I wasn't a fan of the last two events.

THIS Wintersday event, however, totally restored my faith in ANet. I'm not really one to be big with events and such, but man...this Wintersday stuff is just awesome. I love it.

I´m pretty impressed with the event so far.

I really had my hopes down after the "lost shores" that was mostly unplayable by me due to continuos disconections.

Wintersday is running smooth,stable and ffs it´s amazing the amount of content they threw in!

Loving it so far!

Kudos to Arenanet for fixing & learning from their previous mistakes.

Originally posted by austriacus

Originally posted by sodade21
well yes they managed the lag issues pretty well... by making most of the playerbase leave the game... my server is flagged as very high and you can hardly see anyone around.... and noone is speaking at the map chat anymore...well... i guess most people waiting the bug fixes and the new year/feb huge patch...

 Or maybe they are in the 3 different instanced activities?

Bingo. The Grove has been full of LFG today. Anyone who thinks the game is dead is an idiot.

Also, the dungeon, the jumping puzzle, the PvP were all better than the Halloween ones, which was already a fantastic event. And the fact that drops are less random now, if you play enough you can almost guarantee a weapon skin. And all the dungeons will be available at the end whenever you want, rather than a super limited timeframe.  

Much much better design. A company that actually learns from its mistakes. Bravo.

Originally posted by sodade21

Originally posted by austriacus

Originally posted by sodade21

Originally posted by austriacus

Originally posted by sodade21
well yes they managed the lag issues pretty well... by making most of the playerbase leave the game... my server is flagged as very high and you can hardly see anyone around.... and noone is speaking at the map chat anymore...well... i guess most people waiting the bug fixes and the new year/feb huge patch...

 Or maybe they are in the 3 different instanced activities?

there were always instanced activities but still we could see players running and speaking all around.... now its a ghost world... every part...even at Lions Arch is rly bad.. i hope the new events/contents can pull some players back..at least for awhile..

 wtf are you talking about, lions arch are on constant overflow. Seriously man, i can accept that the lvl 30-70 world is dead and so is Orr because of FoTM but anyone that launches the game can see that lions arch is full of people.

ye Lions Arch sometimes is on Overflow but still you barely see anyone... i wonder why a big city like this has so small capacity...  everything is maded by anet so u believe they have many people but in the reality there are not... test it yourself. and not now with the brand new content event.. but after it. go to Lions arch and if you are in overflow wait for like 10 mins or so to go to your server/lions arch and starting counting people around... i doubt u gonna found more than 15-20 players.. 

Sometimes the city is FULL but you only see players when you are VERY close to them.... it has to do with an optimizing solution by Anet  to not overcharge some pc systems and cause them to lag.

I noticed in the Halloween event,i would see the big plaza where the Mistic Forge is empty from the distance...but when i arrived there players started popping around me. I had a very short range of view...surely it helped managing all the graphic change but it lost the sense of crowed city.

Hope i explained well enough XD

On the other hand, this event is not only concentrating in Lion´s Arch...but in 3 different event zones....and in every major city everyday...spreading the population. It´s not like in other games where u sit in a decorated City waiting for the LFG tool to do the job...

Originally posted by hikaru77
if the game is all about success and success, why people keep leaving it?. People keep talking about how good and great gw2 and anet are, but is not helping to make the game better or actually fix it.   

Some leave it....some come in...but a lot still playing it, A LOT.

In my case it´s the first MMO i play since launch (almost 4 months now) in a daily basis without getting bored...

and believe me...i´m not alone. OFC it´s not going to be the same for everyone. That´s imposible,in a game or in whatever else.

Originally posted by hikaru77
if the game is all about success and success, why people keep leaving it?. People keep talking about how good and great gw2 and anet are, but is not helping to make the game better or actually fix it.   

Sure it is, those people offer constructive criticism.

For people who rage quit because it isnt a sandbox or a trinity game, they arent the target audience anyway, and the game will never become what they want it to be.

did they address and/or fix the culling issue in WvWvW?

no?

nevermind then.

