Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
(edited by Drew.1865)
My suggestions and MY opinion
Well, a few opinions of my own on your own opinions.
1. Then they wouldn’t actually be on the server they’re guesting on.
3. That would be just confusing
6. I don’t think they’re silly ;_;
Besides, they have different teams working on different aspects of the game. I’m not sure it would actually speed things up at all if they dropped content patches.
8. This I can agree on. Social media is kinda meh for me.
9. No, its a good system for members, although I understand why few guild leaders would hate it.
10. The forums are moderated a lot. But they’re not overmoderated. If you search for how many threads you can find about mounts for example, I’d say they aren’t moderated enough.
13. I couldn’t agree more on this one. Support needs some love too.
14. No advantage for irl cash usage. Never.
People who can argue often offer a good and meaningful conversation about the subject.
People who can’t tend to call the opponent troll, scream something utterly incomprehensible
and finally result to personal insults.
People who can’t tend to call the opponent troll, scream something utterly incomprehensible
and finally result to personal insults.
1. Defeats the whole point of guesting, no?
6. There are two different teams – one working on content and one on bugs.
8. As I don’t use either of these abominations, I agree. However, announcements are usually linked to in the Wiki anyway (link at the top of the page).
10. As far as I’m concerned, with the countless repeat threads on raids, duels, mounts and now, guesting as well, the forums aren’t being moderated hard enough. The ability to use the search function should be a prerequisite to starting any new thread in the Suggestions subforum.
14. Absolutely not. GW2 is not a pay-to-win game, nor a triple-dip one. People bought into this game because it was a one-off purchase and because there is no sub.
I stole a special snowflake’s future by exercising my democratic right to vote.
1. Defeats the whole point of guesting, no?
6. There are two different teams – one working on content and one on bugs.
8. As I don’t use either of these abominations, I agree. However, announcements are usually linked to in the Wiki anyway (link at the top of the page).
10. As far as I’m concerned, with the countless repeat threads on raids, duels, mounts and now, guesting as well, the forums aren’t being moderated hard enough. The ability to use the search function should be a prerequisite to starting any new thread in the Suggestions subforum.
14. Absolutely not. GW2 is not a pay-to-win game, nor a triple-dip one. People bought into this game because it was a one-off purchase and because there is no sub.
1.Actually guesting is keeping home players from doing events.
14. They could offer a sub option for people who don’t want to deal with DR or all the other things that are forcing players to play this game they way they want instead of the way the player wants. Example is the insane nerf of all drops in cursed shore from mobs and you being required to be in a party to even have a chance to tag something for loot.
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
(edited by Drew.1865)
I feel there are many things to improve the game and I hope this thread can be used as our suggestions on improvement.
1. Make guesters guest on an overflow on the server they are visiting.
2. Turn DR off or communicate how it really works so we all know how to keep it from effecting players that just want to play the game their way.
3. Make Spvp balance for classes completely different than Pve balance.
4. Boost dps on engineers and rangers for Pve and add more survival for ranger pets or just remove them from the game and change the class to an archer.
5. Quit with the secret loot nerfs and place a limit on how many porous bones a player can get in one day.
6. Stop releasing silly fluff content patches and focus on making the game better.
7. Don’t buff anymore dungeons and ruin them for the levels they were intended for. If you can’t make a decent challenging dungeon to begin with don’t change it and further anger your loyal players. If you want to make it more difficult then add a hard mode and make changes there with increased loot chances. If players are abusing a dungeon decrease the tokens granted for the most popular path.
8. Stop posting important game information on Facebook or Twitter first. This is your forum so use it first to share game news.
9. Get rid of multi guild representation.
10. Stop over moderating the forums and also ask for devs to keep rude comments in a private message instead of making not nice responses on the forums.
11. Don’t add gated content. Mmo players are going to find a way to burn thru any content as fast as possible so focus on replay enjoyment.
12. Add world bosses and dungeon bosses that are complex and not something that just spams a one shot at players.
13. Make loot drops also based on area effect healing and support skills. Don’t give glass cannons all the glory for playing the game. If support got as much credit for drops then it would slow down progression and even out demand for crafting mats for dps and support gear.
14. Add a sub option without DR or mail restrictions.
I’ll add more later unless this is merged or deleted or moved etc…
I agree with every single one of these.
These are all (mostly) simple fixes, so why haven’t we seen them yet? That’s the real question.
