Im sorry but after almost 6 yrs of gw you would think that anet would be able to give us ample notice of events.
Many players over a few yrs of play will remember anet used to give us weekend and special events almost 3 - 4 days in advance and now they seem to have major probs with informing us of anything.
Last 2 yrs of both easter and gw birthday - mainly the easter event - if i recall wasnt even announced and yet again this year ( gone past 11am in uk ) anet seems to have forgotten to announce anything.
Why bother having the announcement system when it seems theres no staff able to use it ?.
Im sorry if this seems like nothing much but look at it from the players view , we enjoy playing gw ( otherwise we wouldnt be here would we :P ) and in order to really enjoy the events that anet so nicely arrange for us we have to know when these events start.Its nice to see xx event starts at weekend a few days in advance so we can plan our real lives and ingame lives around it - making our own event runs , seeing who may be on an team up .. etc.
Im sure that anet plans events in advance ( sure as hell most mmo games do ) and anet can say in advance any skill changes that the devs are releasing soon and any maintenance so someone knows and surely they can pass the info down the chain where we the players finally get told whats comming.
For once this isnt a qq topic about anets nerfing etc but a simple moan/request that im sure many players would like to see got back on track.
So please if any anet employee reads this - can you see why this has become so bad and see if someone could fix it or even let us know on here why its become so bad.
Yet again anet fails with announcements
Spiritz
Rushin Roulette
Whaaaatttt? Its Easter??!!!111ONE OMG, I never knew that. You surprized the hell out of me with your post. Without that I would have never known. Damn Anet for not telling us that it is easter this weekend.
Spiritz
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Whaaaatttt? Its Easter??!!!111ONE OMG, I never knew that. You surprized the hell out of me with your post. Without that I would have never known. Damn Anet for not telling us that it is easter this weekend.
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All that is asked is that anet returns to giving us advance warning a few days in advance instead of leaving us in the dark
Silverblad3
I agree with the poster, it is really pathetic and lacks customer focus by the CM and Live Team. Again, the failure to do basic things frequently is frustrating when they could easily do what needs to be done, like any real business would, put customers first.
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Tom Swift
Hmmm I may be wrong but it seems to me that most weekend that involve only special drops are announced only two days in advance. So I haven't been expecting any announcement until sometime this afternoon.
Silverblad3
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Hmmm I may be wrong but it seems to me that most weekend that involve only special drops are announced only two days in advance. So I haven't been expecting any announcement until sometime this afternoon.
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LexTalionis
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Some of the special events have been announced hours before the 'official' start. Consistency from the anet team would be good.
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Silverblad3
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So you'd like them to consistently announce events several hours before the 'official' start?
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Missing HB
Well there's 99% chance it's just a copycat from last year but , considering there is no announcement plus we're getting close to GvG mat , maybe there will be some update tonight ?
Lykan
Maybe they think that as it has been the same drops every year for Easter that the playerbase is intelligent enough to realise that.. OMG it will be Easter drops over Easter again this year and they don't need to keep wasting time with announcements.
Oh well guess they are wrong.
Oh well guess they are wrong.
keithmcm
Maybe anet converted to Greek/Russian/Serbian Orthodox, which celebrate Easter at a different time.
stanzhao
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Maybe they think that as it has been the same drops every year for Easter that the playerbase is intelligent enough to realise that.. OMG it will be Easter drops over Easter again this year and they don't need to keep wasting time with announcements.
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if you have been playing the game for years, surely gwwiki should just be deleted to. I mean, seeing as were all so pro here, you should be able to see what updates and skill changes have been made just by logging in.
the point is, if they announce weekend events a few days before they start, like they used to, you might actually look at it and think 'hmmm, i might log in this weekend when i have some free time'. not everyone has all day to stare at their screens and wait for the announcement. I'm sure those who only log in once or twice a week would like to know if a weekend event is happening or not.
Coast
there are new players also that don't know anything about these events , so they always should be announced properly...
Vallen
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Maybe they think that as it has been the same drops every year for Easter that the playerbase is intelligent enough to realise that.. OMG it will be Easter drops over Easter again this year and they don't need to keep wasting time with announcements.
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Sweet Treat Weekend
This weekend, from Noon Pacific (-7 GMT) this Friday until 11:59 PM Pacific on Sunday, you will get a double dose of springtime goodness with random drops of Chocolate Bunnies and Golden Eggs in all of the lands of Tyria.
OMG HOW DID I DO THAT!!!! It must be magic!
Voodoo Rage
I always forget that farming eggs advances your Treasure Hunter title. Yay!
Rook Parcade
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Maybe anet converted to Greek/Russian/Serbian Orthodox, which celebrate Easter at a different time.
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Kudu
Maybe not everyone celebrates easter, and so doesn't know when it is? Maybe new players don't know there's an easter event?
