Update 28-4-2011

You only need to change him once though, to mesmer.

how come the update is still not live

We sometimes coordinate with and work with media outlets such as Massively and Curse on exclusive previews and interviews to help promote an event.

You've missed my point completely. Besides, anyone with a brain and the thought to go look at previous festivals such as these would recognize that the common starting time is around noon Pacifc. No, the time and day that the event was going to start was never a question for me.

The issue is that in the past, events like these would muster a response from ANet about a week in advance in the form of a notice on the front page of the official website and in-game. Maybe they wouldn't tell us everything new that was set to be in the update or come out with the festival, but they did inform players that it was happening, and it did make it seem like a big deal.

Now, ANet is relatively silent. The biggest burst of information about today's update came first from fansites instead of official word-of-mouth, and it came today. I am aware that Stéphane and Stumme have both made mentions of the anniversary celebration starting today on this forum in the past week, but why was it done like that (as a response to the question being posed, by the way) instead of having the official site and in-game announcements decked out as was usual? It just seems like a really bad time to be neglecting something like this.

Okay, so put up a cookie-cutter festival announcement on the official page saying, "Hey, it's the Sixth Birthday Celebration, and we're going to bring back all of that fun stuff that we've always had for every other festival like this, plus some special surprises!" Then, you can go off to your media outlets and fansites with the goodies that will be coming out and let them spoil all of those for us when the start of the festival is at the players' heels. In the meantime though, everyone at least knows it's coming, and not just because it happened last year and the year before and the year before, but because you guys have actually come out and said, "Yes, we are still having a birthday celebration in GW, because it's still a big deal."

I couldn't care less for the Galrath quest getting a hard mode version. Or well, if the reward is good enough I'll consider doing it.

So, the first hard mode quest is slated to be Villainy of Galrath. Might I ask then, what was stopping you from toggling hard mode and doing this quest versus a hard-mode-quest? Any bets on whether this will allow you to do both or is it as redundant as it sounds...

I hate to admit it, but the only character I own that has Razah is my paragon. I think I'm going to change Razah to a paragon for more shouting! Now I need to get Hayda to complete the team.

This seems like a really cool update to me, even though there aren't going to be sixth year minis. I am hopeful that we'll actually get some people to group up and check out all the new stuff, and the fact that razah is a free merc is pretty awesome.

Now all we need is for somebody to shine the Karate Jesus signal into the sky over texas.

Apparently the leak was on purpose, but it's wierd to read it on Guru first. I thought it was a trolling at first.

Looks like no event today and GW2 released in 2017. Anet sure has got punctuality nailed down pat.

1) Better rewards.
2) That's not an option for players who already completed it long ago, in NM.
3) Repeatable? Maybe...

Guess you must not know that the whole reason people hold secondaries in their logs is farmability, not rewards.

Put simply: rewards. You'll see when the build goes live, I guess.

Quite funny it was the first time ever I visited that site today and I have been playing since the beta versions, great promotion of the event...

We are still waiting for an update and none have a clue when it actually will come. Normally it would have come 39 minutes ago, if we consider the normal update hours

Oh golly. Of course they put everything on sale for 50%. Blimey me, just bought a character slot because I was able to finally. Oh the woe is I... Maybe I'll buy another one...

heck I had to read the spanish site info to find out when this even was going to END....

AT LEAST the starting and ending should have been prior knowledge enough to get SOMETHING up ingame, etc.

OMFG THEY FINALLY DID IT!?!?! SRSLY!?!?


Hoooooooooorrrrrraaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!

That's what I'm talking about! Been waiting for YEARS for this to happen!!


Edit: @galrath... meh. I was done killing galrath five years ago.

About time, I was going to be one sad panda if I had to get home today and not be able to race.

On an unrelated note, I just read the lore behind the Flux. I laughed. Nice to see how these unresloved plot elements always seem to show up in the most unexpeted places.

I will be especially intrigued if the Flux ends up in DA and RBR, somehow. Nevermind, that won't happen. I forgot, ANet doesn't think Gamer arenas are PvP.

just asked stephane if the build will come soon ... he said to wait a bit more

No new build yet though.