Regina Buenaobra posted a thread on Guru on Wednesday afternoon with bad, but not entirely unexpected, news for the Xunlai Tournament House:


Guru Thread: New Xunlai Tournament House Information

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After much analysis and discussion, we’ve decided to permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House. Initially, we took down the Xunlai Tournament House due to recurring technical issues that caused incorrect Tournament Point distribution each month. We conducted an exhaustive investigation into the backend code that runs the Xunlai Tournament House to see what we could do to fix these issues. After careful evaluation, we concluded that it wasn’t possible to redeploy the Xunlai Tournament House at the level of quality that our players expect without completely rebuilding it from scratch. To do that, we’d have to take away vital resources from the Guild Wars 2 team. Given the circumstances, we decided it was more important to keep our focus on Guild Wars 2, and permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House. This was a tough call for us to make. We’ve greatly appreciated the community’s enthusiastic support for XTH. We know that this decision will disappoint some players, and we apologize for that, but ultimately we believe this was the right decision. __________________ Regina Buenaobra Community Manager ArenaNet, Inc.

The first part of that statement is such bullshit:

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After much analysis and discussion, we’ve decided to permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House.

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After much analysis and discussion...

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After much analysis...

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...much...

Can I get a show of hands here? Was this news to anyone? Anyone? I think the entire Guild Wars community is convinced ANet hasn't looked at the XTH in about 6-7 months.

With the onset of this sad news, it is now time to officially retire the Xunlai Tournament House Widget on the Portal. Never forget:









R.I.P. Ol' Buddy
*pours out a 40 in its honor*

LOL werent we talking about this the other day? I was wondering about it on the portal for a while since it hasnt been used in years, like most things Anet does. its a one time or one year deal and then poop on community got better things to do... so I still even if others dont.. want more content.

So they finally decided to basically say "we're too busy to try to fix whatever the fuck is wrong with this... we're just gonna say we looked into it and move on like we always do"

XD