Guild Wars 2

Hello guys i have been playing the game since beta and just wondering why Guild Wars 2 has nothing to do with guilds. Well yes there are a lot of living story events and dynamic dragon events that require guilds and servers concentrating together but we aren’t seeing the game or more specifically Arenanet caring about the guild system or guild in guild wars 2. Why is that? there could be a lot of things done for guilds. Hey there is a simple one Guild hall but more can be done. You see there is a lot of games where guild can design their own space island or some kind of stuff like that. So tell me what you guys think about this in the comment section below. Please share your thoughts thanks!

Short answer: They’re working on it.

Longer answer….the game launched far too early and was missing a lot of features that were added much later. It’s still trying to play catch up. Features like guild features will come in time, but they’re in a long line of features that are coming. Maybe we’ll get some in the upcoming features patch.

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Zerg Wars 2. You can now found your “Zerg” by tapping ‘Z’, zergs have emblems and you can queue Zerg Missions, Zerg Bounty (World bosses!), Zerg Trek (trains!), Zerg Puzzle (living story, be confused en masse!)

Sirendor.1394:

Zerg Wars 2. You can now found your “Zerg” by tapping ‘Z’, zergs have emblems and you can queue Zerg Missions, Zerg Bounty (World bosses!), Zerg Trek (trains!), Zerg Puzzle (living story, be confused en masse!)

That’s really what guilds do in any MMO, it is not just GW2. Raids? just a zerg with one f tank with a bunch of dps and healers for the traditional MMO. So if you don’t like zergs, maybe MMOs isn’t your genre. If you want the same type of gameplay but play solo or with a couple of friends there are dozens of RPGs with the same grind aspects and progression as any MMO out there.

Then again no one is forcing you to zerg.

No, it’s about zergs and dragons. Call it Zergs vs Dragons 2, it’s a better name anyway.

for the x million time, the title is related to Tyrian history or rather it was in GW1 and GW2 is the continuation of the brand. That is easy to find via google or in this forum.

That being said, well, I have no idea why we are still missing basic guild features we had in GW1 at launch.

It’s one of the most commonly made requests, OP. In the meantime, there are missions for guilds to complete. Some of them are crap, some are alright, some are just cutesy mini-games. But it’s something.

Guys, think about this. They did not call the series “Guild Wars” because it was an event in Tyrian history. There’s no excuse for the lack of GvG and other guild features in the best-supported, most updated online world in the industry that just happens to be called Guild Wars 2.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Sirendor.1394:

Zerg Wars 2. You can now found your “Zerg” by tapping ‘Z’, zergs have emblems and you can queue Zerg Missions, Zerg Bounty (World bosses!), Zerg Trek (trains!), Zerg Puzzle (living story, be confused en masse!)

That’s really what guilds do in any MMO, it is not just GW2. Raids? just a zerg with one f tank with a bunch of dps and healers for the traditional MMO. So if you don’t like zergs, maybe MMOs isn’t your genre. If you want the same type of gameplay but play solo or with a couple of friends there are dozens of RPGs with the same grind aspects and progression as any MMO out there.

Then again no one is forcing you to zerg.

I think you misunderstood. I do not think guilds in this game are zergs. I think they don’t get any attention whatsoever.

Nothing in this game revolves around skilled teamplay, everything revolves around spamming #1 skill en masse.

Guilds =/= Zergs

Sirendor.1394:

Zerg Wars 2. You can now found your “Zerg” by tapping ‘Z’, zergs have emblems and you can queue Zerg Missions, Zerg Bounty (World bosses!), Zerg Trek (trains!), Zerg Puzzle (living story, be confused en masse!)

Zerg Wars 2 definitely.

Guild Wars 1 was about guilds, I miss guild halls, I would pay even 1k gold to buy one.

To all the people saying it relates to in-game lore:
That may very well be the case, but in the first game, that lore was created to give flavour and context to what was supposed to be the meat and potatoes of the game: PvP (more specifically, the eSport of GvG).
The first game was advertised very much as a PvP game. It just turned out to have a rather good PvE mode too. Over time, the user-base gravitated more towards PvE than PvP and this was reflected in the splitting of PvE and PvP skills as well as the addition of PvE-only skills.

