Curse

The Way Out · Feb 11, 2008, 06:16 PM // 18:16

I spent 500k on the event, refusing to "buy" a mini at the prices they were going for... and I didn't get one. I went through 300 fortunes and didn't get one... I fail... I just fail... lol

Event was cool and it was good to see some old friends on having a great time. Thank you anet for reeling in some of my old friends who are too greedy to let an event go by. hehe

Matrix · Feb 11, 2008, 06:25 PM // 18:25

It was a very nice event. I really liked it. Great idea to introduce a new title.
A lot of ppl are bitching about mini pets, well guess what .... you dont like the price or pets in general, dont buy. Fireworks for guild hall is a good idea, something new for once.
There is a one negative point though, HIGH ping in RBR.
In general good job Anet.

3Tripnip · Feb 11, 2008, 06:43 PM // 18:43

I had a blast at the event. I really enjoyed the quests, and gathering some of the ingredients for the feast. Yeah, the minipet fiasco was kind of a pain, but I love my celestial pets... my favorite pets so far!

Thanks Anet, it was a lot of fun!

enter_the_zone · Feb 11, 2008, 07:02 PM // 19:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mordakai

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.

If they're easy to put together, then ANet should get them right. After all, there are only 4 events a year.

These types of things negatively affect sales of GW2 by causing existing players to loose confidence in ANets ability to create and effectively run a virtual world in the long term. This leads people to change games completely rather than buy GW2. And, believe me, they are depending on conversions from GW to GW2 to drive sales.

Put it this way: every new MMO is a gamble as to how the company running it deals with the game.

When I already know how ANet runs GW (ie. not covering themselves in glory, or even displaying common sense), and how NCSoft runs their other MMOs (CoH, for one) why would I gamble on them being any different in GW2?

Solas · Feb 11, 2008, 07:03 PM // 19:03

Very nice job, i enjoyed it

yes,people complained but people love to complain

dont really have a bad word for the event

HuntMaster Avatar · Feb 11, 2008, 07:05 PM // 19:05

My final thoughts on the event now that its over.

What I Liked.
Firework Crates- Very cool collectable item, completely new, useable only at Guildhall so this will not lag up towns.

District 142 had a guild that provided all the items for the feast and told everyone to keep coming back. so they helped alot.

The Party Animal Title- Something new that actually makes the event items useful.

Two New Minatures- Very cool looking celestial mini's which i hope they do every year from now on.

Same Fun games as the years before- Rollerbeetle racing, boardwalk.

Old Buddies- Got to see some old friends who only log on during events.

Things i hated about this event.

Reused Mask- The Lions Mask was used again, i guess this is good for the people who missed it the first time, but not good for those of us who attend every event. Now i want the them to reuse the original pumpkin mask and the original xmas hats to make it fair. (so i have all the hats, lol.)

Bugged Beetle Racing- After i heard that those players who knew this bug could beat everyone else it just made it pointless for a non pro racer to even play.

5/1 Pig trade- all those of us who gave away our pigs got shafted hard.

400+ fortunes and no celestial rat- Nuff said.

118k to get both mini pets- yup, i spent 118k to get the celestial pig and rat.

the general additude of the gw community- greed is better than reasonable prices, those who don't agree get bombarded with insult spam.

All in all i am satisfied because i got what i wanted the most. those damn mini's. i am a collector so that is what i look forward to. As always No one Pwns players better than Anet.

Ferrous Capuchin · Feb 11, 2008, 07:21 PM // 19:21

Positives:
Generally fun return of favorites like rollerbeetle and the boardwalk. Got my celestial rat.

Negatives:
Lion mask was reused, and new minis were not related to the "iron chefs" so the finale was a non-event with no incentive to collect ingredients. I just logged in and danced afk for 24 hours.

SerenitySilverstar · Feb 11, 2008, 07:59 PM // 19:59

I now declare the words "Fail" and "Epic Fail" null and void within gaming communities - over used, over quoted, over contextualized. Anyone who uses them here-in will be chased down by me and resoundly slapped with a smelly, wet, cold trout.

Failure means a complete lack of anything happening. The only way this could have happened was if the servers completely shut down.

GW Festivals - do, or do not. There is no fail.

Jongo River · Feb 11, 2008, 08:36 PM // 20:36

This was the first event I felt the need to use the term /fail. I just never appreciated it until now.

Mr. Undisclosed · Feb 11, 2008, 08:42 PM // 20:42

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Originally Posted by Ebony Shadowheart

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.

