Guild Wars 2

I’m just concerned over how this affects the community as a whole and how this will affect the future of the game.

There are commonly used ui features in every MMO I’ve ever played that prevent people from being used and abused that I find missing in this title. I just read and was reminded of one (read in another gaming forum) a player was reporting that they were told someone possibly one of the people who did the snowflake thing, promised to trade this person a large number of ectos for about 50 gold. They took this person’s gold and left him with nothing. Now before this turns into a bullying laugh fest imagine being a new player and not completely understanding the rules of the game yet, if you’ve never played mmo’s you’ve never heard of these things before. So it’s real easy to take advantage of new players. I can’t tell you how many times in the AH’s of games I saw people selling regular items like vendor food and vendor gathering tools that were sold to new players for gold on the AH because new players who never even picked up a gamepad before didn’t know that you could get them from the vendors for copper.

The missing feature this post is about is COD. I’ve seen it in every game since the beginning of my mmo gaming life and it seems to be missing on this one. My concern is that there seems to be features missing like this one that are important features and security that fails to prevent abuse but harms players. Features like COD that would prevent fraudulant actions from occurring between players where support can’t help the new player.

The added restriction this post is about is DR that are put in place to try to quell bots but end up harming the community. DR was tried and tested by many a company years ago and every time it failed to prevent bots that gathered gold in spite of it and harmed the players. Some games even lost the majority of their players causing them to close shop shortly after implementing DR.

I hope the new patches unfolding this month and the next two months will address these problems to make the game safer and remove restrictions on the gaming community.