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Posted by: Musicmaker.3496

Musicmaker.3496

Thanks for the note about working to fix the problems, but LAG . . . and waiting and waiting to get out of the overflow, and getting booted from the game . . . and having no clue what we are supposed to do in an area. The cost to fix armor has been MUCH higher than any drops or chest rewards make up for. It would be nice to be able to have fun rather than just be frustrated all night.

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Posted by: SamTheGuardian.2938

SamTheGuardian.2938

Welcome to GW2. All of your points are valid. No one wants to address the point that your cost to run the dungeon in armor repairs negate your profits from loot (unless you want to kitten over your team and use Magic Find, I’m not a bad person so I don’t do that). I hear all this love for the new Fractical Dungeon’s and I’m just not buying it.

I played through a few of them, I think they are a neat addition, but I’m not head over heals in love with them. I don’t think the Fractical dungeon is the savior of GW2. I do however believe a lot of praise right now is coming from individuals who have been in love with GW2 for months, have lost some faith it in and are now desperately looking for something to restore that.

Sadly I think I see through the new dungeon and it’s simply not enough. If anything for me it’s just highlighting the fundamental cracks in the games design.

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Posted by: mojowalker.3798

mojowalker.3798

I agree. Let’s not roll half-thought out content every month trying to maintain a player base — the core of the game is exemplary, it just needs some tweaks. You want profits? Roll more armor/weapon skins into the gem store — folks will buy them. Don’t try to jam out new content in the hopes players won’t get bored and wander on to a different game.

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Posted by: Doggie.3184

Doggie.3184

The new dungeons are fun, imo. I did them with guildies on vent though. I personally didn’t die much, only 3 silver repair bill to reach Lv. 3.
Still, 9 mini dungeons will wear out eventually, but it’s a nice addition and more could be thrown in over time.

Unfortunately, the perma-lockout from DCing totally ruins the fun.

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Posted by: epicsmooth.7825

epicsmooth.7825

So pretty much a QQ thread started by a QQer?

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Posted by: Voltar.8574

Voltar.8574

a lot of people have found that not sucking makes a pretty significant difference.

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Posted by: LordShade.8143

LordShade.8143

you know you could just go look at a wiki to find out what to do in each fractal…

and yes all currently discovered ones are available.

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Posted by: Hsinimod.5784

Hsinimod.5784

So pretty much a QQ thread started by a QQer?

Exactly. It’s not like any of us should expect a game to work, amirite?

Oh wait……

The event is crap. Plain and simple. You can do more than enough damage, kill many mobs, and not be able to loot. So, the world event portion is garbage, because the lag kills any point in participation.

No biggie, can do the scavenger hunt. Oh wait….

That is bugged too, with key NPCs missing or not doing anything.

No biggie, you can do the Fractals. Oh wait….

They get frozen, drop you, bug out, etc.

Well…. you can play the regular game and ignore the event and hope a patch come in time for you to play. Good luck.

Playing Devil’s Advocate since 1990.

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Posted by: Ozzio.8024

Ozzio.8024

I spent about 4 hours on this before i just deleted everything to do with it and started leveling an alt.

The lag for the first event was so bad i could barely participate. The quest npc were bugged so i couldn’t do that either and when trying to do the dungeon everyone just rage quits at the swamp. Overall it was a miserable experience.

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Posted by: xtorma.1283

xtorma.1283

I’m waiting for the programmer who works for “some other mmo” to come in here and give everyone a lecture on how hard it is to unerringly code content, and how you can’t test for every little problem because of the time involved, and how we should all just chill unless we have a CS degree and work in the field.

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Posted by: TheMagickDoll.7594

TheMagickDoll.7594

Dungeons! Awesome work guys. D&D old school feel to it. Challenging, interesting, and fun!

More random chests? The random stuff boxes/chests whatever has got to go! No one likes it, no one wants it. If you just sell items like a real shop does, then it we be awesome and probably make more money. The random style stuff makes into a casino. Its a bad game experience. Who ever is charge of it needs to stop. This isn’t Nexon or some other daft game of theirs. Don’t turn it into one.

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Posted by: epicsmooth.7825

epicsmooth.7825

The event is crap. Plain and simple. You can do more than enough damage, kill many mobs, and not be able to loot. So, the world event portion is garbage, because the lag kills any point in participation.

Because the lag sure.

That is bugged too, with key NPCs missing or not doing anything.

Yep, but being fixed.

No biggie, you can do the Fractals. Oh wait….

They get frozen, drop you, bug out, etc.

seems you have terrible luck? I’ve ran them for like 6+ hours today with friends and random and no one I know had any issues.

Also seems early QQ about phase 1 of 3 just like halloween again

I’m waiting for the programmer who works for “some other mmo” to come in here and give everyone a lecture on how hard it is to unerringly code content, and how you can’t test for every little problem because of the time involved, and how we should all just chill unless we have a CS degree and work in the field.

seems you have issues.

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Posted by: SamTheGuardian.2938

SamTheGuardian.2938

The foundation is cracked because of the lack of social interaction. This is a game where you sign-in and don’t really care who you are teamed up with. The positive side of that is no one has to depend on you. Also you don’t have to seek out a healer, tank, etc.. The negatives outweigh the positives however.

What MMORPGs absolutely must provide to be successful long term GW2 fails the worst at. The player having a sense of belonging and being of value to other players. Your lack of dedicated roll makes it so each player is a swiss-army knife able to tackle any given scenario. Their perceived value to the team drops very low and the identify is lost. This is especially true in ad-hoc groups.

Cross server multi-guild membership adds to this problem. Players not only have to work much harder to develop an social identify in GW2 ArenaNet has made it so they can do this across multiple guilds. It’s power of choice. It gives too much choice. People need rules to help them make decisions. Restricting players to guilds and making them commit should have been in day one. I have roughly two dozen friends who play GW2. About 1/4 of those carried over from GW1. I’m in guilds with all of them, but things are spread so thin… When I signed in Lost Shores to play with others the social aspect of the game was a problem for me.

People don’t group in this game because the rules of the game make it so they don’t have to. In dungeons grouping is awkward and boring because again you have no identity. Your only hope here is to have a small group of friends you always play with, but again the problem there is the multi-guild system spreads friends thin. Yes you can do dungeons with people cross guild, but it’s awkward asking people to come play with you when you’re not-representing.

TL;DR
How long can a game last where you can group up, spam weapon skill 1 while throwing up the occasional self-heal and no one in the team can measure your lack of contribution? Go try this experiment yourself. Under all the beautiful environments and interesting combat system is a game that is horribly flawed….. My hope was the Lost Shores would address those flaws, instead it simply layers new content on top of them. This is not sustainable.

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