Official Dragon Festival Feedback & Suggestions Thread

Post your ideas here on the festival. There are many other threads that we have read and will continue to monitor, but for this thread, please offer constructive and forward-looking comments, perhaps along these lines:

• Would you prefer we have a single one-time-only finale? Or do you like the final day sort of ending?
  
  
• Did you enjoy the games? Do you have suggestions for more?
  
  
• Were you able to complete the Captain missions?
  
  
• Did you score a lot of loot from the present drops?
  
  
• What did you like best? Least?
  

Thanks for all your input!

The captain mini-missions with the Rifts were so difficult that they should have given better rewards than Jade Wind Orbs...that was a huge letdown.

Dont take this the wrong way, I liked the difficulty, but the rewards really sucked.

[edit] I guess my constructive feedback would be this: Make the rewards actually worth the time and effort it takes to complete the mission.

Final Day for the event, excellent idea. Knowing this, I don't need to stay up well past my bedtime to know if I missed something.

Games... most excellent. We need a casino now... a permanent area for games of chance. (Talk about a gold sink...)

Captain missions... completed a couple... most groups couldn't get out of their stupid cookie-cutter mindset. Pity... assassins are rather powerful against some of those buggers.

Lot of loot? Nah, not really... but still a good time.

Liked best... new quests/missions I'd have to say. The games were entertaining, but drained my coffers a noticable sum. Or... perhaps the Dodgeball... yeah, put that on top. Snowball fight, Dodgeball... great concepts.

Like least? I don't know why, and it's personal, but I feel like I didn't come out of the event with enough goodies. Again, perhaps I'm just spoiled, and this is not a demand to give away more stuff for free. I think it's where I waited for the last event (after midnight), the grasps won, and I waited around for nothing. Left me hollow feeling. A mini-pet grasp would make me feel better though.

Thanks to everyone Gaile, good times.

I really don't care about a single day or "final hour" finale...as long as you tell us which type it is. I don't like staying up until midnight, not knowing if anything is going to happen.

The games were nice...although the ring games were just AFK fests..You could try making game titles easier to get, but making it so the people need to stay active.

The captain's missions were ok...only did a few, didn't feel that the reward was great enough for the trouble. It was a nice challenge, though.

Out of 50 present drops...I got 2k, around 90 jade wind orbs, 15~ bean cakes and rice wine (each) decent, I guess.

I like the mask the best, and I really didn't like that there was no clarity to this "final event that true canthans won't want to miss"..I mean Haloween and Wintersday both had final hours...so of course people expected this to have a final hour..but it didn't...just a glitchy (stacking emperors, grasps staying after event, event not starting..) last day.

First, I enjoyed the festival. Thanks for keeping the game interesting.

Would you prefer we have a single one-time-only finale? Or do you like the final day sort of ending?
-I appreciate that not everyone can be someplace at the same time, so the multiple endings are fine, but I feel there should be something to signify that "this is REALLY the end of the event, thanks for coming."


Did you enjoy the games? Do you have suggestions for more?
Loved the games. I hope gambling, in one form or another, will return. Light-hearted PvP arenas are always nice. I would like something that adds a modicum of skill to the contest, like the wurm arena.


Were you able to complete the Captain missions?
NO!!!!! But I had fun trying.


Did you score a lot of loot from the present drops?
100 presents

What did you like best? Least?
Best: Community coming together
Least: Orbs in the presents? I already have a mask. Festival ticket(s) would have been a good choice.
And I have to mention the orb quests that made me run the same route and kill a grasp three times! (The fourth let me run a different route and kill multiple grasps)

From the other thread:

People organized a loss in this thread. It worked well.

Most districts also lost the last event due to a bug which resulted in Double the Grasps.

[*]Would you prefer we have a single one-time-only finale? Or do you like the final day sort of ending?

For the fact that it's all over the country AND world, I'd say all day is an excellent idea.

[*]Did you enjoy the games? Do you have suggestions for more?

