Guild Wars 2

When i buy a new product, i don’t expect perfection, far from it. I expect glitches and updates to fix those glitches. IF the company cannot get their kitten together, i expect that company to apologize and re-assure everyone they are working as hard as they can (apple is a good example).

AreaNet needs to explain why nearly every zone is broken. They also need to explain why i cannot use my product they way it was advertised. I cannot participate in many of the aspects of the game like it was advertised.

Things like this is why the BBB exists in the U.S, because company’s suck our money then don’t even try to fix issues in a timely fashion. For nearly a month now 1/2 the game has been broken/breaking.

If things do not get resolved in a timely manor from this point, I believe AreaNet needs to issue refunds to all who want it.

First of all, your titles is sensationalist and completely inaccurate. The MAJORITY of the game is working just fine. There are bugs and glitches, but it is certainly not the majority of the game. I don’t think you know what that word means. And as far as refunds, they already have issued refunds. If you request one (in a timely fashion) I’m sure you’ll get one. That being said, get the hell over yourself. This game (nor any others) were ever going to release with 0 bugs. They’ve done well fixing most of the bugs and done poorly fixing other bugs, but the point remains that they ARE working on fixing them and that the majority of the game is functioning properly.

Can you name an endgame zone with no area-breaking bugs?

Dracent.9153:

Can you name an endgame zone with no area-breaking bugs?

So you’re basing your “Majority of game is not working” on the what, 3? end game zones?

lolwut?

Where do you spend your time at level 80, in the level 1-50 zones? I doubt it.

Dracent.9153:

Can you name an endgame zone with no area-breaking bugs?

Can you name a zone with no area-breaking bugs?

Dracent.9153:

Where do you spend your time at level 80, in the level 1-50 zones? I doubt it.

Actually I do. I spend it helping other guild mates level and help with story instances they are having trouble with etc. Also leveling a few alts. However Level 1-50 zones is technically the majority of the game by proxy.

Level 1 – 50 being the majority of the way towards level 80.

As others have stated, the majority of the game is fine. I’ve had a couple bug issues with skill challenges, but that’s really about it. It hasn’t ruined my gameplay, and I’m still having a ton of fun. There’s no way that I expected this game to come out completely bug free – that’s impossible.

Right now, the team needs to focus on fixing the starting zones, and then they can fix the end ones.

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

I can’t name any zone in this buggy mess that doesn’t have zone-breaking bugs of some type or another. The OP got the subject title completely right. Every aspect of this buggy mess has an UNFINISHED and rushed to market feel to it (other than the artwork, which is very well done).

Music’s also quite nice. I like how they included the whole GW1 soundtrack, brings back memories.

Revenant.2691:

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

Revenant.2691:

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

so your experience is the only one we should go by? I have the first 4-5 zones for every race 100% completed across 5 characters and not one single bugged heart and only 1 bugged DE. That’s part of the issue. Some servers have bugs that other servers do not and Arenanet are working on finding and fixing all of them. It’s going to take some time, but they’ve already been doing a great job of it.

Noobler.2679:

I can’t name any zone in this buggy mess that doesn’t have zone-breaking bugs of some type or another. The OP got the subject title completely right. Every aspect of this buggy mess has an UNFINISHED and rushed to market feel to it (other than the artwork, which is very well done).

Not everyone’s experience is the same as yours. I’ve run into very few bugs. Some servers seem to be worse than others, which I’m sure is part of the problem of finding and fixing the bugs. It’s been 1 month, they’ll sort the bugs out. They just need the time to do it right. Would you rather they rush bug fixes and make things worse or do it right the first time?

Revenant.2691:

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

I guess it’s a matter of perception… For many people, we didn’t run into many bugged content except an DE Here, or skill-point there. Which later got fixed. I probably went overboard in my response most likely, but I find it hard to believe with my alt’s been leveling up and my level 80 that most of the game is bugged. At least on my end – I haven’t encountered many bugs except some skill-points which got fixed a week later.

Well, allow me to rephrase:

On MY server, I run into more broken DEs than working ones and there are as many zones I can’t complete due to broken SPs/etc. as there are ones I have completed.

Better?

Please, indulge me with more of your smug pretentiousness.

AndrewWaltfeld.4621:

Revenant.2691:

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

I guess it’s a matter of perception… For many people, we didn’t run into many bugged content except an DE Here, or skill-point there. Which later got fixed. I probably went overboard in my response most likely, but I find it hard to believe with my alt’s been leveling up and my level 80 that most of the game is bugged. At least on my end – I haven’t encountered many bugs except some skill-points which got fixed a week later.

