Worst. Event. Ever.

Worst event ever? Probably, yes.

Now, before you paint me as an Anet hater, this isn't because the event was bad in and of itself, but more that we've been gifted with so many free, high quality, amazing fun-filled events in the past and it didn't quite come up to the same standard.

In my opinion, the rollerbeetle racing is cool, if a little gimmiky, although the rewards I believe could have been better - and I'm talking gamer points here, not lunar tokens. If you won every race, you could make 2 gamer points per minute (3 minutes per race at half a minute intervals) but winning is less about skill per se and comes more down to luck, and even if I was that good, there's no way I could make the next rank of the gamer title even if I played constantly.

Again, that's not because the racing is bad (it's actually possible to gain more points over time than by snowball fighting) its simply that the event is only on for three days, compared to the 2 weeks plus of wintersday: In that time, even a casual gamer could make a rank in the gamer title, I'd hoped to be able to make at least another rank in this event, and was unfortunatley dissapointed.

As for the PvE side, the ingredient farming I felt was a little ambiguous, and the eventual purpose was dissapointing for a lot of people, personally I didn't farm all the items, but a lot of people did believing that they'd be able to get their hands on something better than those who didn't.

Fireworks were great for those as have them, I don't personally care for novelty items, but different strokes for different folks, right? I would have liked to see some festive alcohol to help me work my way up my drunkard title, but hey, we got a sugar drink for the sweet tooth title instead, thats cool. Lunar tokens, ok sure, but they didn't really do anything worthwhile for me since I'm not into things that go pop and everyone got a minipig at the end anyway.

I personally got my first pig in my first ten fortunes. I was really happy to get a gold pet out of one of these things (hadn't read wiki or guru yet to know this happened ) and I wouldn't have sold it anyway, I am into rare items (thats why I carry a plasma blade while running, lol). But in the end, everyone has one, or two, or a dozen. So my one question is: Why is it gold? To me, gold means rare, superior. A better way for me would have been to make the minipig white, and have a gold mini celestial pig that is truly rare...

Besides the above, the decorations and the hat are great, and the spirit of the event was very well done, spoiled only by the usual idiots, and that's no fault of Anet's!

Overall, I would rate this as the worst of the events, but I'd still rather have it than none at all!

Well put it this way. What if you opened about a thousand "fortunes" like I did, and still got no pig? Would you be more dissapointed now, or would you be ok that the value of the pig dropped so dramatically that even if you missed the finale you could still buy one?
I did end up buying a pig hours before the first appearance, but I bought it with the money I made at the event. So basically I'm right where I was before the event plus a couple of mini pets.
I'm pretty pleased with this event. Aside from the lag issues I enjoyed racing, trying to get tokens, playing r/p/s, and making a ton of money during the event.
I'm not sure what you guys were expecting at the finale, but in the future take all the festival celebration descriptions VERY literally. It hinted at rewards for pleasing the pig, and the mini pig was the only thing valuable right? I kind of figured that would happen after I bought a pig, and thought about it. Anet does nothing but aim to please. SO many people were crying about not getting a pig (myself included), and so they fixed that.
You got to admit this event got you playing alot more than you probably would have . I logged 10+ hours when I haven't signed on for two weeks. XD
My only gripe about this event was not getting to see the celestial pig give me a mini pig from any of my "fortunes", and hearing that the initial pigs were spawning like mad because of a code that was fixed... I didn't get one when the code was messed up, and I SURE didn't get one after it was fixed. There wasn't any point in fixing the code if it was going to be free. If the stats on GuildWiki are to be taken seriously the spawn rate went from 3% to a measly .5%... Boo

I loved this event, i spent 0 gold on items, and me and an alliance buddy or 2 did the 10 glitter dust new toon thing and got 1000 tokens in a hour, we then stood around useing and selling them, i ended up making 30k selling dragon roots and furtunes....I knew that minipigs would be cheap, I didnt know i would wake up this morning with 3 pigs............so, made some money, and have some pig(s)..........what more could you want?