? What would happen if they gave a Guest a tag on them? For instance a [G] before the name of the toon in Blue letters.
side note, one thing I might would add to that list is stop putting chance drops in those BL-chests if you want to make more money, then double the gem price. If the pink quaggan was 500 gems I would go get some gems right now….since its a chance to get out of the chest I will not buy 500 gems to get keys. I thought Anet had got the message back at Halloween.
? What would happen if they gave a Guest a tag on them? For instance a [G] before the name of the toon in Blue letters.
side note, one thing I might would add to that list is stop putting chance drops in those BL-chests if you want to make more money, then double the gem price. If the pink quaggan was 500 gems I would go get some gems right now….since its a chance to get out of the chest I will not buy 500 gems to get keys. I thought Anet had got the message back at Halloween.
The pink quaggan skin has buy offers at around 11g at the moment on the TP. Your complaint is irrelevant.
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? What would happen if they gave a Guest a tag on them? For instance a [G] before the name of the toon in Blue letters.
side note, one thing I might would add to that list is stop putting chance drops in those BL-chests if you want to make more money, then double the gem price. If the pink quaggan was 500 gems I would go get some gems right now….since its a chance to get out of the chest I will not buy 500 gems to get keys. I thought Anet had got the message back at Halloween.
The pink quaggan skin has buy offers at around 11g at the moment on the TP. Your complaint is irrelevant.
I was unaware of it being readily available though the TP for Gold, I will have to retract that then. I thought that it was like any other item that would have a chance from a chest and be account bound.
I feel there are many things to improve the game and I hope this thread can be used as our suggestions on improvement.
1. Make guesters guest on an overflow on the server they are visiting.
2. Turn DR off or communicate how it really works so we all know how to keep it from effecting players that just want to play the game their way.
3. Make Spvp balance for classes completely different than Pve balance.
4. Boost dps on engineers and rangers for Pve and add more survival for ranger pets or just remove them from the game and change the class to an archer.
5. Quit with the secret loot nerfs and place a limit on how many porous bones a player can get in one day.
6. Stop releasing silly fluff content patches and focus on making the game better.
7. Don’t buff anymore dungeons and ruin them for the levels they were intended for. If you can’t make a decent challenging dungeon to begin with don’t change it and further anger your loyal players. If you want to make it more difficult then add a hard mode and make changes there with increased loot chances. If players are abusing a dungeon decrease the tokens granted for the most popular path.
8. Stop posting important game information on Facebook or Twitter first. This is your forum so use it first to share game news.
9. Get rid of multi guild representation.
10. Stop over moderating the forums and also ask for devs to keep rude comments in a private message instead of making not nice responses on the forums.
11. Don’t add gated content. Mmo players are going to find a way to burn thru any content as fast as possible so focus on replay enjoyment.
12. Add world bosses and dungeon bosses that are complex and not something that just spams a one shot at players.
13. Make loot drops also based on area effect healing and support skills. Don’t give glass cannons all the glory for playing the game. If support got as much credit for drops then it would slow down progression and even out demand for crafting mats for dps and support gear.
14. Add a sub option without DR or mail restrictions.
I’ll add more later unless this is merged or deleted or moved etc…
1. No, a large number of people guesting are doing it to either A. Hang out with the friends or B. Complete events that can’t be done on their home server due to lack of population. Show up with plenty of time to spare instead of porting at the last second and expecting no overflow.
2. DR is already communicated quite well (as to it’s purpose) in the wiki. It is there to disrupt bots and exploits from disrupting the economy. They will not disclose how it works (because it would give the exploiters the information the need to bypass it) nor will they remove it because doing so would cause more harm to the game than good.
3. Quite a bit of work you’re asking for there. I’m guessing you don’t know much about balancing or how game development actually works/costs.
4. No issues with this, personally I think Engineer rifle skills need a complete overhaul. Rangers need their pets though.
5. It’s called RNG sometimes it favors you, sometimes it doesn’t.
6. Stop complaining, content is content and the game is coming along just fine. If you don’t like it, the door is that way, don’t let it hit you on the way out.
7. To the last part of this point: That’s what DR does.
8. I check my twitter/facebook more times a day than I check these forums.
9. No.
10. Forums are fine as is, maybe if people didn’t spam or make threads about stupid topics the moderators wouldn’t have to deliver the smackdown.
