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It's honestly so disappointing that a modder can bring back Boss Hunts as opposed to an official company. Even if it wouldn't be multiplayer, I'd love to play them in private match.
- stukapooka2 years agoLegend@JosephPopper1 The fact that modders were able to include wallnut hills, the backyard battleground map, soil survivors, and capture the taco in private play with workable bots that can include torchwood and hover goat is just downright embarrasing when you look at what popcap did in comparison, oh wait thats right nothing!
- TheSprinter852 years agoHero@JosephPopper1 It would have been much better for the community if the events were just kept in the game in the first place. I have no idea why these modes were removed in the first place and even if this was intentional or not. Because the modes were removed though, I wonder why they aren't that easy to simply implement, but there is likely a factor that I am unaware of.
- 2 years ago
to be honest, think about it. In my opinion, they could have just toggled it back with like, 3 clicks or something, or atleast give the access to the ''rotation changer'' to someone with trust, just like the manager..
- TheSprinter852 years agoHero@TheSprinter85 I did hear the news regarding Mystery Portal changes not coming with the Anticheat update. This is very unfortunate, I really hope that there is a possibility of still changing the Mystery Portal in the future, but it is not looking likely so far. Thanks @EA_Shepard for trying!
- stukapooka2 years agoLegend@bsltrinity They said a while back that its was apparently harder than just changing some code but once again never really explained why it isnt that simple.
- JosephPopper12 years agoSeasoned Adventurer@TheSprinter85 Honestly I get the feeling it might’ve just been a weird attempt to push people towards BFN. Those changes to GW2 were made in 2019 after BFN released to a not very warm reception.
I mean idk it is purely speculation but I really don’t see any technical reason why couldn’t they just automate Mystery Portal to be more frequent and feature more modes, pretty sure all the GW2 live stuff is automated anyway. All Mystery Portals are always on a set schedule, Rux, certain festive packs and there’s the sleepy bat NPC always appears in October (yet for some reason all other seasonal NPCs like the rabbit and the gnome are no longer used). Tale of the Taco according to some dataminer leaks was supposed to be a tie-in event to BFN but the whole BFN tie-in got scrapped. Honestly I would’ve made Tale of the Taco into a yearly summer event (with that giant taco and the Backyard Battleground decorations). - stukapooka2 years agoLegend
@JosephPopper1The fact they didnt create a better set schedule is baffling. They were able to make sure Rux sells all the alts but not include fan favorite gamemodes? Lets not forget how quickly they fixed Rux either despite support for the game being over for a while.
I wouldn't doubt it being a move to push plauers and dev time to bfn as they didnt wanna be split between two games and a lot of players quickly moved back to gw2 after founders since the game really just didnt have much going for it and a lot of pvz youtubers straight up admitted they enjoyed 2 more and it was the better games for views
Really the late 2018-early 2019 era of gw2 just overall feels unfinished. I'm gonna go more in depth on some of this stuff in my 8th anniversary post.