Guild Wars 2

Marche.8123:

I think I can say I’m done with the forums. All we have here is whining about the content or the lack of it, occasionally both at the same time.

Anet should be extremely grateful that people come on to their forums and complain.

The disgruntled people who complain are usually trying to tell the developers that they should fix their game while they still have a chance. Even so, those people won’t stick around forever.

The disgruntled people who don’t complain will just give up and bring their microtransaction money to whatever next free MMO is around. Which is less money for their precious online store.

Remember that no MMO is eternal. The more you **** on your players, the faster you die off. You really should listen to them while they are still willing to speak to you.

Players are ticked because their normal game play that they had been doing for months is now impossible. (Megaserver, making various farms impossible to do)

Players are ticked because the trick they found to get certain items “cheap” no longer work. (Wardrobe, preventing moving runes/sigils along with skin)

Players are ticked because their desire to play in relatively unpopulated areas is now impossible. (Megaserver again)

Players are ticked because they have to explore the world to unlock traits or pay for them rather than simply leveling. (Trait change)

Nobody likes when they are forced to change their ways.

This is one of the key issues I have with this whole “free content” Living Story style release structure.

It’s not free. I’ve easily paid several times what the game “costs” for Gems.

Sure, people that have plenty of time to sit around and farm gold for hours on-end can convert that gold to Gems… But the point is that Gems are, generally, more convenient to buy with cash.

If we had traditional-style expansions instead of the Gem Store, they’d have to put new Dyes, Armor, and Weapons in it to make it worth the cost.

They honestly probably make more off of Gem Store content for less work. If you can sell a SINGLE outfit for $10 (compared to however many new skins and such they’d have to come up with for an expansion)…

Heck, now they’re selling outfits piece-meal with the Lawless skins being 300 Gems each. (Yes, it comes with one free application and now can be applied infinitely after that with Transmutation Charges, but still.)

That’s 1800 Gems for a full outfit. Or $22.50 in cold, hard cash. Compare that with kitten expansion that would require a lot more work than just one outfit.

Im Mudbone.1437:

smekras.8203:

wouldn’t that make it B2P actually?

Buying means that SOMEONE PAYED for it, so, any way you look at it, it’s still P2P.

And people accuse me of semantics. You paid to buy a computer to play free to play games, therefore they’re pay to play too.

Nage.1520:

Im Mudbone.1437:

smekras.8203:

wouldn’t that make it B2P actually?

Buying means that SOMEONE PAYED for it, so, any way you look at it, it’s still P2P.

And people accuse me of semantics. You paid to buy a computer to play free to play games, therefore they’re pay to play too.

You are correct sir.

I think the problems many people are dumb enough to spend huge amount of money on junk.
For example, Anets puts with most events a new sets of mini’s in. Combining a full set gives you yet another mini so you need to buy two sets. Every sets cost 500 gems. So for 4 mini’s that is about 10 Euro at least. Seeing as how you can buy the full game for 30 / 40 euro’s that is sic.

Nevertheless there are people wasting huge amounts of money on this sort of things and company’s huge the fact that those people can’t handle money with this sort of cash-shops. So in the sort run this is an easy and good way to make on.

Now of course those mini’s (I always use mini’s in this example but feel free to fill that is with dye colors, skins, weapons, armor, funny fluff, mounts or whatever) are not really part of the game-content anymore. They could have been in the game, getting it would require you doing a specific task (playing the game). Now it’s buying or grinding gold. So these forms of generating income does mainly take content from the game.

I would prefer no cash-shop, or only have some real ‘out of the game’ items in the cash-shop like name-changer, full make-over kit (not hair kit, that should be a barber in game), sex-changer and that sort of stuff.

Then release an expansions every year / year and a half that adds new content. Then you would pay for real additional content and there would be more fun content in the game in the first place.

For the long runs that is also better because there is more content coming all the time. Pretty much there winning formula with GW1. The again, it might already be to late.

RedStar.4218:

Since the game launched players have been asking for “underflow” servers. Some zones have been dead since the beta like Snowden Drift and then at release with Timberline Falls.

I personally like the Southern Shiverspeak moutains precisely because they are so quiet, and it’s a beautiful environment, going from snow to grasslands and woods is like going from winter to spring. I hope Megaservers don’t crowd them too much now.