LOVED the games. Who wouldn't love chasing a bunch of worms around, or gambling all your money away. =P

[*]Were you able to complete the Captain missions?

With some trouble in the beginning, yes. Just have to have some experienced players. Not as rewarding as hoped, but the challenge was amazing.

[*]Did you score a lot of loot from the present drops?

Yes, an excellent idea.

[*]What did you like best? Least?

I liked the whole idea in general the best. Dragons are amazing, and in my opinion, an excellent way to bring the 4th of July to us without it being the 4th, but the Dragon Festival. The least, I'd have to say, was the glitches. >_< Nothing about the actual event was horrible, cept maybe the Captain mission rewards. =\

1 - I don't really mind either way, but PLEASE Anet, be more clear about it than last time - in my opinion, along with a lot of others, "The conclusion of the Dragon Festival will be marked with surprises true Canthans won't want to miss." implies that something will be happening at the very end. Also, if the 'final day' is supposed to start at 7 GMT (3 AM EDT, 12 AM PDT), it is natural for a lot of us to suggest that we would be able to start trading in our orbs at that point - there was no mention that it'd be another hour or 2 before the guy first came. On the west coast this might not be a problem, but please think of us on the east coast, who want to be able to be one of the first to get our masks, without having to stay up til 4 or 5 in the morning.

2. The dodgeball game was fun, it was a great idea and people loved it. I was personally terrible at the whack a worm game, but it was also a very good idea. I always prefer games of skill to games of chance, so I didn't really play the games of chance much. I also don't really like how the titles based on those games were basically a direct result of: how long you could keep GW minimized and stay 'afk', and how many stacks of 250 tickets you could buy to keep the game going. A whack-a-worm or dodgeball title would have been nice.

3. I was able to complete the 2nd set of captain missions, they seemed easier than the first set. The first set we were not able to complete, but I really enjoy hard content (like the elite missions) and it was awesome having a true challenge - I wouldn't suggest making them easier, I think the difficulty levels were great.

4. I didn't make it a priority to catch as many drops as I could, but it was certainly possible to, no complaints there.

5. I probably liked the Captain missions the best....I love PvE based gameplay, and honestly, the Captain missions were exactly what I hoped for. The drops could have been better, as could the reward, but regardless, the missions were awesome, albeit a little repetitive.

Least liked was the timings and confusion of everything, as stated above. The first day of the event was kind of slow, but in the end I feel that it all came together.

Oh, and it was awesome being able to farm orbs a day early, and sell 88 for 44k right before the first update came out

Thanks for everything, and I hope I was able to help.

Hey gaile, I guess i'll answer all of those questions then:

I liked the all day thing because that not only gave everyone a fair chance to take part in it, but i enjoyed doing it over and over.
The games were pretty fun, but I lost more than few plat to the rings. But i was very pleased with the Dragon Arena; i playe din there for hours on end.
I couldn't complete any of the captain missions besides The monastary one. I guess 8 rifts (or 6 i cant remember) were just to many. And That Torment Claw really got to me.
From the present droppes i made easily 12k, 30+ bean cakes, about 40+ wine, and alot of orbs.
What i liked the best? Thats a tie between the Dragon Arena and Kisu's visit.

~Dracus

Suggestion: Consider having the gifts, if there are any in the future, appear in peoples inventory rather than fall at random. The current format allows some to gain mightily while others get little to nothing. If everyone got (n) gifts for appearing in the long run it would prove better imo.

Now is the part where the greedy whine...

I would just like to request a permanent Dodgeball arena because that was by far the best part of the event.

Loved it - only complaint is that I "accidently" received two customized masks on one character. I had come back for the festivites, and didn't realize I had another 250 orbs in inventory, and was automatically given a second mask, even though I was wearing the first.

Best fun I have had in ages(I am 38!)

1) Numero Uno suggestion: Holiday Greens

Green items that ONLY appear during events. They have the same stats as an already EXISTING green, but a unique skin. Drop rate should NOT be affected by anti-farming in this case. Each of these greens only drops for a few days.....EVER.

