Dragon Festival - Afk title festival, What about the rest of us?

So its time for the Dragon festival again, Great for those of us that wants to max the Lucky/unlucky titles. im not one of those.sure i liked the mask, i did quests to get 250 tokens, took me a couple of minutes of running around. But after that i went back to playing the game, Which normally is Vanquishing, Zaishen quests, and UW SpeedClears.

I have a Descent connection, im below 100 ping 99% of the time.
today i turned on the computer and had Chat Delay, Delay before the skills are being used and just General lagg.

So, this Festival managed to make some ppl Happy, but got the rest of the Gw players who dont feel like Standing AFK, Being a Ball or play Dodgeball
not being able to play properly.

(This is not a whine thread. These are Simple Facts.)

Yea, problem is 90% of GW population is on during festivals as opposed to more like <50% thats normal these days. ANet needs to add more duct tape to the server.

It's been like this for like... ever... -_-
Every festival people are complaining about lag. But I only seem to have problems when running around in Shing Jea, so I really don't give a (random curse word here) about it.

You should be happy that you get those opportunities a couple of times a year. It gives people something to look forward to (and with that I mean any event, from Anet or player run) and gives you the chance to do something different then VQ or UWSC for a weekend.

Im enjoying myself, i dont afk but in like 3 hours of messin around i got 6 stacks of Victory tokens (did not buy any) and will prolly get x3 more today.


Im enjoying this, the lagg is annoying but i work through it.

I don't see how this is forcing people to afk instead of play ...i'm sure theres plenty of people aroudn to do what you usually do. If anything this event adds extra stuff not takes stuff away...stop being so selfish.
Want something to do with this event but not afk 9 rings?...well theres always the other features

I don't see how this really has any effect on you.
I haven't gotten any lag yet since the event started o.O...

You are mistaken.
The festival doesn't ruin the game for you.
A.Net ruins the game for you for not taking into account the massive number of players that log on to play during these events.

The game doesn't lag if you have a good enough connection, even during festivals. It will slow down quite a bit if you don't. I can still do everything I normally do. Stop blaming A.net for connection problems on your end.

Anyway, I only afk in 9 rings while I'm asleep. The rest of the time I a) beat all the quests on all my characters, that's about 700 points towards the sweet tooth title right there. b) rollerbettle race/dragon arena

I'm sorry if you don't enjoy doing the activities that are involved in the event. But that's no right for you to demand that you take them away from people who do.

Oh yeah, festivals cause lag a lot. I don't even bother with Nine Rings as I always somehow get stuck on the one that knocks people down and takes tickets away, even when I move. I don't know what they can do to fix it since the majority of the population seems to only come online during festivals now. Seems kind of pointless to invest in more server space for events that only last like four days.

Maybe We Should petition To stop all Events just so You can be Happy and Not Create anyMore whine Threads!!1

I think it's to make them look intelligent, usually you see people who don't speak english as a first language or just somewhat illiterate people typing like that.

Though, back on topic, what do you want us to say? Ohes nose someone doesn't like the event because it makes them lag on occasion for a few days call the whambulance, everyone knows the servers are pretty crap and can't be completely stable with too many people online, I haven't been able to play rollerbeetle racing since I started playing 3 years ago because of the lag I get from it but you don't see me starting a thread because of lag issues a few days a year! Boohoo Anet can't afford amazing servers.

I have not experienced any lag since the festival started both past and present. Except of course when I am in a district that has 300+ peeps in it... but that is to be expected.

...true

redo the old quests again....thats what you do....get your tokens and then go back to doing the zaishen stuff.....return on sunday for the finale and free stuff....like any other festival.

brb, bringing back the Sardelac Thread I made last event about this.

Edit: Can't yet, because no search.

Playin it right now. But I hop on Guild Wars whenever a "call to arms" is up!

I just go DA
so much fun~
who cares bout those titles

Well believe it or not, I've played GW since just before Factions was released and I've never played Rollerbeetle Racing until today, so I've been on that for most of the day. I've got my 250 tokens and I farmed a quest that only comes around once a year, continuously. I don't like standing on imaginary rings.

4 years of GW.
Never did Beetles.
They are always on the same weekend as the AFKing so ANYTHING automatically loses to that.

Guild Wars is a strange game. The only way to win is to not play at all.

If you only bought Guild Wars to max your lucky/unlucky titles, then yes, you win Guild Wars.

GW is now idleRPG 3D