To my mind, this is where ArenaNet started losing track of what they were good at, and the game became too unfocussed.
Areas that had been designed around the concept of training players to recognise PvP concepts lost their meaning once they became easy-mode with over-powered PvE skills.
Players who liked to play a bit of both game types ended up being confused and driven away by the wild differences in skill behaviour between PvE and PvP. It polarised the user-base and there was a very real sense of resentment between the two communities.

Lore is malleable and can be changed at any time by its creator to more accurately reflect their creative vision.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of players are nowhere near as flexible, and if you change too much, you breed resentment.

It saddens me that an overwhelming quantity of Guild Wars 2 players will have no idea who War Machine are and how their exemplary skills helped shape Guild Wars 1 and by proxy, Guild Wars 2.
And as far as I’m aware, there nothing like the Temple of Balthazar in Guild Wars 2, where the names of guilds who have won official tournaments are recorded for history.

That added a sense that Guild Wars was very much the player’s game and a result of their passion, as well as that of the developers.

Guild Wars 2 commemorates nothing that players achieve.

Guilds are important for the pve side and even spvp but WvW is more about worlds. Even in WvW a guild is important though buffs and wvw weapons guilds can make also becoming know to other worlds. Agg is a well know guild for WvW gvg play they are also know for jumping worlds a lot lol.

Algreg.3629:

for the x million time, the title is related to Tyrian history or rather it was in GW1 and GW2 is the continuation of the brand. That is easy to find via google or in this forum.

That being said, well, I have no idea why we are still missing basic guild features we had in GW1 at launch.

Man are you getting paid off or what. So tired of this argument. I first off will say love both GW1 and 2, and I know that guild battles are probably getting released in spring/summer patch, but stop throwing “Lore” at people for the game title, GW focused on Guild Battles as the best thing for end game, and it was about Guilds, yes there was a time when guilds battled blah blah blah, Lore is great sucks, but guilds were a MAIN focus in Guild Wars. If you have Guild in your title people expect you to have a good system for it (not the worst of any big MMO right now). It is basically saved party templates you jump back and forth from and an extra storage space. I wouldn’t make a game called Pokemon Battle then come back and say well that is more LORE their are no Pokemon in this game…..

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

EFWinters.5421:

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

That the same argument for GW1 there is no Guild war in GW1 because it happen before GW1. Its like final fantasy it realty was not the final one was it. These are just names nothing more if you put too much worth into them your always going to be disappointing in the game. This is something you need to take for a lesson in life too names are a very shallow important to call some one something or to be called your self is only skin deep. If you make the name too important then it will have more meaning then its worth giving the name caller or the name it self the power. So its best not to look too far into a name they have a lot of meanings and often you will never comply understand the full meaning of the name.

Guilds are pretty much buffs, people to talk to when map chat is dead and missions.

There is literally pretty much nothing a guild offers that a solo player who only wants to play the content with PUGS anyway

Jski.6180:

EFWinters.5421:

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

That the same argument for GW1 there is no Guild war in GW1 because it happen before GW1. Its like final fantasy it realty was not the final one was it. These are just names nothing more if you put too much worth into them your always going to be disappointing in the game. This is something you need to take for a lesson in life too names are a very shallow important to call some one something or to be called your self is only skin deep. If you make the name too important then it will have more meaning then its worth giving the name caller or the name it self the power. So its best not to look too far into a name they have a lot of meanings and often you will never comply understand the full meaning of the name.

No I am not going to let it go, even if this game was called JarjarWars2 I would still be upset with the contention of the Guild System. It just happens to be EXTRA embarrassing that GUILD is in the name.

Jski.6180:

EFWinters.5421:

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

That the same argument for GW1 there is no Guild war in GW1 because it happen before GW1.

Stopped reading here. Did you even play that game? Any of these ring a bell?

Xunlai Guild?
Zaishen Order?
Jade Brotherhood?
Crimson Skull?
Shining Blade?
Order of Whispers?
White Mantle?

Maybe after the China release we’ll see more changes in the core game. Right now its like they are throwing the LS at us while they work on something else.

