Guild Wars 2

Just logging in to point out that any time information necessary to complete a mission, story or achievement isn’t available in game, but requires you to use an outside resource, then Anet has failed.

That simple, nothing else to add. There are a number of instances wherein this holds true, and each time it comes up, it’s a complete failure on the developers’ behalf.

Can you give an example?

In spite of the fact that I frequently look things up on the wiki while playing I can’t think of a situation where what I would consider ‘critical’ information wasn’t available in-game.

Unless you count things that are deliberately hidden like the location of jumping puzzles or NPCs you have to find during a mission for an achievement.

stale.9785:

There are a number of instances wherein this holds true, and each time it comes up, it’s a complete failure on the developers’ behalf.

What…are you talking about…

Can you name a few? Just so you don’t appear to have some vague angry rant post about nothing at all.

stale.9785:

Just logging in to point out that any time information necessary to complete a mission, story or achievement isn’t available in game, but requires you to use an outside resource, then Anet has failed.

That simple, nothing else to add. There are a number of instances wherein this holds true, and each time it comes up, it’s a complete failure on the developers’ behalf.

this is a mmorpg not a single player game – ask people or research, its not hard, and a lot more satisfying.

who said this : “I’m hurting myself laughing here, at the people who are saying that it’s hard to find non-revealing armours. Literally, using the argosoft gallery,…”

#VagueBooking

Have you ever played any other game? Nobody gave you promise to spoon feed you every little piece of info you might need, in most games people have to figure stuff out on their own. Developers did just fine (maybe even too much if you ask me), it is YOU who has failed.

Anet has many failures but not doing your homework is your failure.

Haha in many older mmorpgs you had to find stuff on multiple sites.

For your own sake never try to play a Souls game…
About GW2, just /wiki through it!

Ryou.2398:

Haha in many older mmorpgs you had to find stuff on multiple sites.

And in the original computer games, they didn’t give you much information either.

You had to literally type what you wanted your character to do and hope that it was the magic phrase. Not even the manual had the answers.

And the internet didn’t exist.

Having parts of the game only be solved by player trial and error is not a new thing when it comes to computer games.

I’m guessing timers?

In the past it didn’t matter as much, but considering Dragon’s Stand is like, completely timer dependent, that is a situation where relying on a third party source is better than the game itself.

Seera.5916:

You had to literally type what you wanted your character to do and hope that it was the magic phrase. Not even the manual had the answers.

Haha… you’ve just made me recall King’s Quest… I feel old now.

stale.9785:

Just logging in to point out that any time information necessary to complete a mission, story or achievement isn’t available in game, but requires you to use an outside resource, then Anet has failed.

That simple, nothing else to add. There are a number of instances wherein this holds true, and each time it comes up, it’s a complete failure on the developers’ behalf.

Troll post, 0/10, try again. Ever wonder why there’s a hardcoded command in the game that will search the gw2wiki for what you append to the command? Next time you log in, try using “/wiki how do i use the wiki”