11. Again, no, gated content is fine.
12. Also no, world boss fights are laggy enough without needing to worry about extra mechanics that could cause everyone in the area to wipe because their frames are so slow that they can’t get out of the way in time or click a button.
13. The second decent suggestion here… no complaints.
14. Absolutely not, and no I won’t explain why aside from mentioning that if GW got a sub, it would no longer be GW.
I feel there are many things to improve the game and I hope this thread can be used as our suggestions on improvement.
1. Make guesters guest on an overflow on the server they are visiting.
2. Turn DR off or communicate how it really works so we all know how to keep it from effecting players that just want to play the game their way.
3. Make Spvp balance for classes completely different than Pve balance.
4. Boost dps on engineers and rangers for Pve and add more survival for ranger pets or just remove them from the game and change the class to an archer.
5. Quit with the secret loot nerfs and place a limit on how many porous bones a player can get in one day.
6. Stop releasing silly fluff content patches and focus on making the game better.
7. Don’t buff anymore dungeons and ruin them for the levels they were intended for. If you can’t make a decent challenging dungeon to begin with don’t change it and further anger your loyal players. If you want to make it more difficult then add a hard mode and make changes there with increased loot chances. If players are abusing a dungeon decrease the tokens granted for the most popular path.
8. Stop posting important game information on Facebook or Twitter first. This is your forum so use it first to share game news.
9. Get rid of multi guild representation.
10. Stop over moderating the forums and also ask for devs to keep rude comments in a private message instead of making not nice responses on the forums.
11. Don’t add gated content. Mmo players are going to find a way to burn thru any content as fast as possible so focus on replay enjoyment.
12. Add world bosses and dungeon bosses that are complex and not something that just spams a one shot at players.
13. Make loot drops also based on area effect healing and support skills. Don’t give glass cannons all the glory for playing the game. If support got as much credit for drops then it would slow down progression and even out demand for crafting mats for dps and support gear.
14. Add a sub option without DR or mail restrictions.
I’ll add more later unless this is merged or deleted or moved etc…1. No, a large number of people guesting are doing it to either A. Hang out with the friends or B. Complete events that can’t be done on their home server due to lack of population. Show up with plenty of time to spare instead of porting at the last second and expecting no overflow.
2. DR is already communicated quite well (as to it’s purpose) in the wiki. It is there to disrupt bots and exploits from disrupting the economy. They will not disclose how it works (because it would give the exploiters the information the need to bypass it) nor will they remove it because doing so would cause more harm to the game than good.
3. Quite a bit of work you’re asking for there. I’m guessing you don’t know much about balancing or how game development actually works/costs.
4. No issues with this, personally I think Engineer rifle skills need a complete overhaul. Rangers need their pets though.
5. It’s called RNG sometimes it favors you, sometimes it doesn’t.
6. Stop complaining, content is content and the game is coming along just fine. If you don’t like it, the door is that way, don’t let it hit you on the way out.
7. To the last part of this point: That’s what DR does.
8. I check my twitter/facebook more times a day than I check these forums.
9. No.
10. Forums are fine as is, maybe if people didn’t spam or make threads about stupid topics the moderators wouldn’t have to deliver the smackdown.
11. Again, no, gated content is fine.
12. Also no, world boss fights are laggy enough without needing to worry about extra mechanics that could cause everyone in the area to wipe because their frames are so slow that they can’t get out of the way in time or click a button.
13. The second decent suggestion here… no complaints.
14. Absolutely not, and no I won’t explain why aside from mentioning that if GW got a sub, it would no longer be GW.
Thank you for your response. Not only are you rude but some of your answers also show you have no idea what you’re talking about but thanks anyway :-)
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
? What would happen if they gave a Guest a tag on them? For instance a [G] before the name of the toon in Blue letters.
side note, one thing I might would add to that list is stop putting chance drops in those BL-chests if you want to make more money, then double the gem price. If the pink quaggan was 500 gems I would go get some gems right now….since its a chance to get out of the chest I will not buy 500 gems to get keys. I thought Anet had got the message back at Halloween.
They want as much RNG as they can get because just like a casino the more you lose the more you spend. It’s kind of scary to think of how many children are becoming gambling addicts because of chests in games they are playing.
You’re better off avoiding anything that is a gamble using real money for pixels.
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
no idea what you’re talking about
Pot calling the kettle black don’t ya think?
