weekend events
keithmcm
I know all the personnel have been shifted to GW2, but would it be that much for someone to take five minutes to update the weekend event announcement each week? It's hilarious to me that wiki has to post someone's deduction based on seeing double rewards for something.
GODh
I dont understand that either... the events themselves are automated, so why cant they do that with the server messages?
BlackAdder77
Umm what is the weekend event?? Predictions are 2x tournament points, any confirmation on that??
makosi
Too few staff members. Bot away; everyone else is.
Lil Leena
We are getting double imperial faction in AB atm.
C4RB1N3
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Originally Posted by makosi
Too few staff members. Bot away; everyone else is.
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Daesu
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Originally Posted by Lil Leena
We are getting double imperial faction in AB atm.
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Didn't we get double vq bonuses last weekend?
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Originally Posted by C4RB1N3
It's the ArenaNet Studios that are heavily focused on Guild Wars 2, and not on Guild Wars. The staff that issue bans and game support are at the NCsoft Support offices, so they still monitor the game and issue bans, because it's a different staff.
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This is causing confusion among the player base and leads even more of their customers to think that they have almost totally abandoned GW1.
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Originally Posted by makosi
Too few staff members.
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Lil Leena
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Originally Posted by Daesu
That would be wierd aren't we following the order of the 2011 weekend events or has it all become random?
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Wiki says its GvG weekend, has there been any confirmation on this? Anywhere else experiencing double rewards?
cosyfiep
if they couldnt update the log in ....just updating the wiki would be good--heck even a twit or blog about it that someone could pass on...geesh, how exactly difficult is it to COMMUNICATE with your player base?
Star_Jewel
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Originally Posted by Daesu
That would be wierd aren't we following the order of the 2011 weekend events or has it all become random?
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I didn't really mind the lack of messages if they were following the same schedule (you can always just check wiki), but if they're now screwing up the schedule and not announcing what the heck it is, that's not cool.
Daesu
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Originally Posted by Star_Jewel
I didn't really mind the lack of messages if they were following the same schedule (you can always just check wiki), but if they're now screwing up the schedule and not announcing what the heck it is, that's not cool.
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Currently we had:
AB Bonus weekends - 18 May
Double Gold, Scrolls and XP for Vanquishing weekends - 25 May
AB Bonus weekends again - 1 June
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This is no where similar to the 2011 schedule.
Martin Firestorm
Flux for June: wtf weekend event (weekend event is hidden, revealed by paying close attention while playing)
Daesu
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Flux for June: wtf weekend event (weekend event is hidden, revealed by paying close attention while playing)
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enter_the_zone
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Originally Posted by cosyfiep
if they couldnt update the log in ....just updating the wiki would be good--heck even a twit or blog about it that someone could pass on...geesh, how exactly difficult is it to COMMUNICATE with your player base?
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Evaine
Like any business, there seem to be employees that work their tails off while others let them. Perhaps we should post this concern on Twitter or Facebook since that's where some people in the community relations section seem to spend an inordinate amount of time.
David Moonbow
best part is this is all for still a ongoing beta wonder how gw1 will really be when gw2 is relseased and is on for a few months... i thought it may survive for some time
cosyfiep
yeah, I can just hear the excuses now after gw2 launches: oh we dont have time to do xyz with gw1, there are just sooo many bugs to fix in gw2, or we wont be bringing back the live team since gw2 still needs sooo much work ....
just 5 minutes on thrusday morning--put up a one liner about what the weekend event is, do it 1st thing ....couldnt POSSSIBLE be that hard to do! (and I thought community managers were for BOTH games, ----)
just 5 minutes on thrusday morning--put up a one liner about what the weekend event is, do it 1st thing ....couldnt POSSSIBLE be that hard to do! (and I thought community managers were for BOTH games, ----)
Gill Halendt
Right now, they couldn't even find a minute to update the welcome screen of the GW2 Beta Client before earlier today. And by doing that, they seem to have screwed the client up...
So, consider yourself lucky, at least the GW1 client works.
So, consider yourself lucky, at least the GW1 client works.
Daesu
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Right now, they couldn't even find a minute to update the welcome screen of the GW2 Beta Client before earlier today. And by doing that, they seem to have screwed the client up...
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GW1, however, was released 7 years ago so of course, people expect most of the major bugs to have been fixed by now.
Unfortunately, we are seeing communication failures on GW1 weekend events between ANet and its customers even before GW2 is released. After GW2 is released, things would be even more hectic in ANet and GW1 would probably be dumped by the wayside.
Saint Scarlet
We know from what they have said before about the announcements/weekend events, that it's on an automated run timed to the events themselves. We also know from experience a few years ago that when they have tried to adjust the automated messages it screws it all up. So yes it would be nice to have the proper announcement up and running but i guess that it is due to them altering it all for the b'day that it messed the code completely, and at the present time i doubt they have anyone that can spend the time to trawl through the code to find and fix the screwup. It's not that they have abandoned us they just have other priorities right now, it's a shame but it's not like we haven't had this before and we managed to cope last time.
Gill Halendt
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Because GW2 has NOT been released yet it is expected to still be buggy. Otherwise, it would have been released already instead of denying themselves that revenue.
