Dragon festival ending when CE comes out!

Websites show that for gamestop and EB games, the CE copy that loyal customers have been waiting for so long will ship on July 5th. Why is Guildwars dangling this festival in front of so many loyal customers that will be unable to participate?
My son and I both play guildwars and I want my son to learn the value of patience and wait for things that are important to him. Instead Guildwars is making a mockery of those who have had to wait for the CE edition by providing this dragon festival that is ending the day the game becomes available.
I preordered the game back in February. In hindsight I don't blame the fact it has not been delivered yet on EBGames but on NCSoft so for them to tangle this event in front of us and force many to rethink whether to wait for the CE or the SE is rediculous.
What is the logic in ending the festival before any loyal customers who waited 2 and half months for the CE to be available can play it?

How the heck is the CE still delayed? I mean this game is popular but it's not crazy popular yet to have CE being so delayed. WTF. Just wanted to get that question in.

ummmmmmm......that is a gd agruement, maybe they thought u already have guild wars factions, play that then get CE, but i probably wrong (likes always ¬_¬) anyways they should have something very special in the CE then, the festival is not even that gd until the last day anyways, so u will still have the fun. But u might not be able to do the chance game as u need a hell load of money, and u have to do the 4 quest for the dragon mask sooooooooo, sry dude, u gonna have to take guild wars to court :P , dont put them out of business tho cause i still wanna play guild wars

They might as well extend the festival then. So that 2nd edition CE players can play in it, and so that everyone can max the titles they want to max.

Extending festival = everyone is happy.

It's not like the "festival items" are any good so there's no need to worry about there being too many of them or anything like that. Hence I don't see a downside to a festival extension.

The CE wasn't delayed. ANet/NCSoft simply under estimated how much demand there would be for it and as such, the initial run ran out. This is the second release of the CE.

If you want the helmet I am SURE those people who have aquired 2,000 orbs or so will GLADLY sell them to you, because there will be a supply merchant or whatever for the people who missed the day the guy was giving it out.

Secondly, they do special things like this while there are holidays to consider. Such as Halloween, Christmas/New Years, July 4th...

Sorry to hear this, but you also have to take in that Real Life issues are not planned into this event. Orders do get delayed, people do not always get what they want on time. They can dangle, but if its "just not fair"... well... thats life, and thats something your son has to learn as well.

I doublt they are celebrating the 4th of July, lol.

That is only the Americans

But back to the problem at hand....... I think they should let your chars have a mask then if you can't partake in the games......

They do let your character get a mask.

You'll just have to buy them off someone after they become unavailable....like me

Or find someone nice enough to give them away >_> *coughs*

? i thought they are customised?

Masks will still be available for a weak afterwards, and the Jade Wind Orbs can be bought/given away.

Gamestop's orginal eta was July 28th. Looks like they put on some pressure. Keep in mind GW is the biggest game in the World. As the localization thread made my Gaile indicates that each country is slightly different.

I can understand the delays that stuff happens. The game went into production after SF was finished. They also had the halloween and christmas events during production. Then they had to meet a deadline of 1 year with less than 6 months of production time.

This is a huge project with many aspects. I just really don't like how it was handled. You don't tell people that you are going to be delayed on shipping a week before release when people have been placing preorders for months. I pre-ordered the CE. After the news I quickly cancelled my order. I felt is was not worth my extra $20 to make me wait nearly 2 months AFTER the game's release to get my copy when I preordered nearly 2 months in advance.

I don't mind giving Anet my money. I hope this company thrives and continues to make great games. Hell they got Lord British on their team (not on the GW team). They show they really care about their games. I'd say save your money and wait to spend it on something worth wild. Like more slots.

Don't you get a kuunavang minipet with CE? Thats ANets apology for the delay. Cool mini-pet or instant 100k for your first character. Thank you, come again. :P

good point mourn

I doubt A-net intended the CE to be delayed as much as it has, nor that they wanted it to be released the day after the event ended. Seems more like an unfortunate coincidence to me. If someone believes otherwise, I would like to hear their rationalization. I don't see any motivation for A-net to purposefully do this.

yah Anet should have no reason for this, this would only lose customers if intended and thus would be bad marketing, I am very sorry for the OPs loss but don't have a grudge against anet.

There is no link. Not sure what that guy is talking about.

I agree it makes no sense with the timing of th festival. There doesn't seem to be a way to get this issue to the attention of Anet. Regardless of being probably a mistake, it is a real issue. Those who have waited including myself will miss out. I'm not big on items but my son is. He has collected the various christmas and halloween items and enjoys suiting up in them.

I feel bad about the timing. I went to ebgames and even though they still had my pre-order on file, they didn't have any record of any shipments required for the store. Apparently they switched there system sometime between when the pre-order was placed, March 17, and now. Seems like a ebgames mess up at this point.

Went to the store yesterday and a salesperson said he was going to call the main office and then all the area stores etc and try to hunt a copy down for me. Promised me a phone call at end of day yesterday with news either way, good or bad. No phone call.

Guess I have to head into the shop and see whats up. Anyhow, I appreciate everyones concern here and I have to say the guildwars community is great.

For all I know, perhaps I would have had a copy back in May if the ebgames system hadn't said there were no copies required for the store. Apparently I am the only one who is on record still with a pre-order and I find it hard to believe that I am the only one who did pre-order it. Perhaps others got theirs.

the original CE was delayed.

i got mine a week late but no biggie.

the orders were more than expected and they were filled on a first come first served basis with some outlets choosing to send to their retail stores figuring the mail order could wait while they had live off the shelf sales.

NCSoft ordered a separate second run of the CE to fill remaining orders and the others who wanted to get one.

this took time to do otherwise they would have been out long ago to avoid just this

this second run is on time or even a bit earlier than expected.

Ah! I see. A person forced to wait for the CE edition, which supports Anet more then a SE, must PAY someone ingame to get a fun item that they could have had if the CE was not delayed just by doing the quests themselves....yeah THAT makes perfect sense

/sarcasm

uh guys I am not nuts, there was a hacker in here, posting an obvious hacking link talking about free gold and pwr levelling, I was just trying to warn people who might click on the links before the mods go to deleting the post, just trying to be a good guy.

my post above a bit shows what you would have gotten from clicking it before it was deleted.

a nice keylogger

It was someone called OMG8000 or something like that who spammed the same thing in every thread about "his" power leveling guild.... which its false and the site was putting a trojan in your CPU and take your username and password of GW. In all, got hacked.

I still don't understand why people are STILL waiting on the CE...I went into Best Buy a few days ago and they had a couple CE sitting there on the shelves...perhaps you should go look somewhere else?

I went into a different ebgames store in the mall and a customer there said that I should look in best buy or circuit city because not many people go there to look for games. I went into this CD, DVD store in the mall that sold games as well low and behold they had one copy of the collectors edition. I was under the false impression that the only way you could acquire it was through a pre-order. I think I hate pre-orders now. Whats the point if you can get the game through other channels even easier than through a pre-order.

My son has a big on his face now.

because these game companies do NOT fill all the orders for people who have been waiting forever before they throw some here and there for retail shelves...

its a point of marketing if they dont have them on the shelves for people to spontanious buy that is posible profits they would have not seen otherwise...meanwhile the people that preordered will wait and wait and wait just because we all are fools and want the game so desperately...