Came back. And was disappointed to find out that all the patches I missed (including this whole Kesex hills poison tower business will be removed in a couple hours.
Let me get this straight. The last 3 months of developer time have gone into 3 new fractals with very little other permanent content?
Don’t get me wrong. ArenaNet are doing amazing with how regular they patch the game. You have to I guess give them credit for the regularity of their temporary content. But what does it show for the game?
If I log in another year from now, what am I going to see? A handful of new fractals and maybe a dungeon? Oh but there will be lots of STORIES of content I missed.
Surely there is a better way to do this. Tack it on to the back end of your personal story so you work through it chronologically. Put all of it inside an NPC who guides you to relive the experience. ANYTHING.
It feels such a waste. Such a waste of dev time and money that gets poured into this game by loving devoted fans. To make something that entertains for 2 weeks never to be seen again.
Came back. And was disappointed to find out that all the patches I missed (including this whole Kesex hills poison tower business will be removed in a couple hours.
Let me get this straight. The last 3 months of developer time have gone into 3 new fractals with very little other permanent content?
Don’t get me wrong. ArenaNet are doing amazing with how regular they patch the game. You have to I guess give them credit for the regularity of their temporary content. But what does it show for the game?
If I log in another year from now, what am I going to see? A handful of new fractals and maybe a dungeon? Oh but there will be lots of STORIES of content I missed.
Surely there is a better way to do this. Tack it on to the back end of your personal story so you work through it chronologically. Put all of it inside an NPC who guides you to relive the experience. ANYTHING.
It feels such a waste. Such a waste of dev time and money that gets poured into this game by loving devoted fans. To make something that entertains for 2 weeks never to be seen again.
It’s a pretty big point of contention, the general view on the temporary stuff has led to a lot of people not bothering with the last few LS updates. There were a lot of complaints about people not having enough other people to finish the toxic invasions and such.
Take heart! There is supposedly more permanent content and possibly a real expansion on the horizon! They have hinted at an expansion reveal in the coming months, so there may be hope for the denizens of Tyria getting something good after all
Anarai Aeonblade [GASM] – Guardian – DB
RIP my fair Engi and Ranger, you will be missed.
Came back. And was disappointed to find out that all the patches I missed (including this whole Kesex hills poison tower business will be removed in a couple hours.
Let me get this straight. The last 3 months of developer time have gone into 3 new fractals with very little other permanent content?
Don’t get me wrong. ArenaNet are doing amazing with how regular they patch the game. You have to I guess give them credit for the regularity of their temporary content. But what does it show for the game?
If I log in another year from now, what am I going to see? A handful of new fractals and maybe a dungeon? Oh but there will be lots of STORIES of content I missed.
Surely there is a better way to do this. Tack it on to the back end of your personal story so you work through it chronologically. Put all of it inside an NPC who guides you to relive the experience. ANYTHING.
It feels such a waste. Such a waste of dev time and money that gets poured into this game by loving devoted fans. To make something that entertains for 2 weeks never to be seen again.
It’s a pretty big point of contention, the general view on the temporary stuff has led to a lot of people not bothering with the last few LS updates. There were a lot of complaints about people not having enough other people to finish the toxic invasions and such.
Take heart! There is supposedly more permanent content and possibly a real expansion on the horizon! They have hinted at an expansion reveal in the coming months, so there may be hope for the denizens of Tyria getting something good after all
probably yet another lvl 80-only isle with some DE’s, doomed to be deserted. (even GW1 is more active then our new “expansion”)
The whole put-it-in-then-remove-it-two-weeks-later concept in a futile attempt to simulate a real, living world was always a mediocre idea at best. There are a number of very serious practical problems presented by the approach that they did not seem to do an adequate job of identifying (and still don’t).
At the very least, they should have waited a year or two to try it and spent the initial post launch development on polishing the game, adding new features, and new permanent content to make it feel bigger and more grand, while adjusting the PS to prepare the world to move toward the LW.
