Guild Wars 2

…and still leave in the thing where the entire group gets kicked out if the person who started the instance leaves?

My evening just ended on a downer because I spent about two hours playing through a high-level fractal and then the host left on the boss fractal. I’m pretty sure it was an accident (someone else had been talking about switching to a character with more AR), but that just underscores the problem: one person can single-handedly ruin the entire group’s day accidentally. If for some obscure technical reason it is impractical to transfer the instance to a new player’s control, at a bare minimum there should be a warning to the player about to destroy the instance so he realizes what’s about to happen.

This has been a major quality-of-life issue since release; every single person I know who plays the game has kittened about it. A few hours ago I was excited about this release, and now I’m not even sure I want to try again. I’ll likely feel differently tomorrow, but right now I’d give up everything in this update just to have this fixed.

This isn’t just a fractal problem…it’s a dungeon problem in general, and yes, it needs to be worked on.

it’s something that’s existed since launch, from a programming perspective I don’t think it would be particularly difficult to fix but like most bugs/requests that require some code tinkering they persist. I’m kind of left to think most of the people making new content are likely not programmers if you look at the LS and the updates over the past year, a lot of it doesn’t seem like work that would be done by programmers (cost more) than by say content editors, level designers, some sort of other artist using in house level design tools.

In the short term, it would obviously be crazy to tell your artists and designers to stop working on new content and fix programming bugs, and so it would be entirely understandable to see new content continue to come out no matter how numerous or severe the unfixed bugs are.

But it’s been over a year. If ArenaNet viewed this as an issue of not having enough programmers to make all the changes they’d like to make, that’s a long enough time that they could hire more. (And reduce other kinds of staff, if absolutely necessary.)

I could imagine that there is some persuasive and well-considered reason that I haven’t thought of for why this issue has not been addressed, but “lack of programmers” does not strike me as a plausible one. I would’ve believed that a year ago, but at this point either they have enough programmers or they truly do feel that releasing DLC every 2 weeks is more important than stuff like this.

There’s many problems with this “Fractals” update. For example, the fact that AR is now increasingly required, but there’s still NO way to get ascended accessories by fractals, but instead by waiting two months for laurels or running guild missions. Oh, and these items still cannot be infused in the MF on top of that.

Then forcing people into a semi-difficult story mode instance which must be completed in order to regain access to normal fractals just to do the daily is irritating enough, but for good measure make it so that if they die they have to relog because there is no checkpoints or waypoints inside of the fractal. And then the daily is broke. What?

And lastly the new recipes not even working for the select-your-stats pieces, which means that non-fractalers are stuck with certain stat combinations while those of us who do fractals get to chose whatever we want including Celestial.

I feel like they’ve done little more than fractured their fractals update.

Hannelore.8153:

There’s many problems with this “Fractals” update. For example, the fact that AR is now increasingly required, but there’s still NO way to get ascended accessories by fractals, but instead by waiting two months for laurels or running guild missions. Oh, and these items still cannot be infused in the MF on top of that.

Then forcing people into a semi-difficult story mode instance which must be completed in order to regain access to normal fractals just to do the daily is irritating enough, but for good measure make it so that if they die they have to relog because there is no checkpoints or waypoints inside of the fractal. What?

AR may be increasingly required but you can make +11 agony resists now (ie other double previous per slot)

not sure about the story mode thing, never did it, possibly only for the person opening the instance?