Re: [Resolved] Change the Mystery Portal Rotation, Please!

@TheSprinter85 Yeah, the minions boosters are kinda op, since you can get a lot of consumables from opening a bunch. Especially during festivus and lawn of doom, since all of the packs have one extra. And during holidays, i buy a bunch of seasonal packs to stock up on seasonals, so i can use those instead. I have over 200 candy uplink bots and pumpkin head zombies and halloweeds from this year. I really stocked up this year. I really like how uplink bots and bamboo shoots are easy to get during seasons, since they are so rare. Somethig else i like is how in boss hunts you can place pots/bots all around the whole map after you place the bait.

@EA_Shepard, any news yet?

@DeathBugg  I'm sure @EA_Shepard will give us an update on the situation as soon as he gets news from the team. Probably in a few days or so.

I really hope he has good news for us soon.

I am sorry guys, but I believe that it will be a long wait. This isn’t just a question of turning on a portal for a couple of game modes, as there are a number of important things that need to be looked at to make the game viable again, as it would otherwise be rather pointless. It’s a strategic decision as it involves moving capacity in the form of game maintenance teams to a game that has been discontinued for four years and is clearly open to hacking.

@ManicMossieYou're probably right but if so then this all goes back to the issue of why they created such a lackluster rotation in the first place since it was just gonna leave fans unsatisfied.

Most of us just want to see if anything will happen at all regardless of how long it takes.

stukapooka Absolutely agree. We can only wait it out and hope for the best.

Re. the lackluster rotation, I think PopCap at the time were expecting GW2 to die of disinterest from us, the community, with the launch of BfN, never understanding what it was that made GW2 so successful and therefore never implementing it in BfN.

The marketing (and gaming) disaster that BfN became threw them off track to the extent that the Garden Warfare franchise in general was just left to die a slow death. With EA_Shepard  now a standard bearer for a revitalised and enthusiastic community there might be a good chance of the higher-ups actually reinvigorating the game.

@ManicMossieBfn was the orphaned frankesnteins monster of the sadly scrapped project hot tub game which looked far more promising and had several art works and concepts for locations bfn took.

The sad death of that rather promising game through no fault of its own seems to have harmed pvz as a whole. You can notice a rapid shift in pvz after 2018.

Regarding bfn itself i just don't know what they were going for there as it feels like a sad attempt to replicate overwatch despite the fact that pvz fans loved gw for what it was already and just wanted more of an already good thing. Hence the excitement and joy the community had when wallnut hills came to gw2 and the community thought it was a revitalization of gw2.

I haven't seen a studio not understand why people liked their franchise this badly and tried to massively course correct since halo 4 tried to follow call of duty or star fox constantly redoing 64 and making it worse everytime. Pvz 3 sadly seemed to be following the same path.


Even if bfn was to be made they should've given it much more than 1 year to be made. Yeah gw2 was made in a similar timespan but it was a direct sequel to gw1 and could reuse assests.

They had the perfect opportunity to work on the game while slowly keeping the community entertained by minor gw2 content.

Pvz as a whole makes me sad right now. Pvz 3 and bfn just feel like they have no idea of what to do with the series or what made it successful and we have literally no communication with the team as we keep getting meager pvz 2 updates that everyone seems to agree are lazily animated and done to wring just a bit more money out of the game. Here's scaredy shroom but somehow worse, lets take out all the fun music and minigames because they "use to much memory" (my brother in christ you are the ones who chose to make the game mobile only).

I'm use to being let down certain franchises such as the aforementioned star fox and more but pvz especially hurts because the quality was a lot more consistent throughout the years.

We are in the decline and dark age of pvz and if something isn't done we may very well also witness its end.

stukapooka   Interesting albeit slightly upsetting reading when taken together with your piece "Discussion: Content removed from GW2", as any hopes for a revitalized GW2 seem to be pretty grim. Just hope that  EA_Shepard 's feedback on the strength of the Community's yearning for an invigorated GW2 will bear fruit. 

@TheSprinter85I honestly hope you are right. There is just so much that has to be done to get the game back on track that I’m wondering whether EA will go the whole hog and get the game up and running again.

Even if we don’t get it all back then as long as they get the Boss Hunts with the associated bots back and in addition fix the hacking I believe I could live with a denuded GW2.

Have noticed that rather than EA_Shepard responding to queries, we are now seeing EA_Illium and EA_Barry doing the job. I wonder why. Sorry if I sound excessively paranoid about this, but is EA_Shepard giving too much hope to the Community? 

It's good to see discussions on these games be move active! I'll have to also be more active to join in the discussions that are popping up more often as well.

I have to agree with the others here of course, we need better events in the mystery portal in GW2! People need their trophies, so we need boss hunts and cats vs dinos, and we want the more enjoyable events like capture the taco and soil survivors. We really don't need lawn-a-thon with speed boost for the umpteenth time!

GW2 is one of those rare gems that many of us still play even after unlocking everything. The first GW game is great too, but it doesn't have the Backyard Battleground or as much PvE stuff as GW2 has to do, and GW2 has proven it can keep people enjoying it (barring some issues like hacking on PC of course), for years after being put in maintenance mode.

With the sudden attention after so much silence, I hope this means we have good news for these great shooters (and I include BfN in this, even if it just can't measure up to GW and GW2), but especially for GW2 and one dares to wish for a potential GW3 in the future. Better GW2 mystery portals would be one thing the community needs.

Hey guys im sorry that it has been a little bit since i have last posted i havent had anything to say recently. So i dont remember our calender that @Hieldanka wrote, but this one is pretty close and i think we can all agree on this one

January 

Community challange

February 

Cats vs dinos

March

Triple f frenzy 

April

Brothers gnomus boss hunt

May

Capture the taco

June

Lunchtime in the lab

July

Sasquatch boss hunt

August 

Soil survivors 

September 

Community challenge

October

Spooky squash boss hunt

November 

Cats vs dinos

December 

Yeti king boss hunt

I think this is pretty clos to what we had and i did not repeat events except cats vs dinos and community challenges because those are needed for trophies and boss hunt comes up 4 times. 

@DeathBuggIs one of the community challenges related to soil survivors? I would hate for it to be left out since it is a very unique mode.

@DeathBuggNo problem.

Really fun mode where the matches were best of 5 and they never dragged long since the arena size shrinks, you couldnt regen naturally, and downed players are unrevivable if I remember right. Made sticking together and protecting teammates (especially healers) a priority. AI also joined if teams were uneven and they were alright.

Kind of like bfn's battle arena on actual maps but you're not barred from a certain class after playing them.

Shame many have never experienced it since 2018

I still remember everyone fearing it was to cash in on the battle royale hype. To think that use to be the biggest gripe people had back in the day before it even released.