The fact that they did very little of that and instead immediately started disrupting existing content and replacing it with rushed, small-scale, weakly written temporary content that they removed two weeks later, creating a poor grind experience prone to cause burnout, was terrible idea that quickly caused very serious, possibly irreparable damage to the game.
I always thought GW2 had a good content-scaling system. Zones should be balanced to be completed solo – regardless of your level. 5 to 15 seconds of fighting per mob.
They already have good mob scaling but they could make it even more adaptive by adding a ‘reinforcement buff’ if people show up to help.
In fact, there is a lot of content that needs to be tweaked to be solod
Came back. And was disappointed to find out that all the patches I missed (including this whole Kesex hills poison tower business will be removed in a couple hours.
Let me get this straight. The last 3 months of developer time have gone into 3 new fractals with very little other permanent content?
Don’t get me wrong. ArenaNet are doing amazing with how regular they patch the game. You have to I guess give them credit for the regularity of their temporary content. But what does it show for the game?
If I log in another year from now, what am I going to see? A handful of new fractals and maybe a dungeon? Oh but there will be lots of STORIES of content I missed.
Surely there is a better way to do this. Tack it on to the back end of your personal story so you work through it chronologically. Put all of it inside an NPC who guides you to relive the experience. ANYTHING.
It feels such a waste. Such a waste of dev time and money that gets poured into this game by loving devoted fans. To make something that entertains for 2 weeks never to be seen again.
To be totally honest, it was only one new fractal they developed. The other two fractals and two boss fractals were take directly from the Molten Alliance and Aetherblade dungeons they previously developed.
Granted, they had to tweak those paths a little, but they did not spend developement hours on them.
The balance changes in the December 10 patch were a welcome improvement (in my opinion, anyway) and opened up some build options for some professions that weren’t viable before.
Unfortunately, it looks like Living World development is still stuck in the “grand open-world raid-style” zergfest mode (a la Tequatl Rising) until the Scarlet arc ends, so not much love for those of us who despise that sort of thing and are forced to find other things to do in the increasingly stale rest of the world.
On the bright side, I do think Colin and the gang have heard our pleas for content with broader appeal and more staying power, so maybe we’ll start to see it a few months down the road.
In the meantime, a vacation sounds nice.
“Not the same, real and true. True you feel inside.
Always follow what is true.” — Sentry-skritt Bordekka
Everything truly worthwhile in the way of permanent content is still just around the corner. This is one of the effects of their 2 week free DLC value proposition. Under that dev schedule you are not able to produce anything of value or coherence, which should have been obvious to any software developer. However, they are taking a break from the 2 week schedule so in theory something of value could be produced. It’s still wait and see.
And in April you will be waiting for May and in May you will be waiting for June and in June you will be waiting for July and the list goes on an on.
I’m still waiting for all those promises in 2013 that never came to pass.
The problem is GW2 is that’s pretty much all we do these days – wait for things that never come and keep buying into every lie that Anet feeds us.
Quite frankly I’m of the opinion – I may be done waiting VERY soon. The game simply isn’t delivering on anything it promised and there are a lot of other viable options for gaming these days and coming out in the near future.
April last chance for me to really get into the game again. They say they will bring a feature update after the Living story ends (which is in may), so it better be good and worthy of a GW1 sequel. If it’s more ascended or legendary trash, I’ll be gone.
Can you guys imagine how huge this game would be if all this temporary content was permanent? All those zones, constantly available… it would be massive.
Can you guys imagine how huge this game would be if all this temporary content was permanent? All those zones, constantly available… it would be massive.
Shame about that.
There would be so much more to do. It’s a comforting thought that maybe sometime in the future they will release all the old temporary stuff permanently? That would be awesome!
Anarai Aeonblade [GASM] – Guardian – DB
RIP my fair Engi and Ranger, you will be missed.
And in April you will be waiting for May and in May you will be waiting for June and in June you will be waiting for July and the list goes on an on.
I’m still waiting for all those promises in 2013 that never came to pass.
The problem is GW2 is that’s pretty much all we do these days – wait for things that never come and keep buying into every lie that Anet feeds us.
