8 Year Anniversary

No offense but you guys sound like a bunch of sore losers. You're lucky they are even giving you something for the 8th birthday. Their focus is GW2 now. Not GW1. Get the fuxk over it and stop turning this forum into ''Goddamn it Anet why don't you support you old ass game as much as you do your brand new one''.

Yeah gw2 is a piece of shit and tons of us miss GW1 but they can shut GW1 down and leave us in complete darkness. Their focus isn't GW1 anymore and it never will be. The chance we get a small dedicated team to keep it going with regular updates and whatnot is also at a low chance. Move on. The glory days are over and Anet has swam to a bigger ocean

Oh yeah ? What is that ?

We have nothing.

You're getting the bday ticket or whatever. They could just stay quiet and not give or say anything. If you see the bday ticket as them not giving anything then you're expecting too much from people who don't care as much

I think money has never been a problem for them. They didn't abandon this game for lack of resources, apparently they are swimming into resources and they specifically said programming stuff for this game takes almost no time and effort (=hardly any resources). They made it clear a lot of times lately, even with pretty direct words, that they don't like this game and care even less. They could win billions at lottery or have hundreds more employers working for free and still they would devolve it all to the secondborn.

What makes me sadder is they worked so hard in pretending this game never existed, that even people are starting to forget its existence. Lately, everytime I read conversations about business models, they name gw2 as the most prominent example of buy to play model, and even talk about that intending it was practically the first mmo to go with that model. And I cry at night.

@cosy
how do you mean they changed the pink dye name? What into?

we got NOTHING new for the bday...getting the same presents that we already have (I have all the 1-5th years, dont care about the tonics, and probably wont get any of the uber ones from the 7th).

and game updates on wiki:

Just an FYI, the new sidescrolling game was apparently done in someones free time with no expense to Anet.

My point was that they can find people to devote time and resources to GW2 for free but not create paid content for GW.

those people have FREE time??? must be nice, since they said they have NO TIME to do anything for gw!--TOOO busy with doing stuff for gw2 they say. Yeah, now we know.

I'm just relieved that the anniversary is the last major event to receive its EOL revision, as it means there are no more opportunities left for people to get unduly offended or act surprised about the event changes (or lack thereof). You guys keep setting yourself up with false hopes (kickstarter for example) and when reality hits it just knocks you down that much harder. Anet has not been coy about their plans, we've more or less known what they were doing since this started with the last Dragon Festival. It's one thing to be optimistic for the future, but setting unrealistic expectations and then reacting as though Anet promised anything of the sort is not healthy.

As for the gifts themselves, I think the change is needed because if they had left the 7th year gifts as the final item, then eventually we'd have a glut of normal purples, and whites from later years would virtually disappear from circulation. Not to mention the EL tonics.

Oh sorry I had completely missed the update notes.

The only present I want is my Paragon rework...

I wouldn't actually say they swam to a bigger ocean as GW2 is anything BUT a nice clear ocean and a good gaming experience.


More like a recycling plant imo

It's really funny that you're complaining about our behaviour, as if anybody cares about what you think, just as we complained about A-Net's behaviour, as if they care what we think.

This a public forum, people come to discuss things. It doesn't matter whether Arena-Net is listening or not, we still enjoy these discussions. And coming here, on a forum, to tell people to stop talking so much is quite ridiculous.

On a side note, if you guys really want a fresh Online-RPG experience then maybe keep an eye on Neverwinter. It's based on the D&D rules, seems to have awesome, skill-based combat, and it allows players to make their own maps and quests. It's free to play (with the option to exchange the store currency with your in-game currency, like in GW 2) and the open beta will be on April 30th.
I'm not saying the game is good, but it's free so may as well try it.

Since I never said anything of the sort, I will file this under more imagined attacks on your honor or whatever it is you want to call it. Thanks for proving my point though.

No quests to take part in correct? Been so long since Ive played.

krytan brandy dropped from hulking stone elemental o_O
guess they gave more items we dont know about yet (dont know about them dropping yet)

no quests: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Eight...ry_Celebration
but ranger pet some people may not have/know about yet in embark from an npc

@Ayuhmii: Thank u.

Guess then Ill VQ more of Cantha or might do some VQ of Tyria for a change of seen.

Been farming Nick items in pre, had Hard Apple Cider, Honeycomb, Hunter's Ale, Krytan Brandy, sparklers, Poppers, & Birthday cupcakes drop so far. Had a Hulking Stone Elemental drop 3 items.

ARRRGHHHH! I guess I could play on my hubbys computer....I really need to play!

Boss-Foes drop Battle Island Icetea & Party Beacons as well.

Does anyone know if double bonus rep is in effect with this event? I would love to farm some EoTN rep if its the case.

Thanks