Guild Wars 2

Anets idea of new content – no wonder they would like players going down the pvp route in GW2.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Anets idea of new content – no wonder they would like players going down the pvp route in GW2.

I know some people are. I for myself am still waiting for the “bigger picture” the devs always referring to.

To be fair, a drum makes sense for the instruments. Strings, woodwinds, brass, and now percussion. Those are the major instrument families, as I recall. They’re just filling out the missing one.

Palador.2170:

To be fair, a drum makes sense for the instruments. Strings, woodwinds, brass, and now percussion. Those are the major instrument families, as I recall. They’re just filling out the missing one.

I am sure the classical musicians who play GW2 would appreciate the devs’ efforts tremendously.

There’s likely different teams working on different things, and there’s possibly a team committed to interesting gem store instruments. They are probably proud of their work.

Although it might be one person, who knows. Either way, it’s having no impact on the capacity for the rest of the Dev team to do what they’re doing.

It is the small things that make MMORPG’s, not the major ones. GW2 will stay alive wether you want it or not, and for a very long time even if they don’t release new content at all. You really don’t get how dedication works don’t you!!

Not like I want it to be like this but tired from ‘’OMG, we have no content’’ threads. You don’t have traditional MMO content, however I can listen a huge list full of things that got added to the game, from QoF changes to content.

nGumball.1283:

It is the small things that make MMORPG’s, not the major ones.

Yeah! Like town clothes! And server communities!

Praise and scorn, both in their due. At least now we have something to make sound effects with while we beat a dead horse.

nGumball.1283:

It is the small things that make MMORPG’s, not the major ones. GW2 will stay alive wether you want it or not, and for a very long time even if they don’t release new content at all. You really don’t get how dedication works don’t you!!

Not like I want it to be like this but tired from ‘’OMG, we have no content’’ threads. You don’t have traditional MMO content, however I can listen a huge list full of things that got added to the game, from QoF changes to content.

Bold added by me.

I am excited about it actually. I hope they add the new recording and loop functionality to the old instruments. It’s actually pretty cool.

And we’re getting new zones with season 2. We already know that. Why are you still whining about something we know isn’t going to be a problem? And why are you using a cool new toy in the gem store as the method to do it?

DragonWhimsy.6489:

I am excited about it actually. I hope they add the new recording and loop functionality to the old instruments. It’s actually pretty cool.

And we’re getting new zones with season 2. We already know that. Why are you still whining about something we know isn’t going to be a problem? And why are you using a cool new toy in the gem store as the method to do it?

Err thats WvW maps, its not PvE so its not new content. I dont enjoy these toys so …
Like some asura said in Rata Sum, making G in human lands is like taking candy from a baby.

I am glad someone is actually excited about the new drum. Not sure whether my post constitutes “whining” when I asked a question….

The end to the season 1 story pretty much hit us over the head with the fact that we’re going to be seeing new zones in the west, past Metrica Province and Brisbane Wildlands.

-Mordremoth is out there, and he’s the new big baddie.
-Marjory’s sister is heading to Brisbane Wildlands to investigate black market activity (i.e. the bandits).
-There are two exits to zones we can’t get to in Brisbane Wildlands.
-There is a bandit fortress with level 80 bandits, it holds one of those exits.

Marjory’s sister is going to that fortress. Something dramatic will happen. New zones to explore will open up. It’s not a big secret.

DragonWhimsy.6489:

The end to the season 1 story pretty much hit us over the head with the fact that we’re going to be seeing new zones in the west, past Metrica Province and Brisbane Wildlands.

-Mordremoth is out there, and he’s the new big baddie.
-Marjory’s sister is heading to Brisbane Wildlands to investigate black market activity (i.e. the bandits).
-There are two exits to zones we can’t get to in Brisbane Wildlands.
-There is a bandit fortress with level 80 bandits, it holds one of those exits.

Marjory’s sister is going to that fortress. Something dramatic will happen. New zones to explore will open up. It’s not a big secret.

Wow wish we had a timeline to all this. I would settle if all this came in August.

And btw if you have been playing GW2, there are no “seasons” to the “living story” only WvW.

If you’d posted it in a thread about lack of content then it’d just be a complaint. But taking the new drums, which is actually kinda a cool item to add to the gem store, with some nice implications for old and forthcoming instruments on top of that, and then turning that into a complaint that has nothing to do with musical instruments in this game sorta makes it seem like whining.

You took something fun, and then twisted it into a way to complain about something important to you but that has nothing to do with the drums at all.

I want player housing myself. That’s my pet feature/content I want to see. We ALL have our pet projects we want ANet to work on. But if I want to complain about the lack of player housing I create a thread about player housing.

There are seasons to the living story. It’s the terms ANet themselves use. They liken the living story to a TV story, and the Scarlet storyline was what they call season one.

At the end of season one she woke up the dragon Mordremoth, the last dragon who was still asleep. Now season 2 is about Mordremoth (and likely the Sylvari, the dream, and the nightmare).

I can’t say when season 2 starts. My guess is June, in time to steal some of ESO’s and Wildstar’s thunder. But that’s just a guess.

I’m betting we’ll hear more after the feature patch comes out. If they told us now, people would get confused and think that the content is coming in the feature patch.

The season will probably start with a normal living story event in Brisbane Wildlands, then ramp up to introducing the new zones.

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

There’s likely different teams working on different things, and there’s possibly a team committed to interesting gem store instruments. They are probably proud of their work.

Although it might be one person, who knows. Either way, it’s having no impact on the capacity for the rest of the Dev team to do what they’re doing.

Anet actually did a presentation on their dev process at GDC. They have 20-30+ small teams working in parallel.

Although I don’t personally buy the instruments, but I really like it when going in to LA previously and now VK, where large numbers of people, sometimes so large I go into overflow, hang out and chat, have costume brawl, and play music. That is precisely the feel of a community that the game aims for. There are debates, arguments, trades, games, everything you’d expect in a central trading area. So why not instruments? Had a flute player yesterday in VK pumping out Skyrim and GoT themes, that was pretty cool

I like it and I’m considering buying it (and I rarely buy gem store items). Given the complexity of the instruments, I think it is fair for Anet to be selling them for gems/real money. This game would benefit though from having more standard emotes accessible to all.

Palador.2170:

To be fair, a drum makes sense for the instruments. Strings, woodwinds, brass, and now percussion. Those are the major instrument families, as I recall. They’re just filling out the missing one.

Now we just need a giant organ or piano we can whip outa nowhere.