Guild Wars 2

I think diminishing returns is nice, It makes it so some idiot can’t get 250 of an item very easily, that is not how it is meant to be, It’s kind of sad but ANET wants players to farm for weeks and weeks trying to get a legendary. It actually gives meaning to the game because of the lack of end-game content.

FurMaz.1645:

I think diminishing returns is nice, It makes it so some idiot can’t get 250 of an item very easily, that is not how it is meant to be, It’s kind of sad but ANET wants players to farm for weeks and weeks trying to get a legendary. It actually gives meaning to the game because of the lack of end-game content.

Yup, I think you are exactly right – they want it to be difficult for you to get that Twilight – extremely difficult.

Oh, and there will be tons of end-game contents coming – in the expansion. ANet wants you to spend money for that content. They absolutely care about you – but as a customer.

Nothing wrong with that.

I’m not saying everything should be handed to you, it should take some effort to get your level 80 Exotic gear, or a commander tome, or a legendary… but this system is literally the worst way I can think of to make this happen. No matter what the system is, you should have an equal return for time invested.

Maybe… I don’t know… make the PvE challenging? Crazy talk, I know…

Furmaz.

Make it so there’s more items to get, make it much harder. It’s really that simple.

Whatever you do don’t punish players with your war against bots. It’s a really really bad idea. It won’t end well and there’s enough examples we can cite of other developers trying the same tactics and losing their game within months.

DR is badly thought out. You have to spend time and effort to eradicate botting. You’re never going to do it by placing blanket ban on a particular play-style. That’s just a cheap, ineffective measure that will annoy people, which as you can see from the forum, right here, it is annoying people.

People actually like to stay in one area and continually beat on the same mobs for many varying reasons. There’s lots of legitimate reasons for this behaviour. I shouldn’t have to explain them to you.

Being forced to move from a place in a game where I’m supposed to be able to do what I want with my time, within reasonable guidelines and not breaking gaming mechanics, isn’t a nice thing to have done to you.

Farming x of something in one place is not a game-breaking mechanic. It never has and never will be.

Does anyone seriously think the bots controllers have thought, “Oh no! They have DR! Well we won’t try to exploit GW2 anymore.”

Here’s some news for you, it’ll drive them further underground and make them more ingenious at the ways they try to exploit and abuse the game.

In this day and age you have to spend money to get rid of botting. People need to monitor the game and remove them from the game instantly if they really do exhibit the properties of a bot.

The least effective method I can think of for eradicating a bot problem is the DR system.

All the bots on my server are now in the DEs karma farming. I really appreciate this.

The official line given for its implementation is to get rid of bots. If what they’re really telling me is “We think you should play this way. Actually we’re going to force you to play this way.” I don’t ever want people doing this to me. If that’s what they meant they should have come out and said that straight away.

I wouldn’t have wasted my money.

Write.3192:

There’s a reason why no other game does this. Penalizing players for how they want to play is never a good idea.