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It was just a ironic parallel between the two welcome screens. The announcement for the Stress Test was still up there, and they never changed it to introduce the imminent BWE before yesterday. I knew about it thanks to an entry on their official blog, but still, the welcome screen could have been updated at the same time for those not checking blogs regularly.
The technical problems with the patch - which also updated the welcome screen - are totally unrelated, but I found their issues with prompt updates of the login messages in both games kinda funny
Daesu
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Originally Posted by Gill Halendt
The technical problems with the patch - which also updated the welcome screen - are totally unrelated, but I found their issues with prompt updates of the login messages in both games kinda funny
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Originally Posted by Saint Scarlet
It's not that they have abandoned us they just have other priorities right now, it's a shame but it's not like we haven't had this before and we managed to cope last time.
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The last time we were following the previous year schedule so we had a reference, the difference is that now, we are not. It might as well be random.
cosyfiep
what I find strange is their ability to do the monthly pvp tourney update, but not update the info on the log in page (nor take the minute needed to post said).....I am NOT getting a warm and fuzzy feeling about this.
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their lack of communication with their CURRENT player base...not a good idea to make the current people unhappy when your next endeavor is still in testing. (usually not good to burn your bridges before you have completely crossed them).
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their lack of communication with their CURRENT player base...not a good idea to make the current people unhappy when your next endeavor is still in testing. (usually not good to burn your bridges before you have completely crossed them).
Gill Halendt
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I still blame the fact that GW2 is about to be released which takes resources away from the prompt updates of the login messages in GW1. It wasn't like this in GW1 six months ago.
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I really don't get it, if they can't dedicate resources to GW1, at least they should ensure that the least human involvement is needed for the management.
Right now they're simply ignoring the first game.
Spiritz
Anet must have one weird team setup - looks to me like its only 1 person per job role and probably the 1 person in the team who can either update login screen or even update website has gone to gw2.
You cant tell me that anets short staffed and thats affected the events showing - its been like this for quite a while , quite a few major events were ommited.Easter 2 years on the trot and yet 3 years ago the easter message showed.
Ive actually grown tired of posting similar replies - infact id reckon quite a few who have replied are like me and have complained about it in the last 2 years on an off and im starting to feel anet wont fix it.
Same with updates - update goes live and a few hrs later we find out whats been updated.Why the changes cant be posted within 10 mins - im sure anet staff are aware of the updates , heck they even made the updates .So even knowing in advance it takes a staff member an hr to get it on wiki etc.
You cant tell me that anets short staffed and thats affected the events showing - its been like this for quite a while , quite a few major events were ommited.Easter 2 years on the trot and yet 3 years ago the easter message showed.
Ive actually grown tired of posting similar replies - infact id reckon quite a few who have replied are like me and have complained about it in the last 2 years on an off and im starting to feel anet wont fix it.
Same with updates - update goes live and a few hrs later we find out whats been updated.Why the changes cant be posted within 10 mins - im sure anet staff are aware of the updates , heck they even made the updates .So even knowing in advance it takes a staff member an hr to get it on wiki etc.
Absolute Destiny
So does anyone know what this weekend's event is?
Olof
I guess I didn't realise how much the weekend events influenced my decision to play or not until the announcements stopped.
Evaine
I guess it should be noted that someone managed to update the log-on screen with the current Weekend Event, so yeah ... thanks.
Loralai
I don't think it's the correct one. I just nearly did a vanquish and noticed no movement on my lightbringer points with 4 blessings up. :/
enter_the_zone
It's definitely double SS/LB... I've been farming points on my alt account all weekend and that was the first thing I checked.
Also, they keep putting GW2 BWE on title weekends.... wtf is that about, how about making it a useless GW weekend, like PVP or some shit.
Also, they keep putting GW2 BWE on title weekends.... wtf is that about, how about making it a useless GW weekend, like PVP or some shit.
Evaine
I second that ^ I could care less about PvP so no beta for me this weekend (although my boyfriend lives for it in all formats not just GW or GW2 - shudder).
I had a character max his SS title yesterday doing the flower circuit in Holdings of Chokhin and he was definitely getting double points. I'm getting ready to have another character do the same - it's a fast 2k points with lots of plant fibers.
I had a character max his SS title yesterday doing the flower circuit in Holdings of Chokhin and he was definitely getting double points. I'm getting ready to have another character do the same - it's a fast 2k points with lots of plant fibers.
BenjZee
If theyre not going to update the event on the annoucment screen they could atleast just remove the message compeltly.
Daesu
At least they updated it last weekend with accurate information. Thank you ANet!
I hope it continues...
I hope it continues...
St??phane Lo Presti
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At least they updated it last weekend with accurate information. Thank you ANet!
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cosyfiep
thanks for the update!
hope things are running smooooothly again!
hope things are running smooooothly again!
Evaine
Thank you for taking the time to let us know. Communication is much appreciated.
Actual Malice
Many thanks, Mr. Presti, for getting the weekend event postings back on track -- and for letting us know. We appreciate it, and all is now right with the world, or at least our world. 
(psst--Stephane is a guy--mod edit---)
(psst--Stephane is a guy--mod edit---)
BuD
Well, we got 54 days out of it until it broke again...
cosyfiep
yeah I was wondering when they would slack again---guess its just tooo close now for us to get any love here.
Kaleban
So will there be any further weekend events or what? I'm assuming as of now its not STILL the EoTN rep weekend bonuses right?