I was pretty happy about the event overall.....the aniticapation of trying to get all the ingredients for the chefs (never did get the smoking remains)....was a bit of a let down seeing as we really didnt need ALL of them. But I made some profits as well----selling my dragon roots and crests (had tons of these in storage and at between 500g to 1k ea....) .
The tokens, well, another thing to have in my 'holiday' storage with the jade wind orbs and claws.....at least I was able to do the quests with 8 of my toons and get enough for over 300 fortunes, and while more than half of those were just effects I did get alot of cash---100gold a pop....and about 30% of my fortunes were cash......

all in all I had a good time doing the quests, opening the fortunes (never got a piggy in one of them--but seeing as I have 2 from the end event already was glad I didnt fork out any extra plat for one!), and running around after the pig was great fun for me (yes at 2am after a long day .......)....

so my opinion.....a pretty good event as events go for cantha. 8/10

Honestly, I'm somewhat disappointed in this event myself. I was hoping to be able to work on my lucky/unlucky titles, but I guess that'll have to wait. What I was most disappointed in, though, was what a few other people here seem to have a problem with, and that's the mini pig.

It would have been much better for AreaNet to just not give them out in fortunes and to have hinted at a special prize for especially well-prepared feasts to encourage people to get ingredients for the chefs. I'm mostly frustrated because I spent thousands on lunar tokens before I finally got one when I could have saved my money instead and gotten one at the end.

I did enjoy the rollerbeetle racing, though. I wish my computer didn't lag so much when I played it, but that's not AreaNet's problem.

Enjoyed the event, loved rollerbeetle racing, hated using hundreds of fortunes to get junk.

Absolutely detested getting constant err=40 when trying to logon to get to the pig visits. Not managed to connect around the time of any of them yet.

lol, the district i got a hat in didnt get a mini pig, so i switched to another district planning to afk and found a pig on the floor =) happy me.

Im not sure if this event is great or not, not enough time to play. rollerbeetled once. first try was holding first place for over half the race then lost it.
did 4 of the lunar quests, exchanged ~30 fortunes, no luck.

overall, i didnt expect much, still kept me glued to the comp for an hour or so.

Qouted for truth, all.

I too was pretty bummed 'bout the event. I didn't mind wasting my time too much, as I don't get mad at this game much anymore. But yeah, it was pretty discouraging that everyone got a pig...well, a winning district.

P.S: What server do you play in, Zinger?

It sucks, Anet decision for making you dependent on your district to get a minipet or not wasn't exactly the best one.... If you happen to be in a crappy district everytime you'll never get it. And once again the dumb intervals. WTF why can't an event be continuesly or just happen every 15 minutes or something.

There's always a thread called "Worst event ever" every time Anet holds one of these things. I had fun. I didn't expect anything more than I was given. Try not to take things for granted and realise that this isn't something you "need", it's something extra they give us. It's like being given a gift and telling the person who gave you it that it wasnt good enough.

Stormrage (EST PVE)

ArenaNet's business model is "quality over quantity." Therefore, if there's less quality, we should be dissappointed.

Many things good with the event.
I kinda agree with the OP, though.
Since I spent 264 fortunes (gathered by all my characters) with no minipig (my girlfrend got one on the 14th), spent hours farming ingredients, just to see the ridiculous reward....
I could have go out, instead of that I GRINDED the whole event during the weekend, making it no fun after all... That's my fault I recognize it. I would have let it aside.

But you know what? Next time I won't do anything, just leech and afk the finale like many people did while I will develop other characters or just go back to real life. And I think many people will do the same. And I don't care if i'm turned into a little piggie to the end of the event, at least it will be funny as I won't be alone.

What I'm saying is if you let people who "worked hard" have so poor reward, don't count on them to do this again. They will just be turned off special events to concentrate on rewarding playing.

personally loved the event and saw the giving away of the pig comming in the first place.
Also, ive had great fun playing my sin with lucky aura active, all those crits+double strikes makes boss farming go much faster

I *expected* something along the lines of pigs at the end of the festival, so I spent all my time farming the lunar tokens (I myself made over 70k this weekend on tokens alone, not counting fireworks- and that's low.) and selling them to people instead of trying to get a pig myself. 7 different festivals and you kinda expect certain things to happen.

guildy pig in first try, second guildy 30 tries. Me 200+ tries and nothing. Bought one for 3 ecto's. Today got one for free at event :S. Why couldn't they just tell people that you can get a pet through the mask distribution. Not Amuzed

It is an event, none the less...far better than another triple chance green drop one, imo....but like any event, some will like/hate it more than others.

Everyone that attended got items not previously available and, since there are countless threads of "gimme, gimme gimme", some still aren't satisfied with what they got...but how many of those players still stayed at the event for the duration, I wonder?