Quite frankly I’m of the opinion – I may be done waiting VERY soon. The game simply isn’t delivering on anything it promised and there are a lot of other viable options for gaming these days and coming out in the near future.
I don’t think any person of sound reason would wait over 2 years for anything to happen in GW2 that would change the end-game content of this game. There are plenty of games on the horizon that will take even more people from GW2 unless there’s de facto something expansion-quality-wise coming out in April.
We shall see soon enough.
Three 80-lvl Rangers. Why? ‘Cos they’re that cool.
And in April you will be waiting for May and in May you will be waiting for June and in June you will be waiting for July and the list goes on an on.
I’m still waiting for all those promises in 2013 that never came to pass.
The problem is GW2 is that’s pretty much all we do these days – wait for things that never come and keep buying into every lie that Anet feeds us.
Quite frankly I’m of the opinion – I may be done waiting VERY soon. The game simply isn’t delivering on anything it promised and there are a lot of other viable options for gaming these days and coming out in the near future.
I don’t think any person of sound reason would wait over 2 years for anything to happen in GW2 that would change the end-game content of this game. There are plenty of games on the horizon that will take even more people from GW2 unless there’s de facto something expansion-quality-wise coming out in April.
We shall see soon enough.
Big patch around the same time as ESO is released. (I’m not a fan of eso but a ton are).
It’s my opinion and I’m sure a lot would agree they have one last chance to impress us come April before most simply give up and move to other games.
And in April you will be waiting for May and in May you will be waiting for June and in June you will be waiting for July and the list goes on an on.
I’m still waiting for all those promises in 2013 that never came to pass.
The problem is GW2 is that’s pretty much all we do these days – wait for things that never come and keep buying into every lie that Anet feeds us.
Quite frankly I’m of the opinion – I may be done waiting VERY soon. The game simply isn’t delivering on anything it promised and there are a lot of other viable options for gaming these days and coming out in the near future.
I don’t think any person of sound reason would wait over 2 years for anything to happen in GW2 that would change the end-game content of this game. There are plenty of games on the horizon that will take even more people from GW2 unless there’s de facto something expansion-quality-wise coming out in April.
We shall see soon enough.
Big patch around the same time as ESO is released. (I’m not a fan of eso but a ton are).
It’s my opinion and I’m sure a lot would agree they have one last chance to impress us come April before most simply give up and move to other games.
Possible, but lacking any hard figures on this who knows. Not sure the forum is always representative of the majority of the players, one can make the argument that happy players are playing (in my defence I’m downloading the patch right now). However the release of a competing game should give ANet reason to (no matter said previously mentioned figures) put a bit of extra effort into the game around that time. At the very least they should have something news worthy, if only to keep GW2 somewhat present in the minds of the mmo gaming community. An expansion announcement might be good winkwink.
And in April you will be waiting for May and in May you will be waiting for June and in June you will be waiting for July and the list goes on an on.
I’m still waiting for all those promises in 2013 that never came to pass.
The problem is GW2 is that’s pretty much all we do these days – wait for things that never come and keep buying into every lie that Anet feeds us.
Quite frankly I’m of the opinion – I may be done waiting VERY soon. The game simply isn’t delivering on anything it promised and there are a lot of other viable options for gaming these days and coming out in the near future.
I don’t think any person of sound reason would wait over 2 years for anything to happen in GW2 that would change the end-game content of this game. There are plenty of games on the horizon that will take even more people from GW2 unless there’s de facto something expansion-quality-wise coming out in April.
We shall see soon enough.
Big patch around the same time as ESO is released. (I’m not a fan of eso but a ton are).
It’s my opinion and I’m sure a lot would agree they have one last chance to impress us come April before most simply give up and move to other games.
This is nothing new- every MMO does this. It’s not a “last chance” thing so much as trying to keep current players from venturing off by giving them something nice to see back at home. Players start hearing hype about new games and they get interested… so they want to build hype for this game as well among the community.
Check out the patch schedule for most major MMOs- they will all be doing the same thing. The bigname MMOs at GW2’s release did the same thing when this game hit the shelves.
