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Having to contend with delayed gratification. = Getting spit in the face. Some world we live in. Yes, completely ignore the reason for his comment and only reply with your one-liner after misconstruing his reason for being upset. Some world we live in. I'm in the same boat, along with taking time off of work for this. I'm especially pissy.

Yes, in the new map where you might as well not do anything after completing the first collection.

Current mood.

[Merged] Just so we're clear, I'm absolutely okay with however many collections they want to throw in. It's not a big deal; it simply means effort and patience must be expended, along with learning how the new mount works and exploring the map. My main upset is the time-gating itself. The majority of this could be fixed by just hiding the mastery track until the mount is unlocked. We were told the mount was releasing today. Unfortunately, a 5 day time-gate is not "today" as described.Time-gating is compounded for users who can only play for an hour or so a day - they can no longer play the content at their own pace.Consider the players who only play one or two days a week due to school or family.In hindsight of the above, consider those who work full-time or double-time and have children. How are they supposed to cope with this?All experienced gained in the map is null as you cannot put anything towards the mount mastery reward track when your PoF masteries are finished.People who have maxed PoF masteries have begun avoiding the new map / content due to wasting effort.Anyone who is short on spirit shards have begun discussing how they feel they cannot play in any PoF content now.Quote "Don't rush the content." -- In reality, you were essentially told you should rush it if you want to get the mount as early as possible, and unfortunately a lot of people were 30 minutes too late to the party.Pros - The map is fantastic.The story is great. (no spoilers here)The events are straight-forward and easy to understand, except the final Meta event... lol.We get a taste of the mount before we work to unlocking it.Pretty sexy Legendary greatsword with the addition of Branded Weapon skins.Cons - All of my guild members are avoiding the map and events now, including (below)Everyone I know has stopped playing PoF content in general because they cannot gain the exp for their effort.~ Personal upset: My friends, myself, and many others took today and tomorrow off work to enjoy the content and we got slapped with a time-gate. This alone is thoroughly upsetting; and honestly the only thing that personally bothers me about this release.My workdays are 2pm to 10pm, and prior to that I have home prep and errands. Even if I do a little bit of a collection, I won't make it for the server reset at 7pm. This is horrible.

I don't understand why the mount has to be time-gated. What about the people who can only play for 30 minutes or so on most days but have their day off today to do what they want? Restricting it just forces them to have to wait even longer. This compounds it even harder for those who are losing out on their experience as the OP stated.

This has been brought up a few times over the years and nothing has been done about it apparently, nor any official word from what I can see. So let's get to the details: Apparently it starts from the very beginning and increases lag in very small increments until it suddenly starts hitting the client making it hard to discern what's currently being opened or salvaged. It is not the side-bar showing the items, as even when you sit and wait for all items of the side-bar to scroll by and disappear, the next time you go to salvage or open an item, you will be slammed with the same client-side lag. Logging out to your character select and going back online fixes the issue, but only temporarily. Same goes for quest items or achievements that redirect you to the world map; this will fix the lag temporarily until you open or salvage more items. The lag really starts to hit the client at around 1,500 to 2,000 openings/salvages. So with all of this said, there are a few things to consider - This issue can cause players to salvage or open the the wrong items and that would be horrible. Secondly it cuts into productive time, especially those with slow / unstable internet connections. And most importantly this means it's eating away at player's performance if they do not leave a map while farming monsters and other things, which explains why my client seems to progressively get slower the longer I'm farming a map anywhere at all in the game. I imagine something is not being cleared out of the allotted resources for the client and it needs to be fixed. Again, this is not caused by the side-bar showing what items you have received, or at least not visually, due to the fact that waiting for them to disappear will not help at all.

Someone that a guildmate saw apparently got a Queen Bee infusion. But that's part of the problem, out of 600 active members in this guild, one person saw someone unrelated tag it. And that was the one thing since the event started meanwhile they have been running this event all day since it began. I'd sooner make enough money from Trade Post flipping to buy my infusion than I would by opening boxes, and that's the reality I'm left with.

Maguuma server, and I can guest over to other servers if necessary, but I doubt it would be much different. I usually run world bosses when I don't have much else to do, it's my main way of getting Tyria Mastery Experience. However, this event doesn't really push me/us to keep attending the events due to the absurd drop table chances; and with what I mentioned earlier, that drains the motivation I have to bother trying for the boxes at all. The squads you see moving maps with you are likely those who don't know about the "method" and/or are single players with no party members, only a Squad tag posted.

I appreciate the event itself but the fact people are misusing Squads to farm multiple World Bosses each cycle (using multiple map instances to kill the same boss repeatedly,) while most players have to wait 15~30 minutes for each spawn -- honestly, it just kills the reason for me to bother participating. The best part is, those who are doing this use "Anet said it was okay, shut up" excuse when concern is exercised -- this basically means they knew it's misusing a system flaw related to this event and had to check before they did so, otherwise they were worried about getting banned as this obviously was not the intended use for Squads nor how World Bosses work. I'll pass on this. If the event is allowing users to do this to get an edge over every other legitimate player, then you guys should have the bosses respawn after each defeat for their entire event window on the same map instance, until the next boss & it's timer window begins. An easy fix would be to only allow one box per boss window (otherwise, let the bosses respawn throughout the event window for multiple completions.) However, even then players are already upset with the bad quality drops from the box which is why this is being done in the first place, to get more chances for rarer loot over other players.

They fixed it on my end now, took about a day.

Make sure to send in a support ticket about Payment issues. I got a response in about 2 hours, however they said they would get back to me (it has now been approx 4 hours since,) ... so the timeframe for the fix isn't definite. Thank you, Rukario.I submitted a ticket on the website. I also went online and bought two Gem Cards. I entered the codes for those and it didn't accept those either. Very frustrating !Oh my.. I thought about taking that route and now I'm glad I didn't! I'm sorry to hear it though, I hope they'll get back to you shortly since it's now daylight.

Make sure to send in a support ticket about Payment issues. I got a response in about 2 hours, however they said they would get back to me (it has now been approx 4 hours since,) ... so the timeframe for the fix isn't definite.

I also cannot purchase gems now, have no had problems in the past. Tried both Paypal and Mastercard. Ticket #7195159