round event to be able to do it? i mean, you dont need "hundreds" of hours to make r2/r3 on these titles. now if you say that these ppl want to go for , say r6 r7 or even max these titles out, are you really going to consider them as "casual" players? the higher rank you want to go, the more time u will need to be able to invest in it in order to get to that rank, and that is not going to change whether you like it or not. simply saying you dont have enough time is not an excuse for making the title any easier for you

its that simple, if ppl jsut want it in hom, take a couple of days in the snowball or halloween event, and play it for a bit. the title is called skillz title, and im pretty sure that doesnt mean(at least not originally intended for) random noobs can go at it everyday all yr round to finally get it after like 6months. i mean, can you imagine people with "skillz" but have no "skills"? lmao. for me, the only fun thing about these events is that my friends who quit gw can come back during these few days of the yr, and we be able to see eachother and play togehter during the holiday events. if they made it all yr round, then wtf is so special about any holiday events at all?

as for lucky/unlucky titles, i think these are a joke to begin with. like i said, being able to legitimately afk and max out 2 titles is more than ridiculous enough, not to mention that these titles actually have some practical functions. even u agree that theyre not fun to ANYONE at all. and now your saying EVERYONE should be able to do it all yr round? nice way to dumb down the game and make it even more crap than it alrdy is. i honestly dont think, in spite of the shitty game gw has become, that every random noob should be running around with r12 gamer, or maxed lucky/unlucky titles, cuz thats going to hit a new low if that srsly happend.

but then again, i alrdy quit the game, and event games are the only reason that i dont have it deleted on my comp. if anet made it all yr round, theyre jsut setting some new record for playing limbo with their product, and i for one will definately not be joining in with that.

Carboplatin · Feb 18, 2010, 11:46 PM // 23:46

I would love not having to wait forever to work on my lucky title

Pistachio · Feb 19, 2010, 03:30 AM // 03:30

There's definitely no reason the boardwark can't be open all the time now. It wouldn't be a stress on the servers, because there would be no big weekend rush, and it would help satisfy some need for the remaining player base, which deserves it.

Lycan Nibbler · Feb 19, 2010, 11:13 AM // 11:13

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Originally Posted by Pistachio

There's definitely no reason the boardwark can't be open all the time now. It wouldn't be a stress on the servers, because there would be no big weekend rush, and it would help satisfy some need for the remaining player base, which deserves it.

I believe this to be incorrect as far as the servers are concerned. If a player plays for say 1 hour a day, that person would quite likely go afk while they slept on the rings for say 8 hours.
So for that particular player, their load upon the servers has gone up from 1 hour to 9. While standing afk on the rings might not require the amount of load doing missions would, there is still an additional load that would impact.

While I would like to see the boardwalk open more, I definitely do not want it open all the time as it is an event area that is meant to be somewhat special.
What then happens to Cantha NY event etc? it becomes nothing apart from the afk for a hat