I smell the sublte scent of irony.

Sabriel Benirus · Feb 11, 2008, 08:42 PM // 20:42

I am not one to be negative, and mostly enjoy "just reading" the forums, but I have to agree with most people on this year's event. I like the fireworks, and quests available. Everything seemed pretty routine from past events' but I just didn't have the money that it apparently takes to buy the mini's, the stacks of tokens to try for the mini, or the 5 mini pigs from last year (at 20k a piece) to be able to reap the rewards.... All in all, I am thankful for the events' that Anet hosts for everyone, and enjoy them emensely. However, it is hard when I have to sit back and watch everyone else enjoying their mini pets' because I dont have the abundant funds to get my own.

thank you...

GEXTE · Feb 11, 2008, 08:42 PM // 20:42

When the event ended all games stopped, but they also removed all collectors and everything right away.
They should realize that people were still playing games and leave the collectors there for a couple more hours, so that once the games end people can still go to the collectors to turn in the game rewards.

Next time, please end the games and leave the collectors, without the games people can't get any more anyway, so give them some time to turn them in...

I'm sure there are plenty of people who still have lunar tokens and can't use them now.

volgaris · Feb 11, 2008, 08:47 PM // 20:47

the lunar token collectors are already gone I hope this was an over site, I was holding some tokens till today only to find the collectors are gone as of 3 PM PST...... if I remember from past events they hung around a day or 2 after the event

bigtime102 · Feb 11, 2008, 09:00 PM // 21:00

^^^

Yeah, I was racing up until the last minute, leave to turn in my tokens and the NPC dissappers on me in the middle of dealing. How rude. No top 100 because of duplicates in the list and nothing for my tokens. BUMMER

SerenitySilverstar · Feb 11, 2008, 09:01 PM // 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jongo River

This was the first event I felt the need to use the term /fail. I just never appreciated it until now.

*revs up the Trout*

DeXyre · Feb 11, 2008, 09:03 PM // 21:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigtime102

^^^

Yeah, I was racing up until the last minute, leave to turn in my tokens and the NPC dissappers on me in the middle of dealing. How rude. No top 100 because of duplicates in the list and nothing for my tokens. BUMMER

the duplicates in the list will be filtered out i believe so they only get one mini anyhow...

volgaris · Feb 11, 2008, 09:04 PM // 21:04

maybe we should do a petition to get the festival collectors back in the game for a day or 2...I can't believe they got removed while I was still doing lunar token quests, only to come back in town to find them gone lol

salamanca · Feb 11, 2008, 09:06 PM // 21:06

Positives: I got out and about and actually played all the characters on my account for a bit again. (even the ones slowly becoming mules)

I made new friends out of some people I casually knew from some boards.

I finally visited a European district.

I got to play my favorite sarcastic quest (I just love watching that guy die in the water)

I spent two days beating hard on the game to wring 22 items out of some very greedy monsters that I hate. (and developed two builds while doing it)

The fireworks that dropped and the snowman summoners I never really had a use for actually finally earned me a title (which is something I have not bothered to get for anything in this game ever)

During the event, the district I holed up in was pretty much free of complaints and acted like a COMMUNITY. It was fun and social. There was chat, next to no trade spam and really nice.

Pigs are cool, rats are cool. neither is so cool that I would mortgage the house to get one. but I got one of each from what I earned.

CONS:

Farming melandru's hope for truffles after opening one too many fortune and having the insanity effect in place.

azure crests.... I hate farming that item.

As a player that does not want to join a guild I have no use for the fireworks crate. But someone will buy them someday.

listening to complaints about what they got in the finale from players that spent the whole weekend on the rings. you want something special, do something for it. you want your lucky title, shut up and take what you get.

Thanks to the guilds that took the initiative to make this event full of prizes for everyone else. you got nothing for that but the pride and joy of knowing what it took to do.

NOW A SUGGESTION:

Since the whole open fortune thing seems to be not working, what about changing one of the quest rewards into an item that would trade in for the minipet at a 4 to 1 ratio? A standard account is 4 slots so every player would in theory have access to one pet. most of us would be able to get 2 and or close to it without needing to reroll.

just a thought.

MSecorsky · Feb 11, 2008, 09:06 PM // 21:06

I enjoyed it. After a few months break this was enough to pull me back.

Now to see if my mesmer was nerfed recently...

kokuou · Feb 11, 2008, 09:11 PM // 21:11

There were several notices (both in game and made by Gaile on forums) that the NPCs would disappear at 12pm PST on Monday.