Last (?) Halloween Quest

QFT.

4th fail: 5 days later quest is gone, and apparently still can't be completed?!?

LOL, this, in combination with their XTH fail, is going to piss off a lot of long-time gameplayers. Don't they even give a SH!T?

Come on people is a single quest being late, and the loss of a few plat and some ToT bags really worth looking like a bunch of sniveling children?
Oh wait, sorry forgot whom I was talking to.

I agree with this as most of my guild never heard of the halloween quest before I told them about it. Why should people who never been on guru or wiki be forced to dig through posts to find out what's going on when anet can just use their announcement tab?

This was pretty poor for communication on Anet's part. Though the reward isn't that big of a deal, the people who missed it can't do the quest until next halloween so they miss out on the action.

Drunkard, the irony of it all is this: Anet stated that this quest chain will be this year only, so there won't be a do-over next year. And Anet has locked many people out of the finale because of their inability to effectively communicate (Lyndsey, I hope you realize that flowery post a few months ago about better communication is about as far from the truth as it gets). So all this time they are spending fixing it will be for naught for the majority of players, since they have locked them out of it with this insane hide and seek quest.

No DUH. I guess you have to daily read some jackasses personal status page (WhoeverTF she is - communication guru?).
Totally agree - BUGGED.
Patience has absolutely NOTHING to do with it - the quest was bugged (non-sequential requirement GONE), and is now GONE. Whether it ever kicks in is totally irrelevant.
I highly doubt it. Within 24 hours, there was a 7-8 player ASSN speed-clear (WTF, no enchant strip/perma nerf?)...

How come posting on the developer updates page doesn't count as putting it on the official website? They told us to go talk to the steward, they told us he was leaving soon. Just because some people weren't listening doesn't mean A-net wasn't talking.

But I guess people who can't be bothered to listen to announcements can't be bothered to listen to common sense on this forum either.

There were no announcements - I log on daily, I saw nothing. I don't bother reading dev status pages tho...

You missed the whole point of the post. To see what UWSC builds replace the old ones and deal with the skeletons... then act accordingly. Your post is direct proof that if it was their idea, it was a legitimate course of action.

Honestly, if you weren't on any of the times the quest was being offered either because you don't play that often, you were too busy, you don't read wiki/forums, or your guildies didn't know about it and tell you, then you really shouldn't care. We're all busy. If Guild Wars is a priority, you have to keep up on forums or in game. If it's not a priority, that's fine, but expect to miss some things.

It's really not a huge deal.

Seriously... I just logged in 4 days later and I'm still waiting.. What a long waiting game.. Its faster to get the H1N1 shot than to wait to finish this quest... L A W L

I'm beginning to suspect the Mad King is behind this chaos, or the legendary Head of Vecna.

´

Geez, you read forums, but you don't read the OFFICIAL game updates page? How would you know if SF has been nerfed or if something big has happened without taking a peek at the OFFICIAL game updates page?

This isn't Anet's lack of communication. This is your lack of reading and getting to know what the hell is happening.

Don't whine. The thing was all over, the forums, the wiki, the OFFICIAL site.

You dind't read cause you didn't wanted to. Period.

Thats what i was going to point out, yes you can argue the SOON DEPART is pretty vague but you should hazard a guess that you should be quick about getting it.
And bad luck to those who only got it on one character and are pissed because they didn't do it on others. Surely you could switch characters and travel to ToA, if your character doesn't have it then maybe theyre not ready for this? ...Actually just get to Kamadam or LA

I check the forums, I read journals, I read game updates.

but the game update says it that it will soon depart, but has a last word for those willing to battle against dhuum.

I want to battle Dhuum, so when the quest was finally gonna be "active" I would just go with whatever character was needed to kill the guy, get the quest and roll him.

but now I can't get the quest anymore, which is weird and just plain stupid, you would at least expect this guy to give you the reward for the quest.

but that's just logical thinking.

I'm not speaking for myself. But A LOT of people don't even care to read updates. Hell, most people don't travel past LA daily, and if they do, there isn't a 100% chance of seeing the steward.

I still don't see why Anet would want to make the Steward leave, it's not very logical. They could just leave him there and no one would be angry.

Like I said I'm pretty sure anyone (who goes through UW) can battle Dhumm, this quest just gives an extra one-time reward. I'll bet Anet intended this as a "hey this was supposed to be out halloween but we didn't have it ready in time, but here's an extra seasonal reward for those of you who were prepared." Of course Guru being what it is, people see it in the worse possible way.

Oh, cool.

I discovered this stuff just now.
My last login was when Halloween ended.
I don't care much about the quest, but I told this in alliance chat... ROFLMAO, the rage is epic.

They knew about the one time only quests, thanks to the login announcement:
during halloween on the login announcement there was a link to http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/halloween_2009/... guess what's on that page? "Brave the dangers of the Underworld on a series of spine-tingling quests for Mad King Thorn, available this Halloween season only.".

* So they played during Halloween and kept an eye for the unique quests.

* When Halloween ended they thought the "unique quests" were over, there were no more to come. Was it wrong to assume that once Halloween ended there were no more quests "available this Halloween only"?

* Then, after Halloween Anet decides to put in the game for a very limited time a steward that gives a "one time only" quest.

GG Anet, you surely know how to give players a great experience.

See, I'm not thinking it's that many people who are left out. This thread only jumped up about 4-5ish pages when the Steward left; that’s not that many compared to most QQ-fests that go on here. One also has to take into account that there seems to be a decent split between those who are angry with A-net and those who aren’t.

I mean, when A-net posts skill changes on the dev updates page, the threads are 20+ pages long. This thread has covered two dev updates (the return and departure of the Steward) and we’ve only made it up to 15 pages. That’s long, but not that long considering the length of the wait. I'm not really feeling like there's all that much outrage from the community.

The problem with this statement is that you completly ignore all of the people WHO AREN'T ON GURU. I wouldn't be suprised when the quest actually starts that people start to realize there actually was a halloween quest. Many of the people on this form are irate that after Anet preached better PR relations the communication seems to have gotten worse for the playerbase.

Well hopefully the stupid ass quest comes today. I don't want to hover around reading Guru and online journals. It's not all that entertaining.

Now I remember why I hardly read these forums anymore; Does everyone have some intense urge to whine about ANet and their decisions every single time they do anything? It sure seems like it.

Now yes I can understand people being a little upset if they missed the quest but I certainly did not find it that difficult to keep up with and I barely play Guild Wars these days. This is leading up to a very big event after all but some people are really going overboard with the complaining and crying here.

Calm down folks, it's just a game. Take deep breaths =p

Also as far as I am aware, the long wait is to build up the excitement and quite possibly to do the last bit of testing on this final quest before it's put on the live servers, so that's fine with me. Look how long we all waited for GW2 news? Was it not worth the wait after seeing that trailer? =)

i can see some of the QQ posted at/about the steward is wining but rest i dont think is. not everyone reads guru dailing or wiki and you forget wiki can and has been changed before. so any info on wiki i take witha grain of salt. and no the trailer wasnt worth the wait. because if it doesn come on 2011 that still is a long ways away and a teeny tiny trailer doesnt make me more wanting to buy a game.

You Anet sycophants really need to just stop it w/the idiot logic. To blindly defend this mess that's happened is not reflecting well upon yourselves. The way that this quest chain has been mismanaged and mangled over, as of this post, 11 days after the halloween event has already concluded, to me is unprecedented, considering the fact that this is a one time only quest.

I'm a big believer in paying attention to trends. If you pay close enough attention, you usually can predict what will happen based on prior observations. Over the course of gw history, the trends with holiday/event quests and rewards have been that the opportunity to cash in concludes when the event is done and the npc's and decorations have been removed, where you can no longer trade items for goodies, etc. These dates are usually predetermined, so that you can schedule your personal agenda around the event itinerary, if you so choose.

There have been a few exceptions to this. One example was when the canthan hat trader guy would stick around for a week after the event, so you could still trade the collectible items in and collect the hat. When that underwater communications line broke (I think due to an earthquake/tsunami) and resulted in cutting part of the world off from an event, they did the dragon festival redux ('07). And I vaguely remember this one, but the wiki mentioned that there was a halloween redux in '08 as well.

Regardless, in the past Anet has done a fairly decent job trying to give the playerbase an opportunity to participate in those events. They went out of their way to make things right w/the community (with respect to the holiday events at least) and that was commendable and appreciated. Why they'd dick around now and flop and twitch with this one kindof leaves me wondering wtf is going on over there.

This is uncharted waters now, with this steward foolishness. To deliberately hose people out of a one time only quest chain because there is some sloppy shit going on in the background at Anet hq, that signifies a new point of interest for the trend followers. They used to have a fairly decent track record with holiday events, now it is apparent that the care with which they used to handle these events has slipped significantly. I guess that makes sense if you are of the opinion that lately Anet has been sloppy in general when attempting to integrate things on their punchlist into the game, with respect to delays and other unexpected screwups or other not-well-thought out updates (e.g. heroes banished from the gh).

The irritated people here aren't so much qq'ing as they are throwing the bullshit flag. There's been a bad call and it needs to be reviewed/overturned. Anet can fix it, they just have to want to fix it.

Defending this mess unfolding in the manner that it has been as the way it was originally intended, or suggesting that ANet is handling this well... puhleeeze. You sound like a bunch of assholes. Put down your kool-aid, and let the big people talk, at least the ones who have the ability to form objective opinons and make decisions based on rational logic.

No, thats just ignorance.

You fail to even comprehend the simple fact that you can take and later recieve the reward for a quest from two different (read: non identical) NPCs.

It was stated that the questgiver would leave soon and that the waiting would be a matter of days, not hours.
You should have just accepted the quest on every character that could get it (/ has access to uw/fow), would have taken you less time than to write this complain afterwards.

Whoah there, chillpill or 2 required!

Yes, ANet have ballsed up here on the face of things but until (well, if ever) we are told of the reasoning behind these quests and how they were meant to work, all of the QQing/defending is just purely conjecture.

It's happened. Get over it - play the game

Anyway, this has pretty much run it's course.

Once the quest is active, we might have another thread. Although I doubt there will be a need for one.