Go ahead, explain how I “don’t know what I am talking about” I’m seriously interested in discussing this.
World bosses are laggy because you either have a bad computer, poor Internet speed or there are 300 people guesting on your server and that might why you are getting lag.
I never had lag at these events until guesting and that might be why there are 400 threads complaining about this very thing.
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
World bosses are always going to be laggy so that’s hardly a significant issue. Most of the ‘issues’ with people and guesting comes from the fact that they are stuck in overflow while the event is happening so they miss out.
What is your recommendation? To turn off guesting? Because that’s fair to the people who want to hang out with their friends/can’t do the events on their servers right? No, it’s not. It’s you and those like you being selfish and wanting priority so you can get access to the best loot that are the problem.
Yes I have framerate issues when I do world bosses, I accept that. I don’t whinge about it and demand A.Net fix things. Oh how these forums would be better if others followed my example and only raised issues about matters which were actually important (note: World bosses and frame rate issues are not).
World bosses are laggy because you either have a bad computer, poor Internet speed or there are 300 people guesting on your server and that might why you are getting lag.
I never had lag at these events until guesting and that might be why there are 400 threads complaining about this very thing.
If that is the only reason you wish to nerf questing, I’d say you’re coming from the wrong angle.
Even if you remove questing, you’d still potentially run into the lag when your own server fills the map. So nerfing questing would not completely solve the problem, but also harms other aspects of the game.
How about decreasing the playercap on the map instead, so it is not possible to crowd enough for lag? There, no need to mess up questing. Will also demote event jumping, as you need to be on the map before the event starts to have a spot in the event.
People who can argue often offer a good and meaningful conversation about the subject.
People who can’t tend to call the opponent troll, scream something utterly incomprehensible
and finally result to personal insults.
People who can’t tend to call the opponent troll, scream something utterly incomprehensible
and finally result to personal insults.
World bosses are always going to be laggy so that’s hardly a significant issue. Most of the ‘issues’ with people and guesting comes from the fact that they are stuck in overflow while the event is happening so they miss out.
What is your recommendation? To turn off guesting? Because that’s fair to the people who want to hang out with their friends/can’t do the events on their servers right? No, it’s not. It’s you and those like you being selfish and wanting priority so you can get access to the best loot that are the problem.
Yes I have framerate issues when I do world bosses, I accept that. I don’t whinge about it and demand A.Net fix things. Oh how these forums would be better if others followed my example and only raised issues about matters which were actually important (note: World bosses and frame rate issues are not).
Actually you having a bad frame rate is something they could help by optimizing the game engine. Poor engine optimization was one of the main reasons why the Tortanic sank.
So you think people should only raise matters that you think are important or agree with?
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
World bosses are laggy because you either have a bad computer, poor Internet speed or there are 300 people guesting on your server and that might why you are getting lag.
I never had lag at these events until guesting and that might be why there are 400 threads complaining about this very thing.
If that is the only reason you wish to nerf questing, I’d say you’re coming from the wrong angle.
Even if you remove questing, you’d still potentially run into the lag when your own server fills the map. So nerfing questing would not completely solve the problem, but also harms other aspects of the game.How about decreasing the playercap on the map instead, so it is not possible to crowd enough for lag? There, no need to mess up questing. Will also demote event jumping, as you need to be on the map before the event starts to have a spot in the event.
I think they should keep guesting but not the way it is now nor was it a good idea to implement it at the same time the increased the rewards from world bosses.
This is just my opinion and I actually think guesting is a great idea but unfortunately many mmo players abuse things and make everyone else suffer.
Is GW2 a game or a virtual casino?
Poor engine optimization was one of the main reasons why the Tortanic sank
Erm… what the hell is the tortanic?
The rest of your post is idiotic at best. Yes they -could- spend hundreds of hours coding engine optimization so that ‘you’ get a better frame rate, or they could spend those hours making meaningful content updates which you seem to be wanting so much.
As far as guesting is concerned, you’ve made it clear you want people guesting to be on overflow servers permanently which in case you were wondering makes it more difficult for people wanting to hang out with their friends/complete the dragon events. Sure -you- have an easier time getting the dragon killed, but Jim over there who just wants to hang out with his friend has to find a way to an overflow server for just about every zone in the game so he can hang out with his friends on other servers…
Oh and the people who can’t kill dragons on their servers and thus rely on guesting to get access to the loot chests from these world events? Yeah they don’t matter, stick them on an overflow server where they can’t actually complete the event because it’s not happening at the same time as the regular servers.
