Guild Wars 2

Why was the LS2 delayed to Nov 4? I thought it’d only be delayed for a month? Isn’t that what they said before starting the blogs?

They are drinking the players’ tears until Oct. 21 to release a Halloween themed update which will last until Nov. 4.

And just because they said it doesn’t mean they will stick to it, it’s common knowledge these days

I don’t believe so. I’ve always been under the impression it was to come back after the Halloween event.

Pretty sure it was to come back after Halloween.

They are thinking about more ways to make the players life miserable in this game like you need to be lvl 30 before you can use the waypoints in the starter zones and stuff like that.

Halloween! Say, how does that fit with the current Living Story?

pessimist.7294:

They are thinking about more ways to make the players life miserable in this game like you need to be lvl 30 before you can use the waypoints in the starter zones and stuff like that.

Or unlocking the 1st weapon skill at lvl10 because it’s too confusing to hurt centaurs/hounds/golems while you are playing Care Bears Guild Wars 2.

I’m not sure it has been delayed cause iirc the first blog stated the LS would restart this Fall… so between 21st of September and 21st of December.
If anything it couldn’t have been planned before the end of WvW tournament (to be sure that players playing PvE and WvW wouldn’t have to decide which activity they’d do) which will be around mid October which is also the start of Halloween festival…. then that leads to early November.

Sure it’s a bit long, I think they could have made one festival return during the pre feature pack release.

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Or unlocking the 1st weapon skill at lvl10 because it’s too confusing to hurt centaurs/hounds/golems while you are playing Care Bears Guild Wars 2.

Confusing for who? Dont u think, that they made it to encourage people, to get next, and next levels? Look at it this way

When you’re level 2 in any game, then u’re making next 4-5 levels and u feel cool, but after that many players are simply bored. IMO it’s important to motivate them. And now they can look, that on 10 lvl they’re going to unlock new skill! Wooow! And they’ve got it! But hey, when they’ll make some next lvls, then they’ll unlock new cool stuff, and next, finaly elite skill – wooo! Step by step they are willy-nilly discovering the game. Do you understand now?

The only problem is that we’ve got many people, who’s making alts. I think they no longer need the encouragement like this. This system is quite good for new players – noone else I guess. But who knows …

They are starting it after the wvw tournament and the Halloween event. Also the Halloween event has nothing to do with the living story, as some people have requested. Because the living story can be done at any time now instead of just the two weeks when it was released, I consider this a major improvement.

This is from a guy that would prefer an expansion to the living story.

Anyone else miss the old format when features and LS was bundled together and there weren’t 4 releases of LS from March until November?

Xar.1387:

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

Or unlocking the 1st weapon skill at lvl10 because it’s too confusing to hurt centaurs/hounds/golems while you are playing Care Bears Guild Wars 2.

Confusing for who? Dont u think, that they made it to encourage people, to get next, and next levels? Look at it this way

When you’re level 2 in any game, then u’re making next 4-5 levels and u feel cool, but after that many players are bored. IMO it’s important to motivate them. And now they can look, that on 10 lvl they’re going to unlock new skill! Wooow! And they’ve got it! But hey, when they’ll make some next lvls, then they’ll unlock new cool stuff, and next, finaly elite skill – wooo! Step by step they are willy-nilly discovering the game. Do you understand now?

The only problem is that we’ve got many people, who’s making alts. I think they no longer need the encouragement like this. This system is quite good for new players – noone else I guess.

It’s all a matter of perspective, I do agree. However with this update, we lack the promised-since-launch “do what you want”. I wasn’t even level 4 on each on of my alts that I unlocked every weapon skills to know which one would be my main and which one would be my second upon reaching level 7. Now, people cannot have a full perspective of their character as a whole, and that’s how I see it.

A friend of mine got the game last sunday, she played a bit and enjoyed her warrior, who was level 5 with most weapon skills unlocked. Once she came back after the patch, she was utterly disappointed and find it a bit too long a tedious before having a real gameplay.

Step by step unlocking is interesting in a way it gives rewards, but now, you have to level your character up half way to get a full skillbar. 40 levels before unlocking one elite, most of which are sometimes not that useful. My bugged engineer got her elite upon reaching level 20 two days ago. Guess what: I’ve never had so much fun with an alt, because quite early I was allowed to have variety in my build (somehow, since I couldn’t change my 8th and 9th skills).

Restricting access to content because they are assumed too hard (by the Holy Spirit so it seems) is not going to help people feeling motivated to play. My friend asked me “do they think I’m slow?” once I showed her that she could not see most points on the map, nor use the BLC. After all, many people have played the game since release and managed to play it without much difficulty. It’s impossible to know, but most people who quit certainly did not do it because the game was to difficult to handle, but rather because of its static state, with circular additions (LS1).

LS2 was a breathe of fresh air, with a new storyline. Unfortunately, some people see these updates as too short (so do I, but because I want to know more about the lore). GW2 did not manage to be different in a good way, the way they advertised. Now they are like other games, and these games have more in-game variations.

Do you really think dumbing down a whole system and pushing further a complete game experience will give new players enough motivation to continue? My friend doesn’t want to play that much anymore now, because she thinks it’s too tedious to enjoy the full game.

Tempering with fine features and avoiding fans’ most wanted additions are not the best attitudes to drag the game to the first place of “Most played MMO”. The game as it was 2 years ago (and with some awesome features that were added in the meanwhile) could have been first, yet for each step forward we made two or three steps backward.

It’s impossible to know whether this update is welcomed or not, but with most things I see in-game, on the forum, and on other website, I assume that it is seen as a huge step backward, even those who only knew this system do not like it…

I have some hope ANet will make adjustments, it’s ok to make mistakes, but do not spill glue on the floor and leave everyone get stuck in it without even caring and pretending it never happened…

Ranael.6423:

If anything it couldn’t have been planned before the end of WvW tournament (to be sure that players playing PvE and WvW wouldn’t have to decide which activity they’d do) which will be around mid October which is also the start of Halloween festival…. then that leads to early November.

Doesn’t make sense to me. They have reduced the amount you need to do in WvW to get credit for this tournament so that won’t tie everyone up for weeks on grinding sentries, camps and so on and as you don’t have to do the LW stuff in two weeks any more it’s not like you have to do rush through everything a the same time now.

Similarly, this is the third year for most of the Halloween content and the second year for the “Blood and Madness” content so I don’t see why it should be a choice of which to do for most players.

Continuing the Living World at the same time as the WvW tournament and Halloween would give those of us who have no interest in WvW or repeating the Halloween content for the second (third) year in a row something to do.

I suspect that they consider that having any event in the game is enough.