Guild Wars Special Events / Festivals: Fun or Profit?

Heres a question i ask.

What are your intentions during special events?

Fun or Profit?


Me? I want to do both. Have some fun questing and goofing around, at the same time, take a little bit of time to sell whatever is required for new items to other players.

Some players see special events are great opportunities to make lots and lots of money, and a lot of them certainly do.

But another question i ask is;

What do you think is the impact of purely capitalistic players have on the rest of the players during special events?

Special Events for me is just for me to enjoy the game more.
I mean, as i'm not a big pvp fan, and there is just so much you can do PvE wise, things can get a little boring.
Events justs gives me another unique way to enjoy the game more. ^^

I think most people have the same thought as me.
But of course there are just people that are there for the "items" where they can sell on later to make some profit. (this event: mini pigs, firecrackers, etc.)

well, to me those events are only about fun. I have enouth other things to sell, and festivals are mostly about fun and items. i dont really care about the money cuz i got most of the things i want, and i have other ways to make money, so its mostly to play the quests/challenges and get items like transf tonics, and stuff like this.

most the capitalistic playres are forgetting the fun of the game, at a certain point allk they see is $$$, but since im not one of them i wont judge them, dioffrent people have fun in diffrent ways. to some its gold in storage and 100 sets of FOW, to some its more about having fun with friends and stuff (normal pve)

Just about fun!

Capitalistic players?
In my opinion, they are a minor annoyance, spoiling a bit of the fun, but as long as they are not raging about "Anet endangering their profits" I don't care about them.

In the case of the Canthan event, there are some gamers who don't have Factions. So you can take some advantage of this. I sold a mini pig for an ecto. Then I sold another for 5.9k. I find that alright but I wouldn't want things to be sold for more than 20k. It would be cool if Anet monitored this sort of thing and if prices are too high, then release more and more of the product into the market.

(For once, I will not start a flame war in this topic, believe it or not.)

I'm capitalistic, but I don't sell the items, because I'm lazy and greedy. And because I have too much money in a game where money is unnecessary.

Its all about the hats. I think thats the only reason I showed up for the event today. I use to do the festival quests for fun but I haven't done a festival quest since the first boardwalk event with dragon masks... forget the name.

The mini games are a nice touch too. Did a couple rollerbeatle runs but the problem is the rubberbanding is ****ing ridiculous and kind of took the fun out of it for me... if they fixed rubberbanding, rollerbeatle would of definitely been a lot of fun though...

For fun, all the way. Besides, I'm a packrat, so although I will try to rack up on as much festive items as possible, it's all for saving and not selling.

My wife and I decided to join forces and try to acquire drunkard and sweet tooth titles with holiday items alone. So, to better our chances at either title, I decided to get the Sweet Tooth title, while she is going for Drunkard. Plus, I love transforming into random candy corn or elves, shooting fireworks, dropping snowmen, and popping out ghosts in boxes randomly. The pig mini is just an awesome little gift, and I've got a few friends who couldn't make the finale, so I'll probably be giving them my extras.

I actually kinda feel sorry for those who attend these events with the sole reason to make a few virtual bucks. Do they affect me? No way, not even a little. I mean, to each their own. Just glad I at least know how to have fun.

I want to have fun at the special events. It's what they're designed for. And I think that that's what some people forgot for this event. The first few hours, the pig drops were huge from the fortunes, but that was an error and anet fixed it, and now it's almost impossible to get them. So those that had them saw it as a huge profit on their part. Then came the celestial pig, who gave out the pigs for free. And there was a huge outcry from those who had spent money on/were earning money from these pigs. Those that spent hours building up fortunes and didn't get a pig, those that just wanted a pig to have a pig, were very pleased by the giveaway by the Celestial.

Sure, I horde all the event items in case they some day may be able to be sold for a bit more, but mostly the events are there to have fun, and to earn those titles that you may not have yet (drunkard, sweet tooth and gamer I am referring to here).

Fun fun fun ...with maybe a little cash involved *coughcough*

What i'm trying to save for a naga raincaller o_o;;

anyway, I like the events for just fun. It was hard to not just rollerbeetle the whole day away xD definitely took time away from my mapping of Elona.

But a little cash on the side isn't so bad...but it's not my sole purpose, just a bonus

(I still regret not selling/trading my extra pig sooner >_> gave it away in the end though ^-^)

The quests were unique and the minigame was the best ever made.
And that's where the fun is limited.

Otherwise, i just tell the main token items for cash. Foolish people wasting their money, might as well take advantage, no? There's a lot of money out in GW and I'm there to grab me some. I can only get hge wads of cash like this from these type of events.

Made like 50k this weekend.

I'm Capitalistic. I try to milk as much money as I can out of an event.

I start out the event trying to make money, but I get sucked into the mini games too easily so I usually end up in it for the fun. Which is fine by me, I can just go farm ecto if I want profit :S

It was fun, changing districts real fast to get extra items . Got 4 piggies doing that. For me it was more fun and maybe i'll turn two of those piggies into bacon....

I made a !@#$ load out of the tokens for the event, do I see it as bad? No!

It was back when everyone thought they were worth something, most times 100g each, and I knew a easy way to get them quickly.

So I farmed them and made alil profit. But I only asked for the sale price of 25k for a stack,

The easiest way to get money this weekend was to:

1)Create new character in factions
2)Get 50g to open storage
3)Take out 10 glittering dust out
4)Take the quest where the storage agents was.(forgot the name of quest)
5)Run outside, give 10 dust, run back inside
6)Get reward 25 tokens and some other things
7)Sell tokens fast and cheap 80-90gold each
8)drop items in storage, delete character and repeat

That takes about 2-4 minutes

I played through all of the quests, rolled some beetles, opened a few fortunes... basically partook of every aspect of the special event weekend. Then I made some money selling what I wasn't going to be using afterwards.

So to answer the question - I do both, but I put fun in front of profit.

No there is a quicker and cheaper way.
skip step 2), revamp step3) and wait till u have 250 tokens before selling.

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The events are more about fun for me. And the in-game alcohol.

Although this weekend's event has been good for my finances too. Made a good 15k or so while hunting for ingredients (the most I've ever made in a weekend so I'm very proud of myself). Haven't sold any tokens or fortunes to anyone - and I'm definitely not letting go of my mini pigs (although I did give one of them to a friend who hadn't got one yet) :P

I participate events for fun, mainly. I may try to gain some profit if I see an opportunity but I'm sure as hell won't complain if I don't get anything/lose something because of it.

I'm a casual player, you see. I don't farm (unless you count playing with 7 hench/heroes and clearing one map for loots, opening chests along the way as "farm"), I don't do chest runs or UW/Griffon/Troll solos. And because I try to play all the classes (as primary class characters) and skills are expensive, I'll need all the money I can find. That's why I usually don't waste my money on something as trivial as Lunar Tokens or Armbrace of Truths (IF I ever get rich enough to even consider one, that is).

I made 90k during this event, selling tokens. It may sound like nothing to some of you, but 90k for me = 1 full ascended (15k) armor for one of my chars and then some plats for skills. And I did it without any stress, too.

All in all, I have fun and also made some profits. I couldn't be happier.