Guild Wars 2

This is not another “Fractal-bashing” thread. Just wanted to say that up front.

Since the introduction of Fractals, I have been less eager to log in and play my level 80 Engineer. I wasn’t quite sure what the issue was, but I am having a lot more fun these days leveling my Ranger to 80 instead of playing “end-game” content with my Engi.

That’s fine. Find your fun where you can, right?

Well, a major part of my fun comes from jumping puzzles. I absolutely love doing them. I never did succeed at The Mad King’s Tower, but I am working my way through the JP achievement list, and am getting a great deal of pleasure from mastering each puzzle.

With today’s jumping bug, I am finding myself looking at the GW2 icon on my desktop, and saying “why bother?” It’s not that I don’t think the jumping bug will never be fixed – I believe it will be – but just knowing that the main source of my entertainment is gone for the present time makes me feel sad.

I guess what I am trying to say in a long-winded way is this: Up until now, I have been willing to overlook the plethora of bugs that plague this game. I have still been able to have a good time in game. Today, however, that fun is just not there. With a core mechanic being broken… I can’t seem to shake away this unhappiness and log in to play. So, so many things in this game are broken, and I have been able to work around them up until this point. The current in game issues need to be fixed before any new content is introduced. It’s depressing to think about the layers of bugs piling up on top of one another as I type. At the rate new issues are being introduced, and at the rate old issues are being fixed… GW2 is going to be entirely unplayable within one year.

TL:DR – A person can only take so many bugs. When a player’s alternate form of “fun” is bugged out… it’s time for the developpers to take a step back and fix what’s broken before bringing anything new into the game world.

For me, no matter how much fun/creative the fractals are, Having the masses stand around in one city and never leave is game destroying

I hope the devs phase them out and give the player base a reason to explore the world
Until then simply play another game

Kouken.8604:

For me, no matter how much fun/creative the fractals are, Having the masses stand around in one city and never leave is game destroying

I hope the devs phase them out and give the player base a reason to explore the world
Until then simply play another game

Completely agree

I’ve been checking out my collection of games on Steam. Some good stuff in there.

I suppose it’s stupid for me to become emotionally attached to a game. But this latest jumping bug… combined with all of the other issues in the game, such as poor world loot drops, the latest Mesmer break, the devaluation of the small amount of gold I do have, Bandits knocking you down repeatedly till your dead… it’s depressing logging on.

I play games to smile, have fun, unwind. I do not play to become stressed, unhappy, or frustrated to the point where I want to scream.

Valinerya.6713:

I’ve been checking out my collection of games on Steam. Some good stuff in there.

I suppose it’s stupid for me to become emotionally attached to a game. But this latest jumping bug… combined with all of the other issues in the game, such as poor world loot drops, the latest Mesmer break, the devaluation of the small amount of gold I do have, Bandits knocking you down repeatedly till your dead… it’s depressing logging on.

I play games to smile, have fun, unwind. I do not play to become stressed, unhappy, or frustrated to the point where I want to scream.

I now have a very fun game of CivV (with newest expansion from the Steam sale) going and I just installed STALKER SoC for the first time. Not much reason to bang my head against a wall that they don’t seem willing to fix.

I’m getting a couple classes to 80 and then I’m done. No interest in any sort of grind-ish endgame.

Yep i haven’t played since the final kraka event because of the bugs, every new addition to the game just compiles them, I’ve reported the same bugs over and over and over from the beginning of the beta events and yet they still remain. It seems arena net only care’s about pumping content out than making a stable game.