Guild Wars 2

Are there any plans to remove overdone memes?

Memes have an expiration date. They are often repeated ad nauseam by annoying kids who think that everytime someone mentions a random game such as tic-tac-toe, you lost it. It is not funny after a while. So what’s the expiration date on memes you ask? The second time you hear it….

When I place a healing turret, I hear “dispenser set”. It wasn’t funny the first time, because it wasn’t the first time. It was actually the hundreth time in various completely unrelated settings. This sentence should not, under any circumstances pop up in a videogame, let alone ever 40 seconds when I pop my heal.

Even worse is changing pets. Of course I do this every 20 seconds to keep the cooldown up. Every time I hear “I choose you” which wan’t funny the first time because it wasn’t the first time. I was bored of that meme after a thousand times which was 5 years ago. It didn’t even give me a smile anymore in GW2.

I’m actually muting the game because of this. The game has such good audio, yet the overdone memes on virtually every class (warrior is guilty too!) means I simply can’t hear the game lest it breaks my immersion. OK some 4chan trolls may love these things, but most of us aren’t 4chan trolls. Most of us actually want a healthy, fun game without trolls.

So …. Any plans to remove those boring and overdone memes? An option to turn of all audio with the flag “meme” would be much appreciated.

To be perfectly honest, this seems more like a personal problem rather than anything wrong with the game. I’m also not entirely certain that regularly updating their Internet culture references is a priority for ArenaNet. I imagine they have their hands full enough as it is.

Maybe it’s just me who isn’t fussed by this though.

this kind of thing shouldn’t even be on their top 9001 priorities .

Adine.2184:

this kind of thing shouldn’t even be on their top 9001 priorities .

Their priorities are over 9000!!!!!! Oh, haha, I see what you did there. : B

For starters, I’d like to address that most of the lurkers on 4chan don’t think memes are funny. In fact any use of them is highly discouraged and the person using them is promptly called a ‘newfag’ and told to ‘gtfo’. Also, I’m not sure you understand what a troll is, in any sense of the word.

However, I agree with you on the fact that the “LE EPIC MAY MAY LAWL XD FAYCES” need to go. This isn’t Reddit. This isn’t 9GAG. This is Guild Wars 2. Sure, add in the occasional pop-culture reference, but memes aren’t the way to go.

Memes need to stop. They aren’t funny. They have an expiration date of a week for most. Sure, the first little while of beta was great. You’d go “Oh hey, I get that reference” but after that it’s extremely frustrating and just stupid.

TL;DR
Mostly agree with what the OP says.

Go through the game removing memes because the amount of memes in game is too kitten high?

Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

But yeah, I think the writers and such have bigger priorities. This one seems pretty tame compared to most of the problems :P

Memes? Just reference.. Keep memes out of it..
Like the reference. Without em the game would be well alienated I think.

i don’t understand what are you talking about… where are memes in this game?
when they talk doing something while switching elements or get hit or something similar? is that a meme?