Originally posted by Rider071

did they address and/or fix the culling issue in WvWvW?

no?

nevermind then.

Yes... they did.

Originally posted by evilastro

Originally posted by hikaru77
if the game is all about success and success, why people keep leaving it?. People keep talking about how good and great gw2 and anet are, but is not helping to make the game better or actually fix it.   

Sure it is, those people offer constructive criticism.

For people who rage quit because it isnt a sandbox or a trinity game, they arent the target audience anyway, and the game will never become what they want it to be.

all games have a certain amount of 'churn' have seen nothing so far to indicate that its any worse than other games, people try games and they either stick with it or move on, the good part about gw2 is that they can come back if they want, whenever they want. Im not really a fan of f2p games in general, but at least with GW2, you don't have to weigh up the pro's and con's of whether to resub for a month or not. That may be why Bioware chose to make SW;TOR f2p tbh.. although there is a huge difference between a game thats designed that way from scratch, and one that had to 'modify' itself to do so.

thank you very much for the event,,its fun and it looks awesome,,as always

happy winters day

Originally posted by evilastro

Originally posted by hikaru77
if the game is all about success and success, why people keep leaving it?. People keep talking about how good and great gw2 and anet are, but is not helping to make the game better or actually fix it.   

Sure it is, those people offer constructive criticism.

For people who rage quit because it isnt a sandbox or a trinity game, they arent the target audience anyway, and the game will never become what they want it to be.

And the vast majority enjoys content without feeling the need to whine on various forums each time something in a game as vast as a MMORPG isn't designed specifically for the special snowflake they think they are, too ;-)

Originally posted by Toxia

Loving the kickoff of the wintersday events, will definetely be logging in daily to check out everything that gets added!

Seems most issues people took with the last have been taken care of as well. No lag, plenty of time to complete events, can even purchase some nice skins in the store if grinding out things isnt your style. something for everyone!

Back to farming jumping puzzle :D

well i tryed to log-in today but after 5min i logged out again... i find no point playing this game :(

pitty the event is only for max lvl

hope i can do the last 10 lvls before the last event starts :P

Mmm the dungeon is lvl 2+

Jumping puzzle / snowball pvp / bell (guitar) hero

Not for max lvl =)

The jumping puzzle really shows they learned some lessons from the mad king tower. The triple entry point makes it much more friendly to people with large characters. When you fall off you can watch the progress of other people instead of in that boring room.  The last jump isn't ridiculous :P

Could have done without Bell hero becauze of ping. Haven't done pvp snowball yet.

Originally posted by DanitaKusor

I found the whole event a bit disappointing really.

The PvP event was ok and not bad fun was probably the best part so far.

The jumping puzzle was... well another jumping puzzle and I hate them all.

The bell choir was impossible to do because of unavoidable latency.  I couldn't see which button to push before it had already happened.

The only useful skin (the clothes) it appears you have to buy with gems.

No idea yet what the airship thing is like that hasn't appeared yet.  Will check that out tomorrow.

I had delay only twice and wasnt game breaking. Some of the notes just disapeared earlier, before reaching me. Still I manage top score most of the time withoiut a problem. As many other players around me... Check your provider

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by The_Korrigan
All I've seen so far is top notch - ANet really have a kickass content team.

I totally i agree, jumping puzzle is fenomenal, PvP is a lot of fun, and the musical game is very hard and challenging, but when you win its awesome.

 

Some people just cant see that this, but compared to any other MMO previously released the free content of GW2 is phenomenal, simply amazing.  

 

But there is nothing to be gained worthy to keep the archievers occupied, no big prices or uber gear to be won, so if you want that in your game, GW2 is not your game. But for fun moments and casual gaming attitude its just plain awesomeness

+1 and just remember games like WoW  with sub included (about seasons) offer you a hand full of nothing and another hand with nothing at all!

The new Jumping puzzle its very easy (i made at 4th try), i liked clockwork much more and was far more challenged puzzle