I doubt they were fixed a week later. The servers probably got reset and you got there before they were broken again.

Revenant.2691:

Please, indulge me with more of your smug pretentiousness.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

HTS.1267:

AndrewWaltfeld.4621:

Revenant.2691:

Erm, lemme step in here for a minute. I’ve been playing a new character, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve come across more bugged/stalled DEs than working ones from level 1-40. Also 5-6 bugged skillpoints or other objectives that worked fine my first time through, which have me sitting at 98% completion on literally half the zones I’ve cleared on that char.

I’m not going to say that it’s unreasonable to have a bug or glitch here and there on release, but I feel like I paid $60 for a beta test. Now surely the OP could have expressed himself in a more civil manner and whatnot, but when I see hordes of people coming into topics like this flaming the tar out of anyone who dares to mention that the game’s got a lot of broken content… I’m half-tempted to say “fine, have it your way, game’s fine as it is. Leave it all broken, these guys seem to love it well enough.”

I guess it’s a matter of perception… For many people, we didn’t run into many bugged content except an DE Here, or skill-point there. Which later got fixed. I probably went overboard in my response most likely, but I find it hard to believe with my alt’s been leveling up and my level 80 that most of the game is bugged. At least on my end – I haven’t encountered many bugs except some skill-points which got fixed a week later.

I doubt they were fixed a week later. The servers probably got reset and you got there before they were broken again.

Um no. Until they did the weekly patch – the skill-points were not fixed. I checked after every server reset – no dice. Ironically, I wasn’t able to login directly after the patch was up – so I ended up logging in late afternoon to check and all the skill-points had been fixed. It’s not very far-fetch to believe.

Example of one is in the pic attached.

Those that say the game is fine and have not seen any zone breaking bugs, have either been extremely lucky or are just denying having seen them because they are unwilling to admit there are problems.

I have 1 lvl 80 char, currently on my second char now at 38 and a lvl 26.

I have yet to see a single zone past lvl 25 that does not have either one or multiple stuck events that does not progress, or skillpoints that cannot be done due to NPCs dont spawn and cannot be interacted with.

And most of these are the same skill points and events that was bugged when I leveled my first char, and seem to be stuck in the very same place they were the first time I passed them.

Dragonlord.6748:

Those that say the game is fine and have not seen any zone breaking bugs, have either been extremely lucky or are just denying having seen them because they are unwilling to admit there are problems.

I have 1 lvl 80 char, currently on my second char now at 38 and a lvl 26.

I have yet to see a single zone past lvl 25 that does not have either one or multiple stuck events that does not progress, or skillpoints that cannot be done due to NPCs dont spawn and cannot be interacted with.

And most of these are the same skill points and events that was bugged when I leveled my first char, and seem to be stuck in the very same place they were the first time I passed them.

it’s probably down to server issues rather than actual game issues I would think if we’re getting this much variety of reports.

I actually did encounter two bugged DE’s earlier – both escort quests in the 15-27 human area after queensdale.

on my first playthrough to 80, the vast majority of content was working but as the weeks passed by, that same content started bugging out and breaking. Skill challenges in human starter areas that were working are not not working. Same with some norn challenges. Both areas now have 1-2 broken DE that breaks the flow for new players. I find my alts having to replay old De’s over and over and can’t complete hearts.

On sat/sun, Orr (cursed shore) started to break. Mostly still working. Last night, Orr was nearly completely broken. The Arah Chain is broken (this is a major event line), Grenth event line (also major) broken. the other temples, well… noone does them on my server. But there are a whole host of issue right now so there are large swaths of the map are devoid of working events.

In 4 hours, I made just over 10k karma. in Orr. That’s peanuts. with long waits for events to start and running from one event to another to find they aren’t working. – also, why can I teleport to a contested waypoint (Arah)????

So I went to Timerline Falls because Orr was just getting depressing. You guessed it, what was once a nearly flawless zone now has at least 2 broken DE; one of which didn’t start the whole 2 hours I was there and one stuck 1/2 way. There was a third someone was complainging about in chat but I didn’t go verify.

If a new player starts now, even 2 events broken will hurt the image of the game moreso than other MMO’s simply because this is the main method of activity/levelling. The rest of the xp activities are incidentals. When an event breaks, the single method for directing players also breaks and they are left wandering aimlessly looking for a major event (read; quest).