Either way nothing is going to happen to guesting as it currently stands. Any changes made to the system will only penalize a large number of players, all for the convenience of the greedy. I suggest you deal with it.
1. Make guesters guest on an overflow on the server they are visiting.
In order to fix the guesting problem the rewards for the events that are being specifically effected need to be restricted. Disable Guests from getting them, or so someone from accessing the event chest in two separate instances of a zone within the first day and all the guesting effects on events will vanish
2. Turn DR off or communicate how it really works so we all know how to keep it from effecting players that just want to play the game their way.
Simple fact, ANet does not support farmers and does not want you to farm. The official stance is that it’s to discourage Botting. The truth is, if your way is to farm, it’s to discourage you from playing your way.
4. Boost dps on engineers and rangers for Pve and add more survival for ranger pets or just remove them from the game and change the class to an archer.
Sorry, my first character was a Ranger, was my first 80 and was the character that I completed the dungeons and the map on. It is my main and favorite character. This is a learn to play situation because if you actually understand the class the ranger is the most survivable and toughest character in PvE. Pets are an extention of the class, if you ust throw them out without paying attention to them they won’t be of any use. You need to micromanage. My Engineer is also quite capable, neither are in any serious need of buffs.
6. Stop releasing silly fluff content patches and focus on making the game better.
You may not like the “fluff,” but you probably don’t care if the game feels alive as long as you can farm dungeons all day and do PvP. I care about the story and the changing world. I feel the “fluff” is what is making the game better
7. Don’t buff anymore dungeons …
See answer 2. They change the dungeons to even them out and to discourage farming, because they don’t like it
8. Stop posting important game information on Facebook or Twitter first. This is your forum so use it first to share game news.
Absolutely agree. I hate when any company fails to make use of their forums as a primary mode of communicating with they’re players
9. Get rid of multi guild representation.
I never really understood this aspect of the game. I don’t full understand what it accomplishes, but I am also very sure it’s not something they can just stop using
10. Stop over moderating the forums and also ask for devs to keep rude comments in a private message instead of making not nice responses on the forums.
Never stop being rude. I 100% support devs coming onto the forums and telling their players point blank that they’re morons and need to suck it up. I want everyone to know that the Devs actually understand how their game works and point it out harshly. The forums aren’t overmoderated enough
11. Don’t add gated content. Mmo players are going to find a way to burn thru any content as fast as possible so focus on replay enjoyment.
This is because too many of the players still seem to think this is a subscription based MMO and don’t know how to sit back and enjoy themselves at a leisurely pace. This isn’t WoW, you don’t have to complete all the content in minimum time to seem like your monthly payment was worth it. Since this isn’t that kind of game, also, they should not be catering to the people who are playing it that way. It’s your own fault if you use up all the content in a week. Stop playing, and go away for a month, you can come back any time you like to use up all the new content then
12. Add world bosses and dungeon bosses that are complex and not something that just spams a one shot at players.
Yes yes yes, they’re visually stunning and generally have interesting mechanics for the first minute, and then the interest stops. If it is going to take X time to beat something, please make it interesting for X long
13. Make loot drops also based on area effect healing and support skills. Don’t give glass cannons all the glory for playing the game. If support got as much credit for drops then it would slow down progression and even out demand for crafting mats for dps and support gear.
This would be very nice. I don’t know how it would be implemented but it would definately be good thing
14. Add a sub option without DR or mail restrictions.
No no no, ust because you want to play this game as if it were a subscription based game does not mean it should be. The subscription model is a dying animal and should remain as such. GW1 proved it could work and GW2 certainly isn’t going to backslide now
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I agree with every single one of these.
These are all (mostly) simple fixes, so why haven’t we seen them yet? That’s the real question.
So I originally planned to quote this with the OP and have all my comments in one post, but apparently it went way over and so I had to do a lot of pruning.
In any case I feel this is kind of important too: There is no such thing as a simple fix. NOTHING is ever simple when it comes to changing things in an MMO. If you think it is so simple then go make your own and show everyone how it’s done. Then maybe you’ll understand “why we haven’t seen them yet.”
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|Deadeye|Warrior|Herald|Daredevil|Reaper|Spellbreaker
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|Deadeye|Warrior|Herald|Daredevil|Reaper|Spellbreaker