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But that achievement requires quite the sink in gold and all you get is a stupid F shirt... Wait...

As long as I won't be banned for calling Jormag whatever I want, be it by accident or on purpose (Hey Borderlands 3!) I'm fine with whatever canon they decide to settle for (Muh diversity)

I saw it somewhere, and I'll repeat it.This is the biggest example of "I'm not mad, just disappointed" that I felt. I think most of the community did. Before I voice my opinion on it, I'll say how I felt about it before the actual thing happened and explain why... If that makes sense.When the announcement was made, I was doubtful but even then, as a fan of the game, even I couldn't contain that tiny part of me being excited. Then the circus started. I call it that now because the way it was concluded makes me think of a bad joke.We got mysterious massages, countdown with revealing pictures, we got new ingame ominous stuff. It all was amazing, next to the announcement? Holy crap! Something amazing must be coming right?Now after all this, what was I thinking? Well, you see... I'm a bit starved with "toys" to play. We all want new stuff to play with. I mean new specs or new something. Meaning I thought they would mention something of that sort. Even a tease. I understood it was a living world announcement, but how big it all was? With the ingame content, the hype on the site and the counter AND the guild chat hype on the anniversary stream? Then the fact they made it a real-life event! Holy moly something had to be upright?So what did I get?Recap of past stuff and rehash of old information. I know it's silly to quote people like that, but as WP said, I hoped for at least a tease a promise that they are working on something ANYTHING in regards to that. Sadly, that's not the case. We literally got the same info with a tiny bit of new things here and there.Anet fell into its own hype trap. This could've been part of the anniversary guild chat. This could be an AMA on Reddit or whatever. This could be anything else but this.Am I unhappy that we'll get a new world SAGA or whatever? Of course not. It's always nice to move the story forward. But am I disappointed that I got baited into false hope? Yes. I am both disappointed by being baited into it and on the event and reveal itself.Like I stated before, I was doubtful but the amount of hype anet put out made me rekindle that flame of hope inside me, that maybe it'll be worth it. Only to assure me that it was a mistake and any future thing I will care even less from now on. I don't think anet wants to make more cynical players as it is, but sadly? I can't feel like anything but cynical towards all this.I'm also sad that the hard work that people put into this content release will be diminished by the flawed marketing decision that this announcement was. There's just so much small things piling up about this that make it such a pathetic thing to experience. For us, the players. For devs and for everyone else involved. Players got disappointed, devs work will not be fully appreciated by the community and speaking of community, another big ripple appeared that tore it's into two halves. People who will defend this and people who will attack this event.Even if you think this event, on its basic level, was not that bad, you have to understand how much "meta" dmg it did to the game, to anet, and to the community.The question is simple. Was it worth it? Personally I think not.

Greetings!I didn't come here to argue with others and I'll just voice my own opinion on this matter.The skyscale was hyped, with trailers and then even a little presentation. Sure, I knew it wasn't really important since we already have a lot of mounts that could do a similar job, but hey, a new addition to our little mount farm. I even like the beetle and I rarely use it.This entire update was lackluster. As someone stated, the story steps were short and while the things we got were breathtaking at least in terms of how they were done, the story was clearly rushed and all together meh.The map was a nice homage to everything we've done so far which was nice, not only giving us all the toys from before but actually applying them so that they feel useful. Kudos for that. Sadly the new map is very limited as some noticed.Then it was discovered that the thing they hyped and the thing that was, for a few or many, the most important part of this update, was a very big collection. Which on itself isn't a bad thing. Sadly this collection was timegated. Artificially timegated. I could understand if it was the feeding aspect that was timegated. That sort of made sense, let's throw away the treat thing that you can throw 12 or so chunks of meat at the lil' bugger and he will chomp it down. But locking everything for daily reset AND making it a mystery of what you are up to, feels very... Not cool?For me, it creates a "fight with time" situation. I'm afraid that if I won't be quick enough with whatever step I am on, I'll lose a day. While the collection on itself is cool, since I discovered some cool things I haven't done before, the fact that I feel like I'm fighting with time ruins it for me. Before people say that it's my problem, I'll just say that the same was said about loot boxes and other things. Sure, it's the individual people's problem, but if we could solve our own problems, they wouldn't really be that much of a problem, now would they?In the end, each time I finish my "daily" collection grind I feel mentally exhausted, even if they are easy, they create this weird pressure inside me. With me dreading what the next day might bring and hoping I'll have enough time and resources to put up with it and make it in time.In the end, instead of making it something new and fun to do, it became another "daily" thing for me. If this is the way this game will turn after all the changes that anet has gone through, then I'll have to find a different island for myself, since I don't agree with this type of methods being implemented into the game.I hope you all have a great day.