^^ great point ^^ I was also a little more creative in my thinking that, since it's a "Year of the Pig" theme, why weren't the masks "pig" masks instead of "lion" masks...and why rollerbeetle races (though they are a blast) instead of mini pig races? Ah well, I guess it'd be too much to ask to make the Drunkard title a 12 step one?

I had a good time at the event and that's what really matters. It's not about making money off of people or being one of the few to have a "prestige" item. As long as some people enjoy the event, it was a great time for them and again that's what really matters.

As for obtaining a mini pig, I wasted some time doing all the quests with eleven of my chars collecting tokens to get fortune tickets just to obtain a mini. After opening 300+ tickets I didn't receive one and you know what, I didn't care that I wasted time trying to get one. So, I was like " Eh, tough luck. Life goes on." Although, I was glad I received one in the finale and I see nothing wrong with everybody having one. Don't take it so seriously, remember it's just a game.

I think they could have told us a little earlier. there wasnt much "hype"

I think the OP has a valid point. It's like Anet deciding to make the Rit hero easy to get. Then all the people that worked their asses off to get it originally feel cheated....

i really enjoyed this event, havent actually done a holiday event for guildwars in a long time and i loved the roller beetle races. I did 98 fortunes and got 0 pigs which pissed me off but o well its a gamble. I do however hate that spiritual possession, i did a whole SF run with it and got a headache :P

Overall: Good event, KEEP THE BEETLERACING!!!!

Agree

This event was pathetic and ridiculous.

Besides, im sick of these stupid fedex quests =X

Forgot to say: I used 300+ fortunes and got NO PIGS. Thanks anet

Rollerbeatle is very nice but I cant play it decently since my ping is 300ms+

I have to respectfully disagree with this.

Festivals, holidays, events - they are all about (1) the anticipation of something and (2) being surprised when that thing occurs.

Providing hints and information ahead of time is the easiest way to ruin that "surprise", which takes a ton of the fun out of the event.

I personally love the fact that they gave pigs to everyone in a district that had the foresight of collecting chef items. In many instances, to receive a pig, it required teamwork (something that is rarely seen outside of PvP in Guild Wars). Actually seeing chatter in districts trying to ensure that all chef items were present, seeing people give items to others for free to make sure the chefs are satisfied, seeing people buy items from entrepenuers for the good of everyone in the district - now that is showing a bit of community that Guild Wars has been lacking.

For those that have gotten used to holiday events being "work" and a "time for money making" - you simply took a risk, and the risk did NOT pan out. That is why you are disappointed...but it isn't Arena-Net's fault for your risk going against you. The lack of information is what you tried to capitalize on, and sometimes that doesn't work.

Yes bad event, big laggs and now please change attribute panel back to the way it was and for the love of god remove the mouse overs on the load template!!!! arg it's so annoying.

Awwww, pure widdle OP bought a pig for 30k and got owned afterwards!

Totally agree with above poster. It was great to see an actually community in GW for once instead of the capitalists.

Is there any proof/evidence that Lucky Aura actually effects crit ratio?

Personally i think the event started very well. Rollerbeetle was fun, though a little buggy (no pun intended). Some new quests etc.

But it started to trail off a bit by the second day. The only real mini-game they'd povided (Rollerbeetle Racing) was losing its amusement value. The rubber banding, lag, insane amount of luck needed to get the right combo to get a decent score...

Seemed a sort of anti-climax too. The Minitaure Pigs that were so wanted the first 2 days through fortunes, fustrating many people were given away as freebies for turning up in the first 300 districts of Shing Jea. Very dissapointing end really.

The OP doesn't sound like he had fun due to the "surprise." Along with a lot of other people in the topic.

And you are wrong about festivals, holidays, and events; only some people believe it's about anticipation and surprises, other people believe it's all about capitalism and making money by manipulating the idealistic fools. The latter feeds upon the former. Darwin would approve.

Although ArenaNet may have pleased the former with the Minature Pigs, they severely annoyed the latter.

this event sucks and anet sucks this event fulled my 3rd storage character we need more storage not another stupid event

p.s it would be great if they kept the beetle racing

I thought this even was a complete waste, that game is pretty fun but outside of that it was insanely useless.

Totally Agree with Feme Assasin, and the thread starter get a life it's a game not your life.

Overall I think the event was great - new minigame, new minipets for lots of people, new hats!!

I say this as someone who spent many many hours trying to find all the chef items yesterday and pretty much got them all.

