Guild Wars 2

I was wondering does anyone else think the game needs some serious polish? The game has been out over a year now.. Things like the Trade Post are still hard to navigate with no option to search for certain items. The Trade Post also lack’s the ability to refine your search.

Dungeons are swiss cheese with broken mechanics, bugs, exploits, and more. Event’s bug out all the time in fact its not uncommon in Orr especially.

Living story updates typically come with bug’s and exploits but rarely get fixed due to there short time frame.

Boss fights in open world have almost zero avoidable mechanics either due to server lag or the inability to track the bosses movements due to the insane amount of particle effects.

The game does not seem to have gotten much in the way of optimizations load times can still be a few min’s.

To me it some times feels like I am playing a extremely low budget indi game then a multi million dollar product.

Also does not help when the techs throw up server limitations about some of the game breaking flaws.

Such as limited to 25 stacks of condition per boss for everyone or the server lag issues that cause skills to be kittened 2-5secs in big zergs.

Money is such a huge issue why not throw on a 10 dollar optional sub fee people can pay for better optimized servers?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Who-Would-Like-2-Week-Update-Just-for-Polish/first

angelpaladin.7921:

Things like the Trade Post are still hard to navigate with no option to search for certain items. The Trade Post also lack’s the ability to refine your search.

Not being able to search for armour types for just your current toon without drudging through tons of pages of irrelevant armour is a pain. I use the wiki now to check armours because the TP by comparison is hopeless.

angelpaladin.7921:

Money is such a huge issue why not throw on a 10 dollar optional sub fee people can pay for better optimized servers?

Because the vast majorities of issues won’t go away by simply throwing money at them?

angelpaladin.7921:

I was wondering does anyone else think the game needs some serious polish?

Yup, I sure do, but this goes far beyond just polish.
Look at the mess with the ranger pet. This was such a poorly designed mechanic, the Anet lead dev admits they cannot fix it.

With the new games coming out in 2014, I can see many players fed up with this moving on.

bri.2359:

angelpaladin.7921:

I was wondering does anyone else think the game needs some serious polish?

Yup, I sure do, but this goes far beyond just polish.
Look at the mess with the ranger pet. This was such a poorly designed mechanic, the Anet lead dev admits they cannot fix it.

With the new games coming out in 2014, I can see many players fed up with this moving on.

I can see this too. They’ll move on. they’ll be disappointed because almost every new MMO that comes down the line will be just as buggy and they’ll either be back or move onto the next MMO. It’s been happening for years, I’m not sure why it should stop now.

Idd. Some Polish may be good. Beautiful language, you know. Just look at the original Witcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCDBhc_N0Cw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

and the award for understatement of the year goes too…..

Vayne.8563:

bri.2359:

angelpaladin.7921:

I was wondering does anyone else think the game needs some serious polish?

Yup, I sure do, but this goes far beyond just polish.
Look at the mess with the ranger pet. This was such a poorly designed mechanic, the Anet lead dev admits they cannot fix it.

With the new games coming out in 2014, I can see many players fed up with this moving on.

I can see this too. They’ll move on. they’ll be disappointed because almost every new MMO that comes down the line will be just as buggy and they’ll either be back or move onto the next MMO. It’s been happening for years, I’m not sure why it should stop now.

Two things I want to point out

One Buggy is not broken… like the guy said Ranger pets are broken there is no way to fix them with out a serious over haul of the game. At this point in its lifespan the only way that will happen is if there is a expansion. They cant do a expansion cause there to focused on Living story and a Asian release of the game.

The second thing is yes new MMO’s will be buggy but they will also be new. Arena.net has had a year to fix some of the major bugs and imbalances in GW2 instead they focused on living story content. They also manged to show they only really care design wise about certain classes, races, and armor/weapon styles.

When you sit down and look at the over all game there is not really much hope to them fixing anything. I think Guildwars 2 will go down as one of the biggest gaming flops just like D3 will. Where there was lots of hype a decent sized player base but at the end of the day the company dropped the ball and came up short.

Sadly it happens and sadly unlike blizzard arena.net does not have the capital to continue to expand on this game. They also dont have the capital to start a new project either. Chances are NCsoft will just milk the company for every dime they can then cut ties with them. I have a feeling 2014 will be the year of the Gem Store where its expanded while game content is slowly dwindled down and people are let go from the company. I am speaking on pure speculation but we will know for sure what the future of GW2 is . They have a luke warm reception in Asia then the game is pretty much toast.

A bug is the very definition of something being broken.

WoW is developed by Blizzard, it took YEARS for them to solve issues that were there at release. And as far as I remember there are STILL issues not fixed.

Same with Lord of the Rings Online.
Basically every single game ever released will always have bugs. Making something 100% bug-free is completely impossible.

GW2 have done more then well enough during its first year to ever be considered a flop. And definitely not “one of the biggest”.

They have a massive player base wanting the game in Asia, so I don’t really think next year (or whenever it is released over there) will have much issues when it comes to income.