Lankybird.8149:

Jski.6180:

EFWinters.5421:

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

That the same argument for GW1 there is no Guild war in GW1 because it happen before GW1. Its like final fantasy it realty was not the final one was it. These are just names nothing more if you put too much worth into them your always going to be disappointing in the game. This is something you need to take for a lesson in life too names are a very shallow important to call some one something or to be called your self is only skin deep. If you make the name too important then it will have more meaning then its worth giving the name caller or the name it self the power. So its best not to look too far into a name they have a lot of meanings and often you will never comply understand the full meaning of the name.

No I am not going to let it go, even if this game was called JarjarWars2 I would still be upset with the contention of the Guild System. It just happens to be EXTRA embarrassing that GUILD is in the name.

There a lot about GW2 that is guild only related. For guild halls to work you need to have a zone that only your guild mates can go into they will need to make it so its not restive by world and that there would be countless of them at one time because any one can make a one man guild. To make it work will take a good bit of work and planing its just not going to happen over night over one year maybe even two. The things about GvG there is unofficial GvG made by the players it may be best for Anet to stay out of this because the GvG Anet will added in will be an Spvp version so there will be a lot of gear sets and runes etc.. not usable in them.

GW2 is not made to be a hardcore game if you add in some guild effects that “help” the guild leaders you will see some back lash to the tune of “i though i could only log on for once a day a week and get most things done but i come to find that all the guilds require me to log in every day this is like a job.” There are consequent to every thing even to the things that may seem like a good ideal at the time.

Xia.3485:

Maybe after the China release we’ll see more changes in the core game. Right now its like they are throwing the LS at us while they work on something else.

>implying they even have the amount required to even do this

In case you’ve never noticed LS releases have been riddled with bugs multiple patches in the same day. Then another the next then another after that day. It takes them 3/4/5 days to fix bugs in content. It seems they don’t even test 9/10ths of their content.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

In case you’ve never noticed LS releases have been riddled with bugs multiple patches in the same day. Then another the next then another after that day. It takes them 3/4/5 days to fix bugs in content. It seems they don’t even test 9/10ths of their content.

Maybe after the China release we’ll see more changes in the core game. Right now its like they are throwing the LS at us while they work on something else.

I have to say, I’ve seen better guild features in a single player game

Xia.3485:

Travis the Terrible.4739:

In case you’ve never noticed LS releases have been riddled with bugs multiple patches in the same day. Then another the next then another after that day. It takes them 3/4/5 days to fix bugs in content. It seems they don’t even test 9/10ths of their content.

Maybe after the China release we’ll see more changes in the core game. Right now its like they are throwing the LS at us while they work on something else.

Still fail to see how they can be working on anything else when they’ve said themselves they don’t have the time to test content before they throw it out. In case you didn’t play at release it was riddled with bugs EVERYWHERE. Skill points not working/activating correctly skills not working/traits not working. Some of these are still present today.

They say they’re working on all sorts of crap. They’ve proven to me that working across 50 things having 2 people on this, 4 on that, just doesn’t work. Granted not all of them are going to know how everything works/what effect it will have etc etc but less projects worked on at once = less time consumed on that project = faster release = more projects getting finished faster.

It’s like building a medium sized house with a crew of 14 guys. It’ll take them roughly a week if they don’t have to wait for permits/inspections/other crap. Build a house with 4 guys who have to wait and them working on week ends only it’ll take them much much more time.

Lankybird.8149:

Jski.6180:

EFWinters.5421:

Hannelore.8153:

Guild Wars refers to an event in Human history in the game. Not guilds.

Worst argument ever. The event known as the Guild Wars happened because Guilds are an integral part of the Guild Wars universe. It’s completely illogical to claim that Guilds shouldn’t be an integral part of your own story within the Guild Wars universe as well.

That the same argument for GW1 there is no Guild war in GW1 because it happen before GW1. Its like final fantasy it realty was not the final one was it. These are just names nothing more if you put too much worth into them your always going to be disappointing in the game. This is something you need to take for a lesson in life too names are a very shallow important to call some one something or to be called your self is only skin deep. If you make the name too important then it will have more meaning then its worth giving the name caller or the name it self the power. So its best not to look too far into a name they have a lot of meanings and often you will never comply understand the full meaning of the name.

No I am not going to let it go, even if this game was called JarjarWars2 I would still be upset with the condition of the Guild System. It just happens to be EXTRA embarrassing that GUILD is in the name.

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

I have to say, I’ve seen better guild features in a single player game

Skyrim xD