This ALONE would have saved the mini-mission concept (which was a lot of fun, but had a crappy reward)



2) No AFK based titles/games.

I understand what you were trying to achieve, but the whole AFK title rush kept people from INTERACTING. Remember Halloween or Winterday? Remember all the people DANCING and PARTYING? Didn't happen this time because of the Rings games.



3) Better rewards for Wack-A-Worm and Dragon Arena.

Instead of giving Orbs for these events, give us Festival Presents/Tickets...and more of them. This alone would have had people packing into these events, instead of the deserted areas we saw.

The cakes were far from useless, they were the best way to win at the wurm arena and maximize the number of presents you could grab.

They were created for the event to help you during the event, not so you can race around Kaining Center next week!

The only complaint I have was that the Rujiyo mini-missions didn't have a reward that really represented how challenging the missions were. I enjoyed the difficulty and the challenge alot, and hope to see similar challenges in upcoming events, but the reward should really mirror the difficulty. I mean, those little five minute quests gave better rewards...

Other than that, I enjoyed everything. The ring games were addicting, the whack a mole game was fun, even if the reward wasn't that great, and the Dragon Arena was alot of fun.

[*]Would you prefer we have a single one-time-only finale? Or do you like the final day sort of ending?

The final day sort of thing was great, however the wording on the offical site leaves alot to be desired. Due to the inadequite wording it made people think that there would be a special ending within the last day's event at midnight, which there was not.

Anet needs to spell things out in a very precice manner on their website for future events, as if the person reading it has no clue in the world, because the reader won't.


[*]Did you enjoy the games? Do you have suggestions for more?

They were ok if you like money sinks. Dodge ball was cool.


[*]Were you able to complete the Captain missions?

Read about it and didn't even bother with the rate of failure people were bitching about constantly ingame.


[*]Did you score a lot of loot from the present drops?

Nope, but then I'm not greedy like many others and actually passed so people new to the event could get some presents. I even grabbed some from the greedy people and handed them out.

You want this kind of event to be fun? Then make sure that a set amount of presnts spawns in everyones inventory AND have some drop on the ground for people to collect.

Anet constantly forgets about human nature...well base human nature. Greedy, self centered, jerks. Keep that in mind when creating events and they'll work out much better.


[*]What did you like best? Least?

Stuff looked great. Fireworks were cool. Story was Interesting.

Mobs were too high for lower level people to complete the quests, forcing them to buy orbs. Some of the presents were bland (wine / cakes).

Event helms look great, no armor or abilities suck though. If some of the ingame helms didn't look like ass (luxon, canthan) then they'd be fine as novelty items.

I enjoyed every aspect of the festival. The only suggestion I have is prizes that have some use after the festival is over. The 1k and Rice Wine gifts were good, but I don't see much use for orbs and Red Bean Cakes after the festival. The bean cakes were useful during the games, but outside of that, there isn't much use for speed bursts in town.

• Would you prefer we have a single one-time-only finale? Or do you like the final day sort of ending?
  
  final day sort of ending is much better for everyone = more time getting masks for more than one character
  
• Did you enjoy the games? Do you have suggestions for more?
  
  Wack-o-Worm game owned
  
• Were you able to complete the Captain missions?
  
  The 4 main orb reward quest I had no problems with
  
  The other ones where too hard and should be little eaiser since its suppossed to be a event and not some Elite quest/mission took some fun out of the event.
  
• Did you score a lot of loot from the present drops?
  
  I say about 10-25 depending how full the districts where at the time of the loot drops.
  
• What did you like best? Least?
  
  Best: The mask of course & wack-o-worm game
  
  Least: tickest cost too much for my taste 15g each 50K to earn some new titles for what someone figuerd out and posted and that isn't for me. (titles I don't try for them anyway so its not a big deal for me) Too many bossy people trying too all hoard the gifts for themselfs