The only thing I'm disappointed at is that I'm in the exact same boat as people who entered the district and did afk.
Two improvements were needed :
1. More tokens for each ingredient given - say 50 or 100
2. If you personally managed to get and give ALL ingredients you would get a SPECIAL prize - like a celestial pig for instance.

Getting all the ingredients is difficult - you should be rewarded accordingly.
But I'm not letting that ruin an otherwise excellent event....

I agree. However, if you look at A-Net's track history, they really don't put their primary focus on attempting to make the capitalistic group happy. The addition of inscriptions and removal of "pre-nerf" items are classic examples.

I actually had fun with this event. Collecting the chef items was an adventure in itself and wasn't a give me. I was surprised to see I had gotten a pig after the celestial had come and gone but collecting the chef items I guessed paid off. I would have liked to see a few more side quests or mini quests but all in all I rather enjoyed the event.

Honestly people complaining about the difficulty of getting the chef items are in my own opinion just plain lazy. It's sad when you see people asking others to run a mission for them for 5 K or more simply to get further in the game with out having to work for it and unfortunately many GW players are like that any more. The events always bring the lazy to these forums complaining but had something been given for free they would have been happy as a PIG in mud.

So what you're saying, Zinger, is that Anet made the good people happy and the evil people annoyed? Cool. Good day's work, Anet!

I got a pig the hard way, and then another one was just handed to me at the end. Know what? I'm still happy. ^_^ Although my wrist is sore from all that beetle racing.

I like my new hat, too.

A little self testing easily proves it, get a sin with 0 dagger mastery and 13 in critical strikes then go and attack something, you will see every hit made netting you your 3 energy.

I personaly get my mini big within 20 bag....so I cant talk about how I was cheated over the "pig for all" final.
ya, it is pig for all, should had made it "players who have all 5 dishes" not the "district with all 5 dishes".
I love the rollbeetle race, its fun=D(and it dance) The only problem I have with it is the lag, and extreem luck depending. I am still trying, but unless the godess smile upon me, I dont think I will make it to the top 100 without more superbeetle.(average once per race clearly not enough)
However I do find this special pvp fun, so even if I didnt made it to the top 100 its fine.

Personaly the final is kind of funny on my end. I never sold or even try to sold my piggy(mainly because I dont like to do business during my own time), but I do see a lot of people claim piggy is super rare, and how they going to made XXk after the event. Excuse me, but it does made me laugh to see all those "---- A-Net cheated my pocket". Yes, I personaly know someone who bought their pig, and yes I send whisper saying something like "dude...ouch". Its like watching people making bad business choice, you feel bad for them, but you are also glad its not you.

And No, this event arent the worest=P the worest are those you couldnt join even if you want to.....I want my PANDA>.>

That is exaclty why me and my friend are so annoyed about this event, spend all that time trying to get ingredients, give it to the chef and everyone gets a pig, why should everyone get a pig when they didnt get the ingridenets??? anet might as well give everyone pigs for free as well as hats instead of having the chefs there. pointless and waste of time for the ingridients farmers!! anet either should have only give out pigs with the fortune tickets and/or give pigs to those who has collected all the ingridents (not everyone in the dis!!!)

Nope. They made the naive, weak-minded, and optimistic happy, whereas they made the thoughtful, intelligent, and pessimistic annoyed.

Evil always wins because good is dumb.

My complaint about the chef items is that even if you get all the ingrediants for one dish, your district still can fail and you get nothing. I had the bad luck of being in districts that failed twice. A lot of my work for nothing.

I think they should have guaranteed a reward to people who turn in all the ingrediants to one dish. It will still require community participation but at least those who took the effort to get all the ingrediants get something.

I dont really care that everyone gets a pig despite doing nothing. I'm not a capitalist, I'd just like to get at least a couple of pigs for myself and gf. I don't understand why some people are so worked up over the fact that everyone gets one. So what?

My god, they put alot of work into it and you call it trash? The questing in Shing Jea Island again was fun for me, I didn't feel like I got enough to do over there compared to Istan Isle.

The RollerBeetle racing had issues, but it wasn't totally bad. The main problem was the LACK OF GAMER POINTS. I asked Gaile about them the Sunday before this and she said "There will be oppurtunities for Gamer skills" (check chat log).

This proves not only that Anet doesn't even know their own titles but the fact they made it an impossible grind AND DIDN'T FIX IT DURING THE EVENT... WTF