Guild Wars 2

Right, their are a number of serious issue’s that have been going on for literally months now and it’s really bugging me that Arena Net are not doing much about them. So rather than moan, I’m going to constructively list the problem and possible solutions.

- Contested Waypoint’s
I find it extremely frustrating that I can’t teleport to contested waypoints. The reason being because zones such as Orr, 9/10 Waypoints are contested 90% of the time because not a-lot of people are there any more. I have attached a screenshot to demonstrate what I mean.

[Solution]: Allow us to teleport to contested zones, or limit the amount of Waypoint’s which can become contested at one time in one map.

- Serious lag and DC issues
This is nothing new. For months on end now thousands of people, mostly European’s, have been complaining about a lag and disconnect issue. I personally get it all the time myself, and DC once every hour at least. I love the game so much so I’m not prepared to give up on it, but it really does need to be sorted.

[Solution]: To be honest this is Arena Nets problem, they are the only ones who can do anything about it. They need to fix their servers and listen to the community.

- Ridiculous amount of bugs
Every game has bugs, but the amount of bugs in Guild Wars 2 is a joke. Every patch there is literally a guarantee something will go wrong which will heavily effect an event or a reward or whatever.

[Solution]: No idea. Maybe more testing before you release the patches? The one good thing I can say is that bugs seem to be fixed pretty quickly

- Overflow Map
I am in the LA overflow map literally 90% of the time. It is annoying that hardly anyone speaks English in it, mostly Germans.
[Solution]: Is there any way Arena Net could perhaps make language specific overflow maps rather than just bundle us all together?

Other than that, I absolutely love Guild Wars 2, I’ve been playing MMORPGs for 8 years and its the best one I’ve ever played. So thank-you!

- Chogger, Desolation

Straights of Devastation definitely need some help

I doubt Anet’s going to make the changes necessary (IE: making an “Intranational” instance that everyone accross every server can meet in) Therefore we’d have to find some kind of player-coalition in-game where everyone guested to a single server to keep open and working like D.E.‘s were supposed to work. And I don’t think this community has the leadership and determination frankly to do that unless there was a drastic enough change in the Drop Tables to incentivize it first

I’m sorry I didn’t understand a word of that…

Nybor.9687:

Right, their are a number of serious issue’s that have been going on for literally months now and it’s really bugging me that Arena Net are not doing much about them. So rather than moan, I’m going to constructively list the problem and possible solutions.

- Contested Waypoint’s
I find it extremely frustrating that I can’t teleport to contested waypoints. The reason being because zones such as Orr, 9/10 Waypoints are contested 90% of the time because not a-lot of people are there any more. I have attached a screenshot to demonstrate what I mean.

[Solution]: Allow us to teleport to contested zones, or limit the amount of Waypoint’s which can become contested at one time in one map.

- Serious lag and DC issues
This is nothing new. For months on end now thousands of people, mostly European’s, have been complaining about a lag and disconnect issue. I personally get it all the time myself, and DC once every hour at least. I love the game so much so I’m not prepared to give up on it, but it really does need to be sorted.

[Solution]: To be honest this is Arena Nets problem, they are the only ones who can do anything about it. They need to fix their servers and listen to the community.

- Ridiculous amount of bugs
Every game has bugs, but the amount of bugs in Guild Wars 2 is a joke. Every patch there is literally a guarantee something will go wrong which will heavily effect an event or a reward or whatever.

[Solution]: No idea. Maybe more testing before you release the patches? The one good thing I can say is that bugs seem to be fixed pretty quickly

- Overflow Map
I am in the LA overflow map literally 90% of the time. It is annoying that hardly anyone speaks English in it, mostly Germans.
[Solution]: Is there any way Arena Net could perhaps make language specific overflow maps rather than just bundle us all together?

Other than that, I absolutely love Guild Wars 2, I’ve been playing MMORPGs for 8 years and its the best one I’ve ever played. So thank-you!

- Chogger, Desolation

Ironic that you’re complaining about English.. just sayin.

Also, if you’re going to complain about things like lag and bugs – you need to give specific examples. A thread like this does just come off as being a bit of a whine rant without concrete and constructive feedback.

Not complaining about his English, he just used pretty big words & I’m not the brightest of sparks lol.

How can I give specific examples of lag and DC’s? I get it all the time, I get the same error code that millions of other people have posted on here. I’m just stating that I get it too. The more people who speak up the more they will realise its a problem. And this is my constructive feedback, best I got not everyone’s a little PC rat who knows the ins and outs of IPS problems and ports and why we DC and what the error code is and can intelligently post it on the forums.

dbgamer.3407:

Ironic that you’re complaining about English.. just sayin.

Also, if you’re going to complain about things like lag and bugs – you need to give specific examples. A thread like this does just come off as being a bit of a whine rant without concrete and constructive feedback.

It’s like giving constructive feedback on your moms cooking. I don’t know how to cook but I can still tell that the meatloaf tastes good/mediocre/bad etc.

Like he said, not everyone’s into computers and whatever.

I agree completely with the bugs, and lag in general and I think the overflow map system is flawed, but I don’t see an issue with contested waypoints in orr, it’s an endgame area so it should be hard.

“A thread like this does just come off as being a bit of a whine rant without concrete and constructive feedback.”

ironic that you are complaining about constructive feedback

u mis-understand the WP system, it works really well. Your perception of it is incorrect.

i literally have zero lag and DC issues. i ping 59ms on average.

u mis-perceive the bugs, anet do a great job of fixing bugs by comparison to any other game you could be playing and their tech support is beyond satisfactory (I have over 10 years in the IT-field)

the overflow system works great

riverfish.4173:

I agree completely with the bugs, and lag in general and I think the overflow map system is flawed, but I don’t see an issue with contested waypoints in orr, it’s an endgame area so it should be hard.

“A thread like this does just come off as being a bit of a whine rant without concrete and constructive feedback.”

ironic that you are complaining about constructive feedback

“Every game has bugs, but the amount of bugs in Guild Wars 2 is a joke. Every patch there is literally a guarantee something will go wrong which will heavily effect an event or a reward or whatever” – how is this constructive though?

OP, I apologize if my comment seemed harsh, I’m just trying to say that I don’t think this is constructive on its own. Your comments may be 100% founded and correct, but without any specifics, it’s really difficult to do anything.

A good addition to a post like this would be saying that testing clearly wasn’t done enough on the dragon ball game, as within a couple of hours, players figured out an easy exploit to allow for instant regen.

Even better would be if you can give examples of things that were not extremely apparent that can be useful.

Mejo.3198:

dbgamer.3407:

Ironic that you’re complaining about English.. just sayin.

Also, if you’re going to complain about things like lag and bugs – you need to give specific examples. A thread like this does just come off as being a bit of a whine rant without concrete and constructive feedback.

It’s like giving constructive feedback on your moms cooking. I don’t know how to cook but I can still tell that the meatloaf tastes good/mediocre/bad etc.

Like he said, not everyone’s into computers and whatever.

Good analogy, except that when you give feedback on cooking you can still say things like “it tasted bland” or “it was too salty”, more specific than “all of your cooking is bad”.

How can someone improve something if you just say it’s bad?

LA overflow could be improved if they just moved the entrance for Fractals somewhere else. Stupidest idea they ever had.

had to be done….

The events in these higher level areas need greater rewards. They are time consuming and currently do not offer enough incentive. The problem is finding a balance between driving zergs to roll through the content as aposed to encouraging a enouph players to play constantly go through the area.

But there should be at least a few wp’s that remain uncontested throughout these areas.