Kojima
You have already made this post before about this.
cosyfiep
its still quite early in the day for anet over in good ole washington state....so sometime this afternoon they should have the announcement up (though yes they have waited until AFTER the event started a few times to put it up)....so expect it today if not tomorrow.
TheGizzy
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Maybe they think that as it has been the same drops every year for Easter that the playerbase is intelligent enough to realise that.. OMG it will be Easter drops over Easter again this year and they don't need to keep wasting time with announcements.
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Most years, Easter for my family is at a different time than what most of you think of as Easter... my in-laws are Russian Orthodox, so that's the only Easter I pay attention to or am cognizant of the timing of. This year it happens to be the same weekend as "the other Easter." That's not usually the case. If I'm lucky, my kids will mention to me that "the other Easter" is a particular date since its relevant to some of their friends and thus to their plans.
And that doesn't even begin to address all of the other belief systems (or atheists or agnostics) who don't celebrate Easter and have no reason to know when it falls each year, particularly since it is always on a different date.
It's presumptive to assume the rest of society knows, or cares, when a religious holiday a good portion of the world doesn't acknowledge, falls.
BenjZee
In all fairness, they don't even have to do anything special for easter...yes they have the past 5 or so years but it doesn't necessarily mean they will this year. If they do well...great, and they can announce it when they want. Are you telling me you need to know that much in advance so you cancel all your plans and steak out in your room all day farming to try and take advantage of the drops?
Davros Uitar
I just wish Anet would stop doing absolutely anything at all for us because that way I too could find the same passion and reason for grievance that the thread starter has. I miss having such a wonderful feeling of entitlement and self importance. Will someone please help me rectify these shortcomings because I want to get in on this QQ act before it gets old.
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In all fairness, they don't even have to do anything special for easter
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Madpierre
The problem this year is that Easter falls on the same weekend that should be the birthday celebrations so which one is it going to be? I was expecting Easter to be early as surely the 6th Birthday is the priority for the game. I seem to recall that the birthday even normally starts on Thursday so do cupcakes start dropping tonight?
Pull your finger out Anet and let the players know what is going on please
Pull your finger out Anet and let the players know what is going on please
Spiritz
Problem is - yes its classed as sweet treats weekend but last 2 years anet no way announced the event which was confusing for new players and chances are this weekends special treats will also not be announced.
Also do we want to go thru the usual arguements of players in outposts asking if its started or what is the event and being called names etc.
Benjzee - its actually called planning ahead , maybe i wanted to arrange a team with guildies for say an event mission so id have to find out what their plans were .
Also do we want to go thru the usual arguements of players in outposts asking if its started or what is the event and being called names etc.
Benjzee - its actually called planning ahead , maybe i wanted to arrange a team with guildies for say an event mission so id have to find out what their plans were .
Xiaquin
I guess no one likes a surprise? 
And you don't need to log in to see the announcements, they are posted online. I don't know what to tell someone that can't be bothered to take 30 seconds to check a website once a day and need 72 hours notice to plan gaming.
Maybe it's Easter. Maybe it's the anniversary. Maybe it's one big Easter-Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout extravaganza. But by the six, these complaint threads don't help -anything- or -anyone-.
And you don't need to log in to see the announcements, they are posted online. I don't know what to tell someone that can't be bothered to take 30 seconds to check a website once a day and need 72 hours notice to plan gaming.
Maybe it's Easter. Maybe it's the anniversary. Maybe it's one big Easter-Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout extravaganza. But by the six, these complaint threads don't help -anything- or -anyone-.
Apok
Why do we even have these threads anymore? All it becomes is Anet being both hated and being whiteknighted at the same time. There is literally no point in pointing out their failures or backing them up at all anymore.
Madpierre
I guess the reason for the threads is the hope that someone will notice it and actually tell the players what is going on
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I guess the reason for the threads is the hope that someone will notice it and actually tell the players what is going on
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If you have an issue, try to contact someone, like, I don't know, our CM?
dasmitchies
Lawlz the wiki doesn't work right and you want announcements?
chuckles79
Didn't anyone notice that it's both Easter and the 6th anniversary?
They are probably deciding how to combine or whether it's worth it to do both.
They are probably deciding how to combine or whether it's worth it to do both.
ShaJiexi
Maybe they're late with announcements because, I dunno, the entire live team is working hard to provide us with FREE CONTENT that they are under no obligation to provide? Given all the stuff they have on their plates, I'm surprised they get any announcements out at all.
Be grateful they update at all. ANet is under no obligation to do so. It speaks volumes on how much they value their past customers that they still have a live team at all, and still update the game so much.
Be grateful they update at all. ANet is under no obligation to do so. It speaks volumes on how much they value their past customers that they still have a live team at all, and still update the game so much.
I Rahavan I
To the op Their focus is on the current server issue which I'm certian many of you know what I'm talking about and GW2 so concidering that now there are not many people left I mean I had a GM respond to my support mail for getting hacked which I thought was werid.
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Maybe they're late with announcements because, I dunno, the entire live team is working hard to provide us with FREE CONTENT that they are under no obligation to provide? Given all the stuff they have on their plates, I'm surprised they get any announcements out at all.
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cosyfiep
you might also want to check out this thread: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/6...t10477774.html
for what others have been talking about for the anniversary.
And for the record. Easter has become as much a drug store holiday (easter bunny???? dont remember him from sunday school)....as christmas (santa claus) has become being over commercialized.....so basically knowing when easter is doesnt mean you are religious at all--heck go into ANY grocery store, drug store etc right now and you will see TONS of non-religious easter stuff (especially in the usa)....
for what others have been talking about for the anniversary.
And for the record. Easter has become as much a drug store holiday (easter bunny???? dont remember him from sunday school)....as christmas (santa claus) has become being over commercialized.....so basically knowing when easter is doesnt mean you are religious at all--heck go into ANY grocery store, drug store etc right now and you will see TONS of non-religious easter stuff (especially in the usa)....
Malory
I believe it would be nice if the special weekend events could be announced a little earlier.
It would make my life as an active player of Guild Wars much more convenient. I do make plans to participate in the events - even going to the extent of taking time off from work. I can't really do that if I am not sure that an event will take place or how long it will take place. This time there is the wonder about how Easter will mesh with the Birthday celebration to make it more complicated.
I appreciate people springing to the defense of Anet for all the reasons stated. They deserve defense because a lot of people do complain here about things they do, even when they try to make an improvement or change to the game. I do appreciate and support their ongoing efforts by trying not to always be a vocal kvetcher in game and out and by buying the costumes and e-store items in order to support the game I love to play.
But you know what, I still wish that Anet would announce the special events a bit sooner. They used to, just a year or two ago, when I was a new player and that is how I found out about them. I miss it.
It would make my life as an active player of Guild Wars much more convenient. I do make plans to participate in the events - even going to the extent of taking time off from work. I can't really do that if I am not sure that an event will take place or how long it will take place. This time there is the wonder about how Easter will mesh with the Birthday celebration to make it more complicated.
I appreciate people springing to the defense of Anet for all the reasons stated. They deserve defense because a lot of people do complain here about things they do, even when they try to make an improvement or change to the game. I do appreciate and support their ongoing efforts by trying not to always be a vocal kvetcher in game and out and by buying the costumes and e-store items in order to support the game I love to play.
But you know what, I still wish that Anet would announce the special events a bit sooner. They used to, just a year or two ago, when I was a new player and that is how I found out about them. I miss it.
Gli
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so basically knowing when easter is doesnt mean you are religious at all--heck go into ANY grocery store, drug store etc right now and you will see TONS of non-religious easter stuff (especially in the usa)....
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TheGizzy
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If I had to go by what I see in supermarkets, it has been easter since the end of februari over here. (Christmas usually starts at the end of september.)
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It's also kind of funny... I remember when stores had cutesy little Easter & Thanksgiving signs with little dates on them... "Don't forget, March/April X is Easter!" kind of things. They don't do that any more. I asked my neighbor just now - she's manager of the local pharmacy - why. She said that it's not cost-effective. They can't reuse the signs year after year if there's a date on them.
So they start hyping it at least two months before, and from this we're supposed to figure out via osmosis exactly which Sunday out of 8 possible it's going to be.
I'm just not that focused of a person. LOL
I'd love it if they consistently announced what the weekend event was going to be at a set time like they change Nick, change Zaishen stuff, etc. But I also recognize that, especially right now with THIS particular set of events and THIS close to the release of WoC and in the midst of all the GW2 hype... they may not actually be making final decisions about weekend events until the proverbial last minute. And that could be the result of any number of good reasons.
ANet has a huge amount of good will banked with me, so I've got a whole lot of tolerance to offer them when something doesn't happen when I want/how I want... and that's even despite how long the issue has dragged on with the connectivity & website problems.
Coney
Wasn't sweet treat weekend 2-3 weekends ago? I know I missed the last few weekends, so not sure if it actually happened, but it usually happens 1st week in April. This weekend should be the anniversary Thursday-Thursday event, dropping cupcakes, culminating in 6th year mini birthday presents...
Ack! Looks like they forgot to do sweet treats weekend...
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weekend_events
Maybe they're having trouble combining the two into one, or designing the mini's - ahaha!!! No event items are dropping ATM.
Ack! Looks like they forgot to do sweet treats weekend...
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weekend_events
Maybe they're having trouble combining the two into one, or designing the mini's - ahaha!!! No event items are dropping ATM.
Polgara Val
I was excpecting to see some sort of announcment on the screen but once again theres nothing, I read in this thread earlier that the sweet treats weekend info was up but I personally dont see it in the log in screen.
Anyone else see anything on there log in screen yet?
Pol
Anyone else